Pro League preview: Can Al Faisaly edge out victory against Al Raed?

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Competition: Saudi Arabia Pro League
Competition: Fri 18.February
Match begins: 15:30 (UTC)
Venue: Al Majma'ah Sports City Stadium

Al Faisaly hope to get a lot of fans in for this game even though the season has been hard up to now with 20 points and a 13th spot in the Pro League table. Opponents Al Raed own 9th place with 25 pts.

Insights:
  • Al Faisaly have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • Al Raed have the fewest clean sheets (0) away in Pro League

This field has artifical turf, unlike Al Raed's home arena. The former five games by the away side on artifical turf have produced 1 win, 1 draw and 3 losses.

Both squads have had a decent time to rest since their previous competitive action. Let's hope for an energetic match!

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Al Faisaly form and stats

When playing at home in the Pro League, Al Faisaly have managed 4 wins, 4 draws and suffered 2 defeats from 10 games.

Faisaly are confident in defense, having played 182 minutes without conceding a goal in the league.

The Al Faisaly coach Ramos and his gang return home after a 0-0 draw away versus Al Feiha (placed 7th).

Previous to that game, a home match hosting Dhamk in a game that was won 3-0.

The home team are moderate favourites in this game. How does Al Faisaly handle that role? We have found 16 games in our database similar to this one, based on the home odds. The stats for these games are seven wins, five draws and four defeats.

Faisaly are traveling soon after this match as the Pro League match at Al Fateh awaits in four days.

Al Faisaly have proved capable of finding the net in their games here at Al Majma'ah Sports City Stadium with 17 goals in 10 league matches. Faisaly have conceded 13 in these home matches.

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Al Raed form and stats

There's been little loot from Al Raed's travels as they have only collected 8 points from 10 away games in the Pro League. Al Raed only have 2 wins to counter their 6 defeats and 2 draws.

Al Raed might have something to prove in this game as they lost at home in their previous match. Al Taawon proved too strong as Al Raed slumped to a 0-3 defeat in front of their own fans at Prince Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz Stadium (King Abdullah Sport City Stadium).

Preceding that match was the 1-1 draw at home vs Al Ittifaq.

Al Raed are the outsiders in this one, but not by much. Their performance in similar games (being the away team and moderate outsiders) is four wins, two draws and one defeat. From a total of seven matches.

Raed are scoring more than one goal per away game on average, having accumulated 14 away goals from 10 games (in the league). The Al Raed manager de Sousa has some worries about the defense as 22 goals have been conceded in these travels.

Head 2 Head

This was the result when the teams met previously this campaign; Al Raed - Al Faisaly 1-1. Head-2-head stats last ten meetings: four - two - four (Faisaly wins - draws - Al Raed wins). As for goals, four matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), six had two or less.

Top Goalscorers

Al RaedK. Berkaoui
K. Berkaoui
10 goals
Al RaedÉ. Macedo Lopes
É. Macedo Lopes
4 goals
Al RaedR. Al Ghamdi
R. Al Ghamdi
3 goals

Al Faisaly missing players

Al Raed missing players

Al Faisaly Al Raed
Total Home vs mid Statistics Stat vs low Away Total
19 10 4 Played P 3 10 20
4 4 2 Won W 1 2 7
8 4 2 Drew D 1 2 4
7 2 0 Lost L 1 6 9
20 17 7 Scored S 5 14 26
26 13 5 Conceded C 6 22 31
84% 90% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 100% 100%
68% 80% 75% Over 1.5 O 1.5 100% 80% 75%
53% 80% 75% Over 2.5 O 2.5 67% 70% 50%
32% 40% 50% Over 3.5 O 3.5 67% 50% 30%
5% 10% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 33% 30% 15%
53% 70% 75% BTTS BTTS 67% 50% 40%
26% 30% 25% Clean Sheets C S 0% 0% 25%
37% 10% 0% Failed to Score F T 33% 50% 35%
 
4.2 4.8 3.8 Corners for (avg) C F 1.7 3.1 3.5
4.9 5 5.2 Corners against (avg) C A 2.7 3.1 4
2.6 2.3 2 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 1.7 1.4 1.6
1 1 1 Red cards R C 0 0 0
 
8.5 10.7 10 Shots (avg) S ( 9 8.3 8.3
3.2 4 3.5 Shots on Target (avg) S O 3.7 3.6 3.7
33% 42% 50% Goal Efficiency G E 45% 39% 35%
 
9 10.4 13.5 Shots against (avg) S A 8 8 7.5
3.9 4.7 5 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 3.3 4.3 3.5
Key stats in Pro League this season:
  • Al Faisaly have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • Al Raed have failed to keep a clean sheet in all their away matches.
  • Al Raed have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
  • Al Raed have the fewest clean sheets (0) away in Pro League
  • Al Raed haven’t played a single 0-0 game.

  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A +/- P
1 Al Ittihad 20 15 3 2 42 14 11 9 1 1 25 6 9 6 2 1 17 8 28 48
2 Al Nassr 21 13 2 6 39 24 9 6 1 2 21 10 12 7 1 4 18 14 15 41
3 Al Shabab 20 11 7 2 38 21 11 7 4 0 23 10 9 4 3 2 15 11 17 40
4 Al Hilal 17 8 7 2 29 20 9 5 2 2 14 11 8 3 5 0 15 9 9 31
5 Dhamk 20 8 6 6 25 28 9 4 4 1 9 6 11 4 2 5 16 22 -3 30
6 Abha 20 8 4 8 21 30 11 6 2 3 15 15 9 2 2 5 6 15 -9 28
7 Al Feiha 20 6 9 5 17 15 9 5 4 0 8 1 11 1 5 5 9 14 2 27
8 Al Ahli 21 5 10 6 25 26 11 3 6 2 16 12 10 2 4 4 9 14 -1 25
9 Al Raed 20 7 4 9 26 31 10 5 2 3 12 9 10 2 2 6 14 22 -5 25
10 Al Taawon 21 5 7 9 34 37 10 3 3 4 15 14 11 2 4 5 19 23 -3 22
11 Al Ta'ee 20 7 1 12 20 34 10 5 0 5 16 17 10 2 1 7 4 17 -14 22
12 Al Ittifaq 19 4 8 7 25 31 9 2 4 3 10 12 10 2 4 4 15 19 -6 20
13 Al Faisaly 19 4 8 7 20 26 10 4 4 2 17 13 9 0 4 5 3 13 -6 20
14 Al Batin 21 4 7 10 21 30 11 3 4 4 13 16 10 1 3 6 8 14 -9 19
15 Al Fateh 19 4 6 9 23 27 9 2 2 5 15 15 10 2 4 4 8 12 -4 18
16 Al Hazm 20 3 5 12 15 26 10 2 4 4 11 13 10 1 1 8 4 13 -11 14