Pro League match preview and statistics: Al Faisaly fight Al Wahda

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Competition: Saudi Arabia Pro League
Competition: Fri 12.February
Match begins: 12:45 (UTC)
Venue: Al Faisali Club Stadium

Season ticket holders at Al Faisali Club Stadium haven’t seen too many victories this season, with Al Faisaly languishing in the 11th position so far. The guesting Al Wahda will be hopeful to defend their higher league position in this one.

Insights:
  • Al Faisaly has the fewest scored goals (9) at home in Pro League

Both teams have had enough rest since their last competitive action. Let's hope for an energetic game!

Faisaly's stadium, Al Faisali Club Stadium, has a artifical turf surface. Al Wahda have grass on their own stadium. This might or might not make a difference, and to help evaluate that we give you the recent performance numbers for Al Wahda when playing on artifical turf; 2 wins, 2 draws and 2 losses from six matches. They have scored 8 goals in these games and conceded 9.

It's time to recharge all electronic entertainment devices for Al Wahda, who are travelling more than 800 kilometers to play this game.

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Al Faisaly form and stats

The home fans haven’t been spoiled with victories in the Pro League this season. Al Faisaly, who have the fewest scored goals (9) at home in Pro League, have only managed 1 win, 5 draws and 2 losses from their games here at Al Faisali Club Stadium. With seven home Pro League games in a row without a win, the Al Faisaly fans could feel they are not getting value for their money. It remains to be seen whether this unfortunate streak, which started after the Al Batin game long ago, can be stopped today.

Faisaly are confident in defense, having played 250 minutes without conceding a goal in the league.

Happy days for Al Faisaly in their previous game, a Pro League match away at Al Batin (placed 14th) that ended with a 2-0 victory. Preceding that game was the home draw versus Al Taawon that ended 0-0.

The bookmakers consider this a fairly even contest. One could say only the home advantage separates the teams. It could be relevant to look at how Faisaly have performed in matches similar to this (as small favourites). Our database has found five matches with the results: Won two, drawn two and lost one.

Faisaly are certainly not overdoing their scoring at home in league matches, having created 9 goals in 8 games. With more than 1,5 conceded goals on average, the Faisaly defense is not exactly impregnable. 12 goals conceded from 8 games. You can find more goal stats on the Statistics tab above.

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Al Wahda form and stats

3 wins, 2 draws and 3 losses. That’s the product of Al Wahda playing as the away team in the Pro League this season.

This game can not go any worse than the last one, a Pro League home defeat versus Al Ahli Jeddah with 2-4 on the scoreboard. Ahead of that match was the away draw versus Al Quadisiya that ended 2-2.

A crazy, crazy match with lots of goals last time out for Wahda, as mentioned above. 6 goals in that one, will this match be as much fun?

As mentioned above, this is an open game with no clear favourite. We have found six similar matches played by Al Wahda in our archives, and the results are: three wins for Al Wahda, one draw and two defeats.

Al Wahda have a decent goal production going in their away games, although not fantastic. In 8 league away games 8 goals have been scored. 9 goals have been conceded by Al Wahda in these games. It's worth mentioning that 5 of these goals has been conceded in their last 3 away matches.

Head 2 Head

Al Wahda - Faisaly 1-2 was the story when these teams last met, earlier this season. Head-2-head stats last ten meetings: eight - one - one (Faisaly wins - draws - Al Wahda wins). As for goals, eight matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), two had two or less.

Top Goalscorers

Al WahdaD. Petratos
D. Petratos
7 goals
Al WahdaY. Niakaté
Y. Niakaté
5 goals

Al Faisaly missing players

Al Wahda missing players

Al Faisaly Al Wahda
Total Home vs mid Statistics Stat vs low Away Total
17 8 3 Played P 1 8 17
4 1 0 Won W 0 3 6
8 5 2 Drew D 1 2 3
5 2 1 Lost L 0 3 8
20 9 2 Scored S 0 8 23
21 12 5 Conceded C 0 9 28
88% 88% 67% Over 0.5 O 0.5 0% 88% 88%
82% 88% 67% Over 1.5 O 1.5 0% 50% 71%
41% 50% 67% Over 2.5 O 2.5 0% 50% 71%
18% 25% 33% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 25% 35%
12% 12% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 0% 24%
65% 75% 33% BTTS BTTS 0% 50% 71%
24% 12% 33% Clean Sheets C S 100% 25% 18%
24% 25% 67% Failed to Score F T 100% 38% 24%
 
0 0 0 Corners for (avg) C F 0 0 0
0 0 0 Corners against (avg) C A 0 0 0
2.6 2.8 3 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 2 2.9 2.6
0 0 0 Red cards R C 1 2 2
 
8 7.6 9.7 Shots (avg) S ( 9 7.5 9.1
3.8 3.6 3 Shots on Target (avg) S O 2 3.4 4.2
31% 31% 22% Goal Efficiency G E 0% 30% 32%
Key stats in Pro League this season:
  • Al Faisaly has the fewest scored goals (9) at home in Pro League
  • Al Faisaly have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.

  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 Shabab 17 10 5 2 34 22 8 6 2 0 15 6 9 4 3 2 19 16 12 35
2 Al Hilal 17 9 6 2 30 12 9 5 2 2 15 7 8 4 4 0 15 5 18 33
3 Al Ahli Jeddah 17 10 3 4 30 25 8 4 3 1 11 8 9 6 0 3 19 17 5 33
4 Al Ittihad 17 7 7 3 22 16 9 4 3 2 11 6 8 3 4 1 11 10 6 28
5 Al Nassr 17 7 4 6 27 21 8 4 2 2 17 9 9 3 2 4 10 12 6 25
6 Al Taawon 17 6 7 4 18 13 7 4 3 0 11 3 10 2 4 4 7 10 5 25
7 Al Ittifaq 17 7 3 7 26 26 8 3 1 4 11 14 9 4 2 3 15 12 0 24
8 Abha 17 7 3 7 24 26 8 3 3 2 11 10 9 4 0 5 13 16 -2 24
9 Al Quadisiya 17 5 7 5 26 27 9 4 3 2 15 13 8 1 4 3 11 14 -1 22
10 Al Wahda 17 6 3 8 23 28 9 3 1 5 15 19 8 3 2 3 8 9 -5 21
11 Al Faisaly 17 4 8 5 20 21 8 1 5 2 9 12 9 3 3 3 11 9 -1 20
12 Al Raed 17 5 4 8 23 27 9 2 2 5 13 16 8 3 2 3 10 11 -4 19
13 Al Fateh 17 5 4 8 24 30 8 1 2 5 10 17 9 4 2 3 14 13 -6 19
14 Al Batin 17 4 5 8 23 28 9 3 2 4 12 12 8 1 3 4 11 16 -5 17
15 Dhamk 17 3 4 10 22 33 9 3 3 3 13 13 8 0 1 7 9 20 -11 13
16 Al-Ain 17 4 1 12 18 35 10 3 0 7 12 24 7 1 1 5 6 11 -17 13