Al Ittifaq will hope to utilise their home advantage to help bridge the gap to today’s opponents. The home side are currently 4 points behind Al Ittihad.
- Al Ittifaq have failed to keep a clean sheet in all their home matches.
- Al Ittihad has the fewest conceded goals in the first half (0) in Pro League
This should be an interesting game with lots of spark and energy as both teams are well rested since they last saw competitive action. Game on!
Ittifaq's stadium, Prince Mohamed bin Fahd Stadium, has a artifical turf surface. Al Ittihad 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 Ittihad when playing on artifical turf; 4 wins, 0 draws and 2 losses from six matches. They have scored 13 goals in these games and conceded 9.
It's time to recharge all electronic entertainment devices for Al Ittihad, who are travelling more than 1300 kilometers to play this game.
Al Ittifaq form and stats
Al Ittifaq's results here at Prince Mohamed bin Fahd Stadium in the Pro League have been very modest with 2 victories, 1 draw and 4 defeats.
In the preceding match a 3-2 victory visiting Al Raed.
Heartbreak for Ittifaq in their last match as Al Ahli's Sultan Madash scored the winning goal deep into overtime.
Al Ittifaq are certainly not overdoing their scoring at home in league matches, having created 9 goals in 7 games. Goals are flowing in at the wrong end for Al Ittifaq with 14 goals conceded in these matches.
Al Ittihad form and stats
Playing away, Al Ittihad have won 3 games, drawn 4 and suffered 0 defeats in the Pro League this season. The away team travel with confidence. Not since the Al Fateh game have they lost an away game, meaning Al Ittihad has taken points from seven away matches in a row.
Ahead of that match was the victory versus Al-Ain at their stadium, the result 2-1.
Ittihad has displayed an ability to score goals in away matches in the league this season, 11 goals from 7 games. 8 goals have been conceded by Ittihad in these games.
Head 2 Head
These teams' last encounter with each other was the Al Ittihad - Ittifaq 1-2 earlier this season. Numbers for the last ten meetings between these two teams are: two wins for Al Ittifaq, zero draws and eight wins for Al Ittihad. Over 2,5 goals: seven times; under 2,5 goals: three games.Top Goalscorers
  R. da Silva 9 goals |   N. Sliti 6 goals |  F. Kiss 6 goals |
Al Ittifaq missing players
Al Ittihad missing players
| Al Ittifaq | Al Ittihad | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 15 | 7 | 2 | Played | P | 1 | 7 | 15 |
| 6 | 2 | 0 | Won | W | 1 | 3 | 6 |
| 3 | 1 | 0 | Drew | D | 0 | 4 | 7 |
| 6 | 4 | 2 | Lost | L | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 24 | 9 | 1 | Scored | S | 2 | 11 | 18 |
| 25 | 14 | 4 | Conceded | C | 1 | 8 | 13 |
| 100% | 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | 93% |
| 93% | 100% | 100% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 100% | 100% | 73% |
| 73% | 71% | 50% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 100% | 57% | 33% |
| 33% | 29% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 14% | 7% |
| 20% | 14% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 73% | 71% | 50% | BTTS | BTTS | 100% | 100% | 67% |
| 7% | 0% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 0% | 27% |
| 20% | 29% | 50% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 0% | 13% |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1.8 | 1.3 | 0.5 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 1 | 2.6 | 2 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 10.5 | 11 | 7 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 16 | 11.1 | 8.9 |
| 5.3 | 4.6 | 3.5 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 8 | 5.7 | 4 |
| 30% | 28% | 14% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 25% | 28% | 30% |
- Al Ittifaq have failed to keep a clean sheet in all their home matches.
- Al Ittifaq haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
- Al Ittihad has the fewest conceded goals in the first half (0) in Pro League
- Al Ittihad have failed to keep a clean sheet in all their away matches.
- Al Ittihad have not yet lost a game away.
- Al Ittihad have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
- Al Ittihad have scored in all their away matches so far.
- Al Ittihad haven’t played a single 0-0 game away.
- All of Al Ittifaq's home-matches have had more than 1,5 goals.
- All of Al Ittihad's away-matches have had more than 1,5 goals.
| 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 Hilal | 14 | 8 | 5 | 1 | 22 | 8 | 8 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 13 | 4 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 9 | 4 | 14 | 29 |
| 2 | Al Ahli | 15 | 9 | 2 | 4 | 24 | 21 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 9 | 6 | 8 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 15 | 15 | 3 | 29 |
| 3 | Al Shabab | 14 | 7 | 5 | 2 | 23 | 17 | 7 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 11 | 5 | 7 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 12 | 12 | 6 | 26 |
| 4 | Al Ittihad | 15 | 6 | 7 | 2 | 18 | 13 | 8 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 7 | 5 | 7 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 11 | 8 | 5 | 25 |
| 5 | Al Taawon | 14 | 5 | 6 | 3 | 15 | 9 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 8 | 2 | 8 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 7 | 7 | 6 | 21 |
| 6 | Al Nassr | 15 | 6 | 3 | 6 | 23 | 20 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 14 | 9 | 8 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 9 | 11 | 3 | 21 |
| 7 | Al Ittifaq | 15 | 6 | 3 | 6 | 24 | 25 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 9 | 14 | 8 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 15 | 11 | -1 | 21 |
| 8 | Abha | 15 | 6 | 3 | 6 | 19 | 21 | 7 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 9 | 7 | 8 | 3 | 0 | 5 | 10 | 14 | -2 | 21 |
| 9 | Al Quadisiya | 15 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 22 | 23 | 8 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 13 | 11 | 7 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 9 | 12 | -1 | 20 |
| 10 | Al Wahda | 14 | 6 | 2 | 6 | 17 | 18 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 11 | 11 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 6 | 7 | -1 | 20 |
| 11 | Al Fateh | 15 | 5 | 3 | 7 | 22 | 25 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 9 | 16 | 8 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 13 | 9 | -3 | 18 |
| 12 | Al Raed | 15 | 4 | 4 | 7 | 18 | 21 | 8 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 9 | 14 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 9 | 7 | -3 | 16 |
| 13 | Al Faisaly | 14 | 3 | 6 | 5 | 17 | 20 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 8 | 11 | 8 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 9 | 9 | -3 | 15 |
| 14 | Al Batin | 14 | 3 | 4 | 7 | 19 | 23 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 10 | 9 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 9 | 14 | -4 | 13 |
| 15 | Dhamk | 14 | 3 | 3 | 8 | 17 | 24 | 8 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 11 | 11 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 6 | 13 | -7 | 12 |
| 16 | Al-Ain | 14 | 3 | 1 | 10 | 16 | 28 | 8 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 11 | 19 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 9 | -12 | 10 |