Soccer fixture preview: Home crowds with high optimism before Al Nassr - Al Faisaly

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Competition: Saudi Arabia Pro League
Competition: Sat 15.January
Match begins: 15:05 (UTC)
Venue: Mrsool Park (25000 seats)

The Pro League match summary, better known as a league table, tells a story about these contenders up until now, with Al Nassr leading Al Faisaly by 13 points. Tipsway full preview:

Insights:
  • Al Nassr have the fewest conceded goals in the first half (5) in Pro League
  • Al Faisaly have yet to win a game away.

Al Faisaly play their home fixtures on artifical turf, while this fixture occurs on grass. Relevant data for Al Faisaly when featuring on grass are 11 wins, 8 draws and 16 defeats from 35 matches. They have managed to score 48 goals and conceded 52 times on these occasions.

The visiting Al Faisaly played their last game only four days ago, a Pro League match.

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Al Nassr form and stats

4 victories, 1 draw and 2 defeats. That’s what Al Nassr have to build on here at Mrsool Park in the Pro League. With a nice streak brewing from their home games, Al Nassr are also looking for their fifth consecutive victory regardless of location.

Defensively the home team are doing well, with their goalkeeper Waleed Abdullah Ali not having conceded a league goal in 213 minutes.

Happy days for Nassr in their previous game, a Pro League match away at Dhamk (placed 5th) that ended with a 2-0 victory.

A strong away win before that one, visiting Al Fateh and winning 1-0.

The home team are expected to win this game about three out of four times, according to the bookmaker odds. When checking the database for Al Nassr home games with this odds we find twelve games with a similar winning chance. Resulting in nine wins, two draws and one defeat. Looking at the victories, five matches were won by at least two goals.

Al Nassr have proved capable of finding the net in their games here at Mrsool Park with 13 goals in 7 league matches. Nassr's goalkeeper has had to pick the ball out of their own net 9 times. For more goal stats, check the Statistics tab above.

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Al Faisaly form and stats

There's been little loot from Al Faisaly's travels as they have only collected 3 points from 6 away games in the Pro League. Al Faisaly only have 0 wins to counter their 3 defeats and 3 draws. Al Faisaly seem to be suffering from homesickness with two consecutive losses away. Third time lucky?

Al Faisaly's last game ended in a draw, the home match versus Al Ahli Jeddah that finished 2-2.

Preceding that game, the 2-2 draw paying a visit to Al Hilal (after extra-time, 4-3 on penalties).

You'll want to know how Faisaly managed when outsiders such as today. Our database found two similar matches resulting in zero away wins, one draw and one home win.

Goals are few and far between in Al Faisaly's away league games. Only 3 goals from 6 travels. Al Faisaly have conceded 8 goals in these away matches.

Head 2 Head

The fixture lists shows this result when the participants played each other earlier this season; Al Faisaly - Al Nassr 2-1. Head-2-head stats last ten meetings: five - two - three (Al Nassr wins - draws - Al Faisaly wins). As for goals, seven matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), three had two or less.

Top Goalscorers

NassrA. Souza Conceição
A. Souza Conceição
11 goals

Al Nassr missing players

Al Faisaly missing players

Al Nassr Al Faisaly
Total Home vs low Statistics Stat vs top Away Total
16 7 3 Played P 1 6 15
9 4 3 Won W 0 0 3
2 1 0 Drew D 0 3 7
5 2 0 Lost L 1 3 5
26 13 6 Scored S 0 3 17
17 9 2 Conceded C 2 8 21
100% 100% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 83% 87%
75% 71% 67% Over 1.5 O 1.5 100% 67% 73%
56% 71% 67% Over 2.5 O 2.5 0% 17% 53%
31% 57% 33% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 17% 33%
6% 14% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 0% 7%
62% 71% 67% BTTS BTTS 0% 50% 67%
25% 14% 33% Clean Sheets C S 0% 17% 20%
12% 14% 0% Failed to Score F T 100% 50% 27%
 
6.2 6.9 7 Corners for (avg) C F 4 3.7 4.1
3.6 2.1 2 Corners against (avg) C A 2 5.3 5.3
2.5 2.6 3.3 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 2 3 2.5
1 1 0 Red cards R C 0 0 1
 
13.5 14.1 14 Shots (avg) S ( 10 7 9.2
5.6 5 5 Shots on Target (avg) S O 3 2.7 3.3
29% 37% 40% Goal Efficiency G E 0% 19% 34%
 
8.1 7 6.7 Shots against (avg) S A 5 7.2 9.5
3.2 3 2.7 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 2 2.8 4.1
Key stats in Pro League this season:
  • Al Faisaly have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored away.
  • Al Faisaly have yet to win a game away.
  • Al Nassr have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • Al Nassr have scored at least twice as many goals at home as Al Faisaly have scored away.
  • Al Nassr have the fewest conceded goals in the first half (5) in Pro League
  • Al Nassr have won at least twice as many corners as they have conceded at home.
  • Al Nassr 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 15 11 2 2 31 12 9 7 1 1 21 6 6 4 1 1 10 6 19 35
2 Al Shabab 16 9 5 2 31 16 9 6 3 0 20 8 7 3 2 2 11 8 15 32
3 Al Nassr 16 9 2 5 26 17 7 4 1 2 13 9 9 5 1 3 13 8 9 29
4 Al Hilal 15 7 6 2 25 17 8 4 2 2 11 9 7 3 4 0 14 8 8 27
5 Dhamk 16 7 5 4 21 21 8 4 3 1 8 5 8 3 2 3 13 16 0 26
6 Al Raed 16 7 3 6 24 23 7 5 1 1 10 3 9 2 2 5 14 20 1 24
7 Al Feiha 16 5 6 5 14 14 6 4 2 0 6 1 10 1 4 5 8 13 0 21
8 Abha 16 5 4 7 16 24 8 4 2 2 12 10 8 1 2 5 4 14 -8 19
9 Al Ta'ee 16 6 1 9 15 25 8 4 0 4 12 14 8 2 1 5 3 11 -10 19
10 Al Ittifaq 16 4 6 6 21 26 7 2 3 2 7 8 9 2 3 4 14 18 -5 18
11 Al Taawon 16 4 5 7 27 31 8 3 2 3 14 12 8 1 3 4 13 19 -4 17
12 Al Fateh 15 4 4 7 20 22 7 2 2 3 13 11 8 2 2 4 7 11 -2 16
13 Al Ahli Jeddah 16 3 7 6 20 23 8 2 4 2 13 10 8 1 3 4 7 13 -3 16
14 Al Faisaly 15 3 7 5 17 21 9 3 4 2 14 13 6 0 3 3 3 8 -4 16
15 Al Batin 16 3 6 7 13 19 9 3 3 3 9 11 7 0 3 4 4 8 -6 15
16 Al Hazm 16 2 5 9 11 21 8 1 4 3 8 11 8 1 1 6 3 10 -10 11