Al Raed fights Al Batin in Pro League battle

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Competition: Saudi Arabia Pro League
Competition: Fri 12.February
Match begins: 15:30 (UTC)

An important duel in the bottom section of the Pro League, with both Al Raed and Al Batin experiencing more worry than joy. This match is a classic "six-pointer" with the home team placed 12th and the visitors in 14th place.

Insights:
  • Al Raed have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • Al Batin have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.

Al Raed and Al Batin should both be in good shape for this meeting, as there's been enough days for both of them to train and rest since their last matches.

Raed's stadium has a grass surface. Al Batin have artifical turf 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 Batin when playing on grass; 13 wins, 2 draws and 18 losses from 33 matches. They have scored 40 goals in these games and conceded 54.

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Al Raed form and stats

The home fans haven’t been spoiled with victories in the Pro League this season. Al Raed have only managed 2 wins, 2 draws and 5 losses from their games here.

Raed faced defeat in their previous match, away at Al Shabab (1-4). Before that game, the 4-2 home victory against Dhamk.

This is expected to be a close game, with Al Raed perhaps considered small favourites due to their home advantage. Looking back at earlier matches similar to this one (expected to be close with Al Raed as a small favourite), we find nine games. Al Raed has won two of these, drawn four and lost three.

Raed are certainly not overdoing their scoring at home in league matches, having created 13 goals in 9 games. Raed have conceded 16 from these games.

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Al Batin form and stats

The hunting on away grounds haven’t been very fruitful for Al Batin so far with only 6 points returning home. The records show 1-3-4 (win-draw-lose).

Batin's previous game was their home loss versus Al Faisaly (0-2). Ahead of that match was the away draw versus Al Ahli Jeddah that ended 2-2.

So, this is expected to be a close game, an even contest. Looking at earlier matches with Al Batin playing away and similar expectations, we found eight relevant matches. Results were one Batin win, two draws and five defeats.

Batin are scoring more than one goal per away game on average, having accumulated 11 away goals from 8 games (in the league). The Al Batin manager J. da Rocha Garrido has some worries about the defense as 16 goals have been conceded in these travels.

Head 2 Head

This is not the first time this season these parties meet, as the history books show this recent fixture: Al Batin - Raed 2-1. As for the last nine games between these two teams, there's six Al Raed victories, zero draws and three Al Batin wins. Over/under statistics; eight of these games ended with three goals or more, one match with two goals or less.

Top Goalscorers

Al RaedK. Berkaoui
K. Berkaoui
6 goals
RaedM. Al-Sahli
M. Al-Sahli
3 goals

Al Raed missing players

Al Batin missing players

Al Raed Al Batin
Total Home vs low Statistics Stat vs low Away Total
17 9 2 Played P 3 8 17
5 2 1 Won W 1 1 4
4 2 0 Drew D 0 3 5
8 5 1 Lost L 2 4 8
23 13 4 Scored S 3 11 23
27 16 4 Conceded C 5 16 28
88% 100% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 100% 100%
71% 78% 100% Over 1.5 O 1.5 100% 100% 94%
59% 67% 50% Over 2.5 O 2.5 67% 75% 71%
41% 44% 50% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 50% 29%
29% 22% 50% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 12% 6%
59% 67% 50% BTTS BTTS 67% 88% 76%
18% 0% 0% Clean Sheets C S 0% 0% 6%
35% 33% 50% Failed to Score F T 33% 12% 18%
 
0 0 0 Corners for (avg) C F 0 0 0
0 0 0 Corners against (avg) C A 0 0 0
2.8 2.7 2.5 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 4 2.4 2
4 1 0 Red cards R C 1 2 2
 
6.9 8.2 12.5 Shots (avg) S ( 8.3 11.2 11.2
3.8 4.3 8 Shots on Target (avg) S O 3.3 3.9 3.6
36% 33% 25% Goal Efficiency G E 30% 35% 37%
Key stats in Pro League this season:
  • Al Batin have failed to keep a clean sheet in all their away matches.
  • Al Batin have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
  • Al Batin haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
  • Al Raed have failed to keep a clean sheet in all their home matches.
  • Al Raed have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • Al Raed haven’t played a single 0-0 game at home.
  • All of Al Batin'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 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