Al Shabab are thought of as expected winners of this home game versus Al Taawon, if the league standings are thought to provide some clues. Or are we eyeing a possible shock?
- Al Shabab is in the best form (5-1-0) in Pro League
- Al Taawon have the most conceded goals (27) in Pro League
Al Shabab and Al Taawon 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.
Al Shabab form and stats
17 points is a decent return from 7 Pro League games here at King Fahd International Stadium for Al Shabab. The data says 5 wins, 2 draws and 0 losses. Shabab has a nice streak going on as they have played ten consecutive leaguegames without losing (regardless of home/away). They are keen to extend their tally, a streak that began after the Al Fateh defeat 122 days ago.
The Al Shabab goalkeeper Fawaz Al Qarni is looking to record 90 more "clean sheet" minutes as his team have now played 621 minutes without conceding a goal in the Pro League.
Shabab's last game was hosting Dhamk (placed 3rd) and winning 5-0. As indicated by the result mentioned above, Shabab played a great game against Dhamk and beat them comfortably. Expectations are high for this one.
Before that, Shabab had a Pro League home game versus Al Raed which ended with a victory 3-0.The hosts are favourites to win this game, with an estimated chance of about 55-60% of that outcome. Earlier Al Shabab matches with similar probabilities have ended with three wins, two draws and one defeat (from six games).
Goals decide football matches and Shabab are scoring many of them at home; 16 on target from 7 league matches. Shabab have only conceded 6 from their league home games. For more goal stats, check the Statistics tab above.
Al Taawon form and stats
There's been little loot from Al Taawon's travels as they have only collected 6 points from 7 away games in the Pro League. Al Taawon only have 1 win to counter their 3 defeats and 3 draws.
Tawamba (2) and Gamarra scored in Al Taawon's previous match, the home game against Al Ta'ee that ended 3-2. An amazing comeback from Al Taawon last time out, trailing 0-2 before rallying an inspired fight which eventually led to Tawamba scoring the winning goal in the 90th minute. Late drama in the previous game, when Tawamba scored the winning goal two minutes into stoppage time to defeat Al Ta'ee.
Ahead of that game was the 1-1 draw at home against Al Feiha in the Pro League.As mentioned above, the odds for this match puts the home team as favourites. Perhaps this eases the pressure on the away team, who are capable of producing an upset here on a good day. Looking at earlier matches with similar odds and Taawon playing away, we found four games. Results were one away win, one draw and two home wins.
The travelling fans enjoy Taawon's attacking play in away games, having scored 12 goals in 7 league matches away. The Al Taawon manager Martins Teixeira Gomes has some worries about the defense as 16 goals have been conceded in these travels.
Head 2 Head
Head-2-head stats last ten meetings: two - two - six (Al Shabab wins - draws - Al Taawon wins). As for goals, six matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), four had two or less.Top Goalscorers
  O. Ighalo 9 goals |   L. Tawamba Kana 9 goals |  É. Banega 4 goals |
Al Shabab missing players
Al Taawon missing players
| Al Shabab | Al Taawon | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 13 | 7 | 2 | Played | P | 2 | 7 | 13 |
| 7 | 5 | 2 | Won | W | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 4 | 2 | 0 | Drew | D | 1 | 3 | 5 |
| 2 | 0 | 0 | Lost | L | 1 | 3 | 6 |
| 23 | 16 | 5 | Scored | S | 2 | 12 | 21 |
| 11 | 6 | 0 | Conceded | C | 4 | 16 | 27 |
| 92% | 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| 85% | 86% | 100% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| 54% | 71% | 50% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 50% | 86% | 69% |
| 15% | 29% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 50% | 71% | 46% |
| 8% | 14% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 29% | 23% |
| 38% | 43% | 0% | BTTS | BTTS | 100% | 86% | 85% |
| 54% | 57% | 100% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 0% | 8% |
| 15% | 0% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 14% | 8% |
| 3.8 | 4 | 3 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 3 | 3.1 | 3.8 |
| 4.7 | 4.7 | 4.5 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 6 | 4.4 | 4.8 |
| 1.4 | 0.9 | 0 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 4.5 | 3.1 | 2.9 |
| 4 | 2 | 1 | Red cards | R C | 1 | 2 | 2 |
| 10.9 | 13.4 | 15 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 5 | 9.1 | 10.1 |
| 4.3 | 5.4 | 7.5 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 2.5 | 4.3 | 4.5 |
| 41% | 42% | 33% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 40% | 40% | 36% |
| 9.6 | 11 | 12.5 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 11.5 | 11 | 9.8 |
| 3.5 | 4.1 | 3 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 5.5 | 4.6 | 3.9 |
- Al Shabab have not yet lost a game at home.
- Al Shabab have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
- Al Shabab have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded.
- Al Shabab have scored in all their home matches so far.
- Al Shabab have the most clean sheets (7) in Pro League
- Al Shabab have the most points (17) at home in Pro League
- Al Shabab haven’t played a single 0-0 game at home.
- Al Shabab is in the best form (5-1-0) in Pro League
- Al Taawon have failed to keep a clean sheet in all their away matches.
- Al Taawon have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
- Al Taawon have the fewest clean sheets (1) in Pro League
- Al Taawon have the most conceded goals (27) in Pro League
- Al Taawon have the most conceded goals in the second half (17) in Pro League
- Al Taawon have the most dropped points from leading position (20) in Pro League
- Al Taawon haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
- All of Al Taawon's 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 Ittihad | 12 | 8 | 2 | 2 | 23 | 8 | 7 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 16 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 4 | 15 | 26 |
| 2 | Al Shabab | 13 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 23 | 11 | 7 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 16 | 6 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 7 | 5 | 12 | 25 |
| 3 | Dhamk | 13 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 20 | 15 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 7 | 2 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 13 | 13 | 5 | 25 |
| 4 | Al Hilal | 12 | 5 | 6 | 1 | 16 | 12 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 9 | 6 | 5 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 7 | 6 | 4 | 21 |
| 5 | Al Nassr | 13 | 6 | 2 | 5 | 21 | 16 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 11 | 8 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 10 | 8 | 5 | 20 |
| 6 | Al Feiha | 13 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 13 | 11 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 1 | 8 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 7 | 10 | 2 | 19 |
| 7 | Al Raed | 13 | 5 | 3 | 5 | 20 | 20 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 9 | 3 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 11 | 17 | 0 | 18 |
| 8 | Al Ittifaq | 13 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 18 | 22 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 7 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 12 | 15 | -4 | 16 |
| 9 | Al Ahli Jeddah | 13 | 3 | 6 | 4 | 15 | 16 | 7 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 10 | 6 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 10 | -1 | 15 |
| 10 | Al Faisaly | 12 | 3 | 6 | 3 | 12 | 13 | 7 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 10 | 8 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 5 | -1 | 15 |
| 11 | Abha | 13 | 4 | 2 | 7 | 14 | 23 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 11 | 10 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 3 | 13 | -9 | 14 |
| 12 | Al Fateh | 12 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 15 | 16 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 11 | 7 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 9 | -1 | 13 |
| 13 | Al Batin | 13 | 3 | 4 | 6 | 10 | 15 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 7 | 8 | 6 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 7 | -5 | 13 |
| 14 | Al Ta'ee | 13 | 4 | 1 | 8 | 11 | 20 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 9 | 9 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 2 | 11 | -9 | 13 |
| 15 | Al Taawon | 13 | 2 | 5 | 6 | 21 | 27 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 9 | 11 | 7 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 12 | 16 | -6 | 11 |
| 16 | Al Hazm | 13 | 2 | 5 | 6 | 9 | 16 | 7 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 8 | 10 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 6 | -7 | 11 |
