Al Shabab greet Dhamk as obvious favourites: Big match preview

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Competition: Saudi Arabia Pro League
Competition: Thu 10.February
Match begins: 15:20 (UTC)
Venue: Prince Faisal bin Fahd Stadium (68752 seats)

The Al Shabab & Dhamk managers Chamusca and Režić are both dreading and looking forward to this vital game in the upper part of the Pro League table.

Insights:
  • Al Shabab have not yet lost a game at home.
  • Dhamk have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.

These teams have little in common geographically as Dhamk have to travel 900 kilometers to reach their opponents. The trip home will be especially long if the match ends in defeat.

Both contenders have had enough rest since their last work day in an official game. Let's wish for an enthusiastic fixture!

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Al Shabab form and stats

Al Shabab are steadily winning Pro League games and points here at Prince Faisal bin Fahd Stadium. 6 wins, 4 draws and 0 defeats is the summary from 10 games. In general it's been a long time since Shabab tasted defeat here at Prince Faisal bin Fahd Stadium, as they have taken at least one point from their last ten home games in the league.

A good away victory last time out for Al Shabab, who won 2-1 against Al Hazm (placed 16th).

The spoils were shared after 90 minutes before that, a home game that ended 1-1 versus Al Fateh.

Al Shabab are believed to win this game, given a winning chance of about 70% by the bookmakers. We have checked our records for their performance in similar circumstances and found four matches and the win/draw/lost stats: Won three, drew one and lost zero.

Goals decide football matches and Shabab are scoring many of them at home; 21 on target from 10 league matches. Al Shabab have only conceded 9 from their league home games. For more goal stats, check the Statistics tab above.

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Dhamk form and stats

4 wins, 2 draws and 4 losses. That’s the product of Dhamk playing as the away team in the Pro League this season.

It might be tough going out on the road again for Dhamk, facing their second straight away game. Especially as the previous game, ended with a defeat 0-3 versus Al Faisaly (placed 11th).

A 1-1 draw was the result before that, hosting Al Ahli.

We have done a similar check as we did with the hometeam, looking up recent matches where Dhamk played away with similar odds. This revealed six games. The visitors overcame the odds to win zero times, one were draw and the home team won as expected five times.

Dhamk are not goal shy away from home in the league, finding the net 15 times in 10 away games so far.

Head 2 Head

These teams played each other previously this match year: Dhamk - Shabab 1-1. Previous six meetings featuring these teams: Al Shabab won four, Dhamk were winners in zero and we saw two draws. four games with more than 2,5 goals, two matches with less than 2,5 goals. The matches between these teams sometimes lean towards being brutal, having seen 4 red cards from the last six encounters.

Al Shabab missing players

Dhamk missing players

Al Shabab Dhamk
Total Home vs top Statistics Stat vs top Away Total
19 10 2 Played P 2 10 19
10 6 1 Won W 0 4 8
7 4 1 Drew D 0 2 6
2 0 0 Lost L 2 4 5
36 21 3 Scored S 1 15 24
20 9 2 Conceded C 6 20 26
95% 100% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 100% 100%
89% 90% 50% Over 1.5 O 1.5 100% 90% 79%
58% 60% 50% Over 2.5 O 2.5 50% 60% 32%
26% 30% 50% Over 3.5 O 3.5 50% 30% 16%
11% 10% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 50% 20% 11%
58% 60% 50% BTTS BTTS 50% 50% 47%
37% 40% 50% Clean Sheets C S 0% 20% 32%
11% 0% 0% Failed to Score F T 50% 30% 21%
 
4.4 4.9 4.5 Corners for (avg) C F 3.5 3.3 3.6
4.3 4.2 7.5 Corners against (avg) C A 4 6 4.9
1.8 1.4 1.5 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 1 1.9 1.7
4 2 0 Red cards R C 0 1 3
 
11.3 13.5 13 Shots (avg) S ( 9 8 8.9
4.9 5.7 3.5 Shots on Target (avg) S O 3 3.5 3.2
39% 37% 43% Goal Efficiency G E 17% 43% 39%
 
9.6 10.6 12 Shots against (avg) S A 12 11.7 10.7
3.8 4.3 5 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 6 5.8 4.6
Key stats in Pro League this season:
  • 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 at home.
  • Al Shabab have scored in all their home matches so far.
  • Al Shabab haven’t played a single 0-0 game at home.
  • Dhamk have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
  • Dhamk 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 18 14 2 2 38 13 10 8 1 1 22 6 8 6 1 1 16 7 25 44
2 Al Nassr 19 12 2 5 35 18 9 6 1 2 21 10 10 6 1 3 14 8 17 38
3 Al Shabab 19 10 7 2 36 20 10 6 4 0 21 9 9 4 3 2 15 11 16 37
4 Al Hilal 17 8 7 2 29 20 9 5 2 2 14 11 8 3 5 0 15 9 9 31
5 Dhamk 19 8 6 5 24 26 9 4 4 1 9 6 10 4 2 4 15 20 -2 30
6 Al Feiha 18 6 7 5 16 14 8 5 3 0 8 1 10 1 4 5 8 13 2 25
7 Al Raed 19 7 4 8 26 28 9 5 2 2 12 6 10 2 2 6 14 22 -2 25
8 Abha 19 7 4 8 19 29 10 5 2 3 13 14 9 2 2 5 6 15 -10 25
9 Al Ahli 19 4 9 6 23 25 10 3 5 2 15 11 9 1 4 4 8 14 -2 21
10 Al Ittifaq 19 4 8 7 25 31 9 2 4 3 10 12 10 2 4 4 15 19 -6 20
11 Al Faisaly 18 4 7 7 20 26 10 4 4 2 17 13 8 0 3 5 3 13 -6 19
12 Al Batin 19 4 7 8 17 23 10 3 4 3 10 12 9 1 3 5 7 11 -6 19
13 Al Ta'ee 19 6 1 12 17 33 9 4 0 5 13 16 10 2 1 7 4 17 -16 19
14 Al Fateh 18 4 6 8 23 26 8 2 2 4 15 14 10 2 4 4 8 12 -3 18
15 Al Taawon 19 4 6 9 30 36 9 3 2 4 14 13 10 1 4 5 16 23 -6 18
16 Al Hazm 19 3 5 11 14 24 10 2 4 4 11 13 9 1 1 7 3 11 -10 14