Pro League: We're expecting an absorbing and vital battle starring Al Taawon and Al Ittifaq at King Abdullah Sport City Stadium. Both need the points!
- Al Taawon have the most conceded goals (42) in Pro League
- Al Ittifaq have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
One slightly interesting match fact is that this game is played on grass and that the visiting Al Ittifaq have a different surface at their stadium (artifical turf). The impact of this is hard to measure exactly, but the visitors stats on grass is 8-4-10 (win-draw-loss) from 22 matches.
Al Taawon and Al Ittifaq 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 Taawon form and stats
Al Taawon have collected 14 points from their Pro League home games so far after 3-5-4. The trend of drawing games is also valid regardless of arena as Al Taawon has five draws from their last five matches.
The fans hope that Al Taawon will fight back in this match, putting things right after the 4-5 away loss in the AFC Champions League fixture against Pakhtakor. Midfield player Al-Nabet got a match rating of 9.04 in that game, the max score being 10. Al-Nabet scored two goals, hit three key passes and dribled past the opponent 2 of 4 times.
Erik lost again The home team are moderate favourites in this game. How does Al Taawon handle that role? We have found eight games in our database similar to this one, based on the home odds. The stats for these games are five wins, two draws and one defeat.
Taawon have proved capable of finding the net in their games here at King Abdullah Sport City Stadium with 18 goals in 12 league matches. On the other hand, Al Taawon have conceded 17 goals.
Al Ittifaq form and stats
The hunting on away grounds haven’t been very fruitful for Al Ittifaq so far with only 10 points returning home. The records show 2-4-6 (win-draw-lose). Al Ittifaq has lost their two previous away games and are eager to kill a negative trend in its infancy.
Two away games in a row for Ittifaq, who will hope to get a better result in this one after losing 0-1 versus Dhamk.
Ahead of that game was the 2-2 draw at home against Al Nassr.Al Ittifaq are the outsiders in this one, but not by much. Their performance in similar games (being the away team and moderate outsiders) is three wins, zero draws and four defeats. From a total of seven matches.
Al Ittifaq are scoring more than one goal per away game on average, having accumulated 15 away goals from 12 games (in the league). It's been trouble in front of goal recently, as only 1 of these goals has been scored in their last three away matches. When Ittifaq is visiting a side on the bottom half, 2 of 3 matches have ended with three or more goals. These are matches against Al Faisaly, Al Ta'ee, Al Batin, Al Ittifaq and Al Hazm.
Head 2 Head
Al Ittifaq - Al Taawon 1-3 was the product when these two teams last played each other, some time ago this season. Head-2-head stats last ten meetings: five - two - three (Taawon wins - draws - Al Ittifaq wins). As for goals, seven matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), three had two or less. The games between these teams sometimes lean towards being brutal, having seen 6 red cards from the last ten encounters. One of the players to grab the headlines has been Kana with 7 goals scored against Al Ittifaq in these 10 meetings.Top Goalscorers
  L. Tawamba Kana 15 goals |   R. Quaison 6 goals |  M. Fathi 5 goals |
Al Taawon missing players
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| Al Taawon | Al Ittifaq | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 25 | 12 | 3 | Played | P | 3 | 12 | 24 |
| 5 | 3 | 1 | Won | W | 1 | 2 | 5 |
| 11 | 5 | 1 | Drew | D | 1 | 4 | 9 |
| 9 | 4 | 1 | Lost | L | 1 | 6 | 10 |
| 39 | 18 | 5 | Scored | S | 5 | 15 | 28 |
| 42 | 17 | 5 | Conceded | C | 4 | 24 | 39 |
| 100% | 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 67% | 92% | 92% |
| 96% | 92% | 100% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 67% | 75% | 67% |
| 60% | 50% | 100% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 67% | 58% | 54% |
| 36% | 17% | 33% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 33% | 50% | 42% |
| 16% | 8% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 33% | 33% | 17% |
| 80% | 75% | 100% | BTTS | BTTS | 33% | 50% | 54% |
| 12% | 17% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 67% | 25% | 25% |
| 8% | 8% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 33% | 33% | 29% |
| 4 | 3.9 | 4.3 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 3.7 | 3.9 | 3.8 |
| 5.1 | 4.9 | 5 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 3.7 | 4.8 | 4.4 |
| 2.7 | 2.7 | 2 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 1 | 1.8 | 1.7 |
| 6 | 3 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 2 | 7 |
| 9.8 | 10.8 | 10 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 9.7 | 8.2 | 9.8 |
| 4.2 | 4.4 | 4.3 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 3 | 3.2 | 3.5 |
| 38% | 34% | 38% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 56% | 39% | 33% |
| 10.5 | 9.6 | 7.7 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 7.7 | 9.8 | 9.5 |
| 4 | 3.4 | 3.7 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 3.3 | 4.7 | 4.1 |
- Al Ittifaq have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
- Al Taawon have the fewest clean sheets (3) in Pro League
- Al Taawon have the most conceded goals (42) in Pro League
- Al Taawon have the most dropped points from leading position (31) in Pro League
- Al Taawon 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 | 25 | 19 | 3 | 3 | 54 | 20 | 13 | 11 | 1 | 1 | 30 | 7 | 12 | 8 | 2 | 2 | 24 | 13 | 34 | 60 |
| 2 | Al Hilal | 24 | 14 | 7 | 3 | 47 | 24 | 13 | 9 | 2 | 2 | 27 | 14 | 11 | 5 | 5 | 1 | 20 | 10 | 23 | 49 |
| 3 | Al Nassr | 25 | 15 | 3 | 7 | 44 | 31 | 12 | 8 | 1 | 3 | 24 | 15 | 13 | 7 | 2 | 4 | 20 | 16 | 13 | 48 |
| 4 | Al Shabab | 25 | 13 | 8 | 4 | 46 | 31 | 13 | 8 | 4 | 1 | 27 | 12 | 12 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 19 | 19 | 15 | 47 |
| 5 | Dhamk | 25 | 12 | 6 | 7 | 34 | 34 | 12 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 16 | 10 | 13 | 5 | 2 | 6 | 18 | 24 | 0 | 42 |
| 6 | Al Feiha | 25 | 8 | 9 | 8 | 20 | 19 | 12 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 11 | 3 | 13 | 1 | 5 | 7 | 9 | 16 | 1 | 33 |
| 7 | Abha | 25 | 9 | 5 | 11 | 26 | 39 | 13 | 7 | 3 | 3 | 17 | 16 | 12 | 2 | 2 | 8 | 9 | 23 | -13 | 32 |
| 8 | Al Fateh | 25 | 8 | 7 | 10 | 36 | 30 | 12 | 5 | 2 | 5 | 26 | 16 | 13 | 3 | 5 | 5 | 10 | 14 | 6 | 31 |
| 9 | Al Raed | 25 | 8 | 5 | 12 | 29 | 37 | 12 | 6 | 2 | 4 | 13 | 10 | 13 | 2 | 3 | 8 | 16 | 27 | -8 | 29 |
| 10 | Al Ahli Jeddah | 25 | 6 | 10 | 9 | 33 | 36 | 13 | 4 | 6 | 3 | 22 | 17 | 12 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 11 | 19 | -3 | 28 |
| 11 | Al Faisaly | 25 | 6 | 10 | 9 | 25 | 33 | 13 | 6 | 5 | 2 | 19 | 13 | 12 | 0 | 5 | 7 | 6 | 20 | -8 | 28 |
| 12 | Al Ta'ee | 25 | 8 | 3 | 14 | 25 | 41 | 12 | 5 | 2 | 5 | 19 | 20 | 13 | 3 | 1 | 9 | 6 | 21 | -16 | 27 |
| 13 | Al Taawon | 25 | 5 | 11 | 9 | 39 | 42 | 12 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 18 | 17 | 13 | 2 | 6 | 5 | 21 | 25 | -3 | 26 |
| 14 | Al Batin | 25 | 6 | 7 | 12 | 24 | 35 | 13 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 16 | 16 | 12 | 1 | 3 | 8 | 8 | 19 | -11 | 25 |
| 15 | Al Ittifaq | 24 | 5 | 9 | 10 | 28 | 39 | 12 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 13 | 15 | 12 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 15 | 24 | -11 | 24 |
| 16 | Al Hazm | 25 | 3 | 5 | 17 | 15 | 34 | 12 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 11 | 15 | 13 | 1 | 1 | 11 | 4 | 19 | -19 | 14 |
