Al Ain will hope to utilise their home advantage to help bridge the gap to today’s opponents. The home side are currently 8 points behind Bani Yas.
- Bani Yas is in the best form (5-1-0)
There’s little time for restitution or working hard at the training pitch these days, with both teams having played their last game less than four days ago.
Al Ain form and stats
4-4-2 (win-draw-lost) are the Uae League numbers at home for Al Ain so far this season.
The spoils were shared after 90 minutes before that, a home game that ended 1-1 versus Al Wasl.
As mentioned above, Ain "killed" Al Wahda in their previous game. They need to reset completely for this one and beware of complacency.
Ain have proved capable of finding the net in their games here at Hazza Bin Zayed Stadium with 16 goals in 10 league matches. On the other hand, Ain have conceded 12 goals. It's worth mentioning that 6 of these goals has been conceded in their last 3 home matches.
Bani Yas form and stats
Bani Yas, who have the fewest conceded goals (7) away in Uae League, have an excellent away record in the Uae League so far with 6-3-1 from 10 games.
Preceding that game was the away victory against Al Ittihad Kalba with the score of 2-0.
Late drama in the previous game, when Fawaz Awana scored the winning goal two minutes into stoppage time to defeat Al Nasr.
A quick return to home after this game, as Bani are hosting Hatta in the Uae League only four days away.
Bani are not goal shy away from home in the league, finding the net 19 times in 10 away games so far. Bani are defending well in their away games, having conceded only 7 times in 10 matches. For more goal statistics, check out the Statistics tab above. It's worth mentioning that 4 of these goals has been conceded in their last 3 away matches.
Head 2 Head
The dueling parties have met before this season: Bani Yas - Ain 4-1. Numbers for the last ten meetings between these two teams are: three wins for Ain, four draws and three wins for Bani Yas. Over 2,5 goals: three times; under 2,5 goals: seven games.Top Goalscorers
  J. Pereira dos Santos 15 goals |  F. Laba 10 goals | C. Canedo Corrêa 6 goals |
Al Ain missing players
Bani Yas missing players
| Al Ain | Bani Yas | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 20 | 10 | 2 | Played | P | 4 | 10 | 20 |
| 9 | 4 | 0 | Won | W | 3 | 6 | 13 |
| 7 | 4 | 1 | Drew | D | 1 | 3 | 3 |
| 4 | 2 | 1 | Lost | L | 0 | 1 | 4 |
| 33 | 16 | 3 | Scored | S | 8 | 19 | 40 |
| 25 | 12 | 4 | Conceded | C | 1 | 7 | 19 |
| 95% | 90% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 75% | 80% | 90% |
| 85% | 80% | 100% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 75% | 70% | 80% |
| 60% | 50% | 100% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 25% | 50% | 55% |
| 35% | 40% | 50% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 25% | 30% | 40% |
| 15% | 20% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 25% | 20% | 25% |
| 75% | 70% | 100% | BTTS | BTTS | 25% | 40% | 45% |
| 25% | 30% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 75% | 50% | 40% |
| 5% | 10% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 25% | 30% | 25% |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1.9 | 1.9 | 2.5 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 1.2 | 1.4 | 1.7 |
| 2 | 1 | 1 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 11.9 | 12.3 | 15 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 8.8 | 10.4 | 11.8 |
| 4.4 | 4.5 | 6 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 4.8 | 5 | 5.5 |
| 38% | 36% | 25% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 42% | 38% | 37% |
- Bani Yas have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded.
- Bani Yas have the fewest conceded goals (7) away in Uae League
- Bani Yas have the fewest dropped points from leading position (2) in Uae League
- Bani Yas is in the best form (5-1-0)
| 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 Jazira | 20 | 13 | 5 | 2 | 50 | 19 | 9 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 18 | 6 | 11 | 8 | 2 | 1 | 32 | 13 | 31 | 44 |
| 2 | Bani Yas | 20 | 13 | 3 | 4 | 40 | 19 | 10 | 7 | 0 | 3 | 21 | 12 | 10 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 19 | 7 | 21 | 42 |
| 3 | Al Sharjah | 20 | 12 | 4 | 4 | 38 | 23 | 11 | 8 | 1 | 2 | 24 | 12 | 9 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 14 | 11 | 15 | 40 |
| 4 | Al Nasr | 20 | 11 | 3 | 6 | 35 | 22 | 10 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 17 | 10 | 10 | 5 | 1 | 4 | 18 | 12 | 13 | 36 |
| 5 | Shabab Al Ahli Dubai | 20 | 8 | 10 | 2 | 40 | 25 | 10 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 21 | 12 | 10 | 3 | 6 | 1 | 19 | 13 | 15 | 34 |
| 6 | Al Ain | 20 | 9 | 7 | 4 | 33 | 25 | 10 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 16 | 12 | 10 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 17 | 13 | 8 | 34 |
| 7 | Al Wasl | 20 | 8 | 6 | 6 | 37 | 33 | 9 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 17 | 21 | 11 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 20 | 12 | 4 | 30 |
| 8 | Al Wahda | 20 | 7 | 8 | 5 | 36 | 28 | 10 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 20 | 12 | 10 | 2 | 5 | 3 | 16 | 16 | 8 | 29 |
| 9 | Al Ittihad Kalba | 20 | 8 | 5 | 7 | 23 | 31 | 10 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 8 | 19 | 10 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 15 | 12 | -8 | 29 |
| 10 | Al Dhafra | 20 | 5 | 5 | 10 | 25 | 41 | 10 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 16 | 14 | 10 | 0 | 3 | 7 | 9 | 27 | -16 | 20 |
| 11 | Al Khaleej | 20 | 5 | 3 | 12 | 28 | 41 | 10 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 16 | 14 | 10 | 3 | 0 | 7 | 12 | 27 | -13 | 18 |
| 12 | Al Fujairah | 20 | 3 | 2 | 15 | 23 | 44 | 10 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 14 | 21 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 9 | 23 | -21 | 11 |
| 13 | Ajman | 20 | 2 | 5 | 13 | 14 | 42 | 10 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 11 | 15 | 10 | 0 | 1 | 9 | 3 | 27 | -28 | 11 |
| 14 | Hatta | 20 | 2 | 2 | 16 | 13 | 42 | 11 | 2 | 0 | 9 | 12 | 24 | 9 | 0 | 2 | 7 | 1 | 18 | -29 | 8 |