Open game expected at Khalid Bin Mohammed Stadium: Al Bataeh vs Dibba Al Fujairah preview

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Competition: United Arab Emirates Uae League
Competition: Tue 18.April
Match begins: 18:00 (UTC)
Venue: Khalid Bin Mohammed Stadium (10000 seats)

The season has been a struggle for Al Bataeh so far, and the same description fits Dibba Al Fujairah. The bottom dwellers would trade their mothers for some much needed points here.

Insights:
  • Al Bataeh have the most conceded goals (29) at home in Uae League
  • Dibba Al Fujairah have the fewest scored goals (15) in Uae League

It’s busy days for these teams as both were in action only a few days ago. There’s no rest for the wicked, or in this case; no rest for Al Bataeh and Dibba Al Fujairah.

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Al Bataeh form and stats

Al Bataeh's results here at Khalid Bin Mohammed Stadium in the Uae League have been very modest with 0 victories, 5 draws and 6 defeats. With twelve home Uae League games in a row without a win, the Bataeh fans could feel they are not getting value for their money.

The Al Bataeh followers got no joy from their last match, also played here at Khalid Bin Mohammed Stadium: A 0-1 defeat against Dibba Al Fujairah (placed 13th).

A defeat was the result before that one, 0-3 away at Shabab Al Ahli Dubai.

This is expected to be a close game, with Al Bataeh perhaps considered small favourites due to their home advantage. Looking back at earlier matches similar to this one (expected to be close with Al Bataeh as a small favourite), we find 4 games. Al Bataeh has won 0 of these, drawn 2 and lost 2.

A fact related to the "Both teams to score yes/no" betting option: A review of the 13 latest league matches shows that 10 of them had at least one goal from each side.

Bataeh are certainly not overdoing their scoring at home in league matches, having created 14 goals in 11 games. Defensively there's plenty of potential for improvement as Al Bataeh have allowed the opposition to score 29 goals here at Khalid Bin Mohammed Stadium. There's been improvement defensively lately, as only 3 of these goals has been conceded in their last three home matches.

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Dibba Al Fujairah form and stats

There's been little loot from Dibba Al Fujairah's travels as they have only collected 7 points from 11 away games in the Uae League. Dibba Al Fujairah only have 2 wins to counter their 8 defeats and 1 draw. Winning streaks in away matches are not that common, but Dibba Al Fujairah are close to a proper streak after winning their two previous away games.

It's the second away game in a row for Dibba Al Fujairah, but there's smiles all around after the 1-0 victory versus Al Bataeh (placed 12th) last time out.

A draw for Fujairah before that, at their own venue hosting Al Wahda (1-1).

As mentioned above, this is an open game with no clear favourite. We have found 5 similar matches played by Dibba Al Fujairah in our archives, and the results are: 2 wins for Dibba Al Fujairah, 3 draws and 0 defeats.

Many goals are not expected from the visiting Dibba Al Fujairah as they have only managed to score 8 times from 11 away games in the league.

Head 2 Head

The fixture lists shows this result when the squads played each other earlier this season; Dibba Al Fujairah - Bataeh 0-1. H2H stats regardless of arena (last seven matches): Al Bataeh two wins, three draws and Dibba Al Fujairah two victories. As for goals, zero matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), seven games had two or less.

Top Goalscorers

Al BataehL. do Nascimento Rodrigues
L. do Nascimento Rodrigues
10 goals
BataehJ. Barradas Novais
J. Barradas Novais
6 goals
Al BataehA. Abang
A. Abang
5 goals

Al Bataeh missing players

Dibba Al Fujairah missing players

Al Bataeh Dibba Al Fujairah
Total Home vs low Statistics Stat vs low Away Total
23 12 3 Played P 3 12 23
4 0 0 Won W 1 3 4
6 5 3 Drew D 0 1 3
13 7 0 Lost L 2 8 16
25 14 6 Scored S 3 9 16
49 30 6 Conceded C 3 22 41
100% 100% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 100% 100%
83% 83% 100% Over 1.5 O 1.5 67% 75% 70%
70% 67% 67% Over 2.5 O 2.5 33% 42% 39%
39% 58% 67% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 17% 22%
17% 33% 33% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 17% 13%
57% 67% 100% BTTS BTTS 33% 33% 39%
13% 0% 0% Clean Sheets C S 33% 25% 17%
30% 33% 0% Failed to Score F T 33% 42% 43%
 
2.6 1.5 2.3 Corners for (avg) C F 5.7 3.4 3.3
5.7 4.4 4.7 Corners against (avg) C A 4.3 3.8 4.1
1.5 0.9 0.7 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 2.3 1.5 1.8
0 0 0 Red cards R C 0 1 2
 
6.9 7 9 Shots (avg) S ( 5.7 7.4 8.9
2.7 2.3 3 Shots on Target (avg) S O 2.7 2.7 3.1
40% 50% 67% Goal Efficiency G E 38% 28% 22%
 
12.7 13.1 9.7 Shots against (avg) S A 9 10.1 11.4
5.5 5.6 4 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 3.7 4.1 4.9
Key stats in Uae League this season:
  • Al Bataeh have conceded at least twice as many corners as they have won.
  • Al Bataeh have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored at home.
  • Al Bataeh have failed to keep a clean sheet in all their home matches.
  • Al Bataeh have the most conceded goals (29) at home in Uae League
  • Al Bataeh have the the worst goal difference (-15) at home in Uae League
  • Al Bataeh have won significantly less corners at home than away.
  • Al Bataeh have yet to win a game at home.
  • Al Bataeh haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
  • Dibba Al Fujairah have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored.
  • Dibba Al Fujairah have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
  • Dibba Al Fujairah have the fewest points from losing position (1) in Uae League
  • Dibba Al Fujairah have the fewest scored goals (15) in Uae League
  • Dibba Al Fujairah have the fewest scored goals in the second half (8) in Uae League
  • Dibba Al Fujairah 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 Shabab Al Ahli Dubai 22 15 4 3 46 20 11 8 1 2 23 9 11 7 3 1 23 11 26 49
2 Al Ain 22 13 5 4 55 25 11 6 3 2 29 12 11 7 2 2 26 13 30 44
3 Al Sharjah 22 12 6 4 40 15 11 5 3 3 19 8 11 7 3 1 21 7 25 42
4 Al Wahda 22 12 6 4 39 22 11 4 4 3 19 14 11 8 2 1 20 8 17 42
5 Al Wasl 22 11 7 4 41 26 11 5 4 2 23 12 11 6 3 2 18 14 15 40
6 Al Jazira 22 12 4 6 43 31 11 6 2 3 21 15 11 6 2 3 22 16 12 40
7 Ajman 22 11 5 6 35 33 11 6 3 2 21 14 11 5 2 4 14 19 2 38
8 Al Ittihad Kalba 22 8 5 9 29 35 11 5 1 5 17 19 11 3 4 4 12 16 -6 29
9 Al Nasr 22 6 5 11 23 37 11 5 1 5 12 11 11 1 4 6 11 26 -14 23
10 Bani Yas 22 6 4 12 30 38 11 2 2 7 12 18 11 4 2 5 18 20 -8 22
11 Khorfakkan Club 22 5 6 11 23 35 11 5 2 4 16 16 11 0 4 7 7 19 -12 21
12 Al Bataeh 22 4 6 12 25 48 11 0 5 6 14 29 11 4 1 6 11 19 -23 18
13 Dibba Al Fujairah 22 3 3 16 15 41 11 1 2 8 7 19 11 2 1 8 8 22 -26 12
14 Al Dhafra 22 2 2 18 19 57 11 2 1 8 11 23 11 0 1 10 8 34 -38 8