The visiting Al Ain side should be favourites in this visit to Al Ittihad Kalba, as the away team holds a 11 point advantage from their 13 league games this season.
The visiting Al Ain played their last game only one days ago, a AFC Champions League match.
Al Ain play their home games on grass, while this game is played on artificial turf. Recent stats for Al Ain when playing on artificial turf are 1 win, 0 draws and 1 defeat from two matches. They have scored 4 goals and conceded 5 times in these games.
Al Ittihad Kalba form and stats
12 points is a decent return from 6 Uae League games here at Ittihad Kalba Club Stadium for Al Ittihad Kalba. The data says 4 wins, 0 draws and 2 losses.
The fans are hoping that Al Ittihad Kalba will strike back in this match, putting things right after the 0-2 away loss in the Uae League game against Al Wasl (placed 7th). Ahead of that match, Al Ittihad Kalba won a home game hosting Al Khaleej (3-2).
The manager J. da Silva Echeverrito will start preparations for the next game as soon this is finished, as the hosts are going to Al Sharjah in only four days.
Goals decide football matches and Al Ittihad Kalba are scoring many of them at home; 14 on target from 6 league matches. With more than 1,5 conceded goals on average, the Al Ittihad Kalba defense is not exactly impregnable. 10 goals conceded from 6 games. You can find more goal stats on the Statistics tab above.
Al Ain form and stats
The away team, who have the most scored goals (21) away in Uae League, have been very comfortable on their travels so far, racking up 5 wins, 1 draw and only 1 loss in the Uae League. Al Ain have won three away matches in a row now and will not be intimidated by being the visitors in this fixture.
Al Ain are travelling after their nice 1-0 home win in the AFC Champions League against Bunyodkor. Preceding that game was the away Uae League victory against Al Khaleej with the score of 3-0.
The visitors are returning home after this fixture, hosting Al Wasl in just three days.
Al Ain are a potent attacking force on the road with their 21 goals in 7 league games. The prediction for this game is lots of goals as Al Ain alone have scored more than three on average in their league games away (21 from 7 played). It's not easy to score on Al Ain as they have only conceded 6 goals from these away games.
Head 2 Head
These teams' last encounter with each other was the Al Ain - Al Ittihad Kalba 3-2 earlier this season. Head-2-head stats last ten meetings: 1 - 2 - 7 (Al Ittihad Kalba wins - draws - Al Ain wins). As for goals, 8 matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), 2 had two or less.Top Goalscorers
  F. Laba 12 goals |   P. Mlapa 8 goals |  C. Canedo Corrêa 5 goals |
Al Ittihad Kalba missing players
Al Ain missing players
| Al Ittihad Kalba | Al Ain | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 13 | 6 | 1 | Played | P | 3 | 7 | 13 |
| 4 | 4 | 0 | Won | W | 3 | 5 | 7 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Drew | D | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| 8 | 2 | 1 | Lost | L | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| 19 | 14 | 1 | Scored | S | 14 | 21 | 30 |
| 27 | 10 | 3 | Conceded | C | 2 | 6 | 15 |
| 100% | 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 86% | 85% |
| 85% | 83% | 100% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 100% | 86% | 85% |
| 62% | 83% | 100% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 100% | 71% | 77% |
| 46% | 50% | 100% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 67% | 57% | 46% |
| 38% | 33% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 67% | 43% | 31% |
| 62% | 83% | 100% | BTTS | BTTS | 67% | 57% | 69% |
| 8% | 17% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 33% | 43% | 31% |
| 31% | 0% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 14% | 15% |
| 6 | 6 | 7 | Corners For (avg) | C F | 8 | 5.4 | 5.6 |
| 5 | 5.2 | 8 | Corners Against (avg) | C A | 3.7 | 3.1 | 3.7 |
| 2.3 | 2.7 | 0 | Yellow Cards (avg) | Y C | 0.3 | 1 | 1.3 |
| 4 | 2 | 0 | Red Cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 135 | 61 | 9 | Total Shots | T S | 53 | 100 | 176 |
| 49 | 25 | 3 | Shots on Target | S O | 24 | 39 | 72 |
| 39% | 56% | 33% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 58% | 54% | 42% |
- Al Ain has the most points from losing position (9)
- Al Ain has the most scored goals (21) away
- Al Ain has the the best goal difference (+15) away
- Al Ain have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded away.
- Al Ittihad Kalba have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
- Al Ittihad Kalba have scored in all their home matches so far.
- Al Ittihad Kalba 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 | 13 | 10 | 2 | 1 | 31 | 7 | 7 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 23 | 5 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 8 | 2 | 24 | 32 |
| 2 | Al Jazira | 14 | 8 | 3 | 3 | 22 | 12 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 6 | 8 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 15 | 6 | 10 | 27 |
| 3 | Al Ain | 13 | 7 | 3 | 3 | 30 | 15 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 9 | 9 | 7 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 21 | 6 | 15 | 24 |
| 4 | Al Sharjah | 13 | 7 | 3 | 3 | 27 | 17 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 9 | 6 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 18 | 11 | 10 | 24 |
| 5 | Al Nasr | 14 | 7 | 3 | 4 | 17 | 14 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 6 | 6 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 11 | 8 | 3 | 24 |
| 6 | Al Dhafra | 14 | 7 | 2 | 5 | 19 | 17 | 8 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 10 | 9 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 9 | 8 | 2 | 23 |
| 7 | Al Wasl | 14 | 6 | 4 | 4 | 24 | 22 | 8 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 15 | 16 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 9 | 6 | 2 | 22 |
| 8 | Al Wahda | 13 | 6 | 2 | 5 | 24 | 25 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 13 | 12 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 11 | 13 | -1 | 20 |
| 9 | Bani Yas | 14 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 17 | 20 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 9 | 8 | 8 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 8 | 12 | -3 | 17 |
| 10 | Ajman | 14 | 3 | 5 | 6 | 20 | 30 | 8 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 13 | 16 | 6 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 7 | 14 | -10 | 14 |
| 11 | Al Ittihad Kalba | 13 | 4 | 1 | 8 | 19 | 27 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 14 | 10 | 7 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 5 | 17 | -8 | 13 |
| 12 | Al Fujairah | 13 | 3 | 1 | 9 | 11 | 26 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 10 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 5 | 16 | -15 | 10 |
| 13 | Hatta | 13 | 2 | 2 | 9 | 10 | 23 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 11 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 12 | -13 | 8 |
| 14 | Al Khaleej | 13 | 0 | 4 | 9 | 10 | 26 | 7 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 3 | 15 | 6 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 7 | 11 | -16 | 4 |