Al Wahda vs Bani Yas: Match guide and preview

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Competition: United Arab Emirates Uae League
Competition: Sat 16.January
Match begins: 16:00 (UTC)
Venue: Al-Nahyan Stadium (12000 seats)

Al Wahda will hope to utilise their home advantage to help bridge the gap to today’s opponents. The home side are currently 4 points behind Bani Yas.

Insights:
  • Al Wahda has the most scored goals (16) at home in Uae League
  • Bani Yas has the fewest conceded goals (10) in Uae League

Both teams should be fairly well rested for this game, as they have had some quiet days to prepare. Hopefully this will translate into lots of action on the pitch.

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Al Wahda form and stats

14 points is a decent return from 6 Uae League games here at Al-Nahyan Stadium for Al Wahda. The data says 4 wins, 2 draws and 0 losses.

An away draw last time out for Wahda, facing Al Nasr in a game that ended 2-2. Ahead of that match, Wahda won a home game hosting Al Fujairah (2-1).

A painful moment in the game against Al Nasr was the missed penalty kick from P. M'Poku in the 39th minute. A goal there would obviously have changed the match and probably the outcome.

Goals are plentiful at Al-Nahyan Stadium in the league this season as Wahda has scored 16 goals here in 6 home games. Wahda are not conceding a lot of goals here at Al-Nahyan Stadium in the league, averaging less than one per game. The total is 5 from 6 matches.

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Bani Yas form and stats

The story so far for the visiting team, who have the fewest conceded goals (10) in Uae League, on their Uae League travels is 3 wins, 2 draws and 1 defeat.

Bani Yas delivered a 1-1 draw playing at home against Al Ittihad Kalba (placed 7th) in their previous match; a Arabian Gulf Cup game. Before that, Bani secured a home win against Al Dhafra with the score 3-1.

The travelling fans enjoy Bani's attacking play in away games, having scored 10 goals in 6 league matches away. Bani's manager D. Isăilă has created a great defensive setup working very nicely in away games with only 3 conceded goals. You can find more goal stats on the Statistics tab above.

Head 2 Head

As for the last ten games between these two teams, there's six Wahda victories, two draws and two Bani Yas wins. Over/under statistics; eight of these games ended with three goals or more, two matches with two goals or less.

Top Goalscorers

Bani YasJ. Pereira dos Santos
J. Pereira dos Santos
9 goals
WahdaP. M'Poku Ebunge
P. M'Poku Ebunge
5 goals
Al WahdaT. Matavž
T. Matavž
5 goals

Al Wahda missing players

Bani Yas missing players

Al Wahda Bani Yas
Total Home vs top Statistics Stat vs mid Away Total
12 6 0 Played P 2 6 12
5 4 0 Won W 1 3 7
4 2 0 Drew D 1 2 2
3 0 0 Lost L 0 1 3
21 16 0 Scored S 4 10 24
13 5 0 Conceded C 1 3 10
92% 100% 0% Over 0.5 O 0.5 50% 67% 83%
83% 100% 0% Over 1.5 O 1.5 50% 50% 67%
58% 67% 0% Over 2.5 O 2.5 50% 50% 58%
25% 33% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 50% 33% 50%
17% 33% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 50% 17% 25%
58% 67% 0% BTTS BTTS 50% 33% 42%
25% 33% 0% Clean Sheets C S 50% 50% 42%
25% 0% 0% Failed to Score F T 50% 50% 33%
 
0 0 0 Corners for (avg) C F 0 0 0
0 0 0 Corners against (avg) C A 0 0 0
1.5 1.5 0 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 0.5 1 1.6
0 0 0 Red cards R C 0 0 0
 
12.8 13.7 0 Shots (avg) S ( 6.5 10.5 12.7
5.2 5.7 0 Shots on Target (avg) S O 4 5 5.7
34% 47% 0% Goal Efficiency G E 50% 33% 35%
Key stats in Uae League this season:
  • Al Wahda has the most scored goals (16) at home in Uae League
  • Al Wahda has the the best goal difference (+11) at home in Uae League
  • Al Wahda have not yet lost a game at home.
  • Al Wahda have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • Al Wahda have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded at home.
  • Al Wahda have scored in all their home matches so far.
  • Al Wahda haven’t played a single 0-0 game at home.
  • All of Al Wahda's home-matches have had more than 1,5 goals.
  • Bani Yas has the fewest conceded goals (10) in Uae League
  • Bani Yas has the fewest conceded goals (3) away in Uae League
  • Bani Yas has the fewest conceded goals in the first half (3) in Uae League
  • Bani Yas has the fewest dropped points from leading position (0) in Uae League
  • Bani Yas have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded.

  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 Sharjah 12 9 2 1 25 11 6 5 1 0 14 4 6 4 1 1 11 7 14 29
2 Al Jazira 12 8 3 1 27 11 6 4 1 1 10 2 6 4 2 0 17 9 16 27
3 Al Nasr 12 7 3 2 24 12 6 3 2 1 11 7 6 4 1 1 13 5 12 24
4 Bani Yas 12 7 2 3 24 10 6 4 0 2 14 7 6 3 2 1 10 3 14 23
5 Al Ain 12 5 5 2 18 14 7 3 3 1 11 6 5 2 2 1 7 8 4 20
6 Al Wahda 12 5 4 3 21 13 6 4 2 0 16 5 6 1 2 3 5 8 8 19
7 Al Ittihad Kalba 12 5 4 3 12 14 6 1 3 2 4 9 6 4 1 1 8 5 -2 19
8 Shabab Al Ahli Dubai 12 3 7 2 23 16 6 2 3 1 12 7 6 1 4 1 11 9 7 16
9 Al Wasl 12 5 1 6 23 23 6 1 1 4 9 14 6 4 0 2 14 9 0 16
10 Al Dhafra 12 4 3 5 15 20 6 4 0 2 11 6 6 0 3 3 4 14 -5 15
11 Al Khaleej 12 3 2 7 12 22 6 0 2 4 5 9 6 3 0 3 7 13 -10 11
12 Al Fujairah 12 2 1 9 13 27 7 2 1 4 9 15 5 0 0 5 4 12 -14 7
13 Ajman 12 0 3 9 5 26 5 0 2 3 3 6 7 0 1 6 2 20 -21 3
14 Hatta 12 0 2 10 6 29 5 0 0 5 6 16 7 0 2 5 0 13 -23 2