Al Ittihad and Al Shabab will play at least 180 minutes of football to decide who advances from this Arab Club Championship Semi-finals battle. Get ready for the first 90 minutes!
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 Shabab have a very long trip to this away game, as there's more than 1900 kilometers in distance to cover. This could prove a challenge, at least for the supporters.
Al Ittihad form and stats
Last season their Arab Club Championship adventure ended in the 1st round.Overall Pro League stats at home this season for Al Ittihad are 2-2-1 (wins-draw-losses). 4W-3D-0L is the hard facts regardless of venue in the Arab Club Championship for Al Ittihad. Al Ittihad haven’t lost a league-game in ten attempts regardless of arena, a great achievement. Their last loss was the fixture versus Al Ittifaq, 78 days ago.
A good away victory last time out for Ittihad, who won 2-1 against Al Batin. Before that, Al Ittihad played out a Pro League draw 1-1 when visiting Al Hilal.
The Ittihad fans would probably like to see some more goals scored at their own stadium in the league, the tally being 5 in 5 matches. Ittihad are not conceding a lot of goals here at King Abdullah Sports City in the league, averaging less than one per game. The total is 3 from 5 matches.
Al Shabab form and stats
There's been little loot from Al Shabab's travels as they have only collected 6 points from 6 away games in the Pro League. Al Shabab only have 1 win to counter their 2 defeats and 3 draws. The mentioned statistics is only from the league, looking at the Arab Club Championship stats, they have 5 wins, 2 draws and 0 losses both home and away.
Shabab are the visiting side once again, their previous game being the 1-1 draw at Al Hilal. Prior to that match, a home win 3-1 against Al Batin in the Pro League.
The travelling fans enjoy Shabab's attacking play in away games, having scored 9 goals in 6 league matches away. The Al Shabab manager P. Faria Caixinha has some worries about the defense as 12 goals have been conceded in these travels.
Head 2 Head
The most recent history between these sides is the Al Shabab - Ittihad 2-2 played earlier this season. Last ten meetings between the teams: Ittihad won four, Al Shabab won two and four draws. five games with over 2,5 goals, five matches with two goals or less.Top Goalscorers
  R. da Silva 7 goals |  G. Mendes Rodrigues 3 goals |   T. Al-Ammar 3 goals |
Al Ittihad missing players
Al Shabab missing players
| Al Ittihad | Al Shabab | ||||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 25 | 11 | Played | P | 14 | 25 | ||
| 9 | 5 | Won | W | 2 | 10 | ||
| 11 | 3 | Drew | D | 5 | 8 | ||
| 5 | 3 | Lost | L | 7 | 7 | ||
| 38 | 18 | Scored | S | 17 | 38 | ||
| 25 | 10 | Conceded | C | 25 | 34 | ||
| 96% | 91% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | ||
| 84% | 73% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 86% | 80% | ||
| 44% | 45% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 64% | 60% | ||
| 16% | 18% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 36% | 36% | ||
| 8% | 18% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 7% | 8% | ||
| 72% | 64% | BTTS | BTTS | 71% | 68% | ||
| 24% | 36% | Clean Sheets | C S | 7% | 20% | ||
| 8% | 9% | Failed to Score | F T | 21% | 12% | ||
| 0 | 0 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 0 | 0 | ||
| 0 | 0 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 0 | 0 | ||
| 2.1 | 2.1 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 2.5 | 2.4 | ||
| 1 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 3 | 5 | ||
| 7.9 | 7.4 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 6.6 | 8.5 | ||
| 4 | 3.5 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 4 | 4.8 | ||
| 36% | 47% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 33% | 33% | ||
| 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 Hilal | 11 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 18 | 6 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 11 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 2 | 12 | 24 |
| 2 | Al Ahli | 10 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 18 | 14 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 3 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 12 | 11 | 4 | 22 |
| 3 | Al Shabab | 11 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 18 | 16 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 9 | 4 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 9 | 12 | 2 | 19 |
| 4 | Al Ittihad | 11 | 4 | 6 | 1 | 14 | 10 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 6 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 9 | 7 | 4 | 18 |
| 5 | Al Ittifaq | 10 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 18 | 17 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 9 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 12 | 8 | 1 | 17 |
| 6 | Al Wahda | 10 | 5 | 0 | 5 | 14 | 14 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 11 | 11 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 15 |
| 7 | Al Taawon | 10 | 3 | 5 | 2 | 10 | 6 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 8 | 2 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 14 |
| 8 | Al Fateh | 10 | 4 | 1 | 5 | 18 | 19 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 8 | 12 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 10 | 7 | -1 | 13 |
| 9 | Al Faisaly | 11 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 14 | 16 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 9 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 8 | 7 | -2 | 13 |
| 10 | Al Quadisiya | 10 | 4 | 1 | 5 | 12 | 15 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 9 | 9 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 6 | -3 | 13 |
| 11 | Al Batin | 11 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 16 | 18 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 8 | 7 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 8 | 11 | -2 | 11 |
| 12 | Al Nassr | 11 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 15 | 18 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 8 | 8 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 7 | 10 | -3 | 11 |
| 13 | Al Raed | 10 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 12 | 15 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 8 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 7 | -3 | 11 |
| 14 | Abha | 10 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 11 | 14 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 5 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 5 | 9 | -3 | 11 |
| 15 | Al-Ain | 10 | 3 | 1 | 6 | 13 | 16 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 8 | 10 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 6 | -3 | 10 |
| 16 | Dhamk | 10 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 14 | 21 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 8 | 9 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 6 | 12 | -7 | 8 |