📊 Form Guide

Abha

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Abha won’t want a repeat of their last result here after a 4-0 Professional League loss in their previous game against Al-Okhdood.

In that game, Abha had 51% possession and 7 attempts on goal with 4 of them on target. Al-Okhdood got 18 attempts on goal with 5 on target. Solomon Kvirkvelia (40') was the scorer for Al-Okhdood.

Fixtures with Abha have proved to be lively ones lately with high scoring the rule rather than the exception. Over their past 6 clashes alone, a total of 23 goals have been scored for both sides combined (at an average of 3.83 goals per game) with 4 of these being chalked up by Abha. However, it remains to be seen if that trend might be sustained in this next game or not.

Al-Ittihad

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Since being beaten in their last game against Al-Shabab in Professional League action, Al-Ittihad will be aiming to make amends here.

In that match, Al-Ittihad had 49% possession and 11 shots on goal with 3 of them on target. The only player to score for Al-Ittihad was Abderrazak Hamed Allah (58'). Al-Shabab had 14 attempts at goal with 7 of them on target. Habib Diallo (48'), Carlos Júnior (82') and Musab Al Juwayr (90') scored for Al-Shabab.

Indicating their involvement in fruitful encounters, the back of the net has been hit 20 times in the previous 6 games in which Al-Ittihad have taken to the pitch, yielding an average of 3.33 goals for each meeting. Opposition teams have got 9 of those goals.

👥 Head to head

The previous league meeting featuring these sides was Professional League match day 13 on 10/11/2023 when it finished Al-Ittihad 4-2 Abha.

On that day, Al-Ittihad had 52% possession and 14 shots on goal with 6 on target. The goalscorers were Karim Benzema (38', 67', 69') and Igor Coronado (54').

Abha got 16 shots on goal with 4 on target. Karl Toko Ekambi (51') scored.

📋 Team News: Al-Ittihad

Due to a fully healthy squad available to select from, the Al-Ittihad manager has no fitness concerns to report coming into this clash.

💡 Prediction

For this match, we think that Abha have enough to get a goal against this Al-Ittihad outfit, but one goal probably shouldn’t prevent defeat.

We’re therefore tipping a tight encounter finishing with a 1-2 victory for Al-Ittihad when the full-time whistle blows. It should be a decent one.

Our expert partners are tipping under 3.5 goals for this match. Check out their VIP predictions here.

Andre Moura, 17:10 03/05/2024