Al-Markhiya vs Al-Ahli Live Stream, Predictions

📊 Form Guide

Al-Markhiya

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Al-Markhiya will be wanting a better result here following a 2-1 Stars League losing effort in their last game against Al-Gharafa.

Yacine Brahimi (56') and Ishak Belfodil (63') scored for Al-Gharafa.

It has not been often in recent times that Al-Markhiya have shown defensive steel. In fact, Al-Markhiya have been scored against in 5 of their previous 6 clashes, shipping 7 goals on the way.

Al-Ahli

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Al-Ahli will come into the meeting following a 1-2 Stars League win vs Al-Sailiya in their last outing.

The only scorer from Al-Ahli was Sofiane Hanni (64'). Mehrdad Mohammadi (90') scored for Al-Sailiya.

In a total of 6 of the previous 6 clashes involving Al-Ahli, three or more goals have been hit. The overall average goals scored per game within that spell is 3.83, with the number of goals averaged by Al-Ahli standing at 2. Historical results aside, we must now wait to see whether that trend will be sustained here in this game or not.

👥 Head to head

The previous league fixture between these clubs was Stars League match day 20 on 10/03/2018 when it ended Al-Ahli 0-2 Al-Markhiya.

📋 Team News: Al-Markhiya

The Al-Markhiya manager Yusef Adam has no fitness concerns to speak of coming into this match owing to a fully healthy group available for selection. Ayoub Azzi is ineligible for this match because of suspension.

📰 Team News: Al-Ahli

Thanks to a fully healthy squad ready to go, the Al-Ahli manager Nebojša Jovović doesn’t have any fitness concerns to speak of coming into this game.

🔮 Prediction

In our view, Al-Ahli and Al-Markhiya should play out a closely-fought contest here.

Little in this one, and it’s almost too close to call. We’re therefore seeing a very close game with a 1-1 scoreline when the referee blows the full-time whistle.

Our expert partners are tipping over 1.5 goals for this match. Check out their VIP predictions here.

Victor Martins, 11:24 22/01/2023