📏 Form Guide

Al-Arabi

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Al-Arabi will be hoping for a better result following a 3-1 Stars League defeat in their last game at the hands of Al-Gharafa.

The only scorer from Al-Arabi was Youssef Msakni (62'). Yacine Brahimi (21'), Joselu (76') and Mohammed Muntari (89') scored for Al-Gharafa.

Al-Arabi have been on a persistent run of goalscoring form, netting in each and every one of their last 6 games.

They have claimed a sum of 13 during that period while seeing the number of goals scored against them stand at 14.

Al-Duhail

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Al-Duhail will go into this encounter following a 2-6 Stars League win to beat Al-Shamal in their last fixture.

In that game, Al-Duhail managed 64% possession and 19 attempts at goal with 11 of them on target. For Al-Duhail, the goals were scored by Lucas Veríssimo (11'), Michael Olunga (23'), Almoez Ali (45', 77') and Luis Alberto (51'). For their opponents, Al-Shamal got 12 shots at goal with 3 of them on target. Mohammed Musa (28' Own goal), Younès Belhanda (37') and Baghdad Bounedjah (73') scored for Al-Shamal.

In their last 6 clashes, Al-Duhail have helped themselves to the sum of 16 goals. Al-Duhail have additionally got on the scoresheet on each one of those occasions. Over that period, they have seen 6 goals go against them. Nonetheless, we must now wait to see whether that pattern will continue on here in this game or not.

👥 Head to head

A review of their past head to head meetings going back to 16/09/2021 shows that these encounters have not been good ones for Al-Arabi. They’ve not been able to register any wins whatsoever whereas Al-Duhail have been the better of the two, getting wins in 67 per cent of those match-ups.

There were also plenty of goals scored in those games, 22 in all at an average of 3.67 goals per meeting.

The last league match featuring these sides was Stars League match day 14 on 25/02/2024 when it finished Al-Duhail 2-2 Al-Arabi.

On that occasion, Al-Duhail had 55% possession and 10 shots on goal with 6 on target. Goals were scored by Ibrahima Diallo (65') and Almoez Ali (70').

Al-Arabi had 7 attempts on goal with 2 of them on target. Ahmed Fatehi (84') scored.

💭 Prediction

Our thinking is that Al-Duhail should dominate possession and create several successful chances.

At the other end, Al-Arabi will not find it easy to get goals of their own, although we do think that it’s probable they’ll be pulling one back during this clash, too.

Accordingly, we see a pretty comfortable 1-3 victory for Al-Duhail come full-time.

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

Lucas Pereira, 11:15 23/11/2024