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Al-Arabi

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Al-Arabi will play in this game following a 3-3 Stars League drawn game vs Al-Ahli.

In that game, Al-Arabi had 51% possession and 14 attempts at goal with 5 of them on target. For Al-Arabi, goals were scored by Ahmed Alaaeldin (39', 65') and Youssef Msakni (96'). For their opponents, Al-Ahli had 13 shots on goal with 9 of them on target. Julian Draxler (76', 90') scored for Al-Ahli.

Fixtures featuring Al-Arabi have usually been lively ones recently with high scoring being a common characteristic. Over their past 6 clashes alone, the sum of 22 goals have been scored for both sides combined (at an average of 3.67 goals per game) with 9 of these belonging to Al-Arabi. We will find out whether or not that trend can be sustained into this next match.

Al-Rayyan

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Since being beaten in their last game against Al-Wakrah in Stars League competition, Al-Rayyan will be aiming to make amends here.

In that game, Al-Rayyan managed 56% possession and 14 attempts on goal with 8 on target. Al-Wakrah got 15 shots at goal with 6 on target. Gelson Dala (8') and Ricardo Gomes (36') scored for Al-Wakrah.

In as many as 5 of the previous 6 games involving Al-Rayyan, at least three goals have gone in. The overall average number of goals per match during that spell is 3.83, with the number of goals averaged by Al-Rayyan being 1.5.

👥 Head to head

A glance at their past head-to-head clashes stretching back to 30/10/2021 tells us that Al-Arabi have won 4 of them and Al-Rayyan 2, with the number of draws being 0.

In all, 21 goals were shared by the two clubs during those clashes, with 13 of them for Fareeg Al-Ahlam and 8 belonging to The Lions. This gives an average number of goals per game equal to 3.5.

The last league meeting between the two was Stars League match day 15 on 01/03/2024 when the final score was Al-Arabi 2-3 Al-Rayyan.

On that occasion, Al-Arabi had 64% possession and 26 shots at goal with 9 of them on target. Their only player on the scoresheet was Youssef Msakni (49').

Al-Rayyan got 9 shots at goal with 6 on target. Róger Guedes (22', 47', 56') was the scorer.

ℹ️ Team News: Al-Arabi

There aren’t many personnel worries, with just a single fitness concern for the Al-Arabi manager Younes Ali Rahmati to be concerned with from of an almost fully healthy set of players. Yazan Al-Naimat (Rib fracture) is sidelined.

📋 Team News: Al-Rayyan

Thanks to a largely available group of players, there is only the lone fitness problem for the Al-Rayyan gaffer Leonardo Jardim to contend with. Thiago Mendes (Hamstring injury) won’t be in action.

🔮 Prediction

In this game, Al-Rayyan will, in all probability, get a lot of shots on goal and make them count.

At the other end, Al-Arabi will be up against it finding the net themselves but we do think that it’s more than likely that they will be hitting back at some stage.

We’re therefore expecting to see a pretty comfortable 1-3 winning score for Al-Rayyan at full-time.

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

Andre Moura, 14:06 26/09/2024