📊 Form Guide

Al-Fateh

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Al-Fateh will be looking to improve on their last outing here after the 2-1 Professional League defeat in their last game at the hands of Abha.

In that match, Al-Fateh had 76% possession and 10 shots on goal with 3 of them on target. The only player on the scoresheet for Al-Fateh was Cristian Tello (54'). At the other end, Abha got 9 shots at goal with 6 on target. Grzegorz Krychowiak (6', 57') was the scorer for Abha.

Matches with Al-Fateh have tended to be lively ones recently with high scoring the rule rather than the exception. Over their past 6 games, the sum of 20 goals have flown in for both teams combined (at an average of 3.33 goals per game) with 9 of these belonging to Al-Fateh. We will see whether or not that trend will be sustained in this game.

Al-Raed

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Al-Raed come into this game following a 2-0 Professional League win with the eclipse of Al-Hazem in their previous fixture.

In that game, Al-Raed had 31% possession and 12 shots on goal with 5 of them on target. The only player to score for Al-Raed was Julio Tavarès (35', 46'). Al-Hazem had 15 shots on goal with 4 on target.

In the course of their six previous matches, Al-Raed have had reason to celebrate scoring 9 times thus yielding them a goals scored per game average of 1.5.

🤜🤛 Head to head

The previous league encounter featuring the two was Professional League match day 11 on 27/10/2023 when it finished Al-Raed 1-2 Al-Fateh.

That day, Al-Raed had 52% possession and 16 shots on goal with 6 of them on target.

For their opponents, Al-Fateh got 9 shots at goal with 2 of them on target. Cristian Tello (45') was the scorer.

📋 Team News: Al-Raed

With a fully healthy squad available to select from, the Al-Raed manager has zero fitness worries to speak of before this clash.

💭 Prediction

Al-Raed have enough to find the net against this Al-Fateh outfit, although it realistically won’t be enough to prevent defeat.

Our tip is for a 2-1 win for Al-Fateh when all is said and done. There looks to be little in this one.

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

Andre Moura, 17:10 18/04/2024