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Al-Gharafa vs Al-Rayyan Live Stream, Predictions
Al-Rayyan will be visiting Thani bin Jassim Stadium on Sunday for the Stars League meeting with home team Al-Gharafa.
View all of the Al-Gharafa v Al-Rayyan predictions, poll and stats below (inc. the best betting odds).
๐ Form Guide
Al-Gharafa
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Al-Gharafa, who won their previous game, will hope for a similar result following the 0-2 Stars League success versus Muaither.
In that match, Al-Gharafa had 58% possession and 15 shots at goal with 6 on target. For Al-Gharafa, the goalscorers were Lyanco (63') and Yacine Brahimi (74'). Muaither had 5 attempts at goal with 1 of them on target.
Al-Gharafa have been finding it hard to keep clean sheets of late, although they have also done enough to convert their own chances into goals. Analysis of their previous 6 games shows that Al-Gharafa have conceded in 5 of them as well as managing to get on the scoresheet in 6 of those matches. Nevertheless, we will just have to wait and see whether that trend will continue on in this game.
Al-Rayyan
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In the game prior to this, Al-Rayyan drew 2-2 in the Stars League match with Umm Salal.
In that match, Al-Rayyan managed 72% possession and 25 shots at goal with 9 of them on target. The only player on the scoresheet for Al-Rayyan was Rรณger Guedes (90'). For their opponents, Umm Salal had 9 attempts on goal with 3 of them on target. Kenji Gorrรฉ (27', 55') was the scorer for Umm Salal.
Demonstrating their appetite for productive matches, goals have been seen as many as 25 times in the previous 6 matches in which Al-Rayyan have sent out their troops, making it an average of 4.17 goals per meeting. Opposing teams have hit 9 from this total.
๐ฅ Head to head
Looking over their prior head to head clashes stretching back to 07/01/2021 tells us that Al-Gharafa have won 3 of these games & Al-Rayyan 2, with the number of drawn results standing at 1.
There were also plenty of goals scored in those games, 26 in total which averages out at 4.33 goals per match.
The previous league clash featuring the two was Stars League match day 7 on 28/10/2023 when it finished Al-Rayyan 3-4 Al-Gharafa.
On that day, Al-Rayyan managed 57% possession and 22 attempts at goal with 11 of them on target. The scorers were Rodrigo (9') and Achraf Bencharki (20').
At the other end, Al-Gharafa got 12 shots at goal with 5 on target. Yacine Brahimi (44', 61'), Yohan Boli (50') and Farid Boulaya (95') scored.
โน๏ธ Team News: Al-Gharafa
Nearly everyone is up for selection, with just one fitness concern for the Al-Gharafa manager Pedro Martins to be concerned with thanks to an almost full-strength group of players. Mostafa Essam (unknown injury) will miss out.
โน๏ธ Team News: Al-Rayyan
Al-Rayyan manager Leonardo Jardim has multiple availability issues to deal with. Sofiane Boufal (unknown injury) and Osama Al-Tairi (Cruciate ligament tear) are not able to play. Andrรฉ Amaro will not be able to play in this game through being suspended.
๐ก Prediction
Weโre thinking that Al-Rayyan and Al-Gharafa should both be able to score more than once here although itโs hard to pick a clear winner.
A close call, and we think a draw is quite likely - as are goals. With that in mind, we reckon that it will be a hard-fought contest, finishing with a 2-2 score draw at the end of this game.
Our expert partners are tipping over 1.5 goals for this match. Check out their VIP predictions here.
Renata Leite, 18:01 17/03/2024
โฝ๏ธ Team Focus:
Al-Gharafa
Formed: 1979
Stadium: Thani bin Jassim Stadium (21,175)
Captain: Yacine Brahimi
Manager: Pedro Martins
Competitions: Stars League position 2
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17 | 12 | 4 | 1 | 37 | 40 | DWDDW |
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16 | 10 | 4 | 2 | 13 | 34 | WLWDW |
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17 | 10 | 4 | 3 | 11 | 34 | DLLWW |
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16 | 10 | 2 | 4 | 14 | 32 | WWWWD |
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17 | 5 | 8 | 4 | 4 | 23 | DLWDD |
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17 | 6 | 4 | 7 | -2 | 22 | DLDLW |
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17 | 6 | 2 | 9 | -7 | 20 | WLDWD |
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17 | 5 | 5 | 7 | -7 | 20 | DWLDL |
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17 | 4 | 6 | 7 | -6 | 18 | LDWWL |
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16 | 3 | 4 | 9 | -7 | 13 | LDLLL |
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17 | 2 | 5 | 10 | -17 | 11 | WDDLL |
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16 | 2 | 2 | 12 | -33 | 8 | LLWDL |
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