Al-Gharafa vs Al-Shahania Live Stream, Predictions

📏 Form Guide

Al-Gharafa

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Al-Gharafa will play in this match after a 1-1 Stars League drawn game against Al-Wakrah.

The only player to score from Al-Gharafa was Yacine Brahimi (29'). Farid Boulaya (23') scored for Al-Wakrah.

It has been seldom in recent times where Al-Gharafa have managed to hold out for a full 90 minutes. In fact, Al-Gharafa have been scored against in 5 of their previous 6 games, leaking 10 goals along the way.

Al-Shahania

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In their last fixture, Al-Shahania drew 1-1 in the Stars League match with Qatar SC.

The only name on the scoresheet from Al-Shahania was Pelle van Amersfoort (17').

In a total of 5 out of the previous 6 games featuring Al-Shahania, three or more goals have been struck. The overall average number of goals per game during that spell is 3.83, with the average number of goals for Al-Shahania standing at 1.17. That pattern won’t necessarily be sustained into this game, though.

👥 Head to head

A glance at their past head to head clashes stretching back to 21/01/2017 tells us that Al-Gharafa have won 3 of these & Al-Shahania 2, with the number of drawn matches being 1.

In all, 19 goals were produced between them in this period, with 12 of them for The Cheetahs and 7 belonging to The Oryxes. That’s an average goals per game of 3.17.

The previous league contest featuring these clubs was Stars League match day 11 on 08/12/2024 which ended up with the score at Al-Shahania 2-4 Al-Gharafa.

In that match, Al-Shahania had 47% possession and 16 attempts at goal with 7 on target. Goals were scored by Marc Muniesa (66' Own goal) and Pelle van Amersfoort (76').

For their opponents, Al-Gharafa got 23 attempts on goal with 11 on target. Florinel Coman (19') and Ferjani Sassi (70', 94') scored.

🗞️ Team News: Al-Gharafa

Rodrigo (unknown injury) and Mohammed Muntari (Hamstring injury) won’t be available for Al-Gharafa manager Pedro Martins.

📋 Team News: Al-Shahania

From a largely full-strength group of players, there’s just the lone fitness issue for the Al-Shahania boss to be concerned with. Marc Muniesa (Torn thigh muscle) won’t be in action.

⚡ Prediction

We believe that Al-Shahania should get enough chances to find the back of the net against this Al-Gharafa team, although it may not quite prevent them from conceding a couple at the other end.

We’re going for both teams to score in a 2-1 advantage for Al-Gharafa at the end of the 90 minutes. Let’s wait and see how it plays out.

Victor Martins, 22:15 15/04/2025