📊 Form Guide

Al-Gharafa

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Al-Gharafa go into this game following on from a 2-2 Stars League drawn game versus Al-Rayyan.

In that game, Al-Gharafa had 52% possession and 13 attempts at goal with 6 on target. The only player on the scoresheet for Al-Gharafa was Joselu (5'). For their opponents, Al-Rayyan got 15 attempts at goal with 7 on target. Adam Bareiro (14') and Róger Guedes (90') scored for Al-Rayyan.

Matches with Al-Gharafa have proved to be exciting ones of late with a lot of goalmouth action being a real hallmark. Over their past 6 clashes, the sum total of 23 goals have been recorded for both sides combined (at an average of 3.83 goals per game) with 12 of these coming from Al-Gharafa. That kind of trend won’t necessarily be carried forward into this game, however.

Pakhtakor

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Previously, Pakhtakor drew 1-1 in the AFC Champions League Elite match with Al-Ain.

Soufiane Rahimi (49') scored for Al-Ain.

A succession of outstanding displays from the Pakhtakor defenders has seen the number of goals they’ve conceded amounting to 4 from their last 6 outings combined. Over that same time, the number of goals that they have scored themselves amounts to 2.

📋 Team News: Al-Gharafa

Saifeldeen Fadlalla (Torn ligaments), Mostafa Essam (unknown injury), Rodrigo (Rib fracture), Wajdi Kechrida (Knee injury) and Dame Traoré (Hamstring injury) won’t be available for Al-Gharafa boss Pedro Martins.

📰 Team News: Pakhtakor

Thanks to a completely injury-free squad available for selection, the Pakhtakor boss Maskim Shatskikh has zero fitness concerns at all before this game.

🧠 Prediction

Our feeling is that Pakhtakor may not find it easy to breach the defence of this Al-Gharafa team who should manage to get a goal of their own in a winning performance.

We’re therefore tipping a 1-0 winning score for Al-Gharafa after 90 minutes.

Looking forward to this.

Peter Guest, 15:00 04/02/2025