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Umm Salal vs Al-Gharafa Live Stream, Predictions
Umm Salal line up against guests Al-Gharafa at Suhaim Bin Hamad Stadium in this Stars League meeting on Friday.
Scroll down for all of our predictions, poll and stats for the Umm Salal v Al-Gharafa game - as well as up-to-date odds.
📊 Form Guide
Umm Salal
LDDLDW
Umm Salal will be hoping to return to winning ways here after a 0-1 Stars League loss in their previous game against Al-Gharafa.
Yacine Brahimi (35') was the scorer for Al-Gharafa.
Under three goals per match were scored during 5 of the last 6 meetings where Umm Salal have been participants. Regarding the goal distribution in that period, opposing sides scored a total of 6 and Umm Salal totted up 4.
Al-Gharafa
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The stats don’t lie, and Al-Gharafa have been scored against in 5 of their last 6 games, conceding 8 goals overall. Defensively, Al-Gharafa just haven’t been too solid at all. Historical results aside, we must now wait to see whether that trend shall continue on in this game.
🤜🤛 Head to head
A glance at their past head-to-head meetings stretching back to 14/08/2020 shows us that Umm Salal have won 1 of these games and Al-Gharafa 3, with the tally of draws being 2.
In all, 18 goals were produced between them in this period, with 7 of them from Barzan Falcons and 11 netted by The Cheetahs. The average number of goals per game works out to 3.
The previous league clash between the two was Stars League match day 6 on 06/09/2022 which ended up with the score at Al-Gharafa 2-2 Umm Salal.
ℹ️ Team News: Umm Salal
The Umm Salal manager Aziz Ben Askar will be grateful not to have any fitness concerns whatsoever ahead of this game owing to a completely injury-free group available to select from.
🗞️ Team News: Al-Gharafa
With a fully injury-free squad available to select from, the Al-Gharafa manager Andrea Stramaccioni has zero fitness worries at all before this clash.
✨ Prediction
It looks to us that this Al-Gharafa will most probably dominate on the ball and be rewarded with decent chances.
In contrast, Umm Salal may well struggle to get goals of their own but we think it’s quite likely that they will be getting enough chances to score, too.
We’re predicting a pretty comfortable 1-3 winning margin for Al-Gharafa by the conclusion of the game.
Our expert partners are tipping under 3.5 goals for this match. Check out their VIP predictions here.
Renata Leite, 01:57 17/03/2023

🏟️ Team Focus:
Umm Salal
Formed: 1979
Stadium: Suhaim Bin Hamad Stadium (15,000)
Captain: Yannick Sagbo
Chairman: Sheikh Hamad bin Nasser Al Thani
Manager: Aziz Ben Askar
Competitions: Stars League position 11
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15 | 11 | 3 | 1 | 19 | 36 | WWWWD |
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16 | 11 | 1 | 4 | 11 | 34 | WWWLW |
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16 | 9 | 2 | 5 | 11 | 29 | WLWWD |
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16 | 8 | 2 | 6 | -2 | 26 | WDLLW |
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16 | 6 | 6 | 4 | 12 | 24 | LDDWD |
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16 | 6 | 5 | 5 | -3 | 23 | WLWDL |
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16 | 5 | 6 | 5 | -3 | 21 | LLWDL |
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15 | 5 | 3 | 7 | -4 | 18 | LLWLW |
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15 | 4 | 2 | 9 | -8 | 14 | LLDWL |
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15 | 3 | 4 | 8 | -3 | 13 | WLWDD |
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16 | 2 | 7 | 7 | -13 | 13 | DDLDW |
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16 | 2 | 3 | 11 | -17 | 9 | WDDLL |
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