📊 Form Guide

Al-Ittihad

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Al-Ittihad, buoyed by their previous result, will be hoping for more of the same after the 2-3 Professional League success over Al-Hazem.

In that game, Al-Ittihad had 56% possession and 23 shots on goal with 5 of them on target. The only player on the scoresheet for Al-Ittihad was Saleh Al Amri (21'). Al-Hazem got 19 shots on goal with 5 of them on target. Paulo Ricardo (57' Own goal), Tozé (63') and Aymen Dahmen (90' Own goal) scored for Al-Hazem.

It has been all too rare in recent games where Al-Ittihad have kept a clean sheet. The reality is that Al-Ittihad have seen their defence breached in 5 of their previous 6 games, giving up 8 goals in the process. That sort of trend won’t necessarily be carried forward into this match, however.

Al-Shabab

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Al-Shabab go into this encounter following a 5-0 Professional League win in the defeat of Abha in their last fixture.

In that match, Al-Shabab had 68% possession and 20 attempts at goal with 8 on target. For Al-Shabab, the goals were scored by Yannick Carrasco (45', 90'), Habib Diallo (56') and Carlos Júnior (78', 84'). At the other end, Abha got 6 attempts on goal with 1 of them on target.

Showing their fondness for productive matches, goals have been scored 21 times in the last 6 games in which Al-Shabab have played, making it an average of 3.5 goals per meeting. Their opponents have got 7 of those goals.

🤜🤛 Head to head

The last league encounter between the two was Professional League match day 12 on 03/11/2023 when the final score was Al-Shabab 1-0 Al-Ittihad.

On that day, Al-Shabab had 32% possession and 9 shots at goal with 1 on target. Their only player to score was Carlos Júnior (14').

Al-Ittihad got 9 attempts at goal with 4 on target.

📰 Team News: Al-Shabab

Owing to a fully injury-free group available to select from, the Al-Shabab boss has no fitness worries whatsoever before this clash.

🔮 Prediction

We’re of the view that Al-Shabab are dangerous enough to score a goal against this Al-Ittihad side, but that might not quite be as many as they will have scored against them.

We are anticipating a close game with a 2-1 advantage for Al-Ittihad by the conclusion of the game. We are expecting it to be pretty even.

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

Andre Moura, 17:13 26/04/2024