Ittihad Kalba vs Al-Jazira Live Stream, Predictions

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Ittihad Kalba

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Ittihad Kalba will be hoping to return to winning ways here after the 2-1 Arabian Gulf League loss in their previous game against Khorfakkan.

Aylton (90') scored for Khorfakkan.

It’s been all too rare in recent times that Ittihad Kalba have shown defensive steel. In fact, Ittihad Kalba have been scored against in 6 of their previous 6 clashes, letting in 13 goals during that time. Let’s see if that trend will end up being continued on into this next match.

Al-Jazira

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Al-Jazira go into this clash after a 3-2 Arabian Gulf League win in the defeat of Al-Dhafra in their previous game.

For Al-Jazira, goals were scored by Achraf Bencharki (45') and Ali Mabkhout (64', 90').

Marcel Keizer's Al-Jazira have slotted home 11 times throughout their most recent six matches. The overall goals that have been scored against them during those same clashes equals 6.

↔️ Head to head

A review of their past head to head results stretching back to 27/10/2019 tells us that these encounters have been a source of anguish for Ittihad Kalba. They’ve not managed to register any wins whatsoever while Al-Jazira have been too good for them, running out winners in 83 per cent of those matches.

21 goals were shared by the two clubs in this period, with 5 of them from The Tigers and 16 created by Pride of Abu Dhabi. That’s an average goals per game figure of 3.5.

The last league game between these sides was Arabian Gulf League match day 15 on 15/03/2022 when it finished Al-Jazira 3-2 Ittihad Kalba.

🗞️ Team News: Ittihad Kalba

Availability isn’t a big problem, with just one fitness concern for the Ittihad Kalba gaffer Jorge da Silva to be concerned about thanks to an otherwise robust group of players. 8   (Ittihad Kalba) is sidelined.

🗞️ Team News: Al-Jazira

Thanks to a mainly available group of players, there’s just the lone fitness worry for the Al-Jazira gaffer Marcel Keizer to be concerned with. 4   (Al-Jazira) misses out for this game.

🔮 Prediction

For this match, we think that Ittihad Kalba must be fancied to get a goal against this Al-Jazira side, but a single goal is unlikely to be as many as the goals that they could concede.

We therefore reckon that it will be a tight encounter finishing with a 1-2 win for Al-Jazira at full-time. It should be a decent one.

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

Lucas Pereira, 01:42 18/01/2023