Al-Shamal vs Al-Wakrah Live Stream, Predictions

📊 Form Guide

Al-Shamal

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Al-Shamal will be hoping to return to winning ways here after the 3-5 Stars League losing effort in their last game against Al-Rayyan.

For Al-Shamal, goals were scored by Baghdad Bounedjah (18'), Naïm Sliti (34') and Omid Ebrahimi (57' Own goal). Julien De Sart (8') and Róger Guedes (42', 86', 90') scored for Al-Rayyan.

Fixtures with Al-Shamal have usually been engaging ones of late with high scoring being a common characteristic. Over their past six clashes, the sum of 20 goals have been scored for both sides combined (at an average of 3.33 goals per game) with 13 of these belonging to Al-Shamal.

Al-Wakrah

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Previously, Al-Wakrah drew 1-1 in the Stars League tie with Al-Gharafa.

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

The stats don’t lie, and Al-Wakrah have been scored against in 5 of their last 6 matches, seeing their opponents hit 10 goals overall. In defence, Al-Wakrah have been far from perfect. Previous results aside, we’ll just have to find out whether that pattern might continue on here in this game.

↔️ Head to head

A review of their past head-to-head meetings stretching back to 01/03/2022 shows that Al-Shamal have won 2 of these & Al-Wakrah 1, with the tally of drawn results being 3.

A sum of 16 goals were produced between them in these games, with 9 of them for Al-Shamal and 7 for The Blue Wave. The average number of goals per game works out to 2.67.

The previous league clash featuring these sides was Stars League match day 11 on 08/12/2024 when it finished Al-Wakrah 0-3 Al-Shamal.

That day, Al-Wakrah had 59% possession and 13 attempts at goal with 4 of them on target.

On the other side, Al-Shamal got 12 attempts on goal with 6 on target. Baghdad Bounedjah (25') was the scorer.

📋 Team News: Al-Shamal

Mahdi Al-Mejaba (unknown injury) and Mohammed Al-Naimi (Knee injury) are not available for Al-Shamal gaffer Poya Asbaghi.

ℹ️ Team News: Al-Wakrah

Al-Wakrah manager Pepe Murcia has some current player fitness concerns. Abdelkarim Hassan (Ankle injury) and Lucas Mendes (Ankle injury) won’t be making appearances.

💭 Prediction

It looks to us that Al-Shamal have it within them to convert a lot of goal-scoring opportunities.

At the other end, Al-Wakrah are also probably going to find it difficult to score a goal of their own although we do reckon that they could well end up being dangerous for periods.

We therefore think that it’s going to be a decent 3-1 victory for Al-Shamal at the conclusion of the game.

Victor Martins, 23:06 15/04/2025