📊 Form Guide

Al-Gharafa

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Al-Gharafa, who won their previous game, will hope for a similar result following a 0-1 Stars League triumph against Al-Arabi.

In that match, Al-Gharafa had 41% possession and 13 shots on goal with 3 on target. The only player to score for Al-Gharafa was Ahmed Alaaeldin (48'). For their opponents, Al-Arabi had 20 attempts at goal with 2 of them on target.

Al-Gharafa haven’t had any problems with scoring, finding the back of the net in one hundred percent of their last 6 matches.

They have claimed a sum of 13 during that period while seeing the number of goals scored against them stand at 5.

Umm Salal

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Since a loss in their previous game against Muaither in Stars League action, Umm Salal will be hoping to turn things around here.

In that match, Umm Salal had 59% possession and 16 attempts at goal with 4 on target. On the other side, Muaither had 11 shots on goal with 4 of them on target. Tiago Leonço (6', 55') scored for Muaither.

The stats don’t lie, and Umm Salal have been scored against in 6 of their last 6 matches, letting opponents get 12 goals overall. In defence, Umm Salal seem to have a bit of a soft underbelly. We will just have to find out whether or not that trend will end up being sustained into this next match.

👥 Head to head

Looking at their past head-to-head clashes dating back to 10/04/2021 shows that Al-Gharafa have won 4 of these games & Umm Salal 1, with the tally of drawn games being 1.

A sum of 21 goals were yielded between them during those clashes, with 13 of them from The Cheetahs and 8 created by Barzan Falcons. That’s an average goals per game figure of 3.5.

The last league match featuring the two was Stars League match day 9 on 25/11/2023 and the score finished Umm Salal 1-2 Al-Gharafa.

In that match, Umm Salal had 33% possession and 8 attempts at goal with 3 of them on target. Their only player on the scoresheet was Kenji Gorré (57').

Al-Gharafa had 17 shots on goal with 8 on target. Farid Boulaya (40') and Ferjani Sassi (89') scored.

🗞️ Team News: Al-Gharafa

It doesn’t get much better regarding selection, with just one fitness concern for the Al-Gharafa gaffer Pedro Martins to be concerned about thanks to an almost full-strength group. Mostafa Essam (unknown injury) is sidelined.

🗞️ Team News: Umm Salal

Owing to a completely healthy group to pick from, the Umm Salal boss Patrice Carteron has zero fitness worries whatsoever ahead of this clash. The players who will not be able to play in this game through being suspended are Oussama Tannane and Omar Yahya.

🧠 Prediction

We’re thinking that Umm Salal should be able to put a goal past this Al-Gharafa team, but it is unlikely to prevent them from conceding a couple at the other end.

Our selection here is for a tight encounter finishing with a 2-1 winning score for Al-Gharafa at the end of the match. Should be an interesting one.

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Victor Martins, 18:04 07/04/2024