📏 Form Guide

East Riffa

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East Riffa will be looking to improve on their last outing here after a 2-0 Premier League defeat in their last game at the hands of Manama.

It has been seldom in recent games where East Riffa have kept a clean sheet. In fact, East Riffa have failed to prevent opponents from scoring in 6 of their previous 6 games, giving up 12 goals on the way.

Al-Najma

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Following on from a loss in their previous game against Al-Hala in Premier League action, Al-Najma and their fans will hope to get a better result this time.

The stats don’t lie, and Al-Najma have been scored against in 6 of their last 6 games, letting opponents get 16 goals in total. Defensively, Al-Najma seem to have a bit of a soft underbelly. We will find out whether or not that trend can be continued on into this next match.

↔️ Head to head

A glance at their most recent head to head clashes dating back to 13/09/2020 shows that East Riffa have won 3 of these games and Al-Najma 2, with the tally of drawn games being 1.

In all, 16 goals were scored between them during those clashes, with 9 of them from East Riffa and 7 created by Al-Najma. This gives an average number of goals per game equal to 2.67.

The last league contest featuring these clubs was Premier League match day 4 on 21/10/2023 when the final score was Al-Najma 2-1 East Riffa.

🗞️ Team News: Al-Najma

Owing to a fully injury-free group available to select from, the Al-Najma manager Fathi Labidi doesn’t have any fitness worries whatsoever ahead of this match.

✨ Prediction

We’ve got the feeling that East Riffa will surely be able to find the back of the net against this Al-Najma lineup, although one goal possibly won’t be as many as they’ll concede.

Our selection here is for a close game with a 1-2 winning score for Al-Najma when the referee blows the final whistle. Let’s wait and see how it plays out.

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

Renata Leite, 18:02 08/04/2024