📊 Form Guide

Al-Ahli

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Al-Ahli will be looking to improve on their last outing here following a 1-4 Stars League losing effort in their last game against Al-Markhiya.

In that game, Al-Ahli managed 61% possession and 11 shots at goal with 5 of them on target. The only player to score for Al-Ahli was Julian Draxler (22'). At the other end, Al-Markhiya had 13 attempts at goal with 6 on target. Naoufal Bannis (83') was the scorer for Al-Markhiya.

Al-Ahli haven’t had any problems with scoring, hitting the target in one hundred percent of their last 6 matches.

They’ve totted up the amount of 8 during that time while seeing the number of goals scored against them stand at 11.

Al-Sadd

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Following on from tasting defeat last time out to Al-Duhail in Stars League action, Al-Sadd and their travelling supporters will be hoping that they can get a better result in this one.

In that game, Al-Sadd had 55% possession and 15 attempts on goal with 4 of them on target. The scorer for Al-Sadd was Akram Afif (45'). On the other side, Al-Duhail had 10 attempts at goal with 4 of them on target. Almoez Ali (40'), Michael Olunga (57') and Sultan Al-Brake (62') scored for Al-Duhail.

Showing their penchant for productive encounters, we’ve seen goals 24 times in the previous 6 matches in which Al-Sadd have sent out their troops, giving a mean average of 4 goals per meeting. Opposing teams have got 10 of this grand total. It will be interesting to see if that trend will be continued on in this game.

👥 Head to head

An examination of their most recent head to head meetings stretching back to 13/02/2021 shows us that Al-Ahli have won 1 of these & Al-Sadd 5, with the number of drawn games being 0.

Loads of goals were seen in those games, too - 32 in total which averages out at 5.33 goals per match.

The last league contest featuring these sides was Stars League match day 2 on 26/08/2023 when it finished Al-Sadd 4-2 Al-Ahli.

📰 Team News: Al-Ahli

The Al-Ahli boss Pepa Marques da Costa has no fitness concerns at all coming into this match with a fully injury-free squad to pick from.

📋 Team News: Al-Sadd

Owing to a completely injury-free squad available to choose from, the Al-Sadd manager Wesam Rizik Abdulmajid doesn’t have any fitness worries to report ahead of this clash.

✨ Prediction

It looks to us that Al-Sadd will most probably be able to create a good number of chances & successful shots on target.

Conversely, Al-Ahli won’t find it easy getting on the scoresheet although we reckon that they could well end up converting at least once here.

Accordingly, we see a fairly comfortable 1-3 margin for Al-Sadd at the end of the 90 minutes.

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

Victor Martins, 17:12 17/04/2024