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Predictions and Tips
The Stars League tie at Al-Shamal Stadium on Friday sees home team Al-Shamal welcome Al-Wakrah.
Full predictions, stats & game poll for the Al-Shamal v Al-Wakrah match are shown here - plus the latest match odds.
📊 Form Guide

Al-Shamal
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Al-Shamal won’t want a repeat of their last result here following a 3-5 Stars League losing effort in their last game against Al-Rayyan.
For Al-Shamal, the 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 match with Al-Gharafa.
The only name on the scoresheet from Al-Wakrah was Farid Boulaya (23'). Yacine Brahimi (29') was the scorer 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
An examination of their most recent head-to-head meetings stretching back to 01/03/2022 shows us that Al-Shamal have won 2 of them & Al-Wakrah 1, with the tally of drawn matches being 3.
An aggregate of 16 goals were yielded between them in these games, with 9 of them for Al-Shamal and 7 coming from The Blue Wave. The average goals per game has been 2.67.
The last league fixture between these clubs was Stars League match day 11 on 08/12/2024 when it ended Al-Wakrah 0-3 Al-Shamal.
That time, Al-Wakrah managed 59% possession and 13 attempts at goal with 4 of them on target.
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) will be missing for Al-Shamal gaffer Poya Asbaghi.
📰 Team News: Al-Wakrah
Al-Wakrah boss Pepe Murcia has a number of players out of action. Lucas Mendes (Ankle injury) and Abdelkarim Hassan (Ankle injury) are not ready for selection.
✨ 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, 15:04 18/04/2025
📊 Poll: Who Will Win?

🏟️ Team Focus:
Al-Shamal
Formed: 1980
Stadium: Al-Shamal Stadium (20,000)
Captain: Matías Nani
Chairman: Ibrahim Abdullah Hussein
Manager: Poya Asbaghi
Competitions: Stars League position 6
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21 | 5 | 3 | 13 | -18 | 18 | DLLLW |
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