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 following a 3-5 Stars League defeat last time out to Al-Rayyan.

For Al-Shamal, the scorers were 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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In the game prior to this, 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') 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

Checking on their past head to head meetings going back to 01/03/2022 tells us that Al-Shamal have won 2 of them & Al-Wakrah 1, with the tally of drawn matches standing at 3.

A total of 16 goals were produced between them during those clashes, with 9 from Al-Shamal and 7 belonging to The Blue Wave. That’s an average goals per game of 2.67.

The last league contest between these sides was Stars League match day 11 on 08/12/2024 which finished with the scoreline of Al-Wakrah 0-3 Al-Shamal.

In that match, Al-Wakrah managed 59% possession and 13 shots on goal with 4 of them on target.

On the other side, Al-Shamal had 12 attempts at 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) won’t be playing for Al-Shamal manager Poya Asbaghi.

📰 Team News: Al-Wakrah

Al-Wakrah manager Pepe Murcia has to currently contend with reduced team options. Lucas Mendes (Ankle injury) and Abdelkarim Hassan (Ankle injury) are those who can’t be considered.

💡 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, 04:07 16/04/2025