Al-Ahli will be wanting a better result here after the 1-4 Stars League defeat last time out to Al-Markhiya.
In that game, Al-Ahli managed 61% possession and 11 shots at goal with 5 on target. The scorer for Al-Ahli was Julian Draxler (22\'). For their opponents, Al-Markhiya had 13 attempts on goal with 6 of them on target. Naoufal Bannis (83\') scored 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.
Following on from tasting defeat last time out to Al-Duhail in Stars League competition, Al-Sadd and their travelling fans will hope for a better result here.
In that game, Al-Sadd had 55% possession and 15 shots at goal with 4 on target. The only player on the scoresheet for Al-Sadd was Akram Afif (45\'). Al-Duhail got 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
Inspecting their most recent head-to-head meetings stretching back to 13/02/2021 shows us that Al-Ahli have won 1 of these and Al-Sadd 5, with the number of draws being 0.
Loads of goals were seen in those games, too - 32 overall which averages out at 5.33 goals per meeting.
The previous league encounter featuring these sides was Stars League match day 2 on 26/08/2023 and the score finished Al-Sadd 4-2 Al-Ahli.
Team News: Al-Ahli
The Al-Ahli manager Pepa Marques da Costa will be thankful to have no fitness worries at all coming into this game thanks to a fully healthy group ready to go.
Team News: Al-Sadd
With a completely injury-free squad available for selection, the Al-Sadd manager Wesam Rizik Abdulmajid doesn’t have any fitness worries to speak of 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.
