📊 Form Guide

Al-Najma

Al-Najma will be looking to improve on their last outing here after the 5-1 Professional League loss in their previous game against Al-Kholood.

In that match, Al-Najma managed 54% possession and 14 shots at goal with 4 on target. Al-Kholood got 11 attempts on goal with 9 of them on target. Ramiro Enrique (24') and Hatan Bahbri (84') scored for Al-Kholood.

Al-Ahli Saudi

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In the game prior to this, Al-Ahli Saudi drew 1-1 in the Professional League match with Al-Shabab.

In that game, Al-Ahli Saudi managed 68% possession and 15 attempts at goal with 5 on target. The only player on the scoresheet for Al-Ahli Saudi was Ivan Toney (15'). For their opponents, Al-Shabab had 11 shots on goal with 2 of them on target. Josh Brownhill (87') was the scorer for Al-Shabab.

Looking at their form, and Al-Ahli Saudi have been scored against in 5 of their last 6 games, seeing opposing sides hit 11 goals overall. At the back, Al-Ahli Saudi just haven’t been too solid at all. Such a trend isn’t assured to be continued here, though.

ℹ️ Team News: Al-Najma

The Al-Najma boss will be grateful to have no fitness worries to speak of ahead of this clash with a completely injury-free group available for selection.

ℹ️ Team News: Al-Ahli Saudi

Due to a completely healthy squad to choose from, the Al-Ahli Saudi manager Matthias Jaissle doesn’t have any fitness worries whatsoever before this match.

🧠 Prediction

We feel that in this game, Al-Najma are dangerous enough to put a goal past this Al-Ahli Saudi side, although one goal is unlikely to be enough to prevent defeat.

We therefore reckon that it will be a 1-2 advantage for Al-Ahli Saudi at the end of the 90 minutes. Let’s wait and see how it plays out.