📊 Form Guide

Al-Ettifaq

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Al-Ettifaq are hoping to win again following a 3-4 Professional League success against Al-Najma.

In that match, Al-Ettifaq had 49% possession and 16 shots on goal with 8 of them on target. For Al-Ettifaq, the goals were scored by Moussa Dembélé (39') and Francisco Calvo (42', 59'). For their opponents, Al-Najma got 16 attempts at goal with 5 on target. Lázaro (87') was the scorer for Al-Najma.

Matches featuring Al-Ettifaq have proved to be lively affairs recently with a lot of goalmouth action being a common characteristic. Over their past 6 games, a grand total of 22 goals have been scored for both sides combined (at an average of 3.67 goals per game) with 14 of those being chalked up by Al-Ettifaq. That trend might not follow through into this game, though.

Al-Khaleej

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Al-Khaleej will go into this encounter after a 4-0 Professional League win over Damac in their most recent match.

In that match, Al-Khaleej managed 67% possession and 18 attempts on goal with 9 of them on target. For Al-Khaleej, goals were scored by Kostas Fortounis (1'), Giorgos Masouras (44') and Joshua King (47'). On the other side, Damac got 3 attempts at goal with 0 of them on target.

Looking at their form, and Al-Khaleej have been scored against in 5 of their last 6 games, seeing their opponents hit 11 goals overall. At the back, Al-Khaleej can certainly do much better.

🤜🤛 Head to head

The previous league clash between the two was Professional League match day 30 on 02/05/2025 and the score finished Al-Ettifaq 2-1 Al-Khaleej.

On that occasion, Al-Ettifaq managed 52% possession and 19 shots on goal with 8 on target. The scorer was Georginio Wijnaldum (15', 54').

Al-Khaleej got 12 attempts at goal with 6 of them on target.

💡 Prediction

We’re inclined to think that Al-Khaleej will likely be able to score against this Al-Ettifaq team, although that probably shouldn’t prevent them from conceding a couple at the other end.

We reckon that it will be both teams to score in a 2-1 winning margin for Al-Ettifaq at full-time. There shouldn’t be much in it, either way.

Peter Guest, 05:11 12/01/2026