Match Report
The table gap was wide: 23 points between Abu Salim (3rd, 32 pts) and Almahalla (10th, 9 pts). Abu Salim ranked just 17th in the league on five-round form despite their 3rd table position. Per game in the league, Abu Salim were scoring 0.89 and conceding 0.44, Almahalla 0.65 and 1.29, against a competition average of 0.99 goals per team per game.
Almahalla's last four games had all finished level.
The head-to-head ledger counts 4 games: 0 Abu Salim wins, 1 for Almahalla, 3 draws, at 1.5 goals per meeting. Whoever hosts gains little here: home teams have taken just 0% of the wins in this fixture. Only 0% of the meetings produced more than two goals.
It was 0-0 at the break — the second half brought no more goals and it finished 0-0.