Match Report
11 points and 2 places separated them: Al Arabi Saudi 17th with 21, Al-Jandal 15th with 32. Al Arabi Saudi had been over-performing their table position on recent form: 12th in the league over the last five rounds against 17th overall. Against a league average of 1.48 goals per team per game, Al Arabi Saudi ran at 0.71 scored and 1.97 conceded, Al-Jandal at 1 and 1.76.
Al-Jandal had been beaten in five straight games, having scored in 10 consecutive games.
The head-to-head ledger counts 5 games: 2 Al Arabi Saudi wins, 3 for Al-Jandal, 0 draws, at 2.6 goals per meeting. Hosting has counted for little in this fixture — the home side has won only 20% of those meetings. The fixture leans high-scoring: 60% of meetings brought at least three goals, and both sides scored in 60%.
The referee was M. Al Shahrani, with 6 matches in our database and 0.0 yellows per game on average. The match was played at Department of Education Stadium (capacity 10,000). Al-Jandal led 2-0 at the break, and the second half added 3 goals for the 2-3 full-time score.
Goal scorers
Al Arabi Saudi: Mohammad Al-Salem (64'), Abdullah Al-Samtai (75') · Al-Jandal: Aitor Lopez (36'), Aitor Lopez (41'), Bandar Al-Shamrani (66')
Key stats
Possession: Al Arabi Saudi 63% · Al-Jandal 37% · Total shots: 29-8 · On target: 12-3 · Corners: 8-2