Match Report
14 points and 3 places separated them: Darnes 6th with 17, Al Hilal 3rd with 31. The last five rounds placed Al Hilal no better than 29th for form, against 3rd in the standings. Per game in the league, Darnes were scoring 0.94 and conceding 1.19, Al Hilal 1.2 and 0.67, against a competition average of 1.16 goals per team per game.
Darnes had gone 5 games without a win. Al Hilal arrived on a run of three straight wins. The five-game form split read 2/15 points for Darnes against 11/15 for Al Hilal.
5 meetings are on record — 0 won by Darnes, 4 by Al Hilal, 1 drawn, at 1.4 goals per meeting. The pattern favours whoever hosts: home teams have won 80% of the meetings. Only 20% of the meetings produced more than two goals.
Al-Bayda Stadium staged the fixture, a ground that holds 7,000. On the scoreboard, it was 0-0 at the break, and no goals arrived after the restart: 0-0 the final score.