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.
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.