About Match
The table reads 3rd (Al Nassr, 16 pts) against 2nd (Al Ittihad, 17 pts), 1 points apart. Against a league average of 1.38 goals per team per game, Al Nassr run at 2.29 scored and 1 conceded, Al Ittihad at 1.71 and 0.86. A win here leaves Al Nassr on 19 points and up to 1st, overtaking Al Ittihad, other results permitting.
Three consecutive wins precede this game for Al Ittihad.
11 previous meetings sit in the GioScore records — Al Nassr 6, draws 0, Al Ittihad 5, at 3.64 goals per meeting. Three-plus goals is the norm here, arriving in 82% of the meetings, and both sides scored in 73%. 2.6 goals per game in the last five meetings marks a drop from the historical 3.64.
Al-Awwal Park in Riyadh, capacity 25,000, hosts the game.