About Match
4 points for Al Shabab (14th), 17 for Al Ittihad (2nd): a 13-point gap. Scoring rates set the scale: Al Shabab 0.86 scored and 1.57 conceded per game, Al Ittihad 1.71 and 0.86, with the league averaging 1.38. Al Shabab would climb to 7 points with a win and up to 12th (other results held equal).
Al Shabab have not won in 8 games. Three consecutive wins precede this game for Al Ittihad. From the last five rounds, Al Shabab hold 3 points of 15 and Al Ittihad 13.
GioScore's database holds 11 meetings between the two: 4 for Al Shabab, 6 for Al Ittihad and 1 drawn, at 3.45 goals per meeting. The pattern favours whoever hosts: home teams have won 64% of the meetings. History points to goals: 64% of the meetings had three or more, and both sides scored in 73%. Goals have risen lately: 4.4 per game across the last five meetings, against 3.45 across the full history.
Al-Shabab Club Stadium (Riyadh) in Riyadh stages the fixture, a ground that holds 15,000.