2025/2026| Team | Games | Run | Unbeaten | Winless | Scored in | Conceded in | Last-5 pts | Last-5 goals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Al Shorta | 15 | W1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 8/15 | 5-2 |
| Al Merghani | 15 | L1 | 0 | 9 | 4 | 4 | 3/15 | 5-9 |
Computed over each team's finished games before kickoff — see the Games column for the sample behind each row.
Aggregated from 3 finished meetings (2025-01-27 – 2026-01-07) in the GioScore fixtures corpus.
| Date | Home | Score | Away |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-01-07 | Al Merghani | 0-0 | Al Shorta |
| 2025-02-18 | Al Shorta | 1-1 | Al Merghani |
| 2025-01-27 | Al Merghani | 1-0 | Al Shorta |
| Team | Pos | Pld | Pts | GD | Form | Form rank | Form vs pos |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Al Shorta | 3 | 10 | 13 | 2 | DLDLW | 18 | -15 |
| Al Merghani | 5 | 10 | 7 | -5 | DDDLD | 23 | -18 |
Form rank = league-wide rank by points from the last 5 league games; "Form vs pos" > 0 means over-performing the table.
Figures computed from the GioScore results database · data cutoff: kickoff 2026-01-28
Al Merghani (5th, 7 pts) visited Al Shorta (3rd, 13 pts) with 6 points between them. The last five rounds placed Al Merghani no better than 23rd for form, against 5th in the standings. Against a league average of 1.39 goals per team per game, Al Shorta ran at 0.8 scored and 0.6 conceded, Al Merghani at 0.9 and 1.4.
Al Merghani had gone 9 games without a win.
The match was played at Port Sudan Stadium (capacity 7,000).
