About Match
Al Nassr go into the game 3rd in the table on 16 points; Al Shabab sit 14th on 4 — a 12-point gap. Against a league average of 1.38 goals per team per game, Al Nassr run at 2.29 scored and 1 conceded, Al Shabab at 0.86 and 1.57. A win here leaves Al Nassr on 19 points and up to 1st, other results permitting.
Al Shabab's winless run stands at 8. The last-five ledger: Al Nassr 10/15, Al Shabab 3/15.
GioScore's database holds 10 meetings between the two: 7 for Al Nassr, 1 for Al Shabab and 2 drawn, at 3.5 goals per meeting. Whoever hosts gains little here: home teams have taken just 40% of the wins in this fixture. 70% of the meetings finished with three goals or more, and both sides scored in 60%. Where history says 3.5 goals per meeting, the last five say 4.6.
Al-Awwal Park in Riyadh stages the fixture, a ground that holds 25,000.