Match Report
Saudi Arabia (1st, 4 pts) visited Bahrain (2nd, 11 pts) with 7 points between them. On recent form Bahrain sat only 61st league-wide over the last five rounds, well short of their 2nd overall. Scoring rates set the scale: Bahrain 1.83 scored and 0.5 conceded per game, Saudi Arabia 1.5 and 1, with the league averaging 1.4.
The head-to-head ledger counts 6 games: 3 Bahrain wins, 1 for Saudi Arabia, 2 draws, at 2 goals per meeting. Home advantage has meant little here: 33% of the meetings went to the host. Historically tight: 33% of the meetings went beyond two goals.
The venue was Stād al-Bahrayn al-Watanī (Bahrain National Stadium) (Riffa), with room for 35,580 spectators. The referee was I. Tantashev, with 100 matches in our database and 1.1 yellows per game on average. Saudi Arabia led 1-0 at the break, and the second half added 1 goal for the 0-2 full-time score.
Goal scorers
Saudi Arabia: Musab Al-Juwayr (16'), Abdulrahman Al-Oboud (78')
Key stats
Possession: Bahrain 54% · Saudi Arabia 46% · Total shots: 17-10 · On target: 2-3 · Corners: 6-2




