| Team | Games | Run | Unbeaten | Winless | Scored in | Conceded in | Last-5 pts | Last-5 goals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dhofar | 15 | D2 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 8/15 | 5-5 |
| Muscat | 15 | L1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 6/15 | 5-6 |
Computed over each team's finished games before kickoff — see the Games column for the sample behind each row.
Aggregated from 2 finished meetings (2018-09-19 – 2018-11-02) in the GioScore fixtures corpus.
| Date | Home | Score | Away |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2018-11-02 | Muscat | 1-3 | Dhofar |
| 2018-09-19 | Muscat | 0-1 | Dhofar |
| Team | Pos | Pld | Pts | GD | Form | Form rank | Form vs pos |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dhofar | 3 | 26 | 48 | 22 | DLWLD | 9 | -6 |
| Muscat | 14 | 24 | 19 | -12 | LLDDD | 13 | +1 |
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 2022-02-26
On paper the standings were lopsided — Dhofar 3rd with 48 points, Muscat 14th with 19, 29 apart. Dhofar had been under-performing their position — 9th on five-round form against 3rd in the table. Against a league average of 1.11 goals per team per game, Dhofar ran at 1.5 scored and 0.65 conceded, Muscat at 0.88 and 1.38.
The match was played at The Salalah Youth Complex in Salalah (capacity 15,000). On the scoreboard, it was 0-0 at the break; 2 second-half goals set the final 1-1.
