Match Report
8 points and 5 places separated them: Malkiya 6th with 28, East Riffa 11th with 20. East Riffa ranked 5th in the league on five-round form, well above their 11th table position. Per game in the league, Malkiya were scoring 1.05 and conceding 1.23, East Riffa 0.95 and 1.41, against a competition average of 1.35 goals per team per game.
Malkiya carried a 5-game unbeaten run into this. East Riffa's winless run stood at 11. The five-game form split read 11/15 points for Malkiya against 3/15 for East Riffa.
GioScore's database holds 4 meetings between the two: 2 for Malkiya, 1 for East Riffa and 1 drawn, at 3.25 goals per meeting. Whoever hosts gains little here: home teams have taken just 25% of the wins in this fixture. Three-plus goals is the norm here, arriving in 100% of the meetings, and both sides scored in 75%.
The match was played at Arab Contractors Stadium (capacity 20,000). On the scoreboard, it was 0-0 at the break, and no goals arrived after the restart: 0-0 the final score.
Key stats
Possession: Malkiya 48% · East Riffa 52% · Total shots: 6-9 · On target: 3-2 · Corners: 3-12