Match Report
Erbil, 13th with 50 points, sat 17 points above Naft Al-Basra (18th, 33). Scoring rates set the scale: Naft Al-Basra 0.84 scored and 1.45 conceded per game, Erbil 1.32 and 1.58, with the league averaging 1.13.
Naft Al-Basra had gone 5 games without a win. The last-five ledger: Naft Al-Basra 3/15, Erbil 9/15.
The sides have met 7 times in the GioScore results database: 2 wins for Naft Al-Basra, 4 draws and 1 for Erbil, at 2.14 goals per meeting. Only 14% of these meetings ended in a home win. Low-scoring is the pattern: just 29% of the meetings went over two goals.
On the scoreboard, it was 2-2 at the break; 3 second-half goals set the final 4-3.
Goal scorers
Naft Al-Basra: Qasem Mohammad Khalif (17'), Ismail Ouro-Agoro (90'), Qasem Mohammad Khalif (11'), 1 goal with no recorded scorer · Erbil: 3 goals with no recorded scorer
Key stats
Possession: Naft Al-Basra 3% · Erbil 97% · Total shots: 13-5 · On target: 5-3 · Corners: 0-2