About Match
9 points for Naft (4th), 5 for Karbala (17th): a 4-point gap. Per game in the league, Naft score 1.2 and conceding 0.2, Karbala 0.83 and 1.67, against a competition average of 1.08 goals per team per game. Naft would climb to 12 points with a win and up to 1st (other results held equal).
Defeat has not touched Naft in 9 games.
GioScore's database holds 7 meetings between the two: 5 for Naft, 0 for Karbala and 2 drawn, at 2.43 goals per meeting. Hosting has counted for little in this fixture — the home side has won only 29% of those meetings. More than two goals is the exception here — seen in 29% of meetings.
Al Sina'a Stadium, capacity 5,150, hosts the game.