Match Report
On paper the standings were lopsided — Naft 5th with 59 points, Naft Al-Basra 18th with 33, 26 apart. Per game in the league, Naft Al-Basra were scoring 0.84 and conceding 1.45, Naft 0.84 and 0.71, against a competition average of 1.13 goals per team per game.
Naft Al-Basra had lost three in a row.
Across 7 recorded meetings, Naft Al-Basra have 2 wins to Naft's 3, with 2 draws, at 1.86 goals per meeting. Only 29% of the meetings produced more than two goals. Recent meetings have been cagier — 0.8 goals per game across the last five against 1.86 historically.
The match was played at Al Faihaa Stadium in Basra (capacity 10,000). On the scoreboard, it was 0-0 at the break, and no goals arrived after the restart: 0-0 the final score.