Abha vs Al Kholood Prediction & Betting Tips

Contrasting league form

Al Kholood's three wins, three draws and one loss in the league this season show a side that's been competitive most weeks and scoring fairly freely.

Abha: 20 completed matches; Al Kholood: 20 completed matches.

Abha

20 matches

Win

30% 6 / 20

Draw

25% 5 / 20

Loss

45% 9 / 20

Scored

21

Conceded

29

Difference

-8

Al Kholood

20 matches

Win

30% 6 / 20

Draw

45% 9 / 20

Loss

25% 5 / 20

Scored

24

Conceded

26

Difference

-2

Abha's league record reads very differently: no wins, two draws and five defeats, with more goals let in than scored. It's been a tough opening block for them.

Comparative Team Statistics: Abha vs Al Kholood

History doesn't tell us much here

The only recorded meetings between these two go back to 2017 and 2018, both in a lower division and both a long time before this current group of players were involved.

Given how old and how few those matches are, they're not much use for judging how this one might go.

A big gap in the table

Al Kholood sit seventh with 12 points from seven games, built on three wins, three draws and a single defeat. Abha are down in 18th with just two points from the same number of matches, having failed to win any of them.

That's a sizeable gap after only seven rounds, and it lines up with what we've seen from both sides in recent weeks.

The league form backs up the table position for both teams.

Where the goals have come from

Iker Kortajarena has been Al Kholood's main source of goals this season with four in seven appearances, and Joao Domingues has chipped in with three goals and two assists of his own.

Abha:

Penalty cards:

Abdulbasit Al-Hindi x 2

N. Fekir x 2

Firas Al-Ghamdi x 2

Al Kholood:

Best scorers:

Iker Kortajarena - 4

J. Domingues - 3

Best assist providers:

J. Domingues - 2

Coba - 2

Penalty cards:

Mansour Camara x 3

Iker Kortajarena x 2

On the disciplinary side, Mansour Camara has picked up three yellow cards for Al Kholood, while a few Abha players have two apiece. Nothing there points to any confirmed absences for this fixture.

How this one could unfold

Al Kholood look like the more balanced side right now, mixing wins with draws rather than collapsing, and they've had goals in most of their league outings.

Abha haven't found a win all season and have shipped goals regularly, so they'll need a big improvement just to get a result here.