Al-Fateh vs Al Shabab Prediction & Betting Tips

Form check on both sides

Look across Al-Fateh's last 20 matches in all competitions and it's a rough picture: four wins, six draws and ten losses, with just 16 goals scored and 28 conceded. Their recent Pro League form has been particularly flat, without a win in their last seven league outings.

Al-Fateh: 20 completed matches; Al Shabab: 20 completed matches.

Al-Fateh

20 matches

Win

20% 4 / 20

Draw

30% 6 / 20

Loss

50% 10 / 20

Scored

16

Conceded

28

Difference

-12

Al Shabab

20 matches

Win

25% 5 / 20

Draw

30% 6 / 20

Loss

45% 9 / 20

Scored

24

Conceded

35

Difference

-11

Al Shabab's numbers look similarly patchy over the same length of sample: five wins, six draws and nine losses, scoring 24 but shipping 35. Like Al-Fateh, they've gone without a league win in their opening seven matches this season.

Both sides have leaked more goals than they've scored across this run, whatever the competition.

Comparative Team Statistics: Al-Fateh vs Al Shabab

A history of tight contests

These two have met close to twenty times stretching back to 2017, and the head-to-head is fairly even overall. The reverse fixture back in January finished 2-0 to Al-Fateh, but the return game in April ended 1-1. Draws crop up often in this fixture, with 2-2 and 1-1 scorelines both featuring in recent seasons.

History suggests this matchup doesn't often produce one-sided results.

Where they sit in the table

Seven rounds into the Pro League season, Al Shabab are 14th with four points, having scored six goals and conceded eleven. Al-Fateh sit just below in 15th on three points, with four goals scored and eleven conceded. Neither side has managed a league win yet this term.

We're only working with these two teams' league placings here, so it's hard to say exactly how they compare with the rest of the division.

Notes from the squads

The clearest individual detail available concerns Al Shabab: J. Brownhill has two assists from seven appearances, making him their most involved creator so far, while Dhari Al Anazi has picked up three yellow cards in five games. There's no comparable detail on record for Al-Fateh's squad.

Al Shabab:

Best assist providers:

J. Brownhill - 2

Penalty cards:

Dhari Al Anazi x 1 x 3

How this one might play out

With Al-Fateh managing only four league goals in seven matches and Al Shabab just six, goals could be hard to come by again here. Both sides have shown more of a habit for grinding out draws than winning outright this season, so a tight, low-scoring game feels like a reasonable shape for this one, though the h2h record shows either a home win or an away win has happened plenty of times before too.