Al Taawon vs Al-Qadisiyah FC Prediction & Betting Tips

Form pulling in opposite directions

Al-Qadisiyah's recent results across all competitions read well. They've won six of their last eight matches in this sample, including away trips where they've scored freely and a couple of high-scoring draws thrown in too.

Al Taawon: 20 completed matches; Al-Qadisiyah FC: 20 completed matches.

Al Taawon

20 matches

Win

20% 4 / 20

Draw

40% 8 / 20

Loss

40% 8 / 20

Scored

25

Conceded

29

Difference

-4

Al-Qadisiyah FC

20 matches

Win

65% 13 / 20

Draw

20% 4 / 20

Loss

15% 3 / 20

Scored

46

Conceded

25

Difference

+21

Al Taawon's run has gone the other way. There's a heavy 0-6 home defeat to Al-Hilal in there, several goalless draws, and no win at all in their last eight matches shown here, home or away.

Al Taawon's home form specifically hasn't been a safe haven this season.

Comparative Team Statistics: Al Taawon vs Al-Qadisiyah FC

Head-to-head has been closer than the table suggests

Results between these two have gone both ways more often than you'd expect given where they sit now. The most recent meeting in February finished 1-1, and before that Al Taawon actually won 2-0 at home back in November. Further back, both sides have had spells of dominance in this fixture.

That history doesn't cancel out the current form gap, but it's a reminder that Al Taawon have managed to compete with Al-Qadisiyah before, even during rougher patches.

Recent meetings between these two have been tighter than the league table now suggests.

A big gap in the table right now

Seven games into the league season, Al-Qadisiyah sit fourth with 16 points from five wins, a draw and a single defeat. They've scored 16 and conceded just eight, which is a tidy return.

Al Taawon are down in 17th with only three points from those same seven matches and no wins at all. They've managed just three goals in the league so far while shipping twelve. That's a big gap this early on, though there's still plenty of the season left to play.

It's still only seven matches each, so this describes a strong start and a poor one rather than a finished picture.

Retegui and company doing the damage

Al-Qadisiyah's scoring is spread around. Retegui has four goals in seven matches, with Quiñones and Reijnders both on three, and Abu Al Shamat adding three goals plus three assists. Their disciplinary record looks clean too, with no red cards among their most-booked players.

Al Taawon:

Penalty cards:

Y. El Bahraoui x 1 x 1

Al-Qadisiyah FC:

Best scorers:

M. Retegui - 4

Mohammed Abu Al Shamat - 3

J. Quiñones - 3

Best assist providers:

Mohammed Abu Al Shamat - 3

Musab Al Juwayr - 2

C. Bonsu Baah - 2

Penalty cards:

Musab Al Juwayr x 3

Nacho x 3

Mohammed Al Qahtani x 2

There isn't the same kind of attacking output showing up for Al Taawon, which lines up with a side that's scored only three league goals all season. That points fairly clearly to where their main problem lies.

What to watch heading into this one

This form snapshot was taken about a month before kickoff, so there's time for team news to shift on both sides before matchday. On the evidence so far, Al-Qadisiyah look better placed to keep their run going, given how sharp they've been in front of goal.

Al Taawon's task is simple in theory: stop conceding so freely and find a way to score more than they have all season. Whether home advantage helps with either of those is still open.