Al Ettifaq vs Al Ittihad - prediction, team news, lineups

Al-Ettifaq volition beryllium targeting back-to-back victories erstwhile they invited Al-Ittihad to the Al-Ettifaq Club Stadium connected Thursday evening, with 2 Saudi Pro League games inactive to play.

The hosts travel into the fixture afloat of assurance pursuing a 5-0 demolition of Al Khaleej, portion the visitors get conscionable 3 points up of them successful the table.

Match preview

Saad Al-Shehri’s broadside caput into Thursday’s fixture successful seventh spot successful the Saudi Pro League array with 49 points from 14 wins, 7 draws and 11 defeats, having scored 49 goals and conceded 51 crossed the campaign.

Their caller signifier has been mixed, with 2 wins, 1 gully and 2 defeats from their past 5 fixtures crossed each competitions, though the astir caller of those outings could hardly person gone amended - a resounding 5-0 triumph implicit Al Khaleej in which Moussa Dembele netted twice.

Al-Shehri has shown passim the play that his broadside are susceptible of adapting to assorted lucifer situations, and, having finished seventh past season, the hosts volition beryllium determined to unafraid the aforesaid position, oregon better, erstwhile the run concludes.

Defensively, however, Al-Ettifaq person shown vulnerability astatine times, conceding 51 league goals crossed the campaign, and they volition request to beryllium considerably much disciplined astatine the backmost against a sojourn from 1 of the division’s much potent attacking sides.

Al-Ittihad get astatine the Al-Ettifaq Club Stadium successful 5th spot with 52 points from 15 wins, 7 draws and 9 defeats, and Sergio Conceicao’s broadside person demonstrated a accordant quality to marque the astir of transitions and exploit absorption weaknesses passim the campaign.

The visitors person scored 49 goals and conceded lone 39 successful the league, and their caller signifier has been encouraging, with 3 wins, 1 gully and 1 decision from their past 5 fixtures crossed each competitions.

Their astir caller outing produced a hard-fought 2-1 triumph implicit Damac FC, with Abdulaziz Al-Bishi’s extremity successful the 94th infinitesimal settling the contention and underlining Al-Ittihad’s capableness to find a mode to triumph adjacent erstwhile pushed to the limit.

Away from home, Al-Ittihad person a respectable grounds of 5 wins, six draws and 4 defeats, and they volition beryllium assured of performing connected the roadworthy against a broadside they beryllium 3 points supra successful the table.

The head-to-head grounds betwixt these 2 sides is evenly poised, with each squad having claimed 2 victories from the past 5 meetings and 1 lucifer ending successful a gully - though Al-Ettifaq did triumph the astir caller brushwood betwixt the sides 1-0, which volition springiness the hosts content that different upset is possible.

With 2 games near and some sides with thing to play for successful presumption of their last league position, Thursday’s crippled has each the ingredients of a fiercely competitory and intimately fought contest.

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Team News

Al-Ettifaq person nary wounded oregon suspension concerns heading into Thursday’s fixture, giving Al-Shehri a afloat squad to prime from.

Dembele and Georginio Wijnaldum are some expected to pb the onslaught erstwhile much aft combining for 3 goals betwixt them successful the demolition of Al Khaleej.

Alvaro Medran, who contributed a hat-trick of assists past clip out, is acceptable to proceed successful midfield alongside Ondrej Duda, with the brace having been successful good signifier during the caller tally of results.

Jack Hendry and Francisco Calvo are expected to signifier the cardinal antiaircraft partnership, with Madallah Al-Olayan and Abdullah Khateeb providing the width from the full-back positions.

Al-Ittihad volition cheque connected the fittingness of respective players up of the trip, with Conceicao expected to sanction a beardown broadside fixed the value of the fixture to their last league standing.

Steven Bergwijn and Youssef En-Nesyri are acceptable to pb the onslaught for the visitors, with Houssem Aouar operating successful the presumption down them aft netting successful the triumph implicit Damac.

Fabinho and Awad Al-Nashri are expected to anchor the midfield alongside Moussa Diaby, portion Danilo Pereira, Hassan Kadesh and Muhannad Al-Shanqeeti are acceptable to signifier the antiaircraft portion successful beforehand of goalkeeper Rajkovic.

Al Ettifaq imaginable starting lineup:

Rodak; Khateeb, Hendry, Calvo, Olayan; Duda, Medran; Costa, Wijnaldum, Al-Ghannam; Dembele

Al Ittihad imaginable starting lineup:

Rajkovic; Kadesh, Pereira, Al-Shanqeeti; Mitaj, Fabinho, Al-Nashri, Diaby; Aouar; Bergwijn, En-Nesyri

We say: Al Ettifaq 1-2 Al Ittihad

Al-Ittihad’s superior antiaircraft record, their quality to grind retired results arsenic demonstrated against Damac and their prime successful onslaught marque them flimsy favourites to assertion each 3 points connected Thursday evening.

Al-Ettifaq volition airs a genuine menace connected location soil, but Conceicao’s broadside should person capable to borderline a choky and competitory encounter.

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