Arqaam Sport 24.. Al-Shabab to settle the third place.. Al-Taawon dreams of the “Golden Square”

Al-Shabab will receive its guest, Al-Taawun, on Saturday evening, for the 29th round of the Roshen Professional League, at Prince Faisal bin Fahd Stadium in Malaz.

Al-Shabab seeks to overcome its loss against Al-Nasr in the last round, which almost lost it to third place had it not been for Al-Hilal’s loss against Al-Adalah for the account of the same round, so that the two teams are equal in the same balance of “53 points”, with Al-Shabab excelling with the advantage of direct confrontations.

On the other hand, Al-Taawoun aims to continue its series of victories, which reached 4 consecutive victories, raising its score to 49 points in fifth place, and hopes to snatch the victory against Al-Shabab to maintain its chances of finishing the season among the Big Four.

And he reads “Sport 24” in the numbers of the two teams before the 26th confrontation between them in the Professional League, noting that they are equal in the number of victories with 9 for each of them, while the tie was settled in 7 matches.

Al-Shabab did not lose in its last 7 confrontations against Buraidah clubs in the Professional League, and its net conceded 5 goals during these confrontations, and its net had conceded 16 goals in 7 confrontations against these clubs before that in the competition, noting that it had scored at least one goal in all the last 9 confrontations .

On the other hand, Al-Taawoun won two of the last 6 matches against Riyadh clubs in the Professional League, which it had achieved in 11 matches before that against them.

Al-Shabab tasted the bitterness of losing in the last 3 league matches, noting that it had last lost 4 consecutive league matches in 2019, including a loss against Al-Taawoun.

Al-Shabab lost their last home match in the Professional League against Al-Wehda with a score of 0-1, and the last time they lost two consecutive matches at home in the competition 30 times before that, and one of them was against Al-Taawun with a score of 1-3 in March 2021.

Pericles Shamuska, the coach of Al-Taawon, did not win in the last 3 confrontations against his former team, Al-Shabab, in the Professional League, which is the longest series of non-winning matches against them in the competition, knowing that the Brazilian coach lost five times in the Professional League, one of them against Al-Shabab with a score of 1-5 when he was coach of Al-Faisaly, and the second five. When he was a youth coach against Al-Hilal 0-5.

Leander Tawamba contributed 6 goals for Al-Taawoun against Al-Shabab in the Professional League (scoring 3 – assists 3), more than he contributed against any other team from the Big Four in the competition, noting that he did not provide more assists against any other team in the competition.

* Card match

Timings: Saturday, May 27 – 9:00 a.m
Stadium: Prince Faisal bin Fahd – Riyadh

Encounters history

Matches: 25
Youth win: 9
Cooperation win: 9
tie: 7