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Al-Faisaly host Al Nassr at Al Majma’a Sport City on Friday with the gap between these two sides looking about as wide as it gets in this league right now. Giovanni Solinas’s team sit 14th with just one win from nine, while Ange Postecoglou’s Al Nassr arrive on a run of three straight league wins and sit third, only three points off the top. The interesting wrinkle here is the schedule: Al Nassr beat Neom SC only three days before this trip, so fatigue and rotation could creep into Postecoglou’s selection even against a side this short on confidence.
Watch for Cristiano Ronaldo, who has scored twice in his last five appearances and keeps testing goalkeepers with 12 shots in that span, the most of anyone involved in this fixture. On the home side, Alexandre Mendy is the player to track, since he has netted four goals in just two matches recently, a scoring rate that would be remarkable for any forward in the division right now.
Hot stat: Mendy’s four goals in two games for Al-Faisaly stand out as the single most eye-catching number from either team’s recent matches, and it is the main reason we think Al-Faisaly will find the net here even while losing comfortably.
| 🏆 Tournament: | Saudi Pro League 2026/27, Regular Season |
| 🏟 Venue: | Al Majma’a Sport City, Madimaa |
| 🗓️ Date: | 23.10.2026 |
| ⏰ Time: | 15:30 CEST |
Al-Faisaly vs Al Nassr prediction
We predict Al Nassr to win this one, and the market agrees, pricing the away side at roughly 76% to take all three points. Al-Faisaly have won once in nine league games and sit with a minus seven goal difference, while Al Nassr have conceded only seven times in nine matches. A straight moneyline bet on Al Nassr offers little value at odds near 1.20, so our pick for value is Al Nassr on the Asian Handicap -1.5, given how often Postecoglou’s side have been winning by two goals or more away from home this season.
Style-wise, the gap shows up clearly in the numbers. Al Nassr have completed 1,220 of 1,419 passes across their last five matches, close to 86% accuracy, against Al-Faisaly’s 662 of 795, around 83%. Al Nassr also average far more fouls committed per match, 33 across five games compared to Al-Faisaly’s 18, which tells us Postecoglou’s side press higher and get stuck into more duels. Al-Faisaly pick up more cards relative to their foul count, three yellows to Al Nassr’s two, suggesting they concede fouls from a deeper, more reactive position. That combination, a dominant possession side against a team sitting deep and conceding when stretched, points toward goals for the visitors and at least one reply from the hosts.
| 🔥Hot Tip: | Al Nassr to win -1.5 Asian Handicap |
| ⚽Total Goals: | Over 2.5 |
| 💥Both Teams To Score: | Yes |
| 🎯Total Corners: | Over 8.5 |
Team Analysis
Al-Faisaly drew 2-2 with Al Shabab last time out, their second scoring draw in as many months, after a 3-2 win over Al Kholood that showed some attacking bite. Sandwiched in between those results was a 1-3 loss to Al Ittihad and a pair of 0-0 draws against Al Ettifaq and Al-Hazem. Solinas’s side look capable of scoring against mid-table opposition but have struggled whenever the level of competition rises, and Al Nassr represent the biggest step up they have faced in weeks.
Al Nassr beat Neom SC 1-0 in their last outing, a result that kept their winning run alive heading into this trip. In our preview of Al Nassr vs Neom SC we called a comfortable home win built around Ronaldo’s scoring form, and while the 1-0 scoreline delivered the three points, the margin stayed tighter than we expected. Before that, Postecoglou’s side put three past both Neftchi Fargona and Al Diriyah, only denting that form with a 0-4 defeat to Al Ain and a 1-1 draw with Al Khaleej earlier in the month. Four wins from their last five tells its own story about where this side is heading into the weekend.
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Pre-game odds and win probability: Al Nassr the favourite
- Moneyline Al-Faisaly 8.73 | Al Nassr 1.22
- Draw 6.95
Those numbers put Al Nassr’s implied win probability close to the bookmakers’ own 76% figure, and we see little reason to argue against it. Al-Faisaly’s home form this season, one win, four draws and four losses, simply does not support backing the hosts outright, and even the draw at odds near 7.00 looks like a bet built on hope rather than evidence. Perhaps the smarter route, as we noted above, is the handicap market rather than the straight moneyline, since the short price on Al Nassr to win offers little return for the risk.
Possible Starting Lineups
Al-Faisaly possible starting eleven
- GK: Fernando Pacheco
- DF: Yaseen Barnawi, Andrei Girotto, Abdoulaye Seck, Mohammed Ali Al Shanqiti
- MF: Flávio, Jaime Seoane, Eid Al-Muwallad, Christian Bassogog
- FW: Alexandre Mendy, Abdulaziz Al-Bishi
Solinas has stuck with a 4-4-2 across his last five matches, and the players above carry the heaviest minutes in that shape. Mendy leads the line on current form and deserves the attention, while Girotto and Seck both played every minute available in the last two matches, anchoring a defense that still leaks goals too easily.
Al Nassr possible starting eleven
- GK: Bento
- DF: Iñigo Martínez, Awad Aman, Mohamed Simakan
- MF: Nawaf Boushal, Samu Costa, Abdullah Al-Khaibari, Sami Al-Najei
- FW: Cristiano Ronaldo, Sadio Mané, Joao Félix
Postecoglou’s 3-4-3 relies on Boushal and Al-Khaibari getting up and down the flanks while Samu Costa shields the back three, a role he has filled in every match this spell. Ronaldo, Mané and Felix up top have combined for four goals and three assists across their last five outings between them, and that front three alone should give Al-Faisaly’s defense a long afternoon.
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Al-Faisaly. Source: Official X/Twitter. Edited photo
TipsGG Match Prediction
We predict Al Nassr to win at Al Majma’a, likely by two goals or more given how comfortably Postecoglou’s side have been controlling matches lately. Al-Faisaly’s recent habit of conceding in bunches, three goals shipped in their last win and two more in their last draw, suggests the hosts will offer little resistance once Al Nassr’s front three gets going. To be honest, the main question is not who wins but whether Al-Faisaly can find a goal of their own through Mendy, and we think they manage at least one, making BTTS yes paired with an Al Nassr win our favored combination for this fixture.
