Umm Salal takes on Al Gharafa on Saturday evening with both sides fighting for the top 4 places. Ahead of the crunch match, QSL online has decided to look back on clashes from the previous five years between the two teams to see who will have the upper hand in the match.

Al Gharafa won both matches in the 2010/2011 season. The first match ended 2-0 to the Cheetahs with goals from Iraqi striker Youness Mahmoud & defender Marcone Amaral. The second game was a much tighter affair ending 3-2 to Gharafa with Youness Mahmoud, Amara Diane and Fehaid Al Shammari amongst the goals.

In the 2011/2012 season, each side picked up a win a piece.  Umm Salal won the first leg fixture 1-0 with the solitary goal coming from Brazilian striker Cabore. In the second half of the season Al Gharafa came back defeating Umm Salal 2-1 with goals from Ferhad Majidi and Diego Tardelli.

The 2012/2013 season saw both sides draw in their QSL encounters. The first leg match ended 1-1 with Diego Tardelli scoring for Gharafa and Maher Youssef registering for Umm Salal. The second leg game was an entertaining 2-2 draw with by Fehaid Al Shammari and Nene registering for the Cheetahs and Cabore and Thamer Jamal scoring for Umm Salal, ensuring honors where even.

The 2013/2014 season saw, Al Gharafa dominating both matches, the first leg tie saw an impressive 6-2 victory for the cheetahs. In the second half of the season Gharafa remained victorious; however they couldn’t hit the heights of the first leg and managed a slender 1-0 win.

The 2014/2015 season both sides exchanged victories, Gharafa won the the first leg 1-0, the only goal scored by Argentine hit-man Lisandro Lopez. The orange fortress grabbed their second half of the season victory in a seven goal thriller. Salal prevailed 4-3 on the night with a hat-trick Ismail Mahmoud and a single goal from Thamer Jamal.

This season, the sides played out a 0-0 draw in the first half of the season.

Overall Gharafa has the upper hand over Umm Salal down the years; the Cheetah’s have prevailed on 6 occasions. Umm Salal has only managed two victories, with both teams sharing the points on three occasions. It promises to be a titanic clash when these two top 4 rivals meet on Saturday evening, K.O at 19:30 at Qatar Sports Club stadium.