NEOM SC 2-1 Al Shabab result, stats and report

Al Hilal's five-match winning run came to a stunning halt at home as NEOM SC claimed a 2-0 victory, with Kalidou Koulibaly's own goal and a Amadou Koné strike doing the damage. It was a night where Al Hilal's standards slipped badly, and NEOM made them pay.

Sergej Milinkovic-Savic's second-half strike settled a one-sided contest as Al Hilal controlled Al Shabab from start to finish, winning 1-0 in the Saudi Pro League on Friday evening.

NEOM SC dismantled Al Khaleej with three goals in the final eight minutes of the first half, with Alexandre Lacazette opening the scoring before Muhanad Al-Saad and Amadou Koné put the game to bed before the break.

Al Hazm dominated large spells of this Saudi Pro League contest and led through Roger Martínez's second-half strike, only for Afimico Pululu to convert a 90th-minute penalty and hand Al Shabab a point they barely deserved on the balance of play.

Al Shabab controlled almost every statistical category but somehow ended level with Al Riyadh, a 3-3 draw that tells you more about structural fragility than anything else. This was a coaching problem on both sides of the ball.

Two sides carrying wounds from difficult starts to the 2026 Saudi Pro League season meet on Thursday night, with Al Shabab's inability to keep a clean sheet at home the most pressing structural concern heading into this fixture.

Al Hazm welcome NEOM SC to their own patch on Thursday knowing that their recent pattern of results points firmly in the wrong direction. The detail in the data tells a more specific story than the scorelines suggest.

Al Kholood have not lost at home in their last ten matches, but Al Shabab arrive with nothing to lose and a defensive record that keeps games tight on the road. Wednesday's Saudi Pro League fixture has the structure of a draw written all over it.