Abha vs Al Hazm result and match review

Last updated Thursday 13 August 2026. Right, it is match day. Saudi Pro League football is back and we are kicking things off with Abha hosting Al Hazm at 17:15 UK time this evening. I have been watching this one build all week and honestly... I am not sure either side has given us a reason to get properly excited. But that is fine. Sometimes the quiet ones sneak up on you.

The Big Problem for Al Hazm

Look, I will just say it. Al Hazm away from home is genuinely grim viewing right now. In their last ten away games they have won precisely zero. Zero! Zero wins, four draws, five losses. They have shipped twelve goals on the road in that run and kept just one clean sheet. One. That is an eleven percent clean sheet rate if you want to put a number on it.

Their away form string reads LDDLLLDDL. That is not a team you back to go and win at someone else's ground. Simple as. The momentum slope on their away form is flat zero, which basically tells you what your eyes already knew. Nothing is changing out there on the road for them.

Now here is the interesting bit though. At home, Al Hazm are actually a different animal. Four wins from their last six home games. Four wins from their last five even. They have been putting thirty two shots per game away when they are at their own place. That is a lot of shots, mate. But none of that matters today because they are the away side. So we park the home form and focus on the road record. Not pretty.

What About Abha?

Here is where it gets a bit awkward. We have got no home form data for Abha in the system at all. None. So I am working with what last season's standings tell us, which is that Abha finished ninth in the 2025 Saudi Pro League campaign. Eleven wins, nine draws, fourteen losses. Forty two points. Not world beaters but they stayed up comfortably enough. They were conceding though, fifty seven goals against in thirty four games is not exactly a tight ship.

Look at the fixtures for context. This is the opening game of the new 2026 season for both sides. Fresh slate. That cuts both ways. Abha get the home advantage and the crowd behind them. Al Hazm get to forget last season and reset. But recent form does not just disappear overnight and Al Hazm's away record is the kind of thing that takes months to shake off, not a summer break.

But here is what I actually reckon when I look at this properly. Al Hazm away from home scored just five goals in their last ten away games. Five goals in ten matches. That is barely scraping half a goal per game on the road. Their last five away games they scored three goals total. Three. So the idea of Al Hazm rocking up to Abha and finding the net tonight is not exactly a banker, is it.

My Match Day Read

Honestly? This feels like a low scoring, tight game to me. Al Hazm do not score freely on the road. Abha at home is a mystery box because we have no data on them in this context yet. Last season they were not exactly banging them in either, thirty eight goals for in thirty four games is about one per game on average.

You add it all up and I reckon we are looking at a game where goals are at a premium. A scrappy one nil either way would not shock me. The BTTS No angle is where I am sitting. It is not the most exciting call in the world but it is grounded in something real, which is Al Hazm's dire away scoring record over a ten game sample.

No confirmed lineups in the system yet as I write this so I cannot give you any team news specifics. No injury news to report either. Both squads appear to be heading into this relatively clean from what we can see.