Sabah are averaging 7.9 tackles per game in 2026/2027, with matches involving them seeing 14.8 total tackles on average. That puts them 6th of 20 for team tackles per match in their primary competition. Below you'll find player tackle-rate forecasts, the matchup read for the upcoming fixture against Man Utd, and a full match-by-match log.
Ivan Lepinjica leads with 14 tackles across 10 qualifying appearances (1.4/g, 40% hit rate). The tackle-rate table on this page lists every Sabah player with their tackles per qualifying appearance (≥20 minutes), six-game form mask and current Bet365 1+ tackles price for the next fixture.
Sabah are averaging 7.9 tackles per game over 10 games and concede 6.9 for a match-total of 14.8. That ranks 6th of 20 for team tackles in their primary competition. They average 19.75 tackles per take-on attempted against them (opposition averages 1 take-ons/g).
Tackle matchup blends the defender's tackles per game (50%), the opposition attacker's take-on rate (30%), and the defender's underlying tackle propensity (20%). For the upcoming fixture against Man Utd, the page's matchup read uses each opposition forward's last-season dribble rate to weight Sabah's defenders.
All numbers come from match-level Sportmonks data ingested into Statz — 10 Sabah fixtures in the active window for 2026/2027. Player odds come from Bet365 player markets when priced. Pre-match lineups are predicted lineups until team news lands, then confirmed.
A player must have featured for at least 20 minutes in a fixture for that match to count toward their tackle rate and form. Cameo appearances are excluded so the rates aren't diluted by 5-minute substitutions.
We count attempted tackles per Sportmonks' definition. That matches what Bet365 settles 1+ tackles markets on, so the page's hit-rate and the bookmaker's pricing are aligned.
| Player | Position | Apps | Tackles | Per game | 1+ hit rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Christian Nwachukwu | attacker | 1 | 4 | 4 | 100% |
| Tellur Mütallimov | defender | 1 | 2 | 2 | 100% |
| Xander Severina | attacker | 5 | 5 | 1 | 60% |
| Aleksey Isayev | midfielder | 8 | 6 | 0.75 | 50% |
| Veljko Simic | attacker | 8 | 9 | 1.13 | 50% |
| Steve Solvet | defender | 9 | 6 | 0.67 | 44% |
| Ivan Lepinjica | midfielder | 10 | 14 | 1.4 | 40% |
| Umarali Rakhmonaliev | midfielder | 8 | 7 | 0.88 | 38% |
| Tymoteusz Puchacz | defender | 8 | 6 | 0.75 | 38% |
| Abdulakh Khaybulayev | midfielder | 3 | 1 | 0.33 | 33% |
| Rahman Dashdamirov | defender | 10 | 5 | 0.5 | 30% |
| Akim Zedadka | defender | 10 | 9 | 0.9 | 30% |
| Kaheem Parris | attacker | 5 | 3 | 0.6 | 20% |
| Orphé Mbina | attacker | 7 | 1 | 0.14 | 14% |
| Joy-Lance Mickels | attacker | 10 | 1 | 0.1 | 10% |
| Stas Pokatilov | goalkeeper | 10 | 1 | 0.1 | 10% |
| Bojan Letic | defender | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0% |
| Pavol Safranko | attacker | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0% |
| Zinédine Ould Khaled | midfielder | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0% |
| Ygor Nogueira | defender | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0% |
| Jesse Sekidika | attacker | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0% |
| Aaron Malouda | attacker | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0% |
| Anatoliy Nuriyev | midfielder | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0% |
| Júnior Almeida | defender | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0% |
| A. McCarthy | defender | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0% |
| Date | Opponent | Venue | Score | Team tackles | Opposition tackles | Match total | Top player |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25 Aug 2026 | Hapoel Be'er Sheva | Home | 5-2 | 30 | 26 | 56 | Akim Zedadka (6) |
| 19 Aug 2026 | Hapoel Be'er Sheva | Away | 2-1 | 20 | 20 | 40 | Veljko Simic (4) |
| 11 Aug 2026 | AGF | Home | 4-0 | 13 | 8 | 21 | Ivan Lepinjica (5) |
| 5 Aug 2026 | AGF | Away | 2-1 | 16 | 15 | 31 | Umarali Rakhmonaliev (4) |
| 28 Jul 2026 | KuPS | Away | 0-2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 21 Jul 2026 | KuPS | Home | 1-0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 14 Jul 2026 | The New Saints | Away | 1-2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 7 Jul 2026 | The New Saints | Home | 2-0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 14 Aug 2025 | Levski Sofia | Home | 0-2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 7 Aug 2025 | Levski Sofia | Away | 1-0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |