Match preview: Al Ahly favourite to triumph over Al Masry at WE Al-Ahly Stadium

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Competition: Egypt Premier League
Competition: Fri 20.August
Match begins: 19:00 (UTC)
Venue: WE Al-Ahly Stadium (30000 seats)

Premier League: Two sides who have done fine thus far. Get ready for Al Ahly - Al Masry with this comprehensive preview!

Insights:
  • Al Ahly have the most scored goals (63) in Premier League
  • Al Masry have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.

There’s little time for restitution or working hard at the training pitch these days, with both teams having played their last game less than four days ago.

Masry is no longer fighting for a cause; they can neither go up or down this season.

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Al Ahly form and stats

Al Ahly are steadily winning Premier League games and points here at WE Al-Ahly Stadium. 8 wins, 6 draws and 1 defeat is the summary from 15 games. Al Ahly has a nice streak going on as they have played 14 consecutive leaguegames without losing (regardless of home/away). They are keen to extend their tally, a streak that began after the Ghazl El Mehalla defeat 108 days ago.

Defensively the home team are doing well, with their goalkeeper Mohamed El Shenawy not having conceded a league goal in 205 minutes.

Ahly manager P. Mosimane and his team return home after a 0-0 draw away versus El Geish (placed 8th) in the Premier League.

Previous to that game, a home match hosting ENPPI in a game that was won 2-0.

Al Ahly are believed to win this game, given a winning chance of about 70% by the bookmakers. We have checked our records for their performance in similar circumstances and found twelve matches and the win/draw/lost stats: Won ten, drew one and lost one.

Ahly are traveling soon after this match as the Premier League match at El Gounah awaits in four days.

The Ahly manager P. Mosimane has got the team scoring with 32 from 15 home games in the league. Al Ahly have only conceded 13 from their league home games. For more goal stats, check the Statistics tab above. There's been improvement defensively lately, as only 1 of these goals has been conceded in their last 3 home matches.

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Al Masry form and stats

7 wins, 5 draws and 3 losses. That’s the product of Al Masry playing as the away team in the Premier League this season.

Home advantage was not enough for Al Masry in their previous game, as they lost their Premier League-match, hosting Smouha, 0-1.

Ahead of that match was the victory versus Pyramids FC at their stadium, the result 1-0.

A quick return to home after this game, as Masry are hosting ENPPI in the Premier League only three days away.

The travelling fans enjoy Al Masry's attacking play in away games, having scored 23 goals in 15 league matches away. As opposed to that, Masry have seen the ball go into their own net 17 times on the road.

Head 2 Head

The latest past scoreline between these crews is the Al Masry - Ahly 1-2 played earlier this season. Head to head data (for the last ten meetings): Al Ahly won nine games, one match ended with a draw and Al Masry got zero wins. Over 2,5 goals / under 2,5 goals: four / six

Top Goalscorers

Al AhlyM. Sherif
M. Sherif
18 goals
Al MasryO. Abdel Wahed
O. Abdel Wahed
12 goals
AhlyH. El Shahat
H. El Shahat
7 goals

Al Ahly missing players

Al Masry missing players

Al Ahly Al Masry
Total Home vs top Statistics Stat vs top Away Total
31 15 4 Played P 4 15 31
20 8 1 Won W 1 7 13
9 6 2 Drew D 2 5 10
2 1 1 Lost L 1 3 8
63 32 8 Scored S 5 23 41
23 13 5 Conceded C 5 17 31
87% 93% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 100% 90%
84% 93% 100% Over 1.5 O 1.5 75% 87% 65%
58% 60% 75% Over 2.5 O 2.5 25% 47% 45%
35% 40% 50% Over 3.5 O 3.5 25% 20% 23%
13% 13% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 25% 13% 10%
58% 67% 75% BTTS BTTS 75% 73% 55%
39% 33% 25% Clean Sheets C S 25% 20% 35%
16% 7% 0% Failed to Score F T 0% 7% 19%
 
5.3 5.6 5.8 Corners for (avg) C F 4 4.3 5.2
3.6 3.2 3 Corners against (avg) C A 5.8 5.3 4
1.3 1.4 1.5 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 2.8 2.3 2.2
0 0 0 Red cards R C 1 1 2
 
13.6 14.8 14.5 Shots (avg) S ( 7.2 8.1 8.5
5.7 6.1 6 Shots on Target (avg) S O 3 3.2 3.1
36% 36% 33% Goal Efficiency G E 42% 48% 43%
Key stats in Premier League this season:
  • Al Ahly have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • Al Ahly have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded.
  • Al Ahly have the most scored goals (63) in Premier League
  • Al Ahly have the most scored goals in the second half (43) in Premier League
  • Al Ahly have the the best goal difference (+40) in Premier League
  • Al Masry have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
  • Al Masry haven’t played a single 0-0 game away.

  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A +/- P
1 Zamalek 31 22 7 2 56 19 17 14 2 1 39 13 14 8 5 1 17 6 37 73
2 Al Ahly 31 20 9 2 63 23 15 8 6 1 32 13 16 12 3 1 31 10 40 69
3 Al Masry 31 13 10 8 41 31 16 6 5 5 18 14 15 7 5 3 23 17 10 49
4 Smouha 31 10 17 4 48 39 15 4 8 3 25 24 16 6 9 1 23 15 9 47
5 Pyramids FC 31 10 16 5 44 37 15 3 8 4 18 21 16 7 8 1 26 16 7 46
6 Al Ittihad 31 11 10 10 34 34 16 5 5 6 17 18 15 6 5 4 17 16 0 43
7 ENPPI 31 10 12 9 33 33 15 5 7 3 18 16 16 5 5 6 15 17 0 42
8 El Geish 31 10 9 12 40 36 15 4 8 3 20 15 16 6 1 9 20 21 4 39
9 Ceramica Cleopatra 31 8 14 9 38 41 15 3 7 5 16 19 16 5 7 4 22 22 -3 38
10 El Gounah 31 8 13 10 32 35 16 6 6 4 21 20 15 2 7 6 11 15 -3 37
11 Misr Lel Makasa 30 10 7 13 31 41 15 6 3 6 14 18 15 4 4 7 17 23 -10 37
12 Al Mokawloon 31 9 8 14 32 42 15 5 2 8 11 16 16 4 6 6 21 26 -10 35
13 Ismaily 31 9 10 12 39 40 15 5 4 6 20 23 16 4 6 6 19 17 -1 34
14 Ghazl El Mehalla 30 7 13 10 25 35 15 4 8 3 17 17 15 3 5 7 8 18 -10 34
15 National Bank of Egypt 30 5 14 11 32 39 15 2 7 6 14 17 15 3 7 5 18 22 -7 29
16 Aswan 31 6 9 16 27 54 16 3 3 10 14 29 15 3 6 6 13 25 -27 27
17 Wadi Degla 31 4 13 14 27 38 16 2 7 7 12 18 15 2 6 7 15 20 -11 25
18 El Entag El Harby 30 4 11 15 31 56 15 2 5 8 12 24 15 2 6 7 19 32 -25 23