Al Masry vs El Gounah pre-match guide

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Competition: Egypt Premier League
Competition: Sat 18.June
Match begins: 17:00 (UTC)
Venue: Borg El Arab Stadium (20000 seats)

This fixture features two participants living in the lower section of the Premier League, Al Masry having 14th spot and El Gounah lying 13th. A decent chance for one of the teams to improve their situation.

Insights:
  • Al Masry is in the worst form (0-1-5)
  • El Gounah have won significantly less corners away then at home.

This promises to be an exciting match with lots of fun and energy as both contenders are well renewed since they last ran out on the pitch. Let's start!

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Al Masry form and stats

With 2 Premier League wins, 5 draws and 4 defeats from their home games, Al Masry are certainly not brimming with confidence. When Al Masry hosts teams that live in the bottom of the table (like Ismaily, Al Mokawloon, Misr Lel Makasa, El Sharqia Dokhan and Al Masry), they have won 1 of 2 matches!

Al Masry's previous fixture was a Egypt Cup game also played at their own stadium, ending 2-1 against El Mansura. The home side hope to to continue in that form.

Heartbreak before that as Al Masry lost 1-3 at Pyramids FC's place.

The hosts are modest favourites in this match, with the bookmakers estimating the chance of a home win at about 50% +- five percent. It's interesting to look at how Masry have performed under similar circumstances, so here are some numbers: When modest favourites like this (we found 8 games) they have won 3 times, drawn 2 and lost 3.

On the other hand, Al Masry have conceded 15 goals.

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El Gounah form and stats

The hunting on away grounds haven’t been very fruitful for El Gounah so far with only 10 points returning home. The records show 3-1-6 (win-draw-lose). When El Gounah is visiting a side on the bottom half, they have won 2 of 3 matches. Ismaily, Al Mokawloon, Misr Lel Makasa, El Gounah and El Sharqia Dokhan is teams we like to compare Al Masry with.

The Gounah goalkeeper Emad El Sayed is collecting clean sheets like a laundry worker. It's been 255 league minutes without conceding a goal, and counting.

El Gounah won their last game, 1-0 versus Al Ittihad played at home.

Preceding that game, the 0-0 draw paying a visit to Pharco.

El Gounah are the outsiders in this one, but not by much. Their performance in similar games (being the away team and moderate outsiders) is 2 wins, 3 draws and 7 defeats. From a total of 12 matches.

13 goals have been conceded by Gounah in these games.

Head 2 Head

The most up to date logged scoreline featuring both these contenders is the El Gounah - Al Masry 0-3 played not long ago this season. Masry-El Gounah H2H statistics last ten meetings regardless of arena: Al Masry six wins, El Gounah three wins, one draw. two of these ten matches had three or more goals (over 2,5).

Al Masry missing players

El Gounah missing players

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Total Home vs low Statistics Stat vs low Away Total
21 11 2 Played P 3 10 20
4 2 1 Won W 2 3 6
8 5 0 Drew D 0 1 3
9 4 1 Lost L 1 6 11
24 11 3 Scored S 3 10 18
30 15 4 Conceded C 2 13 25
95% 91% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 90% 95%
71% 64% 100% Over 1.5 O 1.5 67% 60% 60%
48% 36% 50% Over 2.5 O 2.5 0% 40% 40%
33% 36% 50% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 20% 10%
10% 9% 50% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 20% 10%
62% 55% 50% BTTS BTTS 0% 40% 45%
19% 18% 0% Clean Sheets C S 67% 40% 35%
24% 36% 50% Failed to Score F T 33% 30% 25%
 
4.9 5.2 10 Corners for (avg) C F 4 3.9 5.2
3.4 3.2 1 Corners against (avg) C A 5.7 6.2 5.8
2.5 2.9 2 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 2.3 2 2.4
1 1 0 Red cards R C 1 1 1
 
9.3 11 14 Shots (avg) S ( 8.7 7 9.3
3.2 3.4 1 Shots on Target (avg) S O 4.3 2.8 3.6
33% 24% 0% Goal Efficiency G E 23% 36% 25%
 
10.1 9 6 Shots against (avg) S A 8.7 8.7 8.8
4.5 4.4 5 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 2.3 3.4 3.5
Key stats in Premier League this season:
  • Al Masry is in the worst form (0-1-5)
  • El Gounah have won significantly less corners away then at home.

  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 20 14 2 4 34 20 10 5 2 3 17 14 10 9 0 1 17 6 14 44
2 Pyramids FC 21 13 4 4 32 15 11 7 2 2 18 6 10 6 2 2 14 9 17 43
3 Al Ahly 17 12 4 1 38 12 8 7 1 0 18 2 9 5 3 1 20 10 26 40
4 Future FC 21 10 6 5 34 19 10 6 3 1 19 10 11 4 3 4 15 9 15 36
5 Smouha 21 9 8 4 30 25 10 7 2 1 18 9 11 2 6 3 12 16 5 35
6 El Geish 21 8 8 5 12 14 11 6 3 2 8 5 10 2 5 3 4 9 -2 32
7 National Bank of Egypt 21 7 9 5 25 21 10 5 3 2 11 6 11 2 6 3 14 15 4 30
8 Pharco 21 7 8 6 16 14 11 5 3 3 10 9 10 2 5 3 6 5 2 29
9 ENPPI 21 5 11 5 25 26 11 2 6 3 12 14 10 3 5 2 13 12 -1 26
10 Ceramica Cleopatra 21 5 10 6 21 23 10 4 4 2 14 12 11 1 6 4 7 11 -2 25
11 Ghazl El Mehalla 21 5 10 6 19 24 10 3 5 2 12 9 11 2 5 4 7 15 -5 25
12 Al Ittihad 21 5 7 9 28 35 11 4 3 4 18 19 10 1 4 5 10 16 -7 22
13 El Gounah 20 6 3 11 18 25 10 3 2 5 8 12 10 3 1 6 10 13 -7 21
14 Al Masry 21 4 8 9 24 30 11 2 5 4 11 15 10 2 3 5 13 15 -6 20
15 Al Mokawloon 20 3 9 8 19 24 9 1 6 2 8 10 11 2 3 6 11 14 -5 18
16 Ismaily 20 4 6 10 17 26 10 2 4 4 7 13 10 2 2 6 10 13 -9 18
17 Misr Lel Makasa 21 2 8 11 10 27 11 1 6 4 4 9 10 1 2 7 6 18 -17 14
18 El Sharqia Dokhan 21 2 7 12 16 38 11 1 4 6 10 21 10 1 3 6 6 17 -22 13