Al Masry will hope to utilise their home advantage to help bridge the gap to today’s opponents. The home side are currently 6 points behind Smouha.
Al Masry have less rest than Smouha in this fixture, as the hosts were involved in a CAF Confederations Cup game only four days ago. This match was also played here at New Suez Stadium. With two consecutive home games the intense schedule is somewhat softened. Still, Smouha have had more rest.
Al Masry form and stats
Overall Premier League stats at home this season for Al Masry are 1-2-2 (wins-draw-losses).
The Al Masry crowd went home unhappy last time out, seeing their beloved players lose 1-2 to Pyramids FC here at New Suez Stadium in a CAF Confederations Cup match. A strong away win before that one, visiting El Geish and winning 1-0.
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 Al Masry have performed under similar circumstances, so here are some numbers: When modest favourites like this (we found ten games) they have won 5 times, drawn 3 and lost 2.
Al Masry have scored 4 league goals here from 5 matches, not a lot. Al Masry have only conceded 4 from their league home games. For more goal stats, check the Statistics tab above.
Smouha form and stats
Playing away, Smouha have won 0 games, drawn 5 and suffered 0 defeats in the Premier League this season. Smouha has built quite a streak of draws from their away games now, as five in a row has ended all square. Will this streak be broken in today's game?
Smouha are travelling after their nice 2-1 home win in the Premier League against El Gounah (placed 13th). Preceding that game, the 0-0 draw paying a visit to Zamalek.
Smouha are the outsiders in this one, but not by much. Their performance in similar games (being the away team and moderate outsiders) is 1 win, 1 draw and 1 defeat. From a total of three matches.
Smouha are scoring more than one goal per away game on average, having accumulated 5 away goals from 5 games (in the league). Smouha have conceded 5 goals in these away matches.
Head 2 Head
Head-2-head stats last ten meetings: 4 - 4 - 2 (Al Masry wins - draws - Smouha wins). As for goals, 4 matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), 6 had two or less.Top Goalscorers
  Al Sayed Farid 8 goals |  Hossam Hassan 8 goals |   Mahmoud Wadi 7 goals |
Al Masry missing players
Smouha missing players
| Al Masry | Smouha | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 9 | 5 | 3 | Played | P | 2 | 5 | 10 |
| 3 | 1 | 0 | Won | W | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| 2 | 2 | 1 | Drew | D | 2 | 5 | 5 |
| 4 | 2 | 2 | Lost | L | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 8 | 4 | 1 | Scored | S | 3 | 5 | 12 |
| 7 | 4 | 3 | Conceded | C | 3 | 5 | 9 |
| 100% | 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 60% | 80% |
| 44% | 60% | 33% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 100% | 60% | 60% |
| 11% | 0% | 0% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 50% | 40% | 50% |
| 11% | 0% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 50% | 40% | 20% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 33% | 40% | 33% | BTTS | BTTS | 100% | 60% | 60% |
| 22% | 20% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 40% | 30% |
| 44% | 40% | 67% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 40% | 30% |
| 4.1 | 4.4 | 6.3 | Corners For (avg) | C F | 5.5 | 5.2 | 4.5 |
| 5.7 | 5.8 | 4.3 | Corners Against (avg) | C A | 6 | 7.8 | 7.8 |
| 2.7 | 2.6 | 3 | Yellow Cards (avg) | Y C | 3.5 | 2.6 | 2.8 |
| 2 | 1 | 0 | Red Cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 73 | 39 | 26 | Total Shots | T S | 12 | 31 | 63 |
| 29 | 20 | 13 | Shots on Target | S O | 4 | 8 | 21 |
| 28% | 20% | 8% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 25% | 38% | 48% |
- Al Masry has the fewest matches over the total-line (1)
- Al Masry haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
- Smouha have not yet lost a game away.
- Smouha have yet to win a 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 | Al Ahly | 8 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 23 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 0 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 14 | 1 | 22 | 24 |
| 2 | Al Mokawloon | 10 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 13 | 6 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 8 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 2 | 7 | 22 |
| 3 | Al Ittihad | 10 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 12 | 9 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 7 | 2 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 7 | 3 | 20 |
| 4 | Smouha | 10 | 4 | 5 | 1 | 12 | 9 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 4 | 5 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 5 | 5 | 3 | 17 |
| 5 | Pyramids FC | 10 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 17 | 13 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 9 | 5 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 8 | 8 | 4 | 16 |
| 6 | Zamalek | 9 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 10 | 7 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 15 |
| 7 | El Entag El Harby | 10 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 9 | 9 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 5 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 15 |
| 8 | ENPPI | 10 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 12 | 13 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 8 | 10 | -1 | 14 |
| 9 | Ismaily | 10 | 4 | 1 | 5 | 6 | 10 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 5 | -4 | 13 |
| 10 | Al Masry | 9 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 8 | 7 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 11 |
| 11 | Haras El Hodood | 10 | 2 | 5 | 3 | 7 | 8 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 3 | -1 | 11 |
| 12 | Tanta | 10 | 1 | 7 | 2 | 8 | 9 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 7 | 5 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 2 | -1 | 10 |
| 13 | El Gounah | 10 | 3 | 1 | 6 | 8 | 16 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 9 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 7 | -8 | 10 |
| 14 | Misr Lel Makasa | 10 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 12 | 16 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 7 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 7 | 9 | -4 | 9 |
| 15 | El Geish | 10 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 8 | 12 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 6 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 6 | -4 | 8 |
| 16 | Masr | 10 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 11 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 8 | -6 | 8 |
| 17 | Aswan | 10 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 10 | 17 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 10 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 7 | -7 | 7 |
| 18 | Wadi Degla | 10 | 1 | 3 | 6 | 8 | 15 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 10 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 5 | -7 | 6 |