Premier League match prediction: Little separates El Entag El Harby and Wadi Degla in quality

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Competition: Egypt Premier League
Competition: Mon 28.September
Match begins: 15:30 (UTC)

The home fans are expecting three points in this fixture, as the home advantage should be put to good use versus a struggling visitor. El Entag El Harby are in the 10th position while the guesting Wadi Degla worry at 16th.

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.

Wadi Degla play their home games on grass, while this game is played on artifical turf. Recent stats for Wadi Degla when playing on artifical turf are 1 win, 0 draws and 2 defeats from three matches. They have scored 2 goals and conceded 4 times in these games.

This is a match between teams from the same area, a local derby. The community is buzzing.

Wadi Degla are fighting to avoid relegation and will work hard for points.

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El Entag El Harby form and stats

4-5-5 (win-draw-lost) are the Premier League numbers at home for El Entag El Harby so far this season.

Entag shared the glory with Al Masry in their last match, an away game that ended all square 2-2. Before that, Entag had a home game versus El Gounah which ended with a victory 2-1.

The hometeam coach M. Mokhtar made a successful contribution in the game against Al Masry, bringing on Basem Morsi who scored the equalizer in the 2-2 draw.

The bookmakers consider this a fairly even contest. One could say only the home advantage separates the teams. It could be relevant to look at how Entag have performed in matches similar to this (as small favourites). Our database has found ten matches with the results: Won four, drawn three and lost three.

There will be little rest for Entag after this match as they are travelling to Haras El Hodood for a Premier League game in only four days.

Entag has scored 14 league goals at home this season, in 14 matches. From these home matches, Entag have conceded only 13 goals.

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Wadi Degla form and stats

The visitors, who have the fewest clean sheets (5) in Premier League, are W4-D4-L6 on the road this term. That's in the Premier League. The pressure to perform on the road is increasing on N. Papavasiliou, the Degla manager, as the last three away games were defeats.

Ahmed Ramadan was the last player to score for the away team. Wadi Degla haven't scored a league goal in the last 342 minutes.

Wadi Degla delivered a 0-0 draw playing at home against Smouha (placed 6th) in their previous match; a Premier League game. Preceding that game, the 0-1 loss visiting El Geish's place.

So, this is expected to be a close game, an even contest. Looking at earlier matches with Degla playing away and similar expectations, we found 16 relevant matches. Results were six Wadi Degla wins, five draws and five defeats.

Scoring goals is the main ingredient in creating success in football, and not only at home. So far Degla have scored 15 goals in 14 league games away. Degla have conceded 16 goals in these away matches.

Head 2 Head

These teams' last encounter with each other was the Wadi Degla - El Entag El Harby 1-1 earlier this season. Last ten meetings between the teams: Entag won three, Wadi Degla won four and three draws. seven games with over 2,5 goals, three matches with two goals or less.

Top Goalscorers

EntagM. Ragab
M. Ragab
6 goals
Wadi DeglaM. Helal
M. Helal
6 goals

El Entag El Harby missing players

Wadi Degla missing players

El Entag El Harby Wadi Degla
Total Home vs low Statistics Stat vs mid Away Total
28 14 5 Played P 5 14 29
8 4 4 Won W 2 4 6
10 5 1 Drew D 2 4 10
10 5 0 Lost L 1 6 13
26 14 10 Scored S 8 15 26
31 13 2 Conceded C 5 16 38
86% 86% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 93% 90%
61% 64% 80% Over 1.5 O 1.5 80% 57% 62%
36% 29% 60% Over 2.5 O 2.5 40% 36% 38%
14% 7% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 40% 29% 24%
7% 7% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 7% 7%
39% 36% 40% BTTS BTTS 80% 50% 48%
36% 36% 60% Clean Sheets C S 0% 14% 17%
39% 43% 0% Failed to Score F T 20% 43% 45%
 
0 0 0 Corners for (avg) C F 0 0 0
0 0 0 Corners against (avg) C A 0 0 0
2 2 2.4 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 1.4 1.4 1.4
2 1 0 Red cards R C 0 0 1
 
243 120 45 Total Shots T S 48 91 208
91 50 23 Shots on Target S O 18 34 88
29% 28% 43% Goal Efficiency G E 44% 41% 28%
Key stats in Premier League this season:
  • Wadi Degla has the fewest clean sheets (5) in Premier League
  • Wadi Degla has the fewest scored goals in the second half (8) in Premier League

  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 30 25 4 1 67 8 15 13 2 0 37 2 15 12 2 1 30 6 59 79
2 Zamalek 30 18 7 5 44 25 15 13 2 0 25 7 15 5 5 5 19 18 19 61
3 Pyramids FC 29 16 6 7 47 29 14 7 3 4 23 13 15 9 3 3 24 16 18 54
4 Al Mokawloon 29 14 7 8 35 27 15 8 4 3 22 15 14 6 3 5 13 12 8 49
5 ENPPI 29 10 11 8 29 27 14 6 6 2 12 8 15 4 5 6 17 19 2 41
6 Smouha 29 8 16 5 37 31 14 6 4 4 22 17 15 2 12 1 15 14 6 40
7 Misr Lel Makasa 29 10 10 9 38 34 15 6 4 5 20 17 14 4 6 4 18 17 4 40
8 Al Ittihad 28 8 14 6 28 26 14 3 7 4 12 13 14 5 7 2 16 13 2 38
9 El Geish 29 7 13 9 28 31 14 5 5 4 16 14 15 2 8 5 12 17 -3 34
10 El Entag El Harby 28 8 10 10 26 31 14 4 5 5 14 13 14 4 5 5 12 18 -5 34
11 Aswan 29 8 10 11 34 40 14 5 4 5 20 21 15 3 6 6 14 19 -6 34
12 Ismaily 28 8 7 13 30 40 15 4 5 6 19 20 13 4 2 7 11 20 -10 31
13 El Gounah 30 8 7 15 27 41 14 6 2 6 12 16 16 2 5 9 15 25 -14 31
14 Haras El Hodood 29 6 12 11 26 31 15 2 8 5 14 18 14 4 4 6 12 13 -5 30
15 Al Masry 27 7 9 11 25 31 14 2 7 5 14 18 13 5 2 6 11 13 -6 30
16 Wadi Degla 29 6 10 13 26 38 15 2 6 7 11 22 14 4 4 6 15 16 -12 28
17 Masr 28 3 11 14 17 43 14 2 7 5 10 16 14 1 4 9 7 27 -26 20
18 Tanta 30 2 12 16 17 48 15 1 7 7 10 18 15 1 5 9 7 30 -31 18