Experts' prediction: Al Ahly set to get maximum points from Masr visit

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.

Happy, happy days for Al Ahly who are already winners of the Premier League. This could affect their motivation.

Masr form and stats

With 2 Premier League wins, 7 draws and 5 defeats from their home games, Masr are certainly not brimming with confidence. Masr are slowly digging their own grave here at Cairo Military Academy Stadium with the depressing streak of not having won a home league game in eight attempts. The last victory here came in the Tanta match.

Stress levels are on the rise for Masr's attacking players as they have now played 306 minutes without scoring in a league game. W. Alvés was their last goal scorer.

Masr's previous game was also a home match, the defeat 0-3 versus Al Ahly (placed 1st). Preceding that game was the away draw at Tanta that finished 0-0.

Some supporters pointed their nail-bitten fingers at Mostafa Soltan for missing a penalty kick versus Al Ahly in the 52nd minute. It's possible that a goal in that situation would have changed the outcome.

No one expects the home team to get anything from this game. It's not often a home team are such massive outsiders as in this game. We've searched our database for matches where Masr had similar winning odds as today, and found one game. In these, the hosts won zero, drew zero and lost one. Betting people looking at handicaps might be interested to know that Masr lost one similar game by at least two goals.

Masr aren't scoring a lot here at Cairo Military Academy Stadium in the league, with only 10 goals from 14 games. On the other hand, Masr have conceded 16 goals.

Al Ahly form and stats

Al Ahly, who have the most scored goals (66) in Premier League, have been very strong on the road so far with a massive 35 points collected from 14 Premier League games. 11 wins, 2 draws and 1 defeat is the record so far.

Ahly have succeeded in guarding their own goal lately, led by their goalkeeper Mohamed El Shenawy. It's been 720 minutes since they last conceded in Premier League.

Two travels in a row for Ahly, whose manager R. Weiler could celebrate last time after the Premier League win against Masr. A draw for Ahly before that, at their own venue hosting Misr Lel Makasa (0-0).

Again, the away team are huge favourites in this match and any other result would be an upset. We checked our Tipsway database for earlier, recent games with Ahly given similar win odds in an away game. This check revealed nine matches with seven wins as expected, two draws and zero surprise home wins. The favourites won six of these games by at least two goals.

Ahly have scored more than twice on average per away game (in the league), an impressive attacking display. They have 29 goals from 14 away matches. Ahly are tight as a drum on their travels, having allowed the opposition only 6 goals away.

Head 2 Head

Masr - Al Ahly 0-3 was the story when these teams last met, earlier this season. Last two meetings between the teams: Masr won zero, Al Ahly won two and zero draws. two games with over 2,5 goals, zero matches with two goals or less.

Masr missing players

Al Ahly missing players