The visiting Al Ahly side should be favourites in this visit to Misr Lel Makasa, as the away team holds a 15 point advantage from their eight league games this season.
Al Ahly could be less fresh than the hosts in this fixture, as they played a CAF Champions League game only four sleeps ago.
Misr Lel Makasa form and stats
The story so far in the Premier League for Misr Lel Makasa at their home stadium is 1 win, 1 draw and 3 defeats.
The home team returns after sharing the points with Masr (placed 15th) on their last time out; the Premier League game ended 2-2. In the match before that, Misr Lel Makasa hosted Tanta and drew the game 1-1.
Misr Lel Makasa are traveling soon after this match as the Premier League match at Al Mokawloon awaits in four days.
The Misr Lel Makasa fans would probably like to see some more goals scored at their own stadium in the league, the tally being 5 in 5 matches. 7 goals have been conceded.
Al Ahly form and stats
The story so far for the visiting team, who have the most scored goals (23) in Premier League, on their Premier League travels is 5 wins, 0 draws and 0 defeats. Impressively, the visitors are on a six-match winning run which they hope continue versus Misr Lel Makasa. Momentum is building for Al Ahly in their away games, having won their two previous outings.
The Al Ahly goalkeeper Mohamed El Shenawy is collecting clean sheets like a laundry worker. It's been 473 league minutes without conceding a goal, and counting.
The supporters enjoyed Al Ahly's previous game versus Platinum, a CAF Champions League 2-0 win played at home. A home win before that, celebrating 4-0 vs Al Ittihad.
As mentioned earlier, Al Ahly will not be satisfied unless they get maximum points from this game. Performing as huge favourites away from home has earlier resulted in 4 wins (2 by two or more goals winning margin), 0 draws and 0 surprising defeats.
The visitors are returning home after this fixture, hosting Masr in just four days.
Al Ahly are a potent attacking force on the road with their 14 goals in 5 league games. Al Ahly's manager R. Weiler has created a great defensive setup working very nicely in away games with only 1 conceded goal. You can find more goal stats on the Statistics tab above.
Head 2 Head
Head-2-head stats last ten meetings: 2 - 1 - 7 (Misr Lel Makasa wins - draws - Al Ahly wins). As for goals, 6 matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), 4 had two or less.Top Goalscorers
  P. Voavy 5 goals |  S. Bekele 3 goals |  Mido Gaber 3 goals |
Misr Lel Makasa missing players
Al Ahly missing players
| Misr Lel Makasa | Al Ahly | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 10 | 5 | 2 | Played | P | 3 | 5 | 8 |
| 2 | 1 | 0 | Won | W | 3 | 5 | 8 |
| 3 | 1 | 0 | Drew | D | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 5 | 3 | 2 | Lost | L | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 12 | 5 | 2 | Scored | S | 12 | 14 | 23 |
| 16 | 7 | 4 | Conceded | C | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| 100% | 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| 70% | 60% | 50% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 100% | 60% | 62% |
| 50% | 40% | 50% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 100% | 60% | 62% |
| 40% | 20% | 50% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 67% | 40% | 50% |
| 20% | 20% | 50% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 33% | 20% | 12% |
| 60% | 60% | 50% | BTTS | BTTS | 33% | 20% | 12% |
| 10% | 20% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 67% | 80% | 88% |
| 30% | 20% | 50% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 5 | 5.8 | 8.5 | Corners For (avg) | C F | 7.7 | 7.2 | 6.6 |
| 4.2 | 4.6 | 3.5 | Corners Against (avg) | C A | 5 | 5.2 | 4.6 |
| 2 | 2.2 | 1.5 | Yellow Cards (avg) | Y C | 0 | 0.4 | 0.6 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Red Cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 75 | 35 | 18 | Total Shots | T S | 25 | 42 | 84 |
| 24 | 12 | 6 | Shots on Target | S O | 13 | 19 | 35 |
| 46% | 33% | 33% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 62% | 53% | 54% |
- Al Ahly has the fewest conceded goals (1)
- Al Ahly has the fewest conceded goals (1) away
- Al Ahly has the fewest conceded goals in the first half (0)
- Al Ahly has the fewest conceded goals in the second half (1)
- Al Ahly has the most clean sheets (7)
- Al Ahly has the most points (15) away
- Al Ahly has the most scored goals (14) away
- Al Ahly has the most scored goals (23)
- Al Ahly has the most scored goals in the second half (16)
- Al Ahly has the the best goal difference (+13) away
- Al Ahly has the the best goal difference (+22)
- Al Ahly have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded.
- Al Ahly have scored at least twice as many goals away as Misr Lel Makasa have scored home.
- Al Ahly have scored in all their matches so far.
- Al Ahly have won all their games so far.
- Al Ahly haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
- Al Ahly is in the best form (6-0-0)
- Misr Lel Makasa has the fewest scored goals in the first half (1)
- Misr Lel Makasa has the most points from losing position (6)
- Misr Lel Makasa haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
- Misr Lel Makasa is in the worst form (0-3-3)
| 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 | Masr | 10 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 11 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 8 | -6 | 8 |
| 16 | El Geish | 9 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 7 | 11 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 5 | -4 | 7 |
| 17 | Aswan | 9 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 9 | 16 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 9 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 7 | -7 | 6 |
| 18 | Wadi Degla | 10 | 1 | 3 | 6 | 8 | 15 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 10 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 5 | -7 | 6 |