Smouha vs Ceramica Cleopatra match preview: Even contest expected at Alexandria Stadium

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Competition: Egypt Premier League
Competition: Wed 07.June
Match begins: 18:30 (UTC)
Venue: Alexandria Stadium (20000 seats)

With their 3 point advantage in the league table, Smouha followers long to see their gladiators earn full points from this fixture hosting Ceramica Cleopatra.

Insights:
  • Smouha have the most conceded goals (23) at home in Premier League
  • Ceramica Cleopatra have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.

Smouha have less rest than Ceramica Cleopatra in this fixture, as the hosts were involved in a Premier League game only four days ago. That game was an away game at El Geish, so at least Smouha are thankful to return home in this one. Game on!

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Smouha form and stats

With 3 Premier League wins, 5 draws and 7 defeats from their home games, Smouha are certainly not brimming with confidence.

Smouha are anxiously hoping for a goal as it's been 227 minutes since the last one in league fixtures. (Scored by Ali (own goal)).

Smouha faced defeat in their previous match, away at El Geish (0-2). Some supporters pointed their nail-bitten fingers at Awujoola for missing a penalty kick versus El Geish in the 85th minute. It's possible that a goal in that situation would have changed the outcome. Midfield player Baayou got a match rating of 7.01 in that game, the max score being 10. Baayou dribled past the opponent 3 of 4 times and had 24 successful passes (of 28 total).

Prior to that was the away defeat visiting Pharco (0-1).

Betting people who prefer gambling for low-scoring games might be interested to know that this club have played 5 league rounds in a row with two or less goals (under 2.5).

Smouha has scored 16 league goals at home this season, in 15 matches. With more than 1,5 conceded goals on average, the Smouha defense is not exactly impregnable. 23 goals conceded from 15 games. You can find more goal stats on the Statistics tab above.

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Ceramica Cleopatra form and stats

The hunting on away grounds haven’t been very fruitful for Ceramica Cleopatra so far with only 12 points returning home. The records show 2-6-6 (win-draw-lose). With two straight losses from their last two away games, Ceramica Cleopatra are hoping that it's time for some travel points again.

Ceramica Cleopatra are looking to quickly end their 697 minutes long goal drought in the Premier League.

Ceramica Cleopatra played 0-0 against Pharco in their previous match. Goalkeeper Bassam made a total of eight saves, making him a hero against Pharco. Heavily contributing to the draw after 90 minutes. Bassam was the team player of the game with the player rating of 8.82. The agile goalkeeper Bassam topped it up with a clean sheet.

A 0-1 defeat away at Al Ahly before that.

Highlight this: 9 of the last 11 league matches involving this club have had only one (or no) team scoring (Both Teams to Score NO in sports betting terms).

The visitors have scored 13 goals from 14 away games in the league, an average of less than one per game. It's been trouble in front of goal recently, as only 0 of these goals has been scored in their last three away matches.

Head 2 Head

Smouha have pulled off a streak of 6 consecutive games without losing (1-5-0) when playing Ceramica Cleopatra.

Smouha and Ceramica Cleopatra have faced off already this season: Ceramica Cleopatra - Smouha 0-2.

Smouha missing players

Ceramica Cleopatra missing players

Smouha Ceramica Cleopatra
Total Home vs low Statistics Stat vs mid Away Total
30 15 5 Played P 4 14 30
8 3 3 Won W 1 2 6
11 5 1 Drew D 1 6 14
11 7 1 Lost L 2 6 10
29 16 10 Scored S 5 13 27
35 23 6 Conceded C 5 14 28
83% 87% 80% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 86% 73%
73% 87% 80% Over 1.5 O 1.5 75% 57% 57%
30% 47% 80% Over 2.5 O 2.5 50% 36% 33%
17% 20% 20% Over 3.5 O 3.5 25% 14% 13%
3% 7% 20% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 0% 7%
43% 60% 60% BTTS BTTS 50% 43% 40%
37% 20% 40% Clean Sheets C S 25% 29% 37%
37% 33% 20% Failed to Score F T 25% 43% 50%
 
4.7 5.9 7.4 Corners for (avg) C F 7.5 5.4 4.5
4.1 4.6 4.2 Corners against (avg) C A 3.8 4.8 4.5
1.6 1.5 1.6 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 0.8 1.4 1.5
0 0 0 Red cards R C 0 0 0
 
8.4 9.9 11.4 Shots (avg) S ( 12.8 10.6 10.7
3.1 3.6 3.8 Shots on Target (avg) S O 4 4.1 4
31% 30% 53% Goal Efficiency G E 31% 22% 22%
 
8.1 8.1 7.4 Shots against (avg) S A 8.8 9.5 9.2
3.1 3.5 2.8 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 4.2 3.4 3.6
Key stats in Premier League this season:
  • Ceramica Cleopatra have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
  • Smouha have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • Smouha have the most conceded goals (23) at home in Premier League
  • Smouha have won significantly more corners at home than 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 24 19 5 0 45 7 14 10 4 0 23 4 10 9 1 0 22 3 38 62
2 Pyramids FC 29 18 7 4 44 18 14 11 3 0 27 5 15 7 4 4 17 13 26 61
3 Coca-Cola 29 14 12 3 31 17 14 6 7 1 12 5 15 8 5 2 19 12 14 54
4 Zamalek 30 15 8 7 44 28 15 10 3 2 24 13 15 5 5 5 20 15 16 53
5 Al Mokawloon 30 9 15 6 33 27 15 4 10 1 13 10 15 5 5 5 20 17 6 42
6 Pharco 30 9 14 7 28 26 15 7 5 3 21 14 15 2 9 4 7 12 2 41
7 Al Ittihad 29 12 4 13 33 35 14 7 2 5 17 12 15 5 2 8 16 23 -2 40
8 Al Masry 29 9 13 7 28 31 14 5 5 4 16 16 15 4 8 3 12 15 -3 40
9 ENPPI 30 11 6 13 30 36 15 5 5 5 14 15 15 6 1 8 16 21 -6 39
10 Smouha 30 8 11 11 29 35 15 3 5 7 16 23 15 5 6 4 13 12 -6 35
11 National Bank of Egypt 30 8 10 12 34 37 15 7 5 3 24 16 15 1 5 9 10 21 -3 34
12 Ismaily 29 7 12 10 29 34 14 4 5 5 13 13 15 3 7 5 16 21 -5 33
13 Ceramica Cleopatra 30 6 14 10 27 28 16 4 8 4 14 14 14 2 6 6 13 14 -1 32
14 Aswan 30 8 7 15 27 38 15 4 5 6 15 19 15 4 2 9 12 19 -11 31
15 Ghazl El Mehalla 30 8 7 15 24 42 15 6 1 8 14 22 15 2 6 7 10 20 -18 31
16 El Geish 30 6 11 13 29 41 15 5 4 6 18 21 15 1 7 7 11 20 -12 29
17 El Daklyeh 30 5 13 12 26 39 15 2 7 6 13 19 15 3 6 6 13 20 -13 28
18 Haras El Hodood 29 4 7 18 15 37 14 3 4 7 7 14 15 1 3 11 8 23 -22 19