The first of two encounters in the Arab Club Championship Quarter-finals, as the hometeam Al Ittihad will try to edge Ismaily in their own ballpark.
This should be an interesting game with lots of spark and energy as both teams are well rested since they last saw competitive action. Game on!
Al Ittihad form and stats
Al Ittihad participated in Arab Club Championship the last season, where they reached the quarter-finals and lost against Al Hilal.Overall Premier League stats at home this season for Al Ittihad are 3-2-0 (wins-draw-losses). This match is a Arab Club Championship match, and the hometeam has the total statistics 4 wins, 0 draws and 0 losses in this competition.
The Al Ittihad goalkeeper is looking to record 90 more "clean sheet" minutes as his team have now played 499 minutes without conceding a goal in the Premier League.
In their previous game, the manager Talaat Youssef led his Al Ittihad to a defeat in the Premier League match away at Al Ahly. The manager is hoping to put things right immediately here. Previous to that game, a Premier League home match hosting Masr in a game that was won 2-1.
Al Ittihad were outplayed and humiliated in their previous game, as mentioned in the paragraph above. They will need to reinstall their confidence before this one.
The match schedule is unforgiving for Al Ittihad as they have a new game in only four days, a Premier League match thankfully also at home. Al Mokawloon are visiting.
The Al Ittihad fans would probably like to see some more goals scored at their own stadium in the league, the tally being 7 in 5 matches. Al Ittihad have showed great defending skills in these home games, allowing the opposition to score only 2 goals.
Ismaily form and stats
Ismaily was sent out of Arab Club Championship in the 2nd round last season.The story so far for the visiting team on their Premier League travels is 3 wins, 0 draws and 2 defeats. The mentioned statistics is only from the league, looking at the Arab Club Championship stats, they have 3 wins, 0 draws and 1 loss both home and away.
The Ismaily goalkeeper is collecting clean sheets like a laundry worker. It's been 187 league minutes without conceding a goal, and counting.
Ismaily play their second straight away game, having lost the previous one 0-2 to Al Mokawloon. A loss against Al Ahly was the result prior to that, in a Premier League home game.
A new game in only four days for Ismaily, the Premier League home match versus ENPPI. Busy days.
Many goals are not expected from the visiting Ismaily as they have only managed to score 3 times from 5 away games in the league. As opposed to that, Ismaily have seen the ball go into their own net 5 times on the road.
Head 2 Head
Numbers for the last ten meetings between these two teams are: 4 wins for Al Ittihad, 2 draws and 4 wins for Ismaily. Over 2,5 goals: 4 times; under 2,5 goals: 6 games.Top Goalscorers
  Khaled Kamar 14 goals |  R. Cissé 7 goals |  Mohamed Nagy 4 goals |
Al Ittihad missing players
Ismaily missing players
| Al Ittihad | Ismaily | ||||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 25 | 13 | Played | P | 12 | 25 | ||
| 14 | 7 | Won | W | 4 | 9 | ||
| 3 | 3 | Drew | D | 3 | 5 | ||
| 8 | 3 | Lost | L | 5 | 11 | ||
| 29 | 17 | Scored | S | 7 | 22 | ||
| 24 | 9 | Conceded | C | 13 | 27 | ||
| 92% | 85% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 83% | 88% | ||
| 52% | 62% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 50% | 60% | ||
| 36% | 31% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 25% | 24% | ||
| 24% | 15% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 8% | 16% | ||
| 8% | 8% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 4% | ||
| 28% | 31% | BTTS | BTTS | 17% | 24% | ||
| 44% | 54% | Clean Sheets | C S | 50% | 44% | ||
| 36% | 31% | Failed to Score | F T | 50% | 44% | ||
| 4.7 | 4.8 | Corners For (avg) | C F | 4.3 | 4.9 | ||
| 6.4 | 5.9 | Corners Against (avg) | C A | 4.8 | 4.3 | ||
| 1.7 | 1.5 | Yellow Cards (avg) | Y C | 1.9 | 1.8 | ||
| 1 | 1 | Red Cards | R C | 0 | 1 | ||
| 172 | 105 | Total Shots | T S | 89 | 205 | ||
| 69 | 40 | Shots on Target | S O | 27 | 75 | ||
| 32% | 30% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 26% | 21% | ||
| 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 | Zamalek | 8 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 10 | 7 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 14 |
| 5 | Smouha | 9 | 3 | 5 | 1 | 10 | 8 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 5 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 5 | 5 | 2 | 14 |
| 6 | El Entag El Harby | 9 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 9 | 9 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 5 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 14 |
| 7 | Pyramids FC | 9 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 16 | 13 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 8 | 5 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 8 | 8 | 3 | 13 |
| 8 | ENPPI | 9 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 12 | 13 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 8 | 10 | -1 | 13 |
| 9 | Ismaily | 10 | 4 | 1 | 5 | 6 | 10 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 5 | -4 | 13 |
| 10 | Haras El Hodood | 9 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 7 | 8 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 3 | -1 | 10 |
| 11 | El Gounah | 9 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 7 | 14 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 9 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 5 | -7 | 10 |
| 12 | Tanta | 9 | 1 | 6 | 2 | 6 | 7 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 5 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 2 | -1 | 9 |
| 13 | Al Masry | 8 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 7 | 7 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 8 |
| 14 | Misr Lel Makasa | 9 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 10 | 14 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 7 | -4 | 8 |
| 15 | El Geish | 8 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 7 | 10 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 5 | -3 | 7 |
| 16 | Masr | 9 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 9 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 8 | -6 | 7 |
| 17 | Wadi Degla | 9 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 8 | 14 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 10 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 4 | -6 | 6 |
| 18 | Aswan | 8 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 7 | 14 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 9 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 5 | -7 | 5 |