📏 Form Guide

Al Ahly

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Al Ahly won’t want a repeat of their last result here after the 4-3 Premier League losing effort in their last game against National Bank of Egypt.

For Al Ahly, goals were scored by Anthony Modeste (4'), Reda Slim (28') and Hussein El Shahat (72'). Mohamed Helal (63') and Saïdou Simporé (84') scored for National Bank of Egypt.

Matches with Al Ahly have usually been entertaining ones of late with a lot of goalmouth action being the norm. Over their past 6 games alone, a total of 25 goals have been scored for both sides combined (at an average of 4.17 goals per game) with 15 of these coming from Al Ahly. Even so, we’ll just have to find out whether that trend will be sustained here in this game.

ENPPI

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In their last fixture, ENPPI drew 1-1 in the Premier League tie with Pharco.

The trend of at least one side getting a clean sheet in games featuring ENPPI has been apparent in recent matches. Checking on their last six meetings shows that it’s occurred 5 times. In those clashes, their opponents have managed a goal tally of 2 while ENPPI have scored 7.

Coming into this clash, ENPPI are unbeaten in their previous 3 league matches away from home.

🤜🤛 Head to head

An inspection of past results between these clubs stretching back to 24/04/2021 shows that these fixtures have not been happy ones for ENPPI. They have not been able to get themselves any wins whatsoever while Al Ahly have been superior, getting wins in 100 per cent of those games played.

A sum of 15 goals were scored between the two sides during those clashes, with 13 for The Red Devils and 2 belonging to The Petroleum Team. The average number of goals per game works out to 2.5.

The last league encounter between the two was Premier League match day 29 on 23/05/2023 when it ended Al Ahly 2-0 ENPPI.

📋 Team News: Al Ahly

The Al Ahly boss Marcel Koller has a full complement, with no fitness worries at all before this clash owing to a completely healthy squad to choose from.

📰 Team News: ENPPI

Owing to a fully injury-free group available for selection, the ENPPI manager Khaled Metwalli has zero fitness worries whatsoever coming into this game.

🔮 Prediction

We feel that Al Ahly should convert a lot of goal-scoring opportunities.

At the other end, ENPPI could well find it tough to break down their defence but do we see them being dangerous for periods.

We can therefore see a decent 3-1 winning score for Al Ahly come full-time.

Our expert partners are tipping under 3.5 goals for this match. Check out their VIP predictions here.

Lucas Pereira, 19:09 08/04/2024