Entag El Harby and Tanta meet at WE Al ‑ Ahly Stadium, in a match for the 25th round of the Premier League. El Entag El Harby won away by (0‑1) the last time they met in this edition of the league, on 16‑12‑2019. The history of recent head-to-head matches is favorable to the home team, which registers 4 wins and 1 loss in the last 5 matches. Despite being a match between 9th and 18th in the table, it is actually a clash between the 14th ranked in home games and the 17th away.
El Entag El Harby:
After 6 wins, 9 draws and 8 losses, the home team is currently in 9th position, with 27 points won. In their last match, they beat Smouha away by (1‑2), after having lost (0‑1) at home in the previous match, against El Geish. This is a team that tends to achieve more positive results away from home than at home, as they won 16 points away and 11 at home, with 10 goals scored and 15 suffered as away, against 9 goals scored and 10 suffered at home. In their last 10 home games for the championship, El Entag El Harby won 1, tied 5 and lost 4, for which they won 8 points out of 30 possible. In their home league matches the most frequent final result at half ‑ time was 0‑0 (5 out of 11 matches). Their defense has not been very solid, since they have conceded goals in 8 of the last 10 matches for this competition. In their home matches there is a tendency for few goals, since 9 of the last 11 matches for this competition have ended with Under 2,5 goals. In 23 games in this tournament, he suffered the first goal 8 times and never managed to come back.
El-Entag El-Harby arrives motivated for this match after a victory, by 1-2, in the Smouha bastion, in a match related to the twenty-fourth day of the Egyptian First League, sealing a fast of eight consecutive games without winning in this competition, where he is currently in ninth position with twenty-seven points won, after six wins, nine draws and eight losses. The “goals” of the victory were materialized by Ghanam Mohamed and Mohamed Bazoka.
In this match against the last classified, coach Magdy Abdel-Aaty must align himself in the usual tactical design, 4-4-2, to favor counterattacks, mainly by the wing backs. The two most advanced players in charge of putting the rival defensive line in the direction are Basem Morsi and Mamadou Niass. As for the midfield, it should be formed by Mohamed Adel, Mahmoud Adel, Ghanam Mohamed and Mohamed Vieira Sanogo. There are no important absences for this meeting.
Tanta :
The visiting team is currently in 18th position, with 17 points won, after 2 wins, 11 draws and 11 losses. In the penultimate match, they lost away to Smouha by (3‑0). In the last match, they tied at home against Al Ittihad, by (1‑1). This is a team little affected by the home factor, that is, it tends to win as many points at home as away, with 6 goals scored and 20 suffered as a visitor, against 10 goals scored and 15 suffered at home. For the championship, Tanta won 4 points out of a possible 30, after 4 draws and 6 losses in the last 10 games they played as a visitor.
For this competition, they have not won any of the last 22 matches. In their home league matches the most frequent final result at half ‑ time was 0‑0 (6 out of 12 matches). The team allowed goals to the opponent in 8 of the last 10 matches, so they have not presented great defensive strength, and their attack needs to improve, since they did not score goals in 7 of the last 10 matches for this competition. This is a team that usually scores first few times: it only opened the scoring in 4 of its last 24 Premier League games, of these 4 it reached the break in lead in 2 and won at the end of the 90 ‘in 2. In 24 matches in this tournament, he suffered the first goal 15 times and never got the comeback.
Tanta SC starts for this round after a 1-1 draw, in the reception to Al-Ittihad Alexandria, it increased its streak of matches without winning, which already goes on ten, in the championship, where it is last classified with seventeen points, consequently of two victories, eleven draws and eleven defeats. Ahmed Salem Safi scored the equalizer, responding with class to the goal conceded in the fourth minute by Omar Al Midani.
Mohamed Salah’s team must appear in a 4-3-3, looking for counterattacks and set pieces to reach the rival goal in danger. Isalm Fouad, John Avire and Ahmed Fahmy must be the main faces of the visitors’ attack. For its part, the central corridor must be made up of Hossam Ghaly, Mohamed Assad and Mohamed Nagy. Apparently the visiting helmsman has all the players available for this challenge with El-Entag El-Harby.
