Football Bet of the Day: El Gounah gunning for goals

Al Masry v El Gounah
Thursday 17:00

In Portugal last night, 10-man Benfica slipped to a surprise defeat at Portimonense. Their failure to score cost them and it also cost us, bringing down our BTTS bet.

We're in Egypt today for the Premier League game between 13th-placed Al Masry (W3-D9-L3) and 17th-placed El Gounah (W3-D7-L7). With both defences showing signs of being softer than the finest Egyptian cotton, we're more optimistic than the market about what we'll sit through at Al Masry Club Stadium this afternoon.

Since late August, Al Masry have scored and conceded in 4/5 Premier League home games. Going back to March, the Green Eagles - who are odds-on favourites to win today - have managed just one clean sheet in 10 appearances on home turf.

In their first campaign back in Egypt's top flight, El Gounah have recently taken just one point from 18 on their travels. They have scored in half of those six games, however, and have notched in more than half of their away matches since the start of the current campaign (6/10). Both teams have the numbers to suggest Both Teams To Score is too long at 2.166/5 for today's game and we're making that our bet of the day.