Pyramids FC vs Ceramica Cleopatra 4-1

Pyramids FC beat Ceramica Cleopatra 4-1 at 30 June Stadium, with three first-half goals putting the game beyond the visitors after an early setback. Ceramica opened the scoring in the 5th minute, but Pyramids turned it round before the break and added a fourth through a substitute in the second half.

A. Magdy, assisted by K. Amr, put Ceramica 1-0 up in the 5th minute. Pyramids levelled in the 14th minute when M. Ziko scored from M. Lasheen’s pass, then N. Benbouali made it 2-1 on 20 minutes. M. Lasheen added the third in the 37th minute, assisted by A. Samy, and the half-time score was 3-1.

Ceramica made two changes at 47 minutes and another two on 61 minutes, then went again with two substitutions on 72 minutes, but they did not alter the flow. Pyramids also made two changes on 59 minutes and two more on 69 minutes, and one of those switches paid off in the 77th minute when Y. Obama, who had come on in the 59th minute, scored from Zalaka, who had come on in the 69th minute, to make it 4-1. J. Arthur was sent off for Ceramica in the 86th minute.

The numbers were mixed. Ceramica had 65% possession, made 469 passes to Pyramids’ 241 and passed at 86% to 78%, but Pyramids had more shots, 16 to 9, more on target, 6 to 5, more corners, 4 to 2, and a higher expected-goals figure, 1.79 to 0.67. Pyramids also had 5 saves to Ceramica’s 3 and committed 10 fouls to 6, with 1 offside to 2.

W. El Karti was booked for Pyramids in the 44th minute and N. Maher followed in the 62nd. Ceramica’s H. El Sayed was booked in the 65th minute, Beckham in the 70th, and J. Arthur’s red card came in the 86th minute.