الاحماء قبل الماتش.

A common Egyptian pronunciation would be roughly:

el-eḥma ʔabl el-match

A few notes:

• الـ is usually pronounced el- in Egyptian, not al-.
• ح in الاحماء is a strong, breathy h sound made deeper in the throat.
• قبل is often pronounced ʔabl in Egyptian speech, because ق commonly becomes a glottal stop.
• الماتش sounds very close to English the match, but with Arabic el- at the front.
• In casual speech, the final hamza in الإحماء is often not strongly heard.

Yes — in more careful Standard Arabic spelling, الإحماء is the more correct form.

Why?

• The base word is إحماء.
• When you add الـ, it becomes الإحماء.

In informal Arabic writing, especially online or in quick notes, people often simplify hamza spelling, so الاحماء is very common and still easily understood.

It is a noun, specifically a verbal noun meaning warming up or the warm-up.

So this is not a full verb like we warm up. It is the activity itself:

• الإحماء = warming up / warm-up

In Egyptian Arabic, you may also hear:

• نعمل إحماء = to do a warm-up
• نسخن = to warm up

Because الـ is the definite article, like the in English.

So:

• الاحماء = the warm-up / the warming up
• الماتش = the match

Arabic often uses the definite article in places where English might sound more natural without it. So even if English says warm-up before the match, Arabic may still use الـ naturally.

Because Arabic, especially Egyptian Arabic, often uses short noun phrases in captions, schedules, headings, or simple descriptions.

So الاحماء قبل الماتش works like:

• a caption
• a training note
• a heading
• a short description of what happens

A fuller sentence could be:

• بنعمل الاحماء قبل الماتش = We do the warm-up before the match
• اللاعيبة بتعمل الاحماء قبل الماتش = The players do the warm-up before the match

قبل means before.

It links the two parts:

• الاحماء = the warm-up
• قبل الماتش = before the match

So قبل works very much like the English preposition before.

Also useful:

• قبل التمرين = before training
• قبل الأكل = before eating / before food
• قبله = before it / before him, depending on context

It is a very common loanword in Egyptian Arabic, borrowed from English match.

In sports talk, especially football, Egyptians often say:

• الماتش = the match

A more formal or Standard Arabic word would be:

• المباراة = the match / the game

So in everyday Egyptian speech, الماتش sounds natural and common, especially in casual conversation.

Because Arabic does not have a single native letter for the English ch sound /tʃ/.

So in dialect writing, that sound is usually written with:

• تش

That means:

• ماتش = match

This is very common in borrowed words and informal writing.

Because in Egyptian Arabic, especially Cairene speech, ق is often pronounced as a glottal stop ء.

So:

• written: قبل
• often said: ʔabl

In more formal Arabic or in some other dialects, you may hear:

• qabl

So the spelling stays traditional, but the pronunciation changes in Egyptian speech.

In Egyptian Arabic, the definite article is usually pronounced el-.

So:

• الماتش → el-match

Also, the ل stays clear here because م is a moon letter, not a sun letter. That means the l sound does not assimilate.

So you get:

• el-match, not something like em-match

This is one of the normal pronunciation differences between Standard Arabic and Egyptian Arabic.