The first football team of Al-Ahly Club will meet its traditional rival, Zamalek, in the final match of the Egypt Cup for the 2022-2023 season, at Al-Awal Park Stadium in Riyadh, the Saudi capital.
This is considered the first time that the Cup final will be held outside Egypt, and the match is officiated by Brazilian referee Anderson Daronco, and Marcel Kohler seeks to achieve his fourth victory over Al-Abyad, while Jose Gomez hopes to achieve the first victory in the most exciting summit in the Arab world.
The two teams are looking forward to resolving the match and winning the Egypt Cup, especially since it comes in the middle of the season, and it will be a good indicator for the winner to get a strong morale boost to continue the victories in the coming period of the current season, whether at the local or African level. Al-Ahly qualified for the quarter-finals of the African Champions League, while Zamalek qualified for the same round, but in Confederation Championship.
Al-Ahly is facing a crisis of many absences during tonight’s match due to the absence of more than one player due to injury or technical reasons. At the forefront of them are Wissam Abu Ali, Mohamed El-Shenawy, Dieng, Yasser Ibrahim and Christo due to injuries, while Mahmoud Metwally, Ahmed Abdel Qader and Hamza Alaa are all absent for technical reasons.
Swiss coach Marcel Kohler, Al-Ahly’s coach, was keen to talk to his players over the past few days about defensive errors, missed opportunities, and other crises that the team suffered during the recent matches locally and in Africa. Kohler also spoke about the roles required of each player during the match in order to decide the title for Al-Ahly.
In tonight’s match, the Swiss coach is counting on winning cards, led by Hussein El-Shahat, Reda Selim, Percy Tao, Modeste and Kahraba, who will have a large role in tonight’s match after missing the team’s last 3 matches locally and in Africa. The coach also relies on other stars such as Mohamed Abdel. Al-Moneim, Rami Rabia, Emam Ashour, Ali Maaloul, Mohamed Hani, Marwan Attia, and behind them, the young goalkeeper Mustafa Schubert.
On the other hand, the Portuguese coach Jose Gomez, the coach of Zamalek, intensified his sessions with the players in order to prepare them and talk to them about the match, in addition to giving them some technical and tactical instructions. Gomez told the players during his sessions with them that history does not recognize the good level and brilliance in matches, but rather history. He mentions only the winner in the final matches, adding that his goal is to achieve the Egypt Cup championship, at the expense of Al-Ahly, to make the white fans happy, in addition to achieving his first personal championship with the white team.
Gomez is counting on the team’s winning cards, led by Ahmed Sayed Zizou, Abdullah Al-Saeed, Mustafa Shalaby, Nasser Mansi, Saif Al-Din Al-Jaziri and Nasser Maher.
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