Al-Ahly defeated Smouha by two goals to one in the friendly match that took place today at Al-Salam Stadium. Hossam Hassan advanced for Smouha, and Frenchman Anthony Modeste, Al-Ahly’s striker, succeeded in equalizing, before the French striker scored the winning goal for his team in the second half.
Al-Ahly started the match with a formation consisting of: “Mustafa Schubert, Akram Tawfiq, and Rami Rabia. Moataz Muhammad, Ali Maaloul, Mustafa Abu Al-Khair, Amr Al-Sulayya, Muhammad Magdy Afsha, Taher Muhammad Taher, Hussein Al-Shahat, and Anthony Modest.”
Al-Ahly team, led by Swiss Marcel Kohler, will miss the efforts of a large number of its players in the Smouha friendly match on Monday for various reasons.
The Red Giant loses the efforts of the Egyptian national team’s seven players, “Mohamed Hani, Mohamed Abdel Moneim, Yasser Ibrahim, Omar Kamal Abdel Wahed, Marwan Attia, Emam Ashour, and Kahraba,” due to them resting after their participation with the Pharaohs in the African Cup of Nations currently being held in Côte d’Ivoire.
While Percy Tau will be absent due to the South African national team completing its trip to the African Nations, while Aliou Dieng will also miss the Al-Ahly and Smouha friendly matches due to his participation with the Mali national team in the African Nations, which they recently bid farewell to.
While Mohamed El-Shenawy, Ahmed Abdel Qader, Wissam Abu Ali, Reda Selim, Mahmoud Metwally, and Ahmed Nabil Koka are absent due to injury.
Al-Ahly played a closed camp in the Emirates, during which Al-Ahly played two friendly matches against Al-Akhdood of Saudi Arabia and Hatta of the Emirates, which ended with a 1-2 loss in the first and a 1-1 draw in the second.
Al-Ahly won the Egyptian Super Cup for Champions, which was held recently in the UAE, and Al-Ahly won the title after defeating Morden Future by four goals to two in the final match.
Al-Ahly will be absent for a long period due to the cessation of competitions due to the circumstances of the Egyptian national team’s participation in the African Cup of Nations in Côte d’Ivoire, and will resume matches starting in the second half of this February by facing Algeria’s CS Belouizdad in the African Champions League.
Al-Ahly will play its first match with Algerian club Belouizdad on February 16, in the postponed match from the fourth round of the group stage of the African Champions League. Al-Ahly team is located in the fourth group of the African Champions League, accompanied by Algeria’s Club Belouizdad, Tanzania’s Young Africans, and Ghana’s Medeama.
Al-Ahly tied 0-0 with CS Belouizdad during the match that brought them together last December 8 at Borg El Arab Stadium in the third round of the group stage of the African Champions League.
Al-Ahly leads the standings of Group 4 of the African Champions League with 5 points, which it gained from a 3-0 victory over Medeama, then a draw with Young Africans and CR Belouizdad. Tanzania’s Young Africans comes in second place with the same score as Al-Ahly, but it played 5 matches and not 4 matches like Al-Ahly, then the Algerian club Belouizdad, is in third place with 4 points, “after playing 3 matches,” and finally Ghana’s Medeama is in fourth and final place, with 4 points, “after playing 4 matches.”
