Team meet Zamalek With Al-Ittihad of Alexandria at seven in the evening today, Thursday, at Cairo Stadium, in the postponed match of the eighth week of the Egyptian Premier League competition, and Al-Abyad enters tonight’s match in high spirits after advancing to the semi-finals of the African Confederation Championship, at the expense of Modern Future, with a score of 3/2 on aggregate from the first leg. And return.
Al-Abyad is looking forward to victory tonight in order to restore local victories after losing to El-Gouna in the last round by three goals to two in its last appearance in the league competition at Khaled Bishara Stadium in the fifteenth round of the competition.
Zamalek has 15 points in the league standings after playing 11 matches, winning 4 matches, drawing 3 matches, and losing 4 matches. Its players scored 17 goals and conceded 13 goals, while Al-Ittihad of Alexandria occupies second place in the runner-up with 27 points, after playing 15. A match that was won in 7, drawn in 6, and lost in one. Its players scored 21 goals, and scored 16 goals.
Portuguese coach Jose Gomez, Zamalek’s coach, is seeking to achieve a positive result to obtain the three points and improve his position in the competition’s standings and move towards the top, as he asked the team’s players to focus on the match, especially since the team, after facing Al-Ittihad, will meet Al-Ahly in the league summit scheduled for next Monday.
On the other hand, the ranks of the Al-Ittihad Alexandria team were completed before tonight’s match after the return of all the injured players, as the team restored the efforts of Hisham Salah after recovering from the injury, but the chances of his participation in tonight’s match remain at 50%, and he may appear on the bench, as Benjamin Boateng was restored.
Al-Ittihad recovered the rest of the injured players with the return of Hisham Salah, completing the ranks of the leader of Al-Thaghr before the decisive confrontation with Zamalek in the league.
Tarek Al-Ashry, the technical director of Al-Ittihad Alexandria, is seeking to impose more focus on his players, as he refused to let them take Eid Al-Fitr leave, due to his connection to his match against Zamalek, with the condition that they get leave after the match, and he talked to them about the scenario of winning and defeating Al-Abyad tonight.