Akram Tawfiq, the Al-Ahly player, won the Best Player award in his team’s match against Al-Ittihad of Alexandria that brought them together this evening, Tuesday, at Burj Al-Arab Stadium in the 26th round of the Premier League championship. Mahmoud Abdel Moneim Kahraba scored Al-Ahly’s goal in the 68th minute.
The match referee, Tariq Magdy, canceled a goal scored by Akram Tawfiq after he resorted to the VAR technique due to Omar Kamal committing a mistake against one of the Al-Ittihad players before Akram Tawfiq scored the goal.
With this result, Al-Ahly rises to third place in the table Egyptian league standings With 39 points after playing 17 matches, he won 12 matches, tied 3 matches, and lost twice. His players scored 38 goals, and conceded 17 goals.
Thus, Al-Ahly continues to chase Pyramids at the top of the league, as the Heavenly team occupies the top of the league standings with 56 points, but from 23 matches.
While Al-Ittihad of Alexandria occupies seventh place with 36 points after playing 26 matches, it achieved wins in 9 matches, tied in the same, and lost 8 matches, and its players scored 28 goals and conceded 33 goals.
And he turned Al-Ahly and Al-Ittihad Alexandria match Tonight, a refereeing team consisting of: Tariq Magdy, referee, two assistant referees, Ahmed Tawfiq and Mustafa Hassan, a fourth referee, Wael Farhan, and video referees, Mohamed Adel and Sherif Abdullah.
Al-Ahly’s lineup for the match included: Mohamed El-Shenawy, Ramy Rabia, Mohamed Abdel-Moneim, Akram Tawfiq, Omar Kamal Abdel-Wahed, Karim Fouad, Hussein El-Shahat, Marwan Attia, Imam Ashour, Ahmed Abdel-Qader, and Mahmoud Abdel-Moneim Kahraba..
While the formation of the Union included: Al-Mahdi Suleiman, Saif Taqa, Mahmoud Shabana, Islam Abu Salima, Hisham Salah, Karim El-Deeb, Moro Salifu, Amr Saleh, Khaled Al-Ghandour, Benjamin Boateng and Ahmed Eid.
first half
The match started with remarkable activity from Al-Ahly, with clear caution from Al-Ittihad. Mohamed Abdel Moneim suffered a minor injury and continued to participate in the match after receiving treatment on the field.
Kahraba launched a dangerous attack for Al-Ahly from the right side, but he crossed it forcefully to waste an opportunity for Al-Ahly. Ahmed Abdel Qader threatened Mahdi Soliman’s goal in the 13th minute after he launched an attack from the left side, taking advantage of a mistake by Hisham Salah, defender of Zaim Al-Thaghr, but Al-Ittihad’s defense intervened at the right time and saved the situation.
Al-Ahly continued to put pressure on Al-Ittihad’s goal, and Kahraba and Ahmed Abdel Qader wasted more than one opportunity to score more than one goal for the Red Giants, and Tarek Magdy showed Moro Salifu a yellow card for roughness with Akram Tawfiq in the 42nd minute.
The last minutes witnessed the continuation of Al-Ahly’s offensive superiority, and most of the events of the first half came with an organized defense by Al-Ittihad, so the first half ended in a goalless draw.
Second half
The beginning of the second half was enthusiastic on the part of Al-Ahly, as were the events of the first half, with a tight defense on the part of Al-Ittihad, but the Al-Ahly attack resulted in the goal that put Al-Ahly ahead in the 59th minute through Akram Tawfiq, but Tarek Magdy resorted to the mouse technique to ensure that there was a direct free kick for Al-Ittihad before scoring. Akram Tawfiq scored his goal, and the referee canceled the goal after returning to the mouse.
Ahmed Abdel Qader wasted the chance of a certain goal in the 64th minute after a cross ball reached him in front of Al-Hani Soliman, Al-Ittihad goalkeeper, but he shot it over the crossbar.
Al-Ahly pressure resulted in a goal scored by Mahmoud Abdel Moneim Kahraba in the 68th minute after he handled a cross ball from Hussein El-Shahat, and Kahraba headed it past El-Hany Soliman.
In the 72nd minute, Afsha participated instead of Emam Ashour and Dieng instead of Marwan Attia, and Al-Ittihad’s performance was clearly active, and in the 87th minute Taher Mohamed Taher participated instead of Omar Kamal due to injury, and Modest participated instead of Kahraba.
Mohamed El-Shenawy committed a major mistake that almost caused Al-Ittihad’s equalizer, as the ball fell from his hand, but the Zaeem Al-Thagher player scored the ball wide of the net.
The last minutes of the match witnessed mutual attacks from both teams, but the match ended with Al-Ahly winning with a clean goal scored by Kahraba.