Zamalek club is preparing to play an important match with Pharco team in the Egyptian Premier League championship next Friday evening at Cairo International Stadium.
Zamalek Club is looking forward to reconciling with its angry fans due to the defeat it suffered in the last match against Al-Masry Club of Port Said, with a score of 2-1, in a match that witnessed great arbitration excitement.
The sons of Portuguese Jose Gomez, coach of Zamalek, also want to achieve victory in order to advance further in the league table, as the white team is in eleventh place with 31 points, losing them in only 19 matches.
As for the Pharco team, it wants to achieve victory in order to improve the team’s results in the recent period, as it was defeated by Al-Ahly with a score of 2-1, and then tied with Zed with a score of 2-2. The last victory it achieved in the league championship was against the Mahalla Municipality in a match held on the 15th. Last May.
Pharco is in 15th place in the Egyptian League table with 22 points, collected from 25 matches.
Zamalek is looking for a victory that has been absent for 672 days
Before Friday’s match, Zamalek met Pharco 6 times before, starting in the Egyptian League Cup in 2022, and at that time the white team suffered a 2-0 defeat.
As for the second match, it was among the matches of the 14th round of the Egyptian Premier League championship for the 2021-22 season, and at that time the result of a goalless draw decided the match. In the same season, Zamalek played with Pharco in the 31st round and achieved its first victory with a goal scored by Hossam Abdel Majeed.
The third match that brought together Zamalek with Pharco was on February 6, 2023, and was held at that time at Burj Al Arab Stadium, within the matches of the 17th round of the Egyptian Premier League championship in the 2022-23 season. The white team was defeated by a score of 3-0, and in the same season they tied in the 34th round with a score of 2-2 in a match held on July 16, 2023.
In the round of 16 of the Egypt Cup in the 2022-23 season, Zamalek succeeded in defeating Pharco with a score of 3-1 in a match held on June 23, 2023.
Therefore, the last victory achieved by Zamalek over Pharco in the league championship was on August 19, 2022, “that is, 672 days ago,” when it won 1-0 at that time in the matches of the 31st round.