Mahmoud Kahraba, the player, got Al-Ahly He won the Man of the Match award for his team against ZED, which took place on Sunday evening at Cairo Stadium in the postponed match of the 25th round of the Egyptian Premier League.
Al-Ahly team achieved victory over ZED by two goals to one in the match that brought them together on Sunday evening at Cairo Stadium in the postponed match of the 25th round of the Egyptian Premier League, reaching the 21st consecutive victory and extending the longest unbeaten streak.
With this victory, Al-Ahly reached 84 points at the top of the league, which it officially won the title of, while ZD’s balance stopped at 47 points in seventh place.
The match started at an average pace from both teams, and Al-Ahly threatened ZD’s goal with two attacks in the first quarter of an hour through Mohamed Abdullah with two shots in the 7th and 12th minutes. ZD got a penalty kick in the 17th minute as a result of Raafat Khalil being obstructed by Omar Kamal. The VAR technical room called on referee Ibrahim Mohamed to review the play again, but the referee confirmed his decision.
Abdullah Bakri wasted the opportunity to score the first goal from a penalty kick in the 21st minute after he shot the ball into the right post of Al-Ahly’s goal, before the Red Team’s defense cleared it from the danger zone. Kahraba threatened ZED’s goal with a header in the 29th minute, but the referee indicated that the player was offside.
Raafat Khalil threatened Al-Ahly’s goal with a shot in the 35th minute, but it went past the left post of Mustafa Makhlouf’s goal, but the assistant indicated that there was an offside situation for the ZD player. Mustafa Saad shot in the 40th minute from outside the penalty area, but Mustafa Makhlouf caught it.
Kahraba wasted a clear goal opportunity in the 45th minute, and in the second minute of stoppage time, Kahraba threatened ZED’s goal again, but Ali Lotfy saved it. Kahraba succeeded in scoring the lead goal in the third minute of stoppage time, and the first half ended with Al-Ahly leading by a clean goal.
ZD made 3 changes with Shadi Hussein, Mustafa Zico and Ahmed Al-Saghiri coming on at the start of the second half instead of Raafat Khalil, Abdel Rahman Al-Banoubi and Marawan Mahmoud. Referee Ibrahim Mohamed showed the second yellow card and a red card to Ali Gamal in the 49th minute.
Ahmed Abdelkader scored Al-Ahly’s second goal in the 63rd minute through his own effort after receiving the ball on the left side before adjusting and shooting it to the left of Ali Lotfi’s goal. Karim Nedved shot in the 78th minute but it hit the crossbar, and after that Al-Ahly made its first substitution with Moataz Mohamed replacing Karim El-Dabbas.
Al-Ahly made two new substitutions, with Youssef Abdel-Hafiz and Ahmed Taaima coming on in the 85th minute instead of Mohamed Abdullah and Mostafa Abu El-Khair. Mostafa Saad scored the equaliser for ZED in the 87th minute from a free kick from outside the penalty area that was misjudged by Mostafa Makhlouf and went into the red net.
Al-Ahly’s lineup was as follows:
Goalkeeper: Mustafa Makhlouf.
Defense: Yasser Ibrahim, Khaled Abdel Fattah, Omar Kamal, and Karim El-Dabbas.
Midfield: Karim Nedved, Mohamed Magdy Afsha, Ahmed Abdelkader, Mostafa Abou El Khair and Mohamed Abdullah.
Attack: Mahmoud Kahraba.
On the bench were: Moataz Mohamed, Youssef Abdel Hafeez, Hazem Gamal, Ahmed Abdeen, Ahmed Ashraf, Ahmed Taaima, Mohamed Raafat, Youssef Gamal, and Rindorf Adom..
While the formation of ZD was as follows::
Goalkeeper: Ali Lotfi.
Defense: Abdullah Bakri – Ahmed Zaki – Ali Gamal.
Midfield: Marwan Mahmoud – Ahmed Atef Qattah – Islam Abdellah.
Attack: Mustafa Saad Messi – Raafat Khalil – Abdel Rahman El Banoubi.
The substitutes were: Amr Hossam, Mohamed Samir, Ahmed Sayed Abdel Nabi, Shady Hussein, Mustafa Zico, Mustafa Al-Ash, Ahmed Al-Saghiri, Peter Motomusi, and Hazem Al-Askari.