Another dull performance by Al ahly 0 – 0 Assiouty Sports
Ahly continued their poor start to the season against league rookie Assiouty Sport on Monday, drawing 0-0 and falling to 13th place in the table with only five points after four games.
With a goal disallowed, a penalty turned down and a red card for their talisman Walid Soliman, the defending champions lived through a nightmare afternoon and will be able to blame referee Sherif Rashwan for a lot of it.
Coach Juan Carlos Garrido made a few changes to his line-up, putting in Ahmed Khairi for suspended Hossam Ashour, keeper Ahmed Adel for injured Sherif Ekramy and left-back Hussein El-Sayed for Sabri Rahil in his first official debut.
The action started as early as the fourth minute, when Amr Gamal was sent clear into the box by a neat through ball from Ahmed Abdel-Zaher, but his curling shot missed the goal.
The hosts responded right after as Mohamed Shedid fired from the edge of the area, but he was denied by keeper Ahmed Adel and the rebound was blasted wide by Karim Manch.
At the half hour mark, energetic midfielder Mahmoud Trezeguet came close to scoring when he brilliantly intercepted and skipped past the last defender to ghost in the area, but his close range shot hit the side netting.
With time passing, the Red Devils tightened their grip and forced their rivals to pull back, but failed to carve any spaces in the defence.
Match Facts:
FULL TIME: Assiouty Sport 0-0 Ahly
Red card:
Walid Soliman (Ahly)
Mahmoud Shedid (Assiouti Sport)
Hassan Magdy (Assiouti Sport)
Mahmoud Ramadan (Assiouti Sport)
Walid Soliman (Ahly)
Starting lineups:
Assiouti Sport: Mostafa Hussein Ahmed Salah, Abdallah El-Balat, Mahmoud Ramadan, Ahmed Magdy Mahmoud Shedid, Hussein Magdy, Tedy, Essam Abdeen (Edward Thomas 76), Karim Mansh (Eslam Gamal 67) Prince Nakany (Atteya Nashawy 60)
Ahly: Ahmed Adel; Hussein El-Sayed, Saad Samir, Mohamed Naguib,Sherif Hazem (Ramadan Sobhy 72); Walid Soliman, Ahmed Khairy, Hossam Ghaly (Moussa Yedan 46), Mahmoud Trezeguet; Amr Gamal (Emad Meteb 45), Ahmed Abdel-Zaher
Venue: Assiut Stadium
Referee: Sherif Rashwan
Assistants: Mahmoud Aboul-Regal, Ekrami Sami
