El Maqassa stun Al Ahly 1-0 in the Egyptian League

Al Ahly tasted their first defeat this season after losing 1-0 to Maqassa at Petrosport stadium on Thursday.

Match Facts:

FT: Maqassa 1-0 Ahly
Scorer: Ahmed Sami 57

Yellow cards:�Hani Said (Maqassa), Amr Barakat (Maqassa), Abdallah El-Said (Ahly)
Hossam Ashour (Ahly), Hossam Ghaly (Ahly), Mohamed Naguib (Ahly)

Starting lineups:

El Maqassa: Mahmoud Hamdi – Ahmed Sami, Saleh Moussa, Abdel-Hamid Sami, Hosni Fathi – Hani Said, Mahmoud Wahid (Alaa Shaaban 67), Mohamed Gaber (Abou Bakr Abdel-Latif 78), Mahmoud Dunga, Omar Najdi (Amr Barakat 74) – Nana Pokou.

Al Ahly: Sherif Ekrami � Ahmed Fathi, Mohamed Naguib, Ahmed Hegazy, Sabri Rahil � Hossam Ghaly, Hossam Ashour (Amr Gamal 73), Moemen Zakareya, Abdallah El-Said � John Antwi (Malick Evouna 58), Emad Meteb (Walid Soliman 58)

Ahly’s coach Jose Peseiro switched to a 4-4-2 formation introducing veteran striker Emad Meteb beside Ghanaian marksman John Antwi. The pair didn’t make the anticipated impact as the veteran striker failed to make his presence felt. ��

Al Ahly will be on a 40-day break now as his players will be away on international duty. It will give time to Peseiro to know his team better as he had just arrived three days before the start of the season.

Goal

Press Conference after the match

Magdi Abelghani comments about Al Ahly’s defeat