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Wrote:
Abdul Qadir Saeed
Monday 14 September 2020
08:20 pm
Alexandria’s Al-Ittihad team postponed Al-Ahly’s official league championship coronation after forcing him to draw without goals in round 27 of the competition at Burj Al-Arab Stadium.
The tie lifted Al-Ahly’s balance to 72, 20 points behind Zamalek, his closest follower, needing just one point to win the title.
Al-Ittihad raised his score to 37 points in fifth place on the table, reducing the gap with Pyramids IV to 8 points.
The match witnessed great refereeing emotion, whose hero Ibrahim Noureddine was the match referee after awarding a penalty against Al-Ahly, and player Ahmed Fathy was sent off, who refused to count a penalty for Al-Ahly in the last minute after resorting to video technology.
the match summary
Al-Ahly started with timid attempts to visit Al-Ittihad’s window, until the first opportunity came in the 10th minute, after a cross from Aliu Badji that converted Junior Ajay with a strong shot with his right hand, but was went to the goalkeeper’s arms in position.
Ahmed Al-Sheikh passed the ball to Aliu Badji on the edge of the penalty area, to hit the Senegalese player in the 15th minute with a strong ball with his right hand, but went far from Al-Ittihad’s goal.
Al-Ahmar tried again in the 42nd minute, hoping to score a goal before the end of the first half, following a pass from Marwan Mohsen to Ahmed Al-Sheikh on the edge of the penalty area, to pay the player under pressure with Difficulty with his left, so the ball passed the left post.
Alexandria’s Al Ittihad almost stunned Al-Ahly in the last minute of the first half, with a quick rebound that left Cisse alone, but Mohamed Hani intervened brilliantly and served the ball.
Al-Ahly responded with a quick rebound, which ended with the ball reaching inside Al-Ittihad’s penalty area, and Aliou Badji hit a ball, which the goalkeeper tackled twice, to end the game negatively.
The referee awarded Alexandria’s Al-Ittihad a penalty in the 58th minute after resorting to video technology after Ahmed Fathy removed a ball from inside the penalty area, with Al-Ittihad player Mahmoud Rizk interfering in a header at the same time, with the red card announced for player Al-Ahly.
Ahmed Rifaat took the penalty in the 62nd minute, but goalkeeper Mohamed El Shennawy shone and turned the ball into a corner kick from which Al-Ittihad did not benefit to keep the negative draw under control.
Hamdi Fathi was pushed into the penalty area to summon VAR referee Ibrahim Noureddine, the arena referee, and the latter decided not to count the penalty kick in the last minute of the match.
Al-Ittihad almost snatched the match points from him in the 90 + 4 minute after being left alone on the left side, which ended with a shot to the ground that was successfully saved by Mohamed El-Shenawy.
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