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Mahmoud Al-Zanfali blocks the ball before Shukri Naguib’s header in Ismaili’s match against Al-Ahly Bank
Al-Ismaily settled for a 0-0 draw against his guest Al-Ahly Bank at Ismailia Stadium, in the fourth round of the Egyptian League.
Ismaily raised his score to 3 points in 13th place, after 3 draws and a loss, with no win so far.
While the National Bank raised its balance to 5 points in sixth place from two draws, a victory and a defeat.
Ismaily was unable to score during a home game in the Egyptian League for the first time since their 0-1 loss to Al-Ahly on December 19, 2019, more than a year ago.
Taking into account that the defeat against Al-Ahly was in the Al-Max Stadium, going back further, we will arrive on October 18, 2019, the day the dervishes were defeated by Haras al-Hodoud with a clean goal, to be the last time they failed to score at the Ismailia Stadium in league competitions.
And he supervised the leadership of Ismaily in the match, Mohamed Wahba, after the sudden departure of his coach, Talaat Youssef, yesterday, 24 hours after he took office, succeeding Ricardo, the dismissal after the defeat on the last day against El Gouna.
The first half did not see many chances, but he met an unusual shot in the tenth minute when Al-Ahly goalkeeper Mahmoud Al-Zanfali sent the ball to a throw-in, and instead of quickly returning to his goal, he stayed in his site to block the execution of the shot, for which the referee sanctioned him with a yellow card.
Al-Ahly Bank’s most dangerous chances in the first half came in the 25th minute, when veteran Ahmed Ali received a cross from Ahmed Yasser and received it by tricking the dervish defense, and the guest captain’s shot would have gone out of bounds. .
Ismaili’s player Mohamed Adel responded with a long-range shot in the 34th minute, but it went through the post in no time.
Ismaily got his real shot in the 37th minute, with a front pass from Shukri Naguib to Ahmed Madbouly, starting on the right wing, but the former Zamalek winger hit a side ball.
In the second half, Ismaily managed to score in the 60th minute with a header from Marwan al-Sahrawi, but the referee canceled it for an infraction.
Then Madbouly hit the ball in the middle of the arc in the 69th minute, and Al-Zanfali caught it twice.
Before the veteran Muhammad Sobhi, leader of the dervishes, made a miraculous save in the 79th minute, after a header from Ahmed Yasser.
Al-Zanfali responded with an extraordinary response in the fourth minute of injury time against the shell of substitute Benson Shilongo, to end the match in a draw.
