Legacy Corona stopped. Will Fyler take responsibility for the Al-Ahly level?

At the end of August 2019, and in the midst of a public split, the Al-Ahly club announced a contract with the Swiss Rene Fyler to lead the Red Team after he was chosen by the planning committee led by its former president, Taha Ismail.

Al-Ahly shortlisted five names from 30 resumes to pick Fyler at a time when Red fans were aspiring to sign a global coach.

Taha Ismail defended the national team at the press conference to introduce the coach, highlighting that Fyler is 45 years old and has an ambitious, strong personality and good potential, has achieved great success in Belgium and Switzerland and is eager to achieve achievements and dynamism in the job.

Fyler came with a roster he did not pick and without a preparation period to officially announce himself in the Super match and beat Zamalek 3-2 and then lead Al-Ahly to sweep the competition and achieve 14 wins in a row, representing the second best start for Al-Ahly coach in league history in addition to his leadership of the team to the semi-final round of the League Championship. African champions after taking revenge on Sundowns in the round of 16.

The local Super Fyler lost with a penalty shoot-out and then drew with Smouha to stop his record and stop the competition completely due to the Corona pandemic and amid rumors that haunted the coach for leaving and fleeing, Fyler returned, but the return was not at the same initial level … then why?

1- Stop at the top of the curve

Al-Ahly markedly outperformed all his competitors in the local championship, the team’s performance was the best and Fyler prepared a large group of players thanks to the rotation. At the summit, technically, he was forced to descend due to circumstances beyond the control of the management, and with the start of the activity the physical and technical curve fell, the unevenness he made dissolved or decreased, and the first flap was lost in vain.

2- Loss of the spine

At first, Fyler relied mainly on a basic structure, hiring Ajay in the forward position, Ramadan on the left wing, Hussein al-Shahat on the right wing, and a place between them and behind them Al-Sulayyah and Hamdi Fathy and Mahmoud Mitwalli on defense were essential in the big matches, and Fathi was a Swiss option and competitor to meet Mohamed Hani again. It lost its two main wings, Ramadan and Shahat, due to different circumstances. Fathi moved to another team and couldn’t be trusted all the time. He was electrocuted, he was in a bad psychological state, which affected him both physically and technically. Hamdi Fathi is coming back from a long period of injury and needs more time to return, then injury Metwally the crusader.

Influential and painful absences that hit any team so Fyler sometimes tries to change the way of playing 4-4-2 and at other times he relies on Geraldo (who did not choose him or bring him from the ground). He used a jump and then opened in the center of the wing, tried to solve the problem of numerical shortage in the wing and admitted that Affected by the absences of the wings, on the right wing the difference between Geraldo and Sheikh is not the great difference of The one that can be blamed on the coach if you consider that the coach basically did not choose the pair, and on the right Ajay his coach failed and cut the power and Ramadan left, which means he lost player number 1 in this one. The center and player No. (2) substitute up to player No. (3).

However, Fyler decided the league and only the negative result he achieved was against Zamalek in the League, in which Al-Ahly achieved a lot for the goal of their traditional rival and it was not as bad as that makes the Swiss coach guilty.

3- File cabinet after Corona

The question or accusation directed at Failer, “Did Fyler change and start composing after the Corona hiatus?” She lost her logic in the absence of the team and natural relegation for a long hiatus of 5 months in addition to the clinically resolved team for the league championship and lost a record draw with Smouha earlier. Stopping directly and so the motives disappear, making the question of authorship a more correct question, which is: Is Filer alone, whose team suffered from poor performance and results after Corona’s stoppage?

With the exception of Bayern Munich, the exceptional, the other three major leagues suffered in them, the league leader, after the return of Corona, and the performance fell dramatically, and some of them lost the league after the stop of Corona.

Barcelona led the League before stopping, but then the team suffered a violent shake in the presence of Messi, the best in the world, tied after Corona three games, lost a match, lost La Liga, and then came out with a strong scandal of the Champions League and the team’s performance fell to finally topple Kiki Setien.

Juventus also suffered a violent shake after Corona, lost the Coppa Italia final, lost to Milan by four, Rome by three, Cagliari and Udinese, drew with Atlanta and Sassuolo and deposited the Lyon Champions League to leave Sarri as team coach.

In England, despite Liverpool’s superiority before stopping, their performance and results were not as strong as before Corona, the Reds drew with Everton and Burnley, lost to Manchester City by four and lost to Arsenal twice, including the Charity Shield match.

Fyler is still competing in three tournaments, the championship is decided and he is beginning to experiment with a roster he did not pick, he still has the Egypt Cup and the strongest and most important tournament to compete in, which is the African Champions League. In general, however, the coach was accused of author and the question here:

If a coach who breaks the tournament does not have time for friendly matches, he should not try, when can he?