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The Pharaohs game will be one of two remaining matches that will determine whether the Cecafa nation will qualify for Afcon or not.
Kenyan Football Federation President Nick Mwendwa has argued that the African Football Confederation (Caf) will favor Egypt when scheduling their next Africa Cup of Nations qualifying matches against the Harambee Stars.
Mwendwa claims the Pharaohs will not be scheduled to play on a Wednesday for Caf and that amounts to preferential treatment.
Kenya will face Egypt at home in one of the remaining Group G qualifiers, a match the East Africans must win to keep their little qualifying dream alive.
The African giants played Togo on a Saturday and Tuesday in November, while Kenya hosted the Comoros on Wednesday before the return leg on Sunday.
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“We played on a Wednesday when Victor Wanyama and Johanna Omollo had trained only one day and now we will play Egypt at home, but I tell you that Caf has not chosen a date so far,” said Mwendwa Radio Jambo.
“There is no way for Egypt to play on a Wednesday and here I am not accusing anyone, I am just telling the truth.
“How things happen in a group is important and to back that up, ask yourself how we qualified for Afcon 2019. In the meantime, Sierra Leone was disqualified and we moved forward to play Ghana at home on a Saturday.
“We prepare from Monday to Friday and play to win 1-0 at home. Then we went to two games against Ethiopia and the games were not Wednesday. “
The FKF supreme added that Kenya would have chosen a different result if their game against Comoros had been on a different day, other than Wednesday.
“We started our qualifiers outside Egypt and we are going to end them with an away tie against Togo,” he concluded.
“We played at home on a Wednesday and on Sunday we were in Comoros for the other match, while Egypt arrived in Togo even before the Togolese national team arrived in Lomé.
“We play on Wednesday [against Comoros] but Egypt played on Saturday [against Togo] And if we could have had four more days of training, now we could be telling a different story.
“We are going to play against them and I can assure you the [Kenya vs Egypt] The game will never be scheduled for Wednesday. It will be a Thursday, Friday or Saturday ”.
Egypt won both qualifiers against Togo, while Kenya drew 1-1 in one game and lost 2-1 in the other.
