Get to know about teams drawn with Egypt: Saudi Arabia

CAIRO – 1 December 2017 : The World Cup draw put Egypt in Group A alongside, Uruguay, Saudi Arabia and the host nation, Russia.

Egypt plays their last game in the group stage against their Arab rivals, Saudi Arabia, on Monday June 25 at 4:00 p.m. (Cairo Time).

Profile: Saudi Arabia

Saudi Arabia participated in four consecutive World Cup tournaments between 1994 and 2006; they missed playing in the last two World Cups.

Saudi Arabia’s best achievement in the World Cup was in its first participation in 1994 in USA when they qualified to round of 16.

Juan Antonio Pizzi was appointed as Saudi Arabia’s manager in November 2017 to succeed the sacked Edgrado Bauza.

Pizzi was Chile’s manager in the 2018 World Cup qualifiers but he failed to lead then to qualify to the World Cup.

Saudi Arabia qualified to the World Cup after placing second in their group in the Asian qualifiers to secure a direct qualification to the World Cup.

Saudi Arabia has a massive attacking line that consists of Nawaf El Abed, Salman El Farag, Fahd El Mowalad and Mohamed El Sahlawi.

Egypt faced Saudi Arabia once in a major tournament in 1999 FIFA Confederation Cup Group Stage when Egypt lost 5-1.