Martin Lasarte writes history, first coach to win against Zamalek since Jose

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Mon, 29 Jul 2019 - 02:28 GMT

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Mon, 29 Jul 2019 - 02:28 GMT

FILE - Martin Lasarte

FILE - Martin Lasarte

CAIRO - 29 July 2019: Al Ahly knew the taste of winning over Zamalek with a foreign coach for the first time since the reign former veteran Al Ahly’s coach, Manuel Jose.

Al Ahly succeeded to beat Zamalek 1-0 on Sunday night at Borg El Arab stadium thanks to the left-back Ali Maaloul goal in the 59th minute.



Al Ahly faced Zamalek several times with a foreign coach but they didn’t achieve any victory over the White Knights since 2012 with Manuel Jose.

Juan Carlos Garrido, Jose Bessiro, Martin Jol and Patrice Carteron failed to win against Zamalek.

The Reds ended the Egyptian league topping the standings with 80 points, 8 points above their rivals, Zamalek.

Al Ahly & Zamalek started the game with the same line-up which faced Al Mokawlon & Ismaily respectively.

Al Ahly: El Shenawy, Ali Maaloul, Ramy Rabeaa, Ayman Ashraf, Mohamed Hany, Amr El Soleya, Hamdy Fathy, Walid Soliman, Ramadan Sobhy, Hussein El Shahat, Walid Azzarou.

Zamalek: Emad El Sayed, Abdallah Gomaa, Mohamed Abdelghany, Mahmoud Alaa, Hamdy Nagguezz, Tarek Hamed, Ferjani Sassi, Ibrahim Hassan, Mohamed Ibrahim, Ahmed Sayed Zizo, Omar Al Saeed.

The first half wasn’t in a top level as both teams were closing all the gaps that may be an opportunity for the opponent to score a goal. In the second half, Ali Maaloul took the lead for Al Ahly after he took advantage of Zamalek’s goalkeeper fault who failed to deal with Walid Soliman’s shot.

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