At 7:30 p.m. this Wednesday evening, the Zamalek and Ismaili teams will meet at Cairo International Stadium in the postponed match of the thirteenth round of the Premier League competition, which is the match that the White Knight enters with low spirits after a negative draw with Mouloudia Algeria at the start of Zamalek's journey in the group stage of the African Champions League while achieving Al-Dervish defeated Lavina FC with two goals against a goal in the 32nd round of the Egypt Cup to qualify for the round of sixteen of the tournament.
The last appearance of the White Knight in the league championship saw a victory over the leader of Al-Thaghr with two unanswered goals scored by Ahmed Sayed Zizou and Youssef Obama in the twelfth week of the competition, while the Dervishes of Al-Ittihad of Alexandria lost one goal without a response in the postponed match of the eleventh round of the league.
Zamalek tops the top of the league table with 26 points, after playing 11 games, winning 8 meetings, drawing twice, and losing one match against Ghazl El Mahalla. After playing 11 matches, he won a game, tied in five confrontations, and lost the same, his players scored 10 goals and conceded 15 goals.
The Portuguese coach Jimmy Pacheco, Zamalek coach, called on his players to achieve victory in order to continue on the right path and stay at the top and widen the difference with Al-Ahly, who has 21 points and postponed 3 meetings, and tonight's match is the last rehearsal before traveling to Senegal on February 20 to face Tongith in the round The second group stage in the African Champions League, scheduled for February 23rd, during which the White Knight wants to achieve its first victory in the group stage, during which to make up for a draw against the Algerian champion.
On the other hand, the Bosnian Dragan Jovic, the Ismaili coach, asked his players to correct the path and return to the path of victories and get out of the plague he is going through as soon as possible, not to delve into the danger that surrounds his neck, and to avoid the specter of defeats that haunts him. .
The expected formation of Zamalek and Ismaili
The expected formation of Zamalek appears in front of Al-Ismaili, consisting of: "Muhammad Abu Jabal, Mahmoud Alaa, Mahmoud Al-Wansh, Abdullah Jumaa, Tariq Hamid, Imam Ashour, Ashraf Bin Sharqi, Ferjani Sassi, Youssef Obama and Saif Al-Din Al-Jazeeri."
Al-Ismaili misses the efforts of a large number of his players due to injury, namely Baher Al-Muhammadi, Abdel-Rahman Magdy, Ahmed Ayman, Mahmoud Al-Badri and Muhammad Bayoumi, and the expected formation of Ismaili in front of Zamalek appears to consist of: “Muhammad Sobhi - Marwan Al-Sahrawi - Muhammad Ammar - Radwan Al-Sharifi - Muhammad Hashem - Muhammad Adel - Dunga - Ahmed Madbouly - Muhammad Al-Shami - Shukry Naguib - Fakhr Al-Din Bin Youssef.
