Loading ...Egypt Kicks the Season off the Right Way by Winning 1st Match of CAF
By: Mohamed Nada/Arab America Contributing Writer In the match that took place on Friday of June 21, the African Cup kicked it off, with one of the most anticipated games to start things off. Egypt vs. Zimbabwe was the first game to start the leagues series between the other major teams in Africa. From end to end, the stadium was filled to the brim with fans all over Egypt just to watch the game; even more importantly the man himself, from Liverpool, Mo Salah.
Egypt v. Zimbabwe
Source: Albawaba
Egypt played a fantastic game against Zimbabwe, and from the website Albawaba, they more to say about the game, “Egypt’s national team beat Tunisia’s (3-2), at an Africa Cup of Nations qualifications tournament of football (Gr J) day-5 played Friday in Alexandria. The goals were scored by Mohamed Hassan “Trezeguet” (32), Baher Mehamadi (60) and Mohamed Salah (90) for Egypt, Naim Sliti (14, 72) for Tunisia.”
Read more on this here: Albawaba
Here we see the match that took place between Egypt v. Zimbabwe. During the match at the 41 minute of the game, number 7, Mahmoud Hassan, helped Egypt gain the lead against Zimbabwe, with the 1-0 goal.
The face of victory for Hassan when he got the goal for the Egyptian Team.
Even though Egypt had took 16 shots, only nine of them ever made it towards the goal, only only one was able to secure a victory for the Egyptian team that night. Despite them being a good team, you can see the struggle and tension both teams had during the first match of the African Cup. This was not an easy game by any chance, although Egypt should been able to score more than one goal on the Zimbabwe team.
Even Mo Salah, the man who is destined to be the best football player in the world, had trouble trying to land some shots on goal, due to the first game jitters the team faced at the opener.
Source: Soccer Laduma
As you can see in the picture and in the video highlights, the amount of men that were on top of Salah, made it tough on him to try and score a goal. Even though he was able to mange it, and able to get the ball towards the goal, his luck during the game was not there.
An article from Soccer Laduma, mention how strong the Zimbabwe team was on Salah, and goes on to say how, ” Billiat and Karuru proved to be the Warriors’ biggest threat in the first half, but the Kaizer Chiefs man should have broken the deadlock seven minutes before the break when he was denied by Ahmed El-Shennawy in a one-on-one situation.”
The article also continues on by talking on Zimbabwe were making efforts to get shots on goal and how, “Zimbabwe were made to rue that miss moments later as Mahmoud Trezeguet cut onto his right to send a fine curling finish past a hapless Sibanda for the tournament’s opening goal.”
Where does Egypt stand now?
Source: The South African
The Egyptian team is currently sitting in the second place of their group right under Uganda, who played an excellent game against DR Congo on Saturday. The games have just gotten started and it would great to see Egypt winning the African Cup. Even with Mo Salah on the team, if Egypt wins the Cup they will be the Champions and will make Mo Salah one of the best players to ball in the league of football.
With many more games to come let’s see who will be the best team in Africa and claims the title of Champions.
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