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Thursday, February 23, 2023 06:30 AM
Swiss Marcel Kohler has settled as technical director for the people To make several changes to the team’s formation in the South African Sun Downs match scheduled for tomorrow, Saturday, in the second round of the group stage in the African Champions League, and the Swiss coach wants to bring back some of the basic elements that were absent from the team’s formation in the last Aswan match in the league, which he won. Al-Ahmar scored three clean goals, and Ali Maaloul, Muhammad Hani and Hamdi Fathi came to the fore, as the coach preferred to rest this trio due to stress.
The coach wants to push the strike force against Sun Downs, which will be held at nine in the evening at Al-Salam Stadium, in order to achieve victory and harvest the first 3 points in the group struggle that includes with Al-Ahly, both Cameroonian cotton and the Sudanese Crescent, and the Red Genie is looking forward to correcting the African path after losing in the last round. From Al-Hilal of Sudan, with a clean goal, at the latter’s stadium, last Saturday, noting that Al-Ahly has a postponed match against Cameroonian Cotton, due to its participation in the recent World Club Championship in Morocco.
In terms of the consequences of the Aswan match, Marcel Koller confirmed that Mohamed Sharif’s failure to participate in the Aswan match was not a punishment for him wasting an opportunity achieved against Brazilian Flamengo in the Club World Cup, and Marcel Kohler expressed his happiness with the team’s victory over Aswan in the Premier League championship, stressing that the team achieved Many gains after it strengthened its lead in the league championship, and the players showed a very distinguished performance.
He explained that he was very happy with the distinguished presence of Al-Ahly fans in the stands, which gave the players great motivation, which was reflected in what they presented during the meeting. Confronting differently and independently, and it was important for us to win the league because it is an important tournament for us.
He pointed out that the team played a great match, after scoring 3 goals and getting several opportunities to double the score, in addition to Mohamed El-Shennawy saving a penalty kick, which he considers very positive, before facing Sun Downs in the CAF Champions League.
Koller confirmed that the match was an opportunity to continue to rotate the players’ participation, after he made 6 changes in the match, in order to give the opportunity and equip everyone in light of the cohesion of the matches, and that there is no main player and another reserve, despite the difficulties that the team faces.