Contrasting dreams to Jamaleck and Pyramids
Jamalek and Pyramids will enter the final match of the Egypt Cup, on Thursday, at the Cairo International Stadium. While Jamalek was trying to compensate for a disappointed season with Jamalek four years ago, the Pyramids were playing with the African Champions League title for the first time in its history and hope to keep the Cup title.
The Pyramids won the African Champions League title on Sunday, defeating Mamelodi Sundays (3-2) in South Africa with the entire final match and won the most expensive championship at the African club’s level.
The Egyptian League finished second with two points with two points, and the international sports court decision was waiting in a complaint with a three -point complaint from Ahli, which can be given the title. As a result, Jamalek ended the league in third place and came out of the quarter -finals of the Confederation Cup (Confederation) to limit his hopes to win the Egypt Cup title to prevent the empty season.
Jamalek had previously won the Egypt Cup title 28 times, the last of which lost the last match in 2021, and the last match on 14 occasions, and the last in 2023. When it comes to pyramids, he crowned the first Cup title in the history of last year and lost twice in the last match, which was last in 2022.
The fourth confrontation between the two teams in the Cup, and the second in the final match, where they met in the 2019 final, Jamalek settled in his favor (3 -0), later in the semi -final of 2022, and the match ended after the tie (3-3).
After overcoming the 32nd round for Jamalek fertilizer (2 -0), who qualified for the final match, then on the modern sport in the 16th round (2-1) in the 16th round, and in the quarter -finals, in the quarter -finals, before he was defeated from the semi -final.
Pyramids qualified to overcome the 32nd round Mansoura (3 -0), then in the 16 -round Arab contractors (2 -0), and in the quarter -finals, he defeated ENPPI (2-1) in the final, and finally surpassed the National Bank (4-0) in the semi -finals.
This is the fourth match between the two teams this season, where they met in the Egyptian Super Cup semi -finals, and Jamalek excelled with a penalty shootout after tie (1 – 1), and won the pyramids and win in the league matches (1 – 0).
The match was to be played on May 20 before the Pyramids were asked to postpone it to play the African Champions League Final and Jamaleck agreed to postpone.
Jamaleck returned to postpone the match due to the controversy with Arafat’s attitude, but the Egyptian Football Association refused to postpone and only delayed the start date, which started at eight in the evening.
Jamaleck hopes to restore his angry fans after all the levels of despair at all levels of coach Aman Ramadi, but may be his last appearance, after he was in charge of the season temporarily until the end of the season.
Ramadi became the fourth coach this season after the Swiss Christian bully, along with Portuguese Jose Gamish and Pesero.
Al -Ramadi said: “Winning the Egypt Cup is an important opportunity to reconcile fans after a difficult season. I have a lot of faith in Jamaleck players and enjoying their ability to achieve the necessary goal and enjoying fans in this decisive match.
As his part, the pyramids entered the match when he was very happy, after he was a fourth Egypt club (after Ismaili, Al -Ahli and Jamalek), he was crowned the African Champions League title, winning the second champion in history last season.
However, Croatian coach, Kronoslav, Uricic and Pyramid players warned them of the impact of this situation in the Jamaleck match, which is not less important: “We should focus on the full power of the Jamaleck match and stop the ceremony.”
