And he was crowned Al-Ahly Super Championship for the 15th time in its history, after defeating… Zamalek On penalties, with a score of (7-6), where he missed Hamza Mathlouthi And Mahmoud Abdel Razek Shikabala Omar Gaber for Zamalek, and Youssef Ayman and Reda Selim for Al-Ahly.
The result indicated that the two teams were tied 5-5 in the penalty shootout, and it was the turn of Al-Ahly defender Youssef Ayman, who shot it into the hands of the Zamalek goalkeeper. Muhammad AwadThus, scoring the next kick for Zamalek ended the match in favor of the white team, but Shikabala failed to put it into the net and it was blocked by the Al-Ahly goalkeeper. Muhammad El-Shenawy The two teams tie, then both teams score Yahya Atiya Allah Hussein Al-Shahat scored two kicks for Al-Ahly in exchange for a score Konrad Michalak Omar Gaber missed the last kick that announced the coronation of Al-Ahly.
What is noteworthy about the matter is that local Egyptian sources, including media figures, pundits and former players, revealed that Shikabala was not the candidate to take the shot that would have decided the outcome of the match, but he was blind to it and missing it led to accusing him of trying to “take the shot,” which is an Egyptian expression that means the desire to appear at the expense of the match. others.
Zamalek fan pages demanded that Shikabala be punished because he violated the ranking, as he was ranked ninth, but he made a mistake and blocked a decisive blow outside his turn, confirming that he deserved the fans’ attack on him.
Egyptian sports critic Khaled Talaat wrote on his social media account that Shikabala was not the player authorized to shoot, but he wanted to score the winning kick and take the “shot” in the tournament.
Talaat wrote: “Shikabala was not supposed to take the seventh kick, but he entered the half when Al-Ahly missed in order to get the winning round and take the shot, but he missed it and lost the championship to Zamalek!!!”
This matter was commented on by journalist Hani Hathout, who said that Zamalek’s seventh kick against Al-Ahly was not for Shikabala, but the player nominated to shoot (and scoring the kick decided the victory for Zamalek) asked Shikabala to shoot, but Al-Ahly’s goalkeeper El-Shenawy blocked it.
Hathout added that Shikabala broke down in tears in the locker room because of the loss with his colleague Abdullah Al-SaeedWhile Omar Gaber apologized, who missed the last kick that gave the championship to Al-Ahly.
Shikabala’s miss of the strike earned another criticism from the Zamalek star Ahmed Hossam Mido Who said in Egyptian media that Shikabala does not have confidence in himself and knows that he will miss the kick and is not distinguished in penalty kicks.
But Mido came back and wrote on his account on the
For his part, El-Shenawy said that he did not expect Shikabala to miss the kick because he is a great player, but he was sure that he would block it.