In a mid week match in week 18, on Thursday Feb 9th, Al Ittihad will host Aswan at Alexandria Stadium in a meeting of these two evenly matched Premier League teams. The game day is forecasted to be a cloudy and cool day, with daytime temperatures of only 12 degrees, which is great football weather. In their last match, 6th placed Al Ittihad, recorded a 1-1 draw against Ismaily. El Shamy scored the first goal for Ismaily in the 1st minute, then Mahmoud Alaa tied it up for Al Ittihad in the 76th minute earning them at least the one point. Al Ittihad is looking for direction having earned 15 points in their last 10 matches, while aswan is fresh off their 2-1 win against El Daklyeh. Ahmed Khaled struck first for Aswan in the 1st minute, but Ahmed got the equalizer for El Daklyeh in the 28th minute. Aswan is looking for direction having 4 win and 2 losses in their last 10 matches.
Aswan and Al Ittihad last played eachother at the Aswan Stadium on Tue Oct 18th. Al Ittihad was victorious by a score of 1 to 0. Austin Augustine Amutu scored the first goal for Al Ittihad in the 85th minute, and with that single goal the scoring was complete. Neither team could manage anything else At the end of 90 a dissapointed Aswan couldn’t manage to score, and Al Ittihad took the shutout win.
Aswan’s top weapon lately has been Mohamed Hamdy Zaki, who has two goals in the last 5 matches. Mahmoud Alaa has been the most prolific scorer on Al Ittihad in the last 5 matches with 3 goals.