Aswan defeated its guest Al-Mokawloon Al Arab, 1-0 at Al-Shorta Stadium, in the 21st round of the Egyptian League.
Ahmed Al-Shimi, the defender of Al-Mokawloon Al-Arab, scored the only goal of the match by mistake early in the match.
So the Arab Contractors balance freezes at 37 points in third place, and Aswan raises its score to 22 points and jumps to 11th place.
The defeat was the first for Imad Al-Nahhas, Al-Mokawloon coach, against his former team, Aswan, as he tied with him as a coach for Al-Sharqiya, and won him as a coach for the contractors.
Al-Mokawloon lost for the first time after 3 rounds without defeat, as it was due to its last fall to the 17th round against Pyramids with two goals without a response on February 11th.
The victory is the first for Aswan under the leadership of his coach Ahmed Koshary, who led his third match of resumption of activity and replaced him with Magdy Abdel Aty in coaching the team.
Aswan almost opened the scoring in the tenth minute by its young player, Mohamed Ismail, who dodged 3 players from Al Mokawloon with great skill, but his shot went shortly past Mahmoud Abu Al Saud’s goal.
Before Aswan scored in the 14th minute, Al-Shimi headed home after a misunderstanding with his goalkeeper Abu Al-Saud.
The contractors tried to return to the meeting, so Hassan Al-Shami sent a cross towards Muhammad Samir, but his header in the 34th minute passed by the goal.
A global goal was almost scored in the 43rd minute with a shot from midfield directed by Shukri Naguib, but Massad Awad returned to his own goal at the right moment and defeated steadily twice.
Massad Awad finished the first half perfectly, shining and moving Saif Al-Din Al-Jaziri’s amazing header after a technical cross from Shukri Naguib in the 45th minute.
The start of the second half was delayed for several minutes, as the lighting towers in the police stadium failed.
With the resumption of play, it took only a few seconds for Colombian substitute Luis Eduardo to send a superb cross to Tunisian Jaziri, but the latter’s header found an unusual save from Massad Awad again.
In the 60th minute, the excitement rose to its climax, when the contractors had already scored against Massad Awed, a goal counted by the referee Mahmoud Naji, and Musaad Awad was warned to protest.
But after returning to review the game in video technology, he discovered that there was a violation by Al-Jaziri, on Awad, to decide to cancel the goal, and keep Aswan ahead.
Substitute Muhammad Essam, in turn, almost scored a historic goal in the 81st minute for Al Mokawloon with a backhand kick after Al-Shami’s cross, but his ball went past the goal.
The referee counted 7 minutes instead of lost, during which the contractors were unable to adjust the cuff. Rather, Aswan nearly killed the match in its last seconds, with Mustafa Dewidar alone, had it not been for the successful exit of Abu Al Saud who prevented the goal.
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