The Ittihad Herald
Squad21 Sep 2026
The knee: Mabululu out for 124 days
124 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Ittihad lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Words exchanged at Ittihad
Mabululu and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Match19 Sep 2026
Ittihad find a way past El Masry
El Masry made Ittihad work for it, but the scoreboard read 2‑1 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Squad21 Sep 2026
200 appearances for Blessing Eleke
200 games in these colours. Service of that kind gets rarer every season, and the crowd knows it.
Squad21 Sep 2026
A row about effort at Ittihad
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Mohamed Tony was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
Abdelrahman Magdy in the eights
A performance of 8.15 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
The dugout21 Sep 2026
El Sayed El Hadary has his say
“We earned that. I asked them for a reaction and I got one, and now I want the same again on Saturday.” El Sayed El Hadary on a 2‑1 afternoon that pleased him more than he was prepared to show.
The dugout21 Sep 2026
Youssef Nader gets it from the manager
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
Blessing Eleke beats them one at a time
Successful dribbles: 12. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
In brief
- Looking ahead A reunion for Abdo Gouda
- The dugout Ahmed Hamdi left out for tactical reasons at Ittihad
- The dugout A door opens for Victor Okoro