Islam Abdallah

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10 Oct 2026
Saturday
Process

Marked for Islam Abdallah

10 Edition

The Petrojet Post

5 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

A fracture rules Ammar Hamdy out for 106 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Petrojet will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Match

The wait goes on for Petrojet

6 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.

Squad

Tawfik Mohamed in a row with a teammate

It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Petrojet this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Words at Petrojet training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Ahmed Yassin is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.

Squad

No hiding place for Islam Abdallah

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Islam Abdallah, and the manager let it.

Player ratings

Badr Mousa runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 12. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Match

Petrojet draw a blank against ENPPI

The crowd waited for a goal that never came. ENPPI defended in numbers and left with what they came for, and the two sides could be playing still without troubling a scorer.

Player ratings

The chances came and went for Rasheed Ahmed

6 shots, and a count that reads like a good afternoon until you check the other column. Strikers survive weeks like this on the understanding that the chances keep arriving; the day they stop is the day it becomes a problem.

Player ratings

Ahmed Bahbah could not find anything

5.58. Every footballer has these and most of them happen away from a full ground; his did not, and he will be aware of that all week.

In brief

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The Petrojet Post

14 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

A fracture rules Ammar Hamdy out for 129 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Petrojet will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Squad

Ahmed Yassin falls out with a teammate over standards

The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.

Squad

No hiding place for Ahmed Yassin

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Ahmed Yassin, and the manager let it.

Match

Petrojet come up short against Smouha

Smouha left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

Squad

Tempers go at Petrojet

Mohamed Ali Okasha was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.

Player ratings

Mostafa El Badry runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 15. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Player ratings

Rasheed Ahmed could have had three

6 attempts, none of them in. He got into the right places all afternoon, which is the hard part, and did the easy part badly — and that is the version of a bad day a manager can live with.

Player ratings

Off the pace: Samir Mohamed

A mark of 5.60 tells the story without any need for embellishment. He will want the tape of this one quietly lost.

Player ratings

An afternoon Gabriel Chukwudi will want back

Marked 5.78. Nothing he attempted worked and by the hour mark he had stopped attempting much, which is the part a manager notices rather than the mistakes.

In brief

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The Petrojet Post

24 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Market

Islam Abdallah puts it in writing

“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Petrojet, and it is not being withdrawn.

Player ratings

A first appearance Abdoulaye Diabaté will want to forget — 5.77

Everybody's debut is one of two stories and this was the other one. 5.77, and the only consolation available is that nobody's career has ever been decided by ninety minutes in a shirt he had just been given.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Badr Mousa

Successful dribbles: 22. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad

Rasheed Ahmed in a row with a teammate

It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Petrojet this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Words at Petrojet training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Ahmed Yassin is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.

Match

Petrojet find a way past Haras El Hodoud

Haras El Hodoud made Petrojet work for it, but the scoreboard read 1‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.

Player ratings

Tawfik Mohamed was immovable

19 times he got in the way of something. Centre-halves get written about when they make mistakes and ignored when they do not, so an afternoon like this needs saying out loud: he is the reason the scoreline reads as it does.

Player ratings

Rasheed Ahmed was on a different afternoon to everybody else

8.22. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.

Squad

Omar Reda dropped after a run of poor form

The one version of being left out a player cannot argue with, and the one he takes worst. Somebody else has been better and the team sheet says so, in public, every week until it changes.

In brief

2 Edition

The Petrojet Post

10 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

ES Mostaganem come back empty-handed

The bid was some way short and Petrojet did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.

Squad

Mostafa El Badry signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Mostafa El Badry commits to Petrojet for another 3 years.

Squad

Ahmed Yassin in a row with a teammate

It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Petrojet this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Market

Mahmoud Shedid Qenawi moves on

Masr El Makasa pay $19.0K, and the deal is done. The number reads well on a balance sheet; whether it reads well on the pitch is next season's question.

Squad

The manager makes an example of Mostafa El Badry

“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.

Market

The clock runs on Badr Mousa's contract

48 months left and silence from upstairs — no offer, no talks, nothing for his people to answer. Clubs that let a calendar do their negotiating usually end up negotiating with the calendar.

In brief