The Ittihad Herald
Match10 Oct 2026
4 matches without a win for Ittihad
The run now stands at 4, and the questions being asked around Ittihad are no longer polite ones.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Mahmoud Alaa 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 Ittihad this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Real improvement from Adham Alaa at Ittihad
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Adham Alaa is 20, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Words at Ittihad training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Canaria 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.
Player ratings12 Oct 2026
Afsha 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.
Match10 Oct 2026
Ittihad draw a blank against Smouha
The crowd waited for a goal that never came. Smouha defended in numbers and left with what they came for, and the two sides could be playing still without troubling a scorer.
In brief
- Squad Fady Farid knocks on the manager’s door
- Market The Ahmed Menshawi talk will not go away