The Zamalek Chronicle
Match23 Oct 2027
Zamalek make it 10 in a row
Momentum is a hard thing to buy and an easy thing to lose, and right now Zamalek have 10 straight wins of it.
Market25 Oct 2027
Oufa Shobeir hands in a written request
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Zamalek can pretend not to have heard.
Squad25 Oct 2027
Giorgos Giakoumakis is carrying Zamalek
21 goals and a season average of 7.61. Form like that gets noticed well beyond this town.
Match23 Oct 2027
Giorgos Giakoumakis settles it late for Zamalek
The 85th minute, half the ground already edging towards the exits, and Giorgos Giakoumakis decided nobody was going anywhere. Aswan had no time left to answer.
Player ratings25 Oct 2027
Gerónimo Rivera beats them one at a time
Successful dribbles: 26. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Match23 Oct 2027
Zamalek keep winning on the road
5 away wins in a row. Travelling support is the truest kind, and this season it is being repaid in the only currency that counts.
Squad25 Oct 2027
Joseph Aidoo 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 Zamalek this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad25 Oct 2027
Ali El Hadary out for 33 days
The medical room confirms 33 days on the sidelines for Ali El Hadary, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
Match23 Oct 2027
Zamalek find a way past Aswan
Aswan made Zamalek work for it, but the scoreboard read 2‑1 at the end and the table does not ask how.
In brief
- Squad A row about effort at Zamalek
- Player ratings Ninety minutes of Oday Dabbagh at his very best
- Player ratings Adam Kaied was on a different afternoon to everybody else