The El Dakhleya Courier
Match24 Nov 2029
No end in sight to El Dakhleya's wait for a win
9 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at El Dakhleya has to find a result from somewhere.
Match21 Nov 2029
El Dakhleya bow out of the cup
Zamalek go through and El Dakhleya go home, 0‑2 the scoreline that did it. The dressing room will call the league the priority now, because that is what dressing rooms say.
Market26 Nov 2029
Only the photograph left for Mahmoud El Alamy
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Mahmoud El Alamy will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around El Dakhleya the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad26 Nov 2029
Words exchanged at El Dakhleya
Sherif Dabo 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.
Squad26 Nov 2029
A row about effort at El Dakhleya
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Moaz Ateya was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad26 Nov 2029
Time is catching up with Mohamed Shika
Everybody at El Dakhleya saw it before anybody said it, which is how this always goes. At 36 the decline is real and measurable — 3 points — and the only question left is how the club handles somebody it owes a great deal to.
Player ratings26 Nov 2029
Reda Mohamed runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 18. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Player ratings26 Nov 2029
Nobody on the pitch touched Mohamed Atef
7.77, and no serious argument from anybody who was there. El Dakhleya had eleven men on the pitch and one of them decided how it went.
Match24 Nov 2029
Mohamed Atef rescues a point for El Dakhleya
It needed Mohamed Atef to find the net to bring anything home at all: 1‑1 against Military Production, and half the dressing room will call it a point won.
In brief
- The dugout Karim Mohsen on the point
- The dugout Abdelnasr Mohamed dropped after a run of poor form
- The dugout No hiding place for Bassem Warda