Achraf Lazaar

Left Back - Wadi Degla
10 Oct 2026
Saturday
Process

Marked for Achraf Lazaar

8 Edition

The Wadi Degla Gazette

21 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Player ratings

Both of them Abdennour Iheb Belhocini's — 8.98

2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.98, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.

Squad

Tempers go at Wadi Degla

Franck Boli 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.

Match

6 unbeaten for Wadi Degla

Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 6 matches without defeat is a foundation Wadi Degla did not have in the autumn.

Squad

Words at Wadi Degla training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Achraf Lazaar 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

Wadi Degla see off Ghazl El Mahalla

Three points for Wadi Degla, 2‑1 the final word against Ghazl El Mahalla in a contest settled by the finer margins.

Squad

No hiding place for Flavio Santos

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

Squad

Flavio Santos 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.

Player ratings

Ahmed Farouk could not find anything

5.71. 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.

Market

The shop window has Ibrahim El Bahnasi in it

Wadi Degla have let the market know Ibrahim El Bahnasi can be had. No price in the advert, but everyone in the trade knows roughly what it says.

In brief

Back issues
5 Edition

The Wadi Degla Gazette

31 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Market

Wadi Degla say no — this time

The offer from Ismaily for Amr Hossam was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.

Market

Kamal Aboul Fatouh asks to leave Wadi Degla

“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.

Squad

Franck Boli 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 Wadi Degla this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Achraf Lazaar 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.

Player ratings

Danijel Miškić was immovable

20 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.

Match

Flavio Santos the difference as Wadi Degla beat Military Production

Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Flavio Santos. 1‑0 against Military Production, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.

Squad

Seif Teka 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 ratings

Franck Boli could have had three

7 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.

Squad

Wadi Degla pick somebody else ahead of Ibrahim El Bahnasi

There is no complaint available here and everybody involved knows it, which does not make the walk to the bench any shorter. Form is the only currency in football that cannot be borrowed against.

In brief

4 Edition

The Wadi Degla Gazette

24 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

Ahmed Ayman 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 Wadi Degla can pretend not to have heard.

Market

Wadi Degla say no — this time

The offer from Gazelle for Ziad Mohamed was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.

Squad

Tempers go at Wadi Degla

Franck Boli 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.

Squad

Achraf Lazaar 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 ratings

Ahmed Scholes in the eights

A performance of 8.24 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.

Player ratings

The chances came and went for Franck Boli

10 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.

Squad

Words at Wadi Degla training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Kano 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 ratings

Adam El Mallah turns it into his own net

Nobody's fault and entirely his: a goal that goes into the book with his name against it and nothing about it intended. Wadi Degla deserved better, and so did he.

Market

Omar Adly told to find a new club

“They were honest with me, and I would rather know.” Omar Adly has been informed he is not in the manager's thinking at Wadi Degla.

In brief