Amr Obaid (Cairo)
Zamalek beat its traditional rival, Al-Ahly, in the Egypt Cup 2020-2021 final, to add the title to the league championship for the previous season, and the achievement of the “rare double” is achieved for the fourth time in its history, while more “special numbers” await him if he is crowned with the league and the season cup. current also.
Zamalek crowned the Egyptian Cup champion by defeating Al-Ahly 2-1, to record a number he had missed since the “thirties of the last century”, after seizing the cup at the expense of his “traditional rival” 3 times in a row, in 2015, 2016 and 2022, which he previously achieved during the final matches in 1932. and 1935 and 1938.
The “White Knight” regained the winning tone against the “Red Genie” after 698 days, which witnessed Al-Ahly’s victory 3 times, and a draw in two matches during the 5 confrontations that brought them together, after the last victory of Zamalek in the “Summer 2020”, which came 3-1 in the “21st round”. From the Egyptian Premier League, and Zamalek also won the “double” of the League and Cup 4 times in its history, but the current one may be the most difficult ever, after many administrative and technical changes, and subjected to the sanctions of the International Federation “FIFA”, by suspending the players’ registration for two periods, in addition to the departure of its top stars. And financial crises!
The “double” 2020-2021 came at the expense of the “Giant of the Red Castle”, where the “King of the White Castle” excelled in the previous league, by only 4 points, after a “fire struggle” that remained burning until the last rounds, then returned to win the cup 2-1 He also, and the same thing was repeated in the 2014-2015 season, but the difference between Zamalek and Al-Ahly at the top at the end of the league was 8 points, and the cup title was decided early in the first half with two goals, scored by his former player Basem Morsi during the first 34 minutes, to end the confrontation with a score of 2. -0.
It is true that “Al-Abyad” won the league title in the 1987-1988 season by a difference in goals from “Al-Ahmar”, after defeating it in the last matches of the tournament, but it won the cup with one goal in the final against the “Al-Ittihad” of Alexandria, after Al-Ahly was excluded from the first round by Al-Masry “Al-Portsaidi”, and during the “first double” in the 1959-1960 season, Zamalek won the league by one point from Tersana, away from Al-Ahly “third” by 6 points, and also snatched the cup from the Olympic 3-2 in the final, after the Alexandrian team overcame “Red” obstacle in the semi-finals.
Zamalek is waiting for several “special numbers” during the next month, because it is the leader in the current version of the Egyptian League, and if it wins the title, it will be the second in a row for the first time in 18 years, and the fourth in its history as well, and if he manages to add the “2021-2022 Cup” he will score “a consecutive double.” » Unprecedented in his career at all.
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