The Egyptian national team will face Sierra Leone in the African qualifiers for the 2026 World Cup out of revenge, as it has bad memories of facing the same team 12 years ago.
The Egyptian national team will host Sierra Leone the day after tomorrow, Sunday, in a match that will be held in Liberia due to the unsuitable stadiums in Sierra Leone.
The match comes within the second round of the first group of qualifiers for the 2026 World Cup.
The Egyptian national team enters Sunday’s match after a sweeping victory over Djibouti by a clean six-pointer yesterday, Thursday, in the first round.
The Egyptian national team seeks to take advantage of its high morale after the great victory over Djibouti in order to achieve the first victory in its history at the expense of Sierra Leone.
The Egyptian and Sierra Leone national teams met in only two matches before, which came in the 2012 African Cup of Nations qualifiers, but the Pharaohs were unable to win any match.
The Egyptian national team, led by Hassan Shehata, tied with Sierra Leone 1-1 in the first leg of the qualifiers in September 2010, while Mahmoud Fathallah scored the only goal for the Pharaohs.
The Egyptian national team played the match with a squad that included a number of legends from the golden generation, headed by Mohamed Aboutrika, Ahmed Hassan, Wael Gomaa, and Essam El-Hadary.
The Egyptian national team played the return match, which came in the fifth round of qualifiers, with the Olympic team, led by Hani Ramzy at the time, after it was confirmed that the Pharaohs failed to qualify for the finals.
The Egyptian team lost at the time with a score of 1-2 September 2011, as Marwan Mohsen scored the team’s only goal.
The Egyptian national team was then in the seventh group of the qualifiers, alongside the national teams of Sierra Leone, Niger, and South Africa.
The Egyptian team is at the bottom of the group with 5 points, while the other three teams each have 9 points.
The Egyptian national team with the Golden Generation, which won three consecutive titles in the African Cup of Nations in 2006, 2008 and 2010, failed to qualify for the 2012 edition, which was held in Equatorial Guinea and Gabon, in a major surprise.
The failure of the Egyptian national team was historic, not only because it was the champion of the tournament in the previous three editions, but because it was the first time that the Pharaohs failed to qualify since the Ghana 1978 edition.
2023-11-17 09:55:00
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