The_Knight
Senior Squad
Parra Power said:To the Ahly guys on here.... i'm curious, how does this team compare to last year? Is it significantly stronger/weaker, or at around the same level?
As for the final.... I was led to believe that this match was being shown live. Obviously not. 0-0 at Half Time but damn i'm enjoying it. I heart this tournament .
Ahly have performed MUCH better than last year's World Cup (Ahly is the 1st team to make it twice)... Last year's performance was due to mental pressure from the supporters who went as far as expecting the club to win the championship (Ahly has dominated every single African and Egyptian Championship for an entire century)
However, on the players' level, the team's strength is a bit weaker than last year with many serious injuries affecting 5 key players for the duration of the season.
On the other hand, these injuries were compensated by a table-turning performance by Angolian Flavio. (Last year, he was awful. Missed every no-brainer chance on goal. Scored only one goal unintentionally in the entire season) This year, it's like he's another player. Can't get enough of scoring in every match, in every tournament. Perfect ball control. He's amazing.
Of course AboTreika (African Player of the year nominee) could -all alone- compensate for the loss of an entire team in injuries, talk about 5 key players (including Barakat).
Note that Al-Ahly formed the backbone of the Egyptian National team that won this year's CAF Nations Cup (also an African record).
We're all extremely happy with this world-class performance from the African club of the century in this year's world cup... We got the bronze
As for the final, I didn't watch it, but I just can't believe how it ended. This happened last year with Liverpool too. But Barcelona?? Why??
Looks like they began the match knowing absolutely nothing about their opponent. It may have worked with Club America, but not with a team like Inter. What a disappointment.
I hope we make it to next year's world cup in Brazil
Congrats to Inter