yes we lost against malawi but it isn’t the end of the world and we shouldn’t mourn or something because they will come to Cairo stadium and everyone will know his real size. all i hope is that the media doesn’t put it all on hassan shehata and make it his fault, really the conditions doesn’t help.
we entered this match missing all our attackers also we are missing ahmed fathi,mohamed shawky ,sayed mowad and shady mohamed and that is 3/4 of the team who won the african cup; so it was logical that we don’t score or impress, but what shocked me is that we conceded. i am NOT saying this as an excuse but if any team in the world misses this amount of players they won’t certainly be at their top form.
i didn’t watch the match because i was very busy but generally we aren’t this kind of team who play good away from home, remember the african cup qualifiers we equalized in all our away matches. but when these teams come home i don’t need to talk about how they look like; even the biggest in the continent fear cairo stadium ask cameroon and cote d’ivoire.
to put it straight we shouldn’t be upset at all from this result and don’t start worrying about qualification for these reasons:
1- malawi isn’t a big team and not even a football team,they are now on top of the group but wait till the end and as one reader said who laughs last laughs long.
2- ALL big teams stumbled in this round, check the results of cameroon, cote d’ivoire, morocco,angola and ghana, also remember that tunisia lost in their first match at home from burkina faso!!. the question is: can you imagine these teams crashing out of the qualifiers?? i guess no.
3- mallawi won against the reserve team except el hadary and defense line
4- we will win (insha2 Allah) the 3 coming matches including congo in kinchasa because this match will be in September when we restore all our players and show what we can offer.
5- when our players feel danger they shine but as long as they feel things are easy going….. u know!!
6- i am sure that the players will have some hard time from hassan shehata after this loss, if not it will be from the media and everybody will be back to his mind; in some way we needed this win to refresh ourselves.
7- even the biggest teams in the world have difficulties in qualifiers, look at italy in euro 2008 qualifiers or even look at england which didn’t qualify at all!!.
now i have to reply to some comments i read:
1- i wasn’t arrogant or underestimating the opponent when i said malawi isn’t a match for egypt because they really aren’t, check history if u want. in fact, who started it anyway, this coach who said we will burn the Egyptian team!!!!. i dare you to ask anyone in this world where is malawi? if he even recognize it that would be an achievement for you guys!!
2- to prove i wasn’t arrogant, i never mentioned in my post the word champions!!
3- if there are all these malawi fans on the world cup blog, why don’t you start a blog???. oh wait, who cares about malawi anyway!!!!
4- it is natural how everybody hates the champions, see how italy is hated after they won the world cup. but unfortunately haters will continue their hate until 2010!!!!
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