Egypt is losing... and El-Shennawy is the only bright spot against Brazil

Today, the Egyptian national football team bid farewell to the quarter-finals of the football competitions in the Tokyo Olympics, losing from Brazil with a goal without a response in the match that brought them together at Saitama Stadium in 2002. The (Pharaohs) team did not provide anything to intercede for it to overcome the obstacle of Brazil, after it presented A mediocre performance in which his players were not at their best levels, except for goalkeeper Mohamed El-Shennawy, who was one of the reasons that the result stopped at one goal after blocking many dangerous opportunities on his goal.

And imposed the same reality at the beginning of the match, which dominated the Seleção in the course of the game, amid a clear retreat from the players of the Egyptian team, who defended their goal valiantly to prevent receiving any early goal.

The strategy of the Egyptian coach, Shawky Gharib, explained the narrowing of the spaces in front of the Brazilian players, while relying on the counter-attacks that almost hit goalkeeper Santos, through a header played by Akram Tawfiq, which passed along the left post.

But the Egyptian team was unable to continue threatening the Brazilian team, which returned to the danger again through a powerful shot by Richarlison from inside the box, and Mohamed El-Shennawy removed it to a corner.

Before the end of the first half, Brazil managed to take advantage of a line from the midfield duo Ammar Hamdi and Akram Tawfik in the coverage, so that Seleção striker Matthews could ably place it to the right of El-Shennawy.

The goalkeeper of the Egyptian national team returned to shine again to tackle more than one individual after the Brazilian players succeeded in knowing how to strike the Pharaohs’ defense through the longitudinal balls between the trio Osama Galal, Ahmed Hegazy and Mahmoud Al-Wansh. Middle Douglas.

The Egyptian team appeared in a different way in the last minutes thanks to the changes made by the technical staff with the descent of the duo Nasser Maher and Nasser Mansi, and Salah Mohsen threatened the Brazil goal in those minutes with a shot from outside the box that the goalkeeper grabbed with difficulty, but the time after that was not enough to modify the result.

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