Friday 27/March/2026 – 01:41 PM
The countdown continues for the friendly match that will bring together the Egyptian national team at 7:30 pm today, Friday, with the Saudi national team, which will be held at Al-Enmaa Stadium in Jeddah, as part of the two teams’ preparations for the 2026 World Cup.
News coming from within the Egyptian national team camp in Saudi Arabia indicates that Hossam Hassan, the Egyptian national team coach, intends to play the Saudi Arabia match with two formations over the course of the 90-minute match.
Friendly Egypt national team against Saudi Arabia
The tendency of Hossam Hassan and the Egyptian national team to try the largest number of players in the Saudi friendly was reinforced by the agreement made between the Egyptian and Saudi national teams to allow each team to make 11 substitutions during the match, which is equivalent to completely substituting the players of each team.
After the Egyptian national team players succeeded in reserving his seatThey won the World Cup for the fourth time in their history, deservedly and without any loss in the first group of the African qualifiers at the expense of the teams of Burkina Faso, Guinea Bissau, Sierra Leone, Ethiopia and Djibouti. The Pharaohs hope to make the most possible benefit from today’s match against a strong and capable competitor, despite the absence of the team’s captain and first star Mohamed Salah, the English Liverpool striker and Egypt’s top scorer in the qualifiers with 9 goals, as well as the main left back Mohamed Hamdy, who suffered a severe knee injury during the finals. The Nations of Africa in Morocco at the beginning of this year, which the seven-time champions of the continent finished in fourth place.
Despite these circumstances, the Egyptian national team traveled to Jeddah with a list of players expected to shine in the World Cup alongside Salah, led by Nice’s French defender Mohamed Abdel Moneim, his back line mate, Rami Baya, the Emirati Al Ain player, Mostafa Mohamed, the French Nantes striker, and the newcomer Haitham Hassan, the Spanish Real Oviedo player, as well as Omar Marmoush, the English Manchester City striker. Among the Egyptian League’s stars are goalkeepers Mohamed El-Shenawy, Mostafa Schubert, Ahmed Fattouh, Marwan Attia, Imam Ashour, and Ahmed Sayed. Zizou and Mahmoud Hassan Trezeguet.
