Controversial Match Between Zamalek and The Arab Contractors Sparks Outrage: Request for Replay and Referee Investigation

2023-09-26 02:17:46

The Arab Contractors dealt a strong shock to Zamalek following it snatched the equalizer point in the fatal time from the fangs of its host, “Al-Abyad”, with a score of (1-1), at Cairo Stadium in the second round of the Egyptian League.

Zamalek took the lead through Youssef Ibrahim “Obama” in the 83rd minute, and Ahmed Alaa, the Mokawloon player, equalized in the ninth minute of stoppage time.

The match witnessed a widespread arbitration controversy following referee Amin Omar refused to award a penalty kick to Zamalek following Mohamed Ashraf (Rouqa)’s shot, which was returned by the Mokawloon defender with his hand, in addition to canceling a goal scored by Mostafa Shalaby.

The Egyptian website Velgol revealed that Zamalek submitted a request to the Football Association and the Egyptian Professional Clubs Association to replay its match once morest the Arab Contractors to replay the match.

He added: “Zamalek filed a protest once morest Amin Omar, the match referee, through an official letter to the Football Association and the Club Association, according to what Zamalek football director Abdel Wahed Al-Sayed said.”

The letter included 3 requests from Zamalek, which are to replay the Arab Contractors match according to the regulations due to the impact of refereeing errors on the outcome of the match in addition to the presence of errors in applying the law, and the second request to refer referee Amin Omar to investigation, and finally not to assign any other Zamalek match to referee Amin Omar. .

Abdul Wahed Al-Sayed said: “I am filing a protest once morest Amin Omar because of his conversation with the video technology referee regarding the penalty kick that he did not award to the team, and we will attach a recording of the incident to the protest.”

He continued: “The referee issued six yellow cards to Zamalek players in the match and deliberately intimidated the team’s players. He also counted more stoppage time than the time announced at the end of the match.”

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