CAIRO, 25 August 2020: Al-Ittihad of Alexandria won the Basketball Egyptian Cup title over Al-Ahly, with a score of 76-73 in an exciting match in its last minutes.
Al-Ittihad won the cup for the first time since 2012, while Al-Ahly failed to win the title and lost the final for the second year in a row.
The match began as equal between the two teams in the first quarter of the match before Al-Ittihad Al-Alexandria won the second quarter, which ended 49-36.
In the second half of the match, Al-Ahly returned again and succeeded in reducing the difference more than once, until it reached only two points, but the Alexandrian team won the title by 3 points at the end.
Al-Ittihad of Alexandria missed their American player, Marvel Harris, due to his late arrival due to flight conditions, as he arrived at dawn, and Ahmed Marei, the team's coach, preferred to rest him in the Super League.
Al-Ahly won the Egypt Cup last time in 2018 and reached the final of the tournament in the last 5 copies.
As for Smouha, they won the bronze medal over Sporting in the third and fourth place match.
Be Social
Comments
Leave a Comment