Pitso Mosimane, Al Ahly's head coach, stated that the players showed real character in the game against Al Ittihad Alexandria Club, which ended with a 2-1 win for the Red Eagles. 

"We had a good game against Al Ittihad. We scored two goals and we were able to add more goals. We played good games in the previous period but we failed to win them so it is an important victory." 

"When we were 2-0 up, we had much confidence and went forward and scored the third but it was disallowed." 

"Yasser played a good game and we didn’t need to take him out. However, Ayman needed to take some playing time to prepare him for the upcoming decisive matches against Zamalek and Mamelodi Sundowns." 

"The same applies to Hany, he was okay. However, he had two yellow cards previously so we had to take him out. Marwan and Salah were okay and I was impressed with Wahid's performance." 

"I took Hussein out to give him some rest and I wanted to do the same with Afsha but Salah Mohsen was injured so I decided to keep Afsha in the game." 

"Also, Mohamed Sherif did not start against Al Ittihad for technical reasons related to the overwhelmed schedule that we are following." 

“Unfortunately, we conceded a goal but thankfully it didn’t affect the overall result of the game.”

"Finally, we had a very good game tonight. We had a good first half and we were better in the second half and we managed to find cracks in their defence to score two goals."