El Gouna defeats Petrojet with a goal in the first half of the league match.

El Gouna finished the first half leading Petrojet by a single goal in their match at Borg El Arab Stadium, part of the eighth round of the first phase of the Egyptian Premier League.

Marwan Mohsen put El Gouna ahead by scoring in the 36th minute from a penalty awarded by the referee after a handball by a Petrojet defender. He executed the penalty expertly to the right of Amgad Youssef, who attempted to reach it but the ball found the back of the net.

Petrojet's lineup against El Gouna

Goalkeeper: Amgad Youssef
Defense: Abdel Rahman Medhat, Mahmoud Awkal, Ahmed Shoukry, Ziad Tarek
Midfield: Ibrahim Abbas, Abdel Rahman Keshkesh, Mostafa Sadafa, Fathi Gamal, Ahmed Younes
Attack: Joshua
Substitutes: Abdel Aziz Zizo, Mahmoud Alaa, Ali Maheran, Mohamed Eid, Ismail Ashraf, Ahmed Magdy, Ahmed Hamzaoui, Abou Bakr Fawzy, Bondi
 

El Gouna's lineup against Petrojet

Goalkeeper: Islam Emad.
Defense: Samuel Ogu, Islam Abu Salama, Alpha Touray, Ahmed Eid.
Midfield: Nour El Sayed, Michael Ayok, Omar Magdy, Ali El Zahdi
Attack: Ahmed Gamal, Marwan Mohsen.
Substitutes: Ahmed Masoud, Ahmed Ghoneim, Youssef Afifi, Marwan Essam, David Simukonda, Telekwi, Alaa Shaaban, Salah Zayed, Islam Hisham.

Petrojet sits in sixteenth place with 5 points, earned from one win, two draws, and four losses, while El Gouna is at the bottom of the table in twentieth place with 2 points, collected from two draws and five losses, without a win in their first 7 rounds.