{"id":1164640,"date":"2026-02-23T23:30:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-24T04:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/sports\/?p=1164640"},"modified":"2026-02-23T23:30:00","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T04:30:00","slug":"egyptian-premier-league-one-goal-sends-al-ahly-top-as-the-title-race-heats-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/sports\/egyptian-premier-league-one-goal-sends-al-ahly-top-as-the-title-race-heats-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Egyptian Premier League: One goal sends Al Ahly top as the title race heats up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Egyptian Premier League: One goal sends Al Ahly top as the title race heats up<\/p>\n<p>Champions tighten grip on the title race<\/p>\n<p>Egyptian Premier League: One goal sends Al Ahly top as the title race heats up<\/p>\n<p>Al Ahly moved to the top of the Egyptian Premier League table after 1-0 victory over Smouha on Monday.<\/p>\n<h2>Al Ahly take control of the title race<\/h2>\n<p>Al Ahly climbed to the top of the Egyptian Premier League standings after securing hard-fought 1-0 win against Smouha.<\/p>\n<p>The victory marked Al Ahly\u2019s third consecutive league win this season and their 10th overall victory in the competition. Alongside six draw and one defeat, the result strengthened the champions position in the title race.<\/p>\n<p>With this win, Al Ahly raised their tally to 36 point from 17 match moving one point clear at the top of the table.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AlAhlyEnglish\/status\/2026047712072769770?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\"><\/a><\/p>\n<h2>Pressure on Ceramica Cleopatra &amp; Zamalek<\/h2>\n<p>Al Ahly\u2019s rise to first place pushed Ceramica Cleopatra down to second place with 35 point having played the same number of matches.<\/p>\n<p>Zamalek sit third with 34 point from 16 match, level on points with Pyramids who also have 34 point after 16 game.<\/p>\n<p>The close gap between the top four team keeps the title race wide open as the season continues.<\/p>\n<h2>Egyptian Premier League Standings (Top 5)<\/h2>\n<p>Al Ahly: 36Ceramica Cleopatra: 35Zamalek: 34Pyramids: 34Wadi Degla: 27<\/p>\n<p>\u200b<a href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/articles\/egyptian-premier-league-one-goal-233000834.html\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/articles\/egyptian-premier-league-one-goal-233000834.html<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Egyptian Premier League: One goal sends Al Ahly top as the title race heats up Champions tighten grip on the title race Egyptian Premier League:&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":1164641,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1164640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","wpcat-1-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1164640","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1164640"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1164640\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1164641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1164640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1164640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1164640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}