Marcel Koller, Al Ahly’s football first team head coach, spoke following the team’s 1-0 win over Aswan in the second fixture of the Egyptian Premier League.

In his post-match press conference, Koller gave his opinion on the team’s performance in the game and talked about the reason behind why he replaced Aliou Dieng during half-time.

“We have several things that we need to improve. We are still working on getting the team to be in the best shape in the upcoming matches despite of today’s victory.”

“Aswan played a good defensive game and they were able to remain in the game till the end, as we only were leading by one goal.”

“I preferred to take off Aliou Dieng, as he felt pain in his hamstring and we didn’t want his injury to develop furthermore.”

“Finally, we focus on every match on it’s own. I’m keen to give everyone the chance to play while selecting the line-up before each match especially that we have a talented squad of players.”