In the 13th week of the domestic league, the battle for the summit is heating up. Ahmed Morsy has the latest The 13th week of the national league begins today with Enppi hosting Al-Gaish, the latter more confident after regaining the league lead. Ahli clashes with self-assured Aluminium in Cairo after their 2- 2 draw with Zamalek and Petrojet, who lost the lead to Al-Gaish, hosts Harras Al-Hedoud in hopes of regaining the top position. Al-Gaish, having played 11 matches, is on top of the league standings with 26 points, one point ahead of second-placed Petrojet and the same number of matches played. Ahli are in third with 24 points but have played only 10 matches while Zamalek come fourth with 21 points from 12 matches. In fifth is Ismaili who in 10 matches have 19 points. Tomorrow, Tersana meets Zamalek, Ismaili play Spinning Mehalla while Ittihad host Suez Cement in Alexandria. Misri are guests at Baladyet Mehalla and Egypt Telecom host the Arab Contractors. On Sunday, Ahli snatched a 4-3 overtime home victory over Enppi. Ahli who had a defensive shortage played without Ahmed El-Sayed, Shadi Mohamed and Ahmed Adel, all banned due to their second booking. In addition, Islam El-Shater and Reda El-Weeshi were out with injuries in addition to the departures to other clubs of Wael Gomaa and Hassan Mustafa. After just six minutes, Ahmed El-Mohamedi gave Enppi the lead when the sweeper Emad El-Nahhas gifted him possession instead of clearing a low cross. However, just before the interval, Mohamed Abu Treika levelled the score by heading an inch-perfect cross at the far post from Ahmed Belal. Again in the 47th minute Enppi regained the lead when the Ivorian striker Die Foneye got to the end of El-Mohamedi's low cross to poke underneath Essam El-Hadari, capitalising on dreadful marking by the inexperienced defender Mohamed Samir. Enppi had to play the match with 10 players after Mohamed Ibrahim was sent off for needlessly kicking the ball following the referee's whistle in the 48th minute. Substitute Emad Meteb equalised for Ahli in the 70th minute when Enppi keeper Mustafa Kamal terribly parried a cross into his path for an easy tap- in. Nine minutes later, Ahmed Belal put Ahli ahead when he chested a long ball into the path of Flavio, who went clear on goal only to be halted by Reda Gomaa. Belal stepped up to send the keeper the wrong way and converted the penalty. In the 83rd minute, Mohamed Samir rewarded Enppi a penalty, then compounded the problem by being sent off after bringing down his opponent. Mozambique defender Halilo converted the spot kick to level the score once again. But Ahli soon had another numerical advantage, when Enppi energetic midfielder Mohamed Sabet Sarokh received his marching orders due to a hard tackle on Meteb. In stoppage time, Flavio followed up his initial shot which was denied by Kamal to score the winner. The three points moved Ahli into third spot with 24 points, just two adrift of leaders Al-Gaish. Enppi lie in 10th place with 13 points. Newly-promoted Aluminium secured a dramatic 2-2 home draw with Zamalek. The visitors dominated the entire first-half and threatened Aluminium on several occasions. In the 31st minute, the talented striker Gamal Hamza put his team ahead when he sprung the offside trap to control Shikabala's pinpoint chip inside the area before slotting home past Mohamed Khalaf. At the beginning of the second half, Harbi Tawfik took advantage of some poor marking from Amr El-Safti to tower above the rest and head home a free-kick from the right. Zamalek coach Ruud Krol introduced veteran Abdul-Halim Ali instead of the fruitless Sherif Ashraf in a bid to revive Zamalek's attacking options. Abdul-Hamid put Zamalek ahead again in the 72nd minute on the rebound after Shikabala's shot from inside the area was parried by Khalaf into his path. But Aluminium grabbed the equaliser in stoppage time when Abdul-Kader side-footed a cross and the ball bounced off the turf before finding its way past the hapless Mohamed Abdul-Monsef. The result put Zamalek in fourth place with 21 points, while Aluminium lies eighth with 14 points. On the same day, Al-Gaish regained their Egyptian League leadership after overcoming Ittihad 2-1 as challengers Petrojet suffered a crushing 3-0 defeat to Ghazl Mehalla. An own goal by Sameh Youssef gave El-Gaish the lead in the 13th minute before Saeed Rabie levelled the score six minutes later. But Anwar Masoud sealed the victory for the military club four minutes past the hour mark. Ittihad's misery continued as they lie second from bottom on just seven points. Petrojet slumped from the perch. Mohamed Ateya opened the scoring in the 58th minute before Morsi Abdel-Latif extended the lead seven minutes later. Mohsen Hendawi completed the rout five minutes from time.
