"They are working on the pitch but not yet with us as a group so they are not very close to a return," he told a news conference on Friday. "I want to believe that by Champions League time, around the end of the month, they will be back. "It's not an ACL (anterior cruciate ligament), it's not a complete rupture of any structure of the knee, so we are not going as far as that. "The game is important because we need points to be the first of the last. "We are better than last season in every aspect -- points, position, number of goals scored, conceded -- so we have to try to stay there."

Source: Egypt Today February 02, 2018 15:22 UTC