Percy Tau made a substitute appearance for Al Ahly as they climbed top of the Egyptian Premier League after beating Dakhleya 4-1 on Wednesday.
Tau replaced two-goal scorer Mohamed Sherif in the 71st minute away at Suez New Stadium.
The Bafana Bafana talisman came in while Al Ahly led comfortably 4-1 in the third league game of the season.
SECOND APPEARANCE
It was the second league appearance for Tau who has bounced back to action after a lengthy injury lay-off.
Sherif had scored alongside Hamdi Fathi and Karim Fouad as the Reds replaced rivals Zamalek at the sumit.
Funom Alfred grabbed the newly-promoted Dakhleya’s consolation in front of their home crowd.
Alfred’s goal finally breached Al Ahly’s defence, ending their a five-game run without conceding.
ZAMALEK DROP POINTS
The holders Zamalek had led the log table since the start of the season.
However, the going is getting tough as the defending champions also lost 2-0 to Ahly last week to surrender the Egyptian Super Cup.
Zamalek drew 1-1 with NPPI also on Wednesday to slide to third place down the table.
Ahmed Sayed put Zamalek in front with a strike on the stroke of half-time.
However, NPPI equalized through Ahmed Khalil with five minutes from full time.
Al Ahly took advantage of the rivals slip up to go two points clear on nine points from three straight wins.
Second-placed Al Ittihad joined Al Ahly on nine points following their 3-1 win over Gaish on Monday.
STARTING LINEUPS
Dakhleya: Reda El Sayed – Allan Kyambadde, Mohamed Naguib, Mohamed Nosseir (Eric Serge 60), Abdelaziz El Sayed, Kelechi Chimezie, Mahmoud Talaat, Christopher John, Samir Fekri (Walid Mostafa 81), Funom Alfred (Ahmed Sayed 59), Hussein Ragab (Mostafa Fawzy 69).
Ahly: Mohamed El Shennawy, Akram Tawfik, Mahmoud Metwalli (Mohamed Hani 61), Yasser Ibrahim, Mohamed Ashraf, Hamdi Fathi, Mohamed Fakhri ( Ahmed “Kouka” Nabil 79), Mohamed “Afsha” Magdi, Karim Fouad (Shady Hussein 79), Bruno Savio (Hossam Hassan 60), Mohamed Sherif (Percy Tau 71).
