Percy Tau has finally returned to Al Ahly’s match day squad after his long injury layoff.
The South African winger is yet to feature under new coach Ricardo Soares after picking up an injury towards the end of June.
Tau had returned to team training a few weeks ago but was seemingly not ready to step up his recovery fast enough to be included in match day squads.
Al Ahly face Pharco onThursday after falling 11 points behind Zamalek, with two games in hand.
Even if they would win both games, they would still have a five-point gap to log leaders Zamalek, who seem destined to defend their league title.
Al Ahly won just three of their last seven league games during which Tau was not available.