Egypt shock world champs Italy in Confederations Cup

Egypt shocked Italy 1-0 yesterday as the World Champions cracked under pressure to leave their Confederations Cup fate in limbo.

Egypt shocked Italy 1-0 yesterday as the World Champions cracked under pressure to leave their Confederations Cup fate in limbo.

Mohamed Homos was the Egyptian hero with his 40th minute header enough to hand them a famous victory in

Egyptian midfielder Mohamed Homos (left) heads to score the only goal of the match against World Champions Italy in the FIFA Confederations Cup at the Ellis Park Stadium in Johannesburg yesterday.

front of 51,000 fans, but they also had goalkeeper Essam al-Hadary to thank for pulling off some fine saves.

Egypt and Italy are now level on three points in Group B with the Pharoahs favourites to go through to the semi-finals. They face the United States on Sunday while Italy must play Brazil, who have two wins out of two so far.

"We are honoured because this was a victory against the world champions," Egypt deputy coach Shawky Gharib said.

"We played a tactical match and our concentration levels were very high. We played better than them and this will go down as part of Egyptian history."

Italy coach Marcello Lippiu00a0 was disappointed. "We had a good beginning in which we created opportunities. But we were not very aggressive. We didn't take the initiative.," Lippi said.

In the day's first match, Brazil beat USA 3-0.