20/5/2023–|Last updated: 20/5/202312:19 AM (Mecca time)
Al-Ahly qualified for the final match of the African Champions League for the fourth time in a row, after defeating Tunisia’s Esperance Club (1-0) in the second leg of the semi-final round of the tournament.
Al-Ahly had defeated Esperance (3-0) in Tunisia in the first leg, to snatch qualification after its superiority (4-0) in the aggregate of the two matches.
Hussein Al-Shahat scored the only goal of the match for Al-Ahly in the 22nd minute of the first half.
With the start of the second half, Al-Taraji tried to threaten Al-Ahly’s goal in an attempt to compensate for its delay, but Al-Ahly players soon regained control of the course of the match and calmed the game through short passes between the players, so that the play was confined to the middle of the field.
The play was confined to the middle of the field until the 60th minute came, which witnessed an attacking attempt by Al-Ahly, when Mohamed Hani penetrated the ball from the right-hand survivor and passed a cross ball inside the six-yard area, but Kahraba failed to deal with it, missing the opportunity for a second goal for Al-Ahly.
-Al-Ahly almost scored the second goal in the 68th minute, when I played a through pass behind the Esperance defenders to Kahraba so that he could control it and dodge Dabashi, but he slipped on the field and passed it to Hussein Al-Shahat, who hit the ball towards the goal, but Mohamed Amin Togay, the Esperance defender, pushed it away from the goal line. with his head.
-The 87th minute saw an opportunity for Al-Ahly when Yasser Ibrahim hit a powerful ball from a direct free kick from outside the penalty area, but it went over the crossbar.
Ahmed Abdel-Qader missed the opportunity to score the second goal in the 88th minute. After a series of passes inside the Esperance penalty area, the ball reached Abdel-Qader, who hit a powerful ball, but it crossed the crossbar.
In the last minute of the match, Kahraba penetrated the ball from the left side, entered the Esperance penalty area, and hit a powerful ground ball that was brilliantly saved by Dabashi.
The remaining time of the second half passed without anything new before the referee blew the whistle at the end of the match, with Al-Ahly winning with a clean goal.
Al-Ahly will meet the winner of the other match that brings together the South African Sun Downs and Moroccan Wydad, as the first-leg match ended in a goalless draw in Casablanca, and the return match will be held today, Saturday, in South Africa.
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