The African Champions League.. Al-Ahly of Egypt crushes Tunisia’s Esperance by three and is very close to the final round (video) | CAF Champions League news

13/5/2023–|Last updated: 13/5/202301:30 AM (Mecca time)

The Egyptian Al-Ahly team placed one and a half feet in the final of the African Football Champions League, after defeating its host, Esperance de Tunis, (3-0) on Friday evening, in the first leg of the semi-finals of the tournament.

Al-Ahly advanced with a goal scored by South African Percy Tau in the eighth minute, then added the player Himself The second goal in the 55th minute, before Mahmoud Abdel Moneim Kahraba scored the third goal in the 75th minute.

The return match will be held, next Friday, in Cairo, where Al-Ahly will suffice to win or draw with any result, or lose by two goals to qualify for the final, while Esperance needs to win by more than 3 goals to pass to the final.

The start of the match was mediocre, and Al-Ahly quickly imposed control over the course of the match, but failed to launch any attack on the Esperance goal in the first five minutes, especially since the Esperance team relied on early pressure on the ball carrier, which led to the confinement of play at that time. .

The eighth minute witnessed Al-Ahly scoring the goal of progress when the ball reached Percy Tau inside the penalty area from the right side, to hit a creeping ball, which Sedky Dabashi, the Esperance goalkeeper, failed to deal with, as the ball hugged the net.

After the goal, the Esperance team intensified its offensive attempts in search of scoring the equalizer, and almost scored it in the 13th minute when it played a cross from the right side, Moataz Zadam rose to it and met it with a header that Muhammad Al-Shennawy, Al-Ahly goalkeeper, touched it with his fingertips before it hit the right post, and went out for a hit. corner.

The corner kick was played in the 14th minute, into the penalty area, to touch the head of one of Al-Ahly defenders, before it reached Mohamed Ayman Togay, who met it with a header from inside the six-yard area, but it passed next to the left post.

After that opportunity, Esperance imposed control over the course of the match, and its offensive attempts continued in search of scoring the equalizer, while the Al-Ahly team relied on narrowing the spaces and launching counter-attacks whenever it had the opportunity.

However, the two teams failed to pose any threat to the other’s goal, so the play was limited to the middle of the field.

The play remained confined to the midfield until the 27th minute, which witnessed a dangerous opportunity for Al-Ahly, when Percy Tau passed a through ball to Mahmoud Abdel Moneim Kahraba, who was alone with goalkeeper Dabashi, but he hit the ball next to the left post the moment the goalkeeper left his goal.

Then the play returned to confinement in the middle of the field until the 35th minute came, when Muhammad bin Ramadan, the Esperance player, surprised everyone, and hit a powerful ball from outside the penalty area, but Al-Shennawi shone and blocked the ball.

The remaining time of the first half passed without anything new before the referee blew the whistle at the end of the first half, with Al-Ahly advancing with a clean goal.

Al-Ahly started the second half with offensive pressure in search of scoring a second goal in which it believed in its progress, which forced the Esperance team to retreat to the center of its stadium, to absorb the enthusiasm of the opposing team’s players while relying on launching counter-attacks.

Indeed, Al-Ahly managed to score the second goal in the 55th minute, when I played a long ball behind the Esperance defenders on the right side to Percy Tau, who penetrated the ball until he reached the borders of the Esperance penalty area, before hitting a powerful ball that hit the net.

Esperance responded with a dangerous opportunity in the 57th minute, when Muhammad Bin Ali passed a cross from the right side, and Muhammad Ali Bin Hamouda rose to it, and met it with a header, but it passed next to the right post.

Al-Taraji almost reduced the difference in the 59th minute when the ball was played inside the Al-Ahly penalty area, where Togay met it with a double backhand kick, but Al-Shennawi turned it with his fingertips for a corner kick.

Al-Taraji intensified its offensive attempts in search of reducing the difference, but it collided with a strong and organized defense of Al-Ahly players, so that the play was confined to the middle of the field.

The play remained confined to the middle of the field until the 75th minute, which witnessed Al-Ahly scoring the third goal, when Elio Diang passed the ball to Hussein Al-Shahat on the left side inside the penalty area, to pass a cross ball that Mahmoud Abdel Moneim Kahraba met with a shot from within the six yards into the goal.

Esperance intensified its offensive attempts in an attempt to score a goal that reduces the difference, but it failed to penetrate the organized defense of Al-Ahly, which relied on launching counter-attacks, but failed to increase the yield of goals as it missed a large number of scoring opportunities in front of the Esperance goal.

The game remained confined to the center of the field until the referee blew the whistle at the end of the match, with Al-Ahly winning 3-0.