Ali Maali (Dubai)
Once again, the exciting Arab confrontations are back in the African Champions League, and after the fun summit between Al-Ahly of Egypt and Morocco’s Raja Casablanca, and before that, Algeria’s ES Setif with Tunisia’s Esperance, it returns again another summit and this time between Al-Ahly and ES Setif in the semi-finals of the Champions League Africa.
This new summit of Arab football is renewed after the absence of 4 years in a league in the semi-finals of the African Champions League, after their exciting crossing of Raja Casablanca and Tunisia’s Esperance. At Mohammed V Stadium in Casablanca, the defending champion Al-Ahly won the first leg in Cairo 2-1.
Algeria’s ES Setif reached the semi-finals after winning 1-0 away from Tunisia’s Esperance in the second leg of the quarter-finals in one of the tournament’s surprises after a goalless draw in the first leg.
The first leg match between the champions of Egypt and Algeria will be held in Cairo on Sunday 6 or 7 May, while the return match will be held in Algeria on 13 or 14 of the same month.
Al-Ahly had played against ES Setif twice in the semi-finals of the African Champions League, and succeeded in qualifying for the final in one in 2018, and lost in the previous one in 1988, and whenever Al-Ahly played against ES Setif, he lost the African title, and this happened twice in the African Champions League and once In the African Super, although he managed to beat him in the Champions League semi-finals, he lost the final to Esperance.
History always comes with South African Betso Mosimane, coach of Al-Ahly team, as he faced ES Setif once in its history and it was away from its stadium, and succeeded in winning 2-0, and Walid Suleiman, player of the “Red Giant” managed to score back and forth against the Algerian team in the semi-finals. CAF Champions League 2018.
Since Musimani led Al-Ahly, he played against Arab clubs 13 matches in the African Champions League, he did not lose any of them, winning 10 and drawing in 3 matches.
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