The Egyptian Al-Ahly player Mahmoud Kahraba kidnapped the limelight from the events that accompanied his decisive match with the Sudanese Al Hilal, on Saturday, at the "Blue Jewel" stadium in Omdurman in the African Champions League, after he wasted an opportunity from a full-fledged goalkeeper, but after he passed it he slowed the ball and fired near the post While the goal is open to him with an unbelievable scene!
And the "former Zamalek player" lived an unenviable position, especially that he descended on the pitch in the second half to play the role of the trump card by taking advantage of his speed in counter-attacks and trying to promote progress with a second goal that decides to qualify for the quarter-finals, but after losing the "golden opportunity" Al-Ahly received The equalizer was about to lose the qualification card if Al Hilal scored the winning goal.
The match ended in a 1-1 draw, Al-Ahly qualified second for the second group with 11 points, one point behind the Tunisian coastal star "leader", while Al-Hilal bid farewell to the tournament with 10 points, which means that Kahraba wasted his team the opportunity to lead the group.
After the difficult match, which witnessed riots, ended with storming fans of the stadium, crushing seats, deleting water bottles, and forced interruption for more than ten minutes, amid heavy interference from security men, he received a barrage of criticism from Al-Ahly fans on social media because he almost caused the team to leave the championship, At a time when fans defended the player, asking to take into account the psychological circumstance that he and his teammates experienced in conjunction with events outside the text from some Hilal fans, who were angry at the Moroccan referee's decisions, Radouane Jeyad.
For his part, Al-Ahly's football director, Syed Abdul Hafeez, expressed his dissatisfaction with the events that accompanied the match, calling on the Confederation of African Football to implement the regulations on the Sudanese Crescent, calculating the result of the match in favor of Al-Ahly and thus granting him the top of the group.
Abdel Hafeez told Al-Masry Al-Youm newspaper: "The African Union regulations say if the match referee is forced to continue the match after stopping it before the end of the original time because of the storming of the stadium, the host team is considered a loser," adding that "the African Union applied the list earlier on Ismaili and must To apply now to Al Hilal, as we were playing in a military barracks and an abnormal atmosphere. We will now wait for what the African Union will do. "
In turn, the Al-Hilal coach, Al-Fateh Al-Click, blamed the loss of the opportunity to qualify for the quarter-finals, and told the Sudanese "Bag News" website: "The referee took the players out of the match and we had a penalty kick that he did not count. But we bless the Al-Ahly team. He added, "It was necessary to use video technology in the match because of its importance and sensitivity."