Moroccan Berkane to the Confederation Cup final for the second time in a row
Morocco's RS Berkane reached the Confederation of African Football Cup final for the second consecutive season, after defeating his compatriot Hassania Agadir 2-1 in the semi-finals of the competition yesterday.
The "Prince Moulay Abdallah" stadium in the Moroccan capital, Rabat, will host the semi-final and final matches of the rally competition, after it was stopped for about six months due to the new Corona virus pandemic.
Today, the Egyptian Pyramids will meet Houria Conakry of Guinea in the second semi-final, and the final will be held next Sunday.
Al-Berkani team lost the final last season to Egypt's Zamalek 4-5 on penalties, after they exchanged victory with a clean goal back and forth.
The Hassania Agadir team fought the meeting burdened with absences due to the infection of a number of its players with the new Corona virus, as it called for the match to be postponed, but the African Union (CAF) refused his request due to the pressure of the calendar.
Defenders Yassin Al-Rami and Jamal Chamakh, midfielders Abdelali Al-Khanboubi and Karim Ait Mohamed and striker Mohamed Asmoun were absent from coach Mostafa O'Sharif's squad, while the absence of striker Malik Sisi was confirmed due to injury.
On the other hand, the Mauritanian midfielder, Adama Ba, was absent from the Berkane team, and coach Tariq Saktiwi adopted his regular squad led by goalkeeper Zuhair Laaroubi and in front of him the Burkini Yusuf Daewoo, Omar al-Austrian in the middle with Zaid Krouch, and Zakaria Hadraf, Muhammad Aziz and Hamdi Lachir were the spearhead of Mohsen Yajur explicit.
The preference was for Borkan, who was effective and threatened Al-Hawasli goal first through Aziz's header, which overtook the crossbar (5), and in the 15th minute, Yajur was blocked by Sofiane Boftini inside the region, so Congolese referee Jean-Jacques Ngambo calculated a penalty kick after resorting to the video assistant referee technique. AR, "Specialist Aziz approached her and aimed her at the far left corner, and Al-Hawasli could not block her even though he had touched her before entering it (20).
The team "Al-Susi" gave up his caution and leveled after ten minutes when Opella sent the ball from a free kick, Daewoo tried to push it back with his head to reach Imad, who is far from control. He prepared the ball in front of him and shot it calmly into the net of Laaroubi (30).
Yajur scored a header, but the referee canceled it after reviewing the technique for infiltrating Daewoo (39).
"Brakna" continued their control in the second half, completely alone for Asheri, but he fired over the goal (47), and the referee awarded a second penalty kick to the orange team for a handball on Amin Siddiqui. Al-Hassania players strongly objected to the referee's refusal to return to the technique. The video, Aziz came to her and recorded it to the right of Al-Hawasli, who was close to addressing her (61).
Nahdet Borkan continued to control the flow, while Al-Hassania tried to reach Laaroubi's goal again, to no avail.
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