On charges of misleading the referee of the Al-Ahly and Raja match .. Algerian Mahdi Obeid was suspended (video)

The Moroccan newspaper, "The Atlas Lions", revealed that the Confederation of African Football (CAF) Referees Committee decided to suspend the Algerian international referee, Mehdi Obeid, due to a mistake he committed during the match between Al-Ahly and Moroccan Raja in the African Champions League quarter-final.

The Congolese referee, Jean-Jacques Ndala, had awarded a penalty kick to Al-Ahly after returning to the video technology by a decision of the Algerian referee, Mahdi Obeid, who is accused of withholding a snapshot from the referee showing the incorrectness of the penalty kick that Al-Ahly benefited from in the first match, and he came out winning 2-1, before he tied back. In Casablanca 1-1.

This is how Africa is

, manipulating the Var room and trying to falsify the image to give a fake penalty.# Al-Ahly_Raja pic.twitter.com/w34kUzun1N

— Hassan ⛥ (@Hassan_khalile) April 16, 2022

The first leg witnessed a great objection from the Raja players, because the penalty kick was kicked from the defender's leg, not his hand, amid amazement from the observers.

The newspaper said that the referees committee took a decision to stop Obaid because of misleading Nadala, noting that Mehdi Obaid will have to appear before the Kef Disciplinary Committee in order to hear him in this case.

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