Moroccan Wydad turns off the "11 star" from the Egyptian Al-Ahly .. and announces it: "I am the champion of Africa."
Moroccan Wydad stripped Al-Ahly of Egypt of the African Champions League title after beating it 2-0 in the final match that brought them together at Mohammed V Stadium in Casablanca.
Thus, the Moroccan team succeeded in winning the third title in its history, after having previously won it in 1992 and 2017, while 10 titles remained in the Al-Ahly championship wheel.
Wydad owes this victory to midfielder Zuhair Al-Matraji, who scored the two goals of the match with a goal in each half.
The Moroccan team succeeded in imposing its style on the match, taking advantage of the mistakes of the South African coach of Al-Ahly, Pitso Musimani, who kept the important trio, Amr Al-Sawiya, Muhammad Majdi Qafsha and Muhammad Sharif on the bench, which made Wydad’s word supreme, especially in the first half, which entered it strongly. The mass push” and his offensive intentions appeared early, taking advantage of the right side to reach goalkeeper Mohamed El-Shennawy.
The tenth minute witnessed the first real warning from the Moroccan team, when Mbenza Kambulki hit a ball from the edge of the box, which was pushed away by the crossbar and rebounded without finding the observer.
But the Moroccan team succeeded on a second occasion to have the advantage at the level of the result, with an unstoppable goal through Zuhair Al-Matraji, who fired a ball from a distance that settled to the right of the Al-Ahly goalkeeper.
Wydad was not satisfied with what he had presented before and almost added another goal through Mbenza Kambulki, but Mohamed Hani intervened in an appropriate time and removed the ball before it turned into a goal (18).
Al-Ahly woke up in the middle of this half and got many corner kicks, and Yasser Ibrahim almost got his team back in the match through a header that passed along the right post (24).
After that, Al-Ahly’s suffering appeared on the field, due to the lack of a playmaker who could link the midfield and the attacking trio, which enabled Wydad’s defense to eliminate offensive attempts without threatening their goalkeeper, Ahmed Al-Taknaouti.
Mpensa Kambulki again disturbed Al-Ahly's defense through a counterattack that ended with a shot from inside the box that settled outside the stadium "31".
Wydad Casablanca Al-Ahly was unable to enter the atmosphere of the match in the second half, and was able early to kidnap the second through Zuhairi Al-Mutarji, who took advantage of a fatal defensive lapse from Muhammad Hani, and turned Reda Jaadi’s cross towards the goal to bounce to him from Al-Shennawi and complete it inside the goal while guarding "Hany".
Al-Ahly coach tried to correct the mistakes of the squad that he threw at the beginning of the match, so the duo Muhammad Sharif and Muhammad Magdy Qafsha participated at the expense of Hussein Al-Shahat and Ahmed Abdel Qader, but the performance did not improve, and the preference remained on the field in the interest of Wydad, who got a fixed kick from a distinguished place that turned in the end. To a corner kick "58".
The Wydad goalkeeper managed to keep his net clean when he perfectly blocked the substitute Mohamed Magdy's "Aqfsha" shot, depriving Al-Ahly of reducing the difference.
The Moroccan goalkeeper continued his brilliance again and prevented a goal scored in front of Salah Mohsen while he was at the goal gate, to bounce and be pushed away by the defense.
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