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The Zamalek team today enters a new challenge when it is invited to its Moroccan counterpart Raja Casablanca, in the first leg of the semifinals of the African Champions League, which will be played at the Mohammed V stadium in Casablanca, where the team Blanco seeks to achieve a positive result in today’s next game, giving preference to the team. Al-Maghribi before the return match, scheduled for October 24, at the Cairo International Stadium, after the White Administration wanted to provide all means of comfort for the team, starting with traveling to Morocco in a private plane , to avoid the fatigue of the transit flight players, also Arrive in Casablanca 5 days before the match date, where the White Mission arrived in Morocco last Tuesday night, so that the players acclimatize to the environment much earlier of the important game against Raja.
The date of the match between Zamalek and Moroccan Esperanza
The match between Zamalek and the Moroccan Raja will take place at nine in the morning on Sunday, Cairo time, at eight in the afternoon, Moroccan time.
Zamalek qualified for the semifinals of the African Champions League in the current version, after overcoming the Tunisian Esperance hurdle, with a score of 2/3, in the aggregate of the first and second leg matches of the quarterfinals of the African Championship, while the Moroccan Raja qualified for the competitions of this round after beating the Congolese team, Mazembe with a result. 2/1 ,, in the complex of the first leg quarter-final matches, and both teams ranked second in their group in the group stage of the African Champions League competitions, where Zamalek was in the first group, which included alongside him the clubs of Mazembe and the Angolan Wesco United Zambian on August 1, to occupy the white center. The second with 9 points, while Raja Casablanca also ranked second in the fourth group, which included alongside him the Tunisian clubs, JS Al-Kabylie and Vita Club Congoleño, and achieved 11 points, tied at that time with Al-Tarji, who led the group on goal difference.
Jimmy Pacheco, Zamalek coach, has wanted to impose a state of intense concentration on the target’s mission since his arrival in Morocco, to keep the players focused and not distract them from the goal set for the match, which is to come out with the best possible result. to help the team qualify for the final match and continue the competition. For the African Champions League title, which has been absent from the Citadel Mitt Oqba tournaments since it was crowned for the fifth time in its history in 2002, at the expense of Moroccan hope, and the Portuguese manager was keen to motivate the players to fulfill the dream of the fans to compete for the title this year, during the continuous conferences he gave with them. Before the game, in addition to giving them many technical instructions that he wants to implement for the night, after studying the strengths and weaknesses of the Moroccan team, in the last period.
While the Zamalek coaching staff was willing to prepare the players physically and technically in the best way, especially in light of the pressure of the matches that Al-White suffered in the Egyptian League competition during the last weeks of competition, and also developed many solutions to deal with absences in the team, among which the midfield stands out, after the absence of the Tunisian. Ferjani Sassi, the white midfielder, announced tonight’s match, after his infection with the Corona virus was confirmed, in addition to the absence of Mahmoud Alaa, the team’s defender, who had panic in the external knee ligament, while participating with Zamalek in the border guard match, which brought the two teams together in the third round. And the thirtieth of the Premier League competition, before the team traveled to Morocco, and finished in Faou Al-Abyad with two goals to one, so the Portuguese Pacheco preferred not to risk pushing him in tonight’s match , with Mohamed Abdel-Ghani participating in the defense line instead, especially that the target will be in Need of the services of Mahmoud Alaa to ensure the defense in the second leg in Cairo, to resolve the qualification for the final match .
On the other hand, the Moroccan Raja enters the Zamalek game tonight in good spirits for their players after they managed to win the Moroccan League title for the twelfth time in their history, a few days before the match against Zamalek, in The one highlighted by Jamal Salami, technical director of the Moroccan team, who confirmed The crowning of his team with the local title will be the greatest motivation and support for the players to continue with their successes and achieve the dreams of their fans, especially that the match The first leg will be played in their homeland, where the Moroccan team hopes to achieve a positive result at the expense of the whites in the first game and the Moroccan team misses the efforts of Hamid Haddad, who has been loaned from Zamalek to has the right to participate in this match due to the elements placed between the officials of the two clubs in his loan, and whose loan was also officially ended at the end of the L He is Moroccan, so he will not be among the Moroccan team in the match.