Final sentence … a “good omen” against Al-Ahly … and an insulting protest to Zamalek

The Confederation of African Football (CAF) has chosen the Algerian referee Mostafa Ghorbal to direct the final of the African Champions League between Zamalek and Al-Ahly, scheduled for tomorrow, Friday at 9:00 p.m. at the Cairo International Stadium.

Ghorbal is not a new face for the fans of the two clubs, so Al-Ahly ruled their match at Burj Al Arab against their counterpart Township Betswani in the third round of the 2017 African Champions League group stage. / 2018, and ended with Al-Ahly winning three times, while he was a video judge in the first leg of the semifinals of the current version of the league. African champions Zamalek against Moroccan Raja and finished with Zamalek winning with a clean goal.

But his match, which he directed as a video referee of the match between Zamalek and Al-Raja, did not go unnoticed, so the Moroccan club presented a message of protest and denunciation of the African Football Confederation, in the context of “disastrous arbitration by part of the referee team “- according to an official statement issued by him – that managed the first leg of the semifinals of the African Champions League. Led by Allium Nyant as sand judge and Mustafa Ghorbal as video referee. “

Over the course of the 35-year screening, he used 4 direct red cards during his matches, with 3 cards in the first leg matches and one in the second leg, while 162 yellow cards were awarded, with 72 cards in the first leg matches. 90 in the second leg matches, while 19 penalties were awarded. For 11 in the first leg and 8 in the return.