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The Egyptian Karim Sameh, the Liverpool junior, confirmed that he wants Zamalek to beat Al-Ahly and crown them with the African Champions League title.
Al-Ahly will face Zamalek, on Friday, exactly at 9 pm, at the Cairo International Stadium, in the final of the “Final of the century” of the African Champions League.
Karim Sameh said in exclusive remarks to “Echo of the Country”: I hope Zamalek beat Al-Ahly and crown him with the African Champions League title, because my grandfather is a Zamalek fan, and I hope to see him happy. “
He continued: “But whatever the outcome of the match, I will also be happy, because the title will be awarded to an Egyptian team.”
He continued: “I hope Mustafa Mohamed will shine in tonight’s game. He is a fast player and plays in the same position.”
Zamalek’s team, led by the Portuguese Jaime Pacheco, aspires to beat Al-Ahly and win the title they have been missing for 18 years.
On the other hand, Al-Ahly seek, led by their South African coach, Pitso Mosimane, to win tonight’s game, and take the missing title from the Red Castle treasury during the last 4 seasons.
Musimani won the CAF Champions League title in the 2016 season at the expense of Zamalek, the 2016 season, when he was coach of the Sun Downs.
This is the first time in history that Al-Ahly meet in Zamalek in the final of the African Champions League.
Al-Ahly is the greatest champion of the African Champions League in history with 8 titles, followed by Zamalek with 5 titles, just like the Congolese Mazembe.
In today’s match, Al-Ahly will miss the services of Salih Jumaa, Walid Suleiman and Aliyu Diang due to his infection with the Corona virus, while Zamalek will miss Abdullah Jumaa, Mahmoud Hamdi Al-Wensh and Youssef Obama. for the same reason, and Muhammad Abdel Shafi, due to his shoulder injury.
Al-Ahly qualified for the final of the CAF Champions League after beating Moroccan Wydad 5-1 round trip, while Zamalek rose after beating Raja Casablanca 4-1 on aggregate.
Tonight’s match will be led by the Algerian referee, Mustafa Ghorbal, with the help of Zambian Sikazwe, VAR technology referee, and a fourth official, Ibrahim Noureddine.
Mustafa Ghorbal coached an Al-Ahly match against Township Al-Bitzwani in the group stage of the African Champions League in 2018, which ended with Al-Ahly winning 3-1, during which a penalty was awarded.
Although he managed a Zamalek match against Esperance of Tunisia in the second leg of the quarterfinals of the African Champions League in the current version, and ended the defeat of the whites with an unanswered goal, but Al-Abyadh managed qualify for the semifinals with the total of the two first leg matches, during which 5 bookings were made.
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