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England’s Lee Clark, coach of the Sudanese Al-Merrikh Club’s first soccer team, revealed the candidate teams to win the CAF Champions League title in its current version, saying: “There is no candidate for the tournament due to the strength of the competing teams and the difficulty of the matches. “
“Al-Ahly is a strong team and they have the experience to crown the 10th African title, and the Red Team has a group of distinguished players who are hard to stop, and they can crown the title this season,” said the Sudanese coach of Al – Merreikh said in televised statements.
England’s Lee Clark assured that Al-Merrikh’s Sudanese level dropped in the second half of the match, indicating that he was proud of his team’s performance until the penalty was missed, adding: “If the penalty was entered, the match it would have ended and the result of the progression with two goals is not reassuring for any team ”.
He continued: “We missed a penalty kick, which changed the events of the match, and Mars’s performance was withdrawn in the second half of the match, and the Mars players were frustrated after Al-Ahly’s first goal, and the Morale of the Mars players was very high due to Sudan’s rise to the nations of Africa. “
Al-Ahly reached the African Champions League quarter-finals for the current version, after drawing with Al-Merrikh, from Sudan, with two goals for each team in the match that united them on Saturday, in the fifth day of the African Group Stage, and Al-Ahmar qualified for the quarterfinals 6 times in the editions of 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020 2021.
Al-Ahly were crowned 9 times in the African Champions League, for being the most African team to win the championship, and they are the 20th century club on the continent.