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Wrote:
Ahmed farouk
Friday 23 October 2020
02:34 pm
With great ambitions, Al-Ahly is preparing for the second leg of the semi-finals of the African Champions League against their Moroccan counterpart, Wydad, who will be received by the Cairo International Stadium at 9 pm this Friday by the night.
Al-Ahly have come a long way to reach the final showdown, which will also be hosted in the same stadium in the Egyptian capital, should at least one Egyptian representative qualify, after defeating Wydad with a clean double, in the first leg, which was hosted by the “Mohammed V” stadium in Casablanca, Morocco.
On the other hand, Zamalek’s confrontation with the Moroccan Raja was postponed, at the same time, due to the infection of 14 Moroccan players with the new Corona virus, and the Egyptian team also returned with a clean goal in Casablanca.
Al-Ahly established themselves as the most prominent name on the African continent in the 21st century, after becoming the most crowned team in the Champions League, as well as the most featured in the final match.
Al-Ahly won the CAF Champions League six times during the current century, starting with the 2001 edition, which beat the South African team Sundowns in their last match, before the 2005, 2006, 2008, 2012 editions. and 2013.
In the final matches of those copies, Al-Ahly beat Tunisia’s Etoile Sahel, Tunisian Sfaxien, Cameroon Cotton, Tunisia’s Esperance and South Africa’s Orlando Pirates respectively.
Al-Ahly’s dominance in the new century gave him unique numbers, despite his decline since 2013, the most prominent of which was his appearance in the final showdown in 50% of the African Champions League copies in the current century, after reaching the last final, which they lost in 2018 to Esperance Tunisia, before retiring. That percentage, in the absence of the final of the last edition, which brought Esperance with the Moroccan Wydad.
However, Al-Ahly’s qualification for the final of the current version will return the percentage (50%) to his appearance in the final matches of the most outstanding African championship, as it will raise his balance to 10 final matches within 20 years of the present century.
In addition to winning the title six times, Al-Ahly qualified for three African Champions League finals, but lost the title.
The first incident of Al-Ahly’s defeat in the final of the CAF Champions League in the 21st century was the crowning of Etoile Sahel of Tunisia in 2007, when the two teams drew goalless on Tunisian soil, before Etoile defeated Al-Ahly by 3 goals against one goal in Cairo.
Al-Ahly lost the African title for the second time in the current century in 2017, when they drew with Wydad with a goal for each team in the first leg of the final, before the Moroccan team won with a clean goal in Casablanca , and lost the final of the next edition to Esperance of Tunisia, after falling by three goals in Tunisia in the second leg. After winning three goals one way.
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