Posted in: 25/04/2022 – 14:23
Congolese Democratic TP Mazembe eliminated Egyptian Pyramids from the Confederation of African Football Cup by defeating them 2-0 on Sunday in the second leg of the quarter-finals in Lubumbashi, following they had tied in the first leg. In turn, Al-Ahly Tripoli defeated Libya’s “Classico” by defeating rivals Al-Ittihad 1-0 and won the crossing card to the semi-finals, while Nahdet Berkane continued the campaign to keep the title Moroccan for the third season in a row by beating Al-Masry Al-Portsaidi with a single goal, compensating for its 1-2 loss in Cairo.
The Congolese Democratic Republic of TP Mazembe finished the Egyptian Pyramids career in a competition Confederation of African Football Cup When he beat him 2-0 on Sunday in the second leg of the quarter-finals in Lubumbashi, following they had tied in the first leg.
Al-Ahly Tripoli “Classico” settled Libya by defeating its rivals Al-Ittihad 1-0 and won the crossing card to the golden square, while Nahdet Berkane continued its campaign to keep the title Moroccan for the third season in a row by beating Al-Masry Al-Portsaidi with a single goal, compensating for its 1-2 loss in Cairo.
TP Mazembe-Pyramids
In the first match, following missing a penalty kick for his team in the 15th minute, Christian Kwame opened the scoring for Mazembe in the 33rd minute before Gift Kitambala added the second in the 44th minute. The loss was also the end of coach Ihab Galal’s career with the “Pyramids” team, as he will move from next week to supervise On the Egyptian national team instead of Carlos Queiroz.
In his last press conference with the club, Jalal attacked the Botswana referee, Joshua Bondo, and said that “the referee of the meeting and his assistants helped Mazembe to win because of their reverse decisions and overlooked many decisions and warnings, and in return he was constantly defaming the cards in the face of Pyramids players and the technical staff, And all his decisions were in favor of the opponent.”
TP Mazembe will meet in the semi-finals with Nahde Berkane, who toppled Al-Masry Al-Portsaidi 1-0 at the Municipal Stadium of Berkane (northeast of Morocco). The Egyptian had settled the first leg 2-1, knowing that he played with nine players for regarding half an hour. And the team missed its players Amr Moussa and Tunisian Elias Jelassi, who were arrested.
The orange team is chasing the second title in its history following 2020, and Raja Casablanca was crowned with the title of the last edition. The host team needed seven minutes to open the scoring through a penalty kick awarded for a handball on defender Yasser Hamad, which was successfully translated by Youssef Al-Fahli (7).
The hosts continued their absolute advantage, without the team of the Democratic Congolese coach, Florent Ibenge, being able to reach the net once more for the remainder of the first half. The situation did not change in the second half, with the owners of the land continuing to dominate without effectiveness, at a time when the Egyptian guest’s attempts were shy, although he became more possessive as the end of the match approached. Al-Masry players strongly objected to the referee following the final whistle was announced, which led to the announcement of the red card in the face of Farid Shawqi, and a member of the administrative apparatus of the Egyptian club attacked the referee of the meeting.
“Classico” Libya green
Al-Ahly Tripoli snatched the ticket to qualify for the semi-finals following beating its compatriot and guest Al-Ittihad with a clean goal at the “Shuhada Benina” stadium in Benghazi. The two teams had tied negatively in the first leg on the same stadium. This is the first time that the “green” team has reached the semi-finals of a continental competition since 1984.
The match was decided by a goal scored in the 19th minute through Ayoub Ayyad, with a cunning shot following a rebound to him from goalkeeper Moaz Al-Lafi (19). Anis Celto missed the opportunity to enhance the result for Al-Ahly when he hit a weak ball from a single position (34). Al-Ittihad player Ghazi Al-Ayadi’s free kick went past the goal (36).
The red team pressed in the second half, and its players had many opportunities, most notably Omar Al-Khoja’s header, which goalkeeper Muhammad Nashnoush grabbed with difficulty (61), then Al-Khouja lost the tie when he received the ball from Abdel-Ati Al-Abbasi while facing the goal, but he shot outside it (76). Tunisian Al-Ahly defender Wissam Bousnina removed a ball from the goal line with his head following a header that hit the ground from Mohamed Zoubey (84).
Al-Ahly Tripoli will play with the South African Orlando Pirates, who came from behind with a goal in the first leg once morest Simba of Tanzania, and snatched the crossing card to the semi-finals thanks to their victory by the same result, then in the penalty shootout 4-2 in Johannesburg. After a fruitless first game, Simba played incomplete following Cochimba Mughalu (58) was sent off. The South African team took advantage of the numerical superiority and equalized following two minutes through Ghanaian Kwame Pribra (60).
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