Al-Ahly wastes the lead in the third, and Raja is looking for a tie after 65 minutes

65 minutes passed from the Moroccan Al-Ahly Raja match, which is currently being held at Al-Ahly and Al-Salam Stadium, in the first leg of the African Champions League quarter-final, with Al-Ahly advancing with two goals to one.

The start of the match was enthusiastic on the part of Al-Ahly through successive attacks led by Sherif, Al-Shahat and Percy Tau, and Al-Ahmar took charge, while the Moroccan team played on the counter-attack.

The Congolese referee, Ndala, awarded a penalty kick to Al-Ahly in the 12th minute, following he resorted to the mouse technique as a result of touching the ball “the hand” of one of the Raja players, and Amr Al-Sulayya took the penalty kick to score the goal of progress for Al-Ahly.

Al-Ahly continued to put pressure on the Raja goal, and Mohamed Sherif missed the opportunity to score a second goal in the 18th minute, following he played a weak header from a good pass played by Percy Tau.

The Raja team then appeared and Haddad led a dangerous attack for Raja, but Al-Ahly’s defense dealt with it well, before Al-Ahly responded with a dangerous attack led by Percy Tau from the right and passing a ball to Hussein Al-Shahat, who deposited the ball in Raja’s net, scoring the second goal in the 23rd minute.

After Al-Ahly’s second goal, Raja tried to return to the match and pressed Al-Shennawy’s goal with Al-Ahly’s attempts to score a third goal, and Mohsen Metwally, the Raja player, received a yellow card to object to the referee.

And the Congolese referee famously issued a yellow card to Hussein Al-Shahat, claiming wasting time in the 38th minute, and Al-Ahly continued to put pressure on the guests’ goal, and the Raja goalkeeper saved more than one dangerous opportunity.

The last minutes witnessed mutual attempts by the two teams to score, until Zuraida managed to score the Raja goal in the 45th minute, following which the play was limited to the midfield and Diang received a yellow card for the roughness, following which the first half ended with Al-Ahly progressing with two goals to one.

Al-Ahly will play the match with a formation consisting of: Mohamed El-Shennawy, Yasser Ibrahim, Ayman Ashraf, Mohamed Abdel Moneim, Mohamed Hani, Amr Al-Sulayya, Alio Diang, Hussein Al-Shahat, Percy Tau, Ahmed Abdel Qader and Mohamed Sharif.

Ali Lotfi, Hamdi Fathi, Hossam Hassan, Walid Suleiman, Mohamed Magdy Afsha, Mahmoud Waheed, Taher Mohamed Taher, Karim Fouad and Louis Miccione are sitting on the Al-Ahly bench in the match.

The formation of the Moroccan Raja was as follows: “Al-Ziniti, Mazkour, Al-Hudhoudi, Harkas, Al-Haddad, Soukhan, Boulahroud, Zuraida, Al-Muka’azi, Metwally and Haddad.”

Second half

Al-Ahly started the second half by changing the first time Hamdi Fathi came in instead of Diang, and Raja clearly pressed Al-Shennawi’s goal, and Percy Tao received a yellow card in the 51st minute for the roughness with Zuraida player Raja.

Raja continued to press, and from a counterattack, El-Shahat kicked the ball. Raja player Marwan Hadhoudi prevented it from entering the goal with his hand to be expelled and a penalty kick was awarded to Amr Al-Sulayya.

Mohamed Sharif was replaced by Afsha in the 63rd minute.