Algerian Abdelhak Ben Sheikha, coach of the Tanzanian Simba team, refused to raise the white flag against the Egyptian Al-Ahly club in the African Champions League football competition.
Last Friday, Simba lost 0-1 at its home stadium in the capital, Dar es Salaam, to Al-Ahly, for the first leg of the CAF Champions League quarter-finals.
The two teams will meet, in the return match, next Friday, in the Egyptian capital, “Cairo”, where the Tanzania representative will be required to win by more than two goals to earn the qualification visa to the semi-finals, while the result of the draw will be enough for the Al-Ahly team to continue its journey in defending the African title that was crowned. Yes, last season.
Bin Sheikha said in statements to the Tanzanian newspaper, The Citizen. And transferred to the site “Eye” Al-Emirati, the day before yesterday, Monday: “The result of the match did not reflect the level we presented against Al-Ahly.”
He added: “We must correct the mistakes before the return match in order to achieve a positive result, and I am confident in the ability of my team players to challenge the difficulties of the return match.”
Bin Sheikha stressed that he was disappointed with the result of the first leg, but pointed out the need to look at the positives and the good performance that his team presented in that match.
Bin Sheikha had received the technical crossbar for the team Simba Tanzanian, Last fall, after Gone About Ittihad Algeria Club for winning the African Confederation Cup in May of last year, then the African Super Cup last summer. The “Super” title came after defeating Al-Ahly of Egypt with a clean goal.
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