The Belouizdad youth team is demanding victory over its guest, the Egyptian club Al-Ahly, this Friday evening, at the “July 5, 1962” Olympic Stadium in Algiers, to maintain its chances of qualifying for the quarter-finals of the African Champions League football competition.
Shabab Belouizdad and Al-Ahly of Egypt will meet this Friday evening for the fourth round of the group stage of the African Champions League. The Algerian representative currently occupies third place in the third group standings with 3 points, 4 points behind Al-Ahly, the leader. And two points for the runner-up, Orlando Pirates of South Africa.
The first and second place finishers from each group qualify for the quarter-finals. Which means that CS Belouizdad will maintain all its chances of passing to the next round, in the event of victory in today’s match scheduled for the “05 July 1962” Olympic Stadium, in Algiers.
Without a doubt, CS Belouizdad’s mission will not be easy for the “Club of the Century” in Africa. which inflicted a heavy defeat on him,1-6), in the last round, in Cairo.
This is a difficulty that was acknowledged by the coach of the club, Abdelkader Omrani, during the match Press conference Which was held yesterday, Thursday. But he expressed optimism about his team’s success in achieving the mission, when he said: “Individual mistakes were the cause of the big loss. We have an important confrontation in the fourth round, and we strive to win.”
He added Omrani“Al-Ahly is a big team, and absences do not affect it, and our goal is to achieve victory at July 5 Stadium.”
Youth Belouizdad supporters are present in force!
CS Belouizdad is counting on repeating the scenario of the first half of the first leg. This is because it was ahead in the result, in addition to the fact that the July 5 Stadium is expected to be more crowded than BSupporters “Sons of Laqiba” to motivate the team to win.
For its part, Al-Ahly club is going through a void phase after it stumbled during the last three matches in the Egyptian League, which caused it to fall to third place with 12 points, which prompted the administration of President Mahmoud Al-Khatib to impose financial sanctions on the players in order to remedy matters.
It is worth noting that today’s match is scheduled for 20:00 Algerian time and 19:00 Universal time. It will be conducted by a judging trio from Somalia, led by Omar Abdelkader Artan, with the assistance of Hamza Haji Abdi and Mawlid Radj Ali. While Ahmed Hassan Hussein Ahmed will be the fourth referee.
We note that the other match in the third group will bring together, tomorrow evening, Saturday, Orlando Pirates of South Africa and its guest Stade Abidjan of Ivory Coast, which is at the bottom of the group standings with one point.
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