Al-Ahly’s experience challenges Esperance’s ambition in the African Champions League final
Sudan Events – Agencies
The curtain falls on Saturday on the African Champions League, when Al-Ahly of Egypt hosts its rival, Esperance of Tunisia, at Cairo Stadium, in the second leg of the final, imposing a goalless draw in the first leg at Hammadi Al-Aqrabi Stadium in Brades.
Today’s match will not be divided into two, as the winner will be crowned with the title, while the positive tie remains in favor of Esperance, while repeating the negative tie means resorting to penalty kicks. Al-Ahly dreams of maintaining the continental title, which it has previously achieved 11 times, and is the most crowned champion, in the face of the ambition of Esperance, which is searching for the fifth title in its history in terms of the tournament, which has been absent from it since 2019, and the Swiss Marcel Kohler, the coach of Al-Ahly, finds what he needs in the joker Karim Fouad to compensate for the absence. Ali Maaloul, and the offensive bet remains on several options, led by Percy Tau, Moroccan Reda Slim, Palestinian Wissam Abu Ali, Hussein Al-Shahat, and Mahmoud Kahraba, but Al-Ahly’s mission will not be easy in the face of the defensive arsenal awaiting the battalion of Portuguese coach Miguel Cardoso, who succeeded in two away missions during Esperance’s journey in the tournament by eliminating Ivorian ASEC from the quarter-finals on penalties in their home, then ending the Sun Downs adventure in the semi-finals, and Esperance’s ranks appear complete and armed with the experience of some of its players, and the most prominent bet remains on the Brazilian duo Rodrigo Rodriguez and Yann Sass in leading the attack of the Blood and Gold team to defeat Al-Ahly and confuse his calculations in the match.
