{"id":22217,"date":"2024-05-18T05:10:47","date_gmt":"2024-05-18T02:10:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/?p=22217"},"modified":"2024-05-18T05:10:47","modified_gmt":"2024-05-18T02:10:47","slug":"esperance-receives-al-ahly-in-the-first-leg-of-the-african-champions-league-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/2024\/05\/18\/esperance-receives-al-ahly-in-the-first-leg-of-the-african-champions-league-final\/","title":{"rendered":"Esperance receives Al-Ahly in the first leg of the African Champions League final"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Sudan Events &#8211; Agencies<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Esperance of Tunisia will host its guest, Al-Ahly of Cairo, on Saturday evening at Rades Stadium, in the first leg of the African Champions League final. Al-Ahly had ousted its Congolese rival, Mazembe, from the semi-finals after drawing 0-0 in the first leg at the latter\u2019s stadium, and winning the return leg in Cairo 3-0 to reach the final match, while Esperance advanced at the expense of South Africa\u2019s Sun Downs, after repeating the back-and-forth victory 1-0.<br \/>\nThe final of the 2023-2024 African Champions League will be purely Arab for the eighteenth time in the history of the tournament, and the third in a row after Al-Ahly and Moroccan Wydad advanced to the final of the tournament in the last two editions.<br \/>\nAl-Ahly and Esperance previously met in the final of the Champions League in two previous editions, in 2012 and 2018. The first confrontation was in 2012, and Al-Ahly won the title after a 1-1 draw at Borg El Arab Stadium in Alexandria and a 2-1 win in Rades. The second confrontation came in the final of the 2018 edition, and Al-Ahly won. At Burj Al Arab Stadium in Alexandria, with a score of 3-1, and lost in Rades, with a score of 0-3, while the return match will be held at eight in the evening, Saturday, May 25, at Cairo International Stadium.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sudan Events &#8211; Agencies Esperance of Tunisia will host its guest, Al-Ahly of Cairo, on Saturday evening at Rades Stadium, in the first leg of the African Champions League final. Al-Ahly had ousted its Congolese rival, Mazembe, from the semi-finals after drawing 0-0 in the first leg at the latter\u2019s stadium, and winning the return &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":22221,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22217","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22217"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22217\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22222,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22217\/revisions\/22222"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}