Morocco’s Wydad Casablanca will be one of Real Madrid’s possible rivals in the Club World Cup after declaring itself the winner of the African Champions League on Monday by winning the final, played at its stadium in a single match, via of 0-2 against Al- Ahly Egyptian.
A victory with its own name, that of attacker Zouheir El Moutaraji, who scored two goals led the Moroccan team to capture their third title, after achievements in 1992 and 2017.
If after fifteen minutes of play El Moutaraji showed his quality in hitting the ball with a spectacular shot from outside the area that went 0-1, in the second goal the Wydad player showed his ability to reach the opposite place.
Three minutes into the second half, the Moroccan attacker established the final 0-2 by ending a quick counterattack which, although Zouheir El Moutaraji ran into Egyptian goalkeeper Mohamed El Shenawy for the first time, nothing could stop to him to finish entering the ball. in the nets when taking advantage of the rebound.
The unsuccessful leadership of Al-Ahly
All the efficiency Wydad showed, making goals their first two shots between three sticks, was lacking for Al-Ahly, who had little use in monopolizing ball possession throughout the match.
And it was that the Egyptian team, looking to become the first team to win three consecutive African Champions League, barely landed in the Wydad area with danger and when it came, it ran into an extraordinary Ahmed Tagnaouti in under the sticks.
Tagnaouti, star under sticks
The Moroccan goalkeeper prevented Al-Ahly, the most successful team in the competition with ten titles, from reducing their deficit to three major interventions in the final quarter of an hour of play.
Especially brilliant was the save Tagnaouti signed in the 82nd minute by repelling his feet with a bang from inside Salah Mohsen’s small area, which seemed destined, yes or no, for the goal.
A save celebrated by more or less El Moutaraji’s goals by a Wydad fans who filled the stands of the Mohamed V stadium in Casablanca, the field of the Moroccan team, where the great African final was played Champions League.
Source: La Verdad
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