Africa-Press – Angola. Petro de Luanda, motivated by qualifying for the quarter-finals of the League of African Champions Clubs in football, receives, today, at 2:00 pm, the disappointing Zamalek, at Estádio Nacional 11 de Novembro, in Luanda, in the opening game of the fifth and penultimate round of Group D, with the aim of conquering another triumph.
With the qualification achieved last weekend, against Sagrada Esperança, a 3-0 victory, the Eixo Viário tricolors will seek to maintain their unbeaten record in the competition, in order to maintain the first place in the series.
It’s a challenge in which Petro’s fans are waiting, with vanity, for the triumph to confirm the team’s competitive ascendancy in the current football season after years of starvation.
The Egyptians intend to go against the intentions of the Angolan group.
The two teams drew 2-2 on February 12, at Cairo International Stadium, for the first round of the series, in a match in which the tricolors let the triumph slip away in time-outs.
Gleison Moreira and Vidinho scored the goals of the Eixo Viário team, while Obama Ibrahim and Mahmoud Hamdi signed for the Egyptians.
At the top of the group, with ten points, the tricolors play at home and in front of their audience, with an opponent already away, but who hopes to end the campaign with the pride of a five-time African champion of the Champions League. The Egyptians won the race in 1984, 1986, 1993, 1996 and 2002.
Zamalek SC, who came from defeat in the last round, want to avoid, surely, another setback so they will do everything not to lose the game.
In the previous round, the Egyptians were defeated by the Moroccans, 0-1, at the Cairo International Stadium.
With 59 trophies, including 14 international titles and 45 Egyptian cups, Zamalek is an opponent to be reckoned with.
In series C, Esperance de Tunis, ranked first, with eight points, travels to the city of Fran cystown, Botswana, where they discuss, today, at 20:00, against Jwaneng Galaxy, the qualification for the semi-finals of the competition.
Algeria’s Belouizdad meets Etoile du Sahel, at 8:00 pm, at the Stadium 5 de Julho de 1962, in the city of Algiers.
Tunisians and Algerians, both with eight points, are at the top of the group’s league table, but Esperance have the advantage in the direct confrontation. The two teams can, in case of victory, guarantee the places for the quarter-finals.
In the league table, Etoile occupies the third position, with three points, followed by Jwaneng Galaxy in the fourth and last place, with one.
Sagrada and Wydad try to escape the tail
Sagrada Esperança plays, today, at 20:00, with Wydad AC, at Estádio Nacional 11 de Novembro, for the conclusion of the fifth round of Group D of the League of African Champions Clubs of football, in a match that opposes the last and the first classified .
The diamondifers are in the last position of the series, with one point and the Moroccan set is in the first, with nine.
Despite being away from qualifying for the other phase, the Lunda team today has an excellent opportunity to get even for the defeat in the opening round. Still, a balanced match is expected during regulation time.
The diamonds lost three matches, drew one and didn’t score any goals, so they intend to add, tonight, the first triumph in the opening of the group stage of the Champions League.
The Moroccans, in turn, already qualified for the second phase of the competition, will play, with the intention of maintaining supremacy over the opponent.
In the first round match, played on the 11th of February, the Lunda team lost against the King of Titles, by 0-3, at the Mohammed V Stadium, in the city of Ca sablanca, for the first round of the D series, in the city of Casablanca.
Mamelodi Sundowns from South Africa decides, today, at 14:00, the qualification for the semi-finals against Al-Hilal of Sudan, in the city of Omdurman, outside Cairo, in a game for Group A.
The South Africans only need an equality and the Sudanese need a triumph to postpone the qualification of the opponent.
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