The Moroccan team, Al-Wydad, completed the semi-final of the African Champions League in football, after estranged the Algerian team ” Shabab Belouizdad”, after they tied negatively in the second leg of the quarter-finals, to set a date in the semi-finals with Petro Atletico of Angola, which overthrew the South African Mamelodi Sun downs, after their 1-1 draw. in Johannesburg.
In the other semi-final, Al-Ahly of Egypt will meet with Algeria’s ES Setif in the “North African derby.” The semi-final matches will be held on 6-7 and 13-14 May, and the final on 29 of the same month.
In front of about 55,000 spectators who gathered at the Mohammed V stadium in the economic capital of Morocco, Casablanca, Al-Wydad grabbed the transit visa to the semi-finals after drawing negatively with Shabab Belouizdad in an exciting Moroccan derby. Wydad Al-Omma has benefited from his winning abroad with a clean goal by J Mbenza.
This is the fourth time in a row that “Wydad Al-Omma” has reached the semi-finals and the eighth in its history, while Belouizdad failed to reach the semi-finals for the first time in his career.
Angolan Petro Atlético achieved a heavy-caliber surprise, when it ousted South Africa’s Mamelodi Sun downs from the quarter-finals, with a 1-1 draw back at Soccer City in Johannesburg, and reached the semi-finals for the first time in its history, after advancing 2-1 in the first leg in Luanda.
Al-Wydad completes the gold square in the African Champions
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