The Wydad Casablanca of Morocco will be one of the possible rivals of Real Madrid in the Club World Cup after proclaiming itself the winner of the African Champions League on Monday by winning the final, played in its stadium in a single match, by 0-2 against Al- Ahly Egyptian.
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A triumph that had its own name, that of attacker Zouheir El Moutaraji, who scored the two goals that led the Moroccan team to the conquest of their third title, after those achieved 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 made it 0-1, in the second goal the Wydad player showed his ability to reach the rival area .
Three minutes into the second half, the Moroccan attacker established the final 0-2 lead by completing a swift counterattack in which, although Zouheir El Moutaraji ran into Egyptian goalkeeper Mohamed El Shenawy in the first instance, nothing could prevent him from finishing introducing the ball into the nets when taking advantage of the rebound.
Al-Ahly’s unsuccessful rule
All the efficiency shown by Wydad, who converted their first two shots between the three sticks into goals, was lacking for Al-Ahly, who had little use in monopolizing possession of the ball throughout the match.
And it is that the Egyptian team, which was looking to become the first team to win three consecutive African Champions Leagues, barely managed to reach the Wydad area in danger and when it did, it ran into an exceptional Ahmed Tagnaouti 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 with three major interventions in the last quarter of an hour of play.
Especially brilliant was the save that Tagnaouti signed in the 82nd minute by repelling with his feet a shot from inside the small area by Salah Mohsen, who seemed destined, yes or yes, for the goal.
A save that was celebrated as much or more than the goals of El Moutaraji by the fans of a Wydad who filled the stands of the Mohamed V stadium in Casablanca, the Moroccan team’s field, where the great final of the African Champions League was played.
