The Egyptian Al Ahly beat Auckland City 3-0 New Zealand, this Wednesday in Tangier, Morocco, in the match that served to open the Club World Cupwhere Real Madrid and Flamengo, the two big favourites, will start next week in the semifinals.
In the next round, the Al Ahly will face the Seattle Sounders on Saturday American, representative of the Concacaf and team of the Ecuadorian central defender Xavier Arreaga. The winner of that pulse will face Real Madrid on Wednesday the 8th.
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In the opening game this Wednesday, the Al Ahly opened the scoring through Hussein El Shahat (45+1 minutes) and in the second half they sentenced Mohamed Sherif (56) and the South African Percy Tau (86).
Auckland finished with ten for the expulsion in the final discount (90 + 7 minutes) of Adam Mitchell.
Traditionally, the first round match of the Club World Cup pits the champion of Oceania against the champion of the host countrywhich in this case is Morocco.
However the The winner of the last Moroccan league was Wydad Casablancawho was also the last champion of Africa, so will enter the fray on Saturday directly in the second round. Auckland’s opponents in the curtain-raising match were then Al Ahly, as reigning African runners-up.
The duel between Al Ahly and Auckland put two ‘classic’ teams from the Club World Cup face to face, with eight and a record of ten participations, respectively.
The best results of Al Ahly in the competition were the third places achieved three times (2006 and in the two previous editions, those corresponding to 2020 and 2021).
With their defeat, Auckland, coached by the Spanish Albert Riera, already says goodbye to the tournament, unable to come close to their best role, the third place they signed in 2014, in the last Club World Cup played in Morocco before the current one.
The competition continues on Saturday with the two duels of quarter finals (second round), first in Rabat (09:30 from Ecuador) with the clash between Wydad Casablanca and Al Hilal Saudi, and then with the pulse Seattle Sounders vs. Al Ahly, again in Tangier, from 12:30. (D)
Source: Eluniverso
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