The club’s administrative staff began Al-Ahly In completing travel procedures to Congo in preparation for facing Mazembe in the African Champions League in the semi-finals of the tournament in the search for the crown of the 12th African star in its history and the second in a row with Marcel Koller, the Swiss coach.
Al-Ahly qualified for the semi-finals after overcoming the obstacle of Simba of Tanzania by winning the first leg with a clean goal through Ahmed Nabil Koka at Benjamin Mkaba Stadium, and winning the return leg with two unanswered goals at Cairo Stadium, signed by Amr El-Soulia and Mahmoud Abdel Moneim Kahraba.
Mazembe reached the semi-finals after overcoming Angola’s Petro Atletico, after they tied 0-0 in the first leg in Congo, before winning the second leg in Angola with two goals to one.
Al-Ahly will play the first leg with Mazembe on one of the 19th or 20th of April in Congo, while the return match will be played on the 26th or 27th of this month at Cairo Stadium.
Al-Ahly’s first confrontation with TP Mazembe was on September 1, 2002 in the 2002 Champions League edition, specifically in the third round of the group stage, and the match ended with Al-Ahly winning with an unanswered goal scored by Ahmed Bilal in the 48th minute at the start of the second half of the match.
Al-Ahly’s second match against Mazembe in the fourth round of the same group witnessed a goalless draw.
Al-Ahly met with Mazembe again in the second round of the group stage of the Champions League 2012 edition. The first meeting was held in Cairo on July 8, 2012 and ended with Al-Ahly winning 2-1, as Imad Miteb scored Al-Ahly’s first goal in the 11th minute, while Mazembe succeeded in adjusting the result despite One of his players was expelled during the course of the match after Samatta scored the equalizer for Mazembe in the 85th minute from a fatal error by Sherif Ekramy, who did not judge the ball well. Mohamed Naji Gedo saved Al-Ahly’s position in the match, and scored the winning goal in the 90th minute and the fatal time of the match.
While the return match was held between Al-Ahly and Mazembe within the framework of the fifth round of the same group of the 2012 tournament, and the match ended with Al-Ahly losing by two clean goals.
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