The Wydad Casablanca from Morocco will be one of Real Madrid’s possible rivals in the Club World Cup after proclaiming himself the winner of the African Champions League on Monday by beating the Egyptian Al-Ahly 0-2.
A triumph that had its own name, that of the attacker Zouheir El Moutaraji, who signed the two goals that led to the Moroccan team to the conquest of his third title, after those achieved in the years 1992 and 2017.
Yes, after fifteen minutes of play Moutaraji showed his quality in hitting the ball with a spectacular kick from outside the area that became 0-1, in the second the Wydad player showed his ability to reach the rival area.
The Moroccan attacker established three minutes into the second half the final 0-2 at the end of a fast counterattack in which, although Zouheir El Moutaraji ran into the Egyptian goalkeeper Mohamed El Shenawy in the first instancenothing could prevent him from ending up introducing the ball into the nets by taking advantage of the rebound.
All the efficiency that it showed the Wydad, who converted his first two shots between the three sticks into a goalwas lacking for Al-Ahly, who did little to monopolize possession of the ball throughout the contest.
And it is that the Egyptian team, which was seeking to become the first team to win three consecutive African Champions Leagues, barely managed arrive with danger to the Wydad area and when he managed, he ran into an exceptional Ahmed Tagnaouti under the sticks.
The Moroccan goalkeeper prevented with three great interventions in the last quarter of an hour of play that Al-Ahlythe most successful team in the competition with ten titles, could reduce their disadvantage.
Especially Brilliant was the stop that Tagnaouti signed at 82 minutes 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 stop that was celebrated as much or more than lThe goals of El Moutaraji by the fans of a Wydad that filled the stands of the Mohamed V stadium in Casablanca, the field of the Moroccan team, where the grand final of the African Champions League was played.