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The situation of Moroccan club Wydad Athletic Club in the African Champions League was complicated after it suffered its third defeat in the group stage against its host Simba of Tanzania with two clean goals – today, Tuesday – in the fourth round of the second group competitions.
In his first appearance with his new old coach, Tunisian veteran Faouzi Bizertin, Wydad conceded two goals in two minutes, scored by Cameroonian Issumba Onana (36 and 38).
Simba returned the debt to Wydad Casablanca after losing to them 10 years ago in Morocco, with a clean goal, raising his score to 5 points and rising to second place temporarily, one point behind Gwaneng Galaxy of Botswana, who are visiting ASEC Mimosas, the Ivory Coast leaders (7 points), while the team fell. The Moroccan team is in last place after its score froze at 3 points.
Bizertin, who took over the helm of Wydad coaching for a fourth era, succeeding the local Adel Ramzi a few days ago, failed to continue correcting the path of “Wydad Al-Umma” in the continental competition in which it won the title three times, so the issue of qualifying to the quarter-finals became very complicated, as it would have to win against its host, Guaneng Galaxy. Its guest will be ASEC on February 24 and March 2, while waiting for its competitors to falter.
Bizertin lost the services of team captain Yahia Gebrane due to suspension, and this absence had a major negative impact in the midfield, as was the absence of defender Amine Farhane, and thus relied on the international full-backs Yahya Attia Allah and Ayoub Lamloud, the Algerian midfielder Zakaria Draoui, and the attacking trio Saif Eddine Bouhra, Montaser Lahtimi, and the Senegalese Poli. Sambo.
In the first group, the Democratic Republic of the Congolese Mazembe achieved a late victory over its guest, Nouadhibou of Mauritania, with two clean goals scored by Cheikh Omar Fofana (80 and 90 + 3).
Mazembe raised its score to 7 points in the lead, while Nouadhibou’s score froze at four points in fourth place, on goal difference behind Egypt’s Pyramids and South Africa’s Mamelodi Sundowns, who will score later.
