{"id":4080,"date":"2024-05-19T15:39:11","date_gmt":"2024-05-19T14:39:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/empowersmag.com\/empowersmagwp\/?p=4080"},"modified":"2024-05-19T15:42:32","modified_gmt":"2024-05-19T14:42:32","slug":"berkane-establish-slender-lead-in-confederation-cup-final-first-leg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/empowersmag.com\/empowersmagwp\/2024\/05\/19\/berkane-establish-slender-lead-in-confederation-cup-final-first-leg\/","title":{"rendered":"<strong>Berkane Establish Slender Lead in Confederation Cup Final First Leg<\/strong>"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>By Satish Sekar \u00a9 Satish Sekar (May 12<sup>th<\/sup> 2024<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Slender Advantage?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Former CAF Confederation Cup champions (Renaissance Sporting) de RS Berkane, fresh from their controversial 6-0 aggregate win over the defending champions USM Alger without kicking a ball defeated Egypt\u2019s SC Zamalek 2-1 in the first leg in Berkane \u2013 a slender advantage as away goals could decide the title, meaning a 1-0 victory for Zamalek would give the White Knights the title. Zamalek have a proud record at home, meaning that they start as favourites for the return leg thanks to Seifeddine Jaziri\u2019s goal at the start of the second half.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Berkane\u2019s Burkinab\u00e9 defender, Issofou Dayo, gave the Moroccans the lead after a VAR review persuaded the Kenyan referee to reverse his earlier view that Hossam Abdelmaguid\u2019s challenge on Youssef el Fahli was not a foul. Dayo scored the penalty after 13 minutes. Berkane doubled their lead when Mohamed El Mourabit\u2019s freekick was headed in by Adil Tarif after 32 minutes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After taking a two goal lead Berkane was content to play on the counter-attack, but the strategy of CAF Champions League winning coach, Mo\u00efn Cha\u00e2bani, backfired when Ahmed (Zizo) Sayef\u2019s cross was headed in by Jaziri to give the visitors a precious away goal \u2013 Zamalek\u2019s captain, midfielder, Mahmoud (Shikabala) Abdelrazak was missing through injury.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Shikabala \u2013 a Zamalek stalwart \u2013 will not play any part in this year\u2019s Confederation Cup final due to a tear of the anterior muscle in his left leg picked up during training for the second leg of the semi-final against Dreams FC. But Zizo is back and played an important part in the first leg of the final.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is evenly poised but Berkane know that Zamalek has a formidable record at home.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Satish Sekar \u00a9 Satish Sekar (May 12th 2024 Slender Advantage? Former CAF Confederation Cup champions (Renaissance Sporting) de RS Berkane, fresh from their controversial 6-0<span class=\"excerpt-hellip\"> [\u2026]<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[16],"tags":[760,745,759,710,761,735],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/empowersmag.com\/empowersmagwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4080"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/empowersmag.com\/empowersmagwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/empowersmag.com\/empowersmagwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/empowersmag.com\/empowersmagwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/empowersmag.com\/empowersmagwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4080"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/empowersmag.com\/empowersmagwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4080\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4083,"href":"https:\/\/empowersmag.com\/empowersmagwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4080\/revisions\/4083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/empowersmag.com\/empowersmagwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/empowersmag.com\/empowersmagwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/empowersmag.com\/empowersmagwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}