Al-Raja Sports Football Team left the African Champions League after losing to its Senegalese guest, Tungeth, on penalties (1-3) in the second leg match for the second round of the competition that brought them together this evening, Tuesday, on the ground of the stadium of the sports complex Mohamed V in Casablanca.
Returning to the course of the confrontation, the returns of the "Rajawiya" elements were greatly affected by the wet stadium and heavy rains that fell throughout the minutes of the first half and turned the stadium into water pools..
The most prominent opportunity in the first half of Al -Raja Sports was available, within the limits of the 15th minute, the defender Marwan Hudhaoudi did not improve dealing with it well at the first sight and Mahmoud Benhalib at the second sight;While the Algerian referee, Lahlou bin Ibrahim, was deprived of the elements of Raja from a clear penalty kick, after Sufyan Rahimi was dropped in the battlefield of operations.
The size of the water pools on the ground of the sports complex, Mohamed V, increased during the course of the second half, to be held in light of the "Rajawi" elements mission, as the comrades of Brigadier Mohsen Metwally resorted to long balls in the direction of the Senegalese Tonghith battle and relying on fixed balls as options imposed by the circumstances of the match and the situationThe catastrophic for the pitch.
The Moroccan team was close to seizing the goal of winning and qualifying in the limits of the 82nd minute through the player Abdel Ilah Madkour, after he hit a strong ball that went around to the post, so that the two parties rejected the penalty shootout after the confrontation phases ended in a negative tie, the same result of the first leg..
The penalty shootout of the Senegalese team smiled, thus settling his qualification to the group stage of the African Champions League.While the Raja Sports Path stopped on the role before the groups.