Two Arab matches at the start of the group stage of the African Champions League

Summarize this content to 1000 words and Correct this to standard English Cairo: the group stage of the African Champions League will start tomorrow, Friday, where the matches of the first round will take place in absence of Wydad Casablanca, champion in charge, and runner-up Al-Ahly of Egypt. The absence of Wydad and Al-Ahly from the first rounds of the group stage is due to their participation in the World Cup for clubcurrently in course in Morocco, as the Moroccan team said goodbye to the competition in the second round losing on penalties to Saudi Arabia’s Hilal, while Al-Ahly are still involved in championship, where he plays a match of determination. The third and fourth place in the competition against the Brazilian Flamengo the day after tomorrow, Saturday, after the tough 1/4 defeat against Real Madrid, in Spain, in the semifinal of the World Cup yesterday, Wednesday. 16 teams participate in this group, including 9 club Arabs, which were distributed in 4 groups, with 4 teams in each group, provided that the leaders and runners-up of each group qualify for the quarter-finals, which take place in based on the elimination round system in the continental competition. The first round will see two Arab ties in the fourth round, where Esperance of Tunisia will meet his Sudanese guest, Al-Merikh, and Zamalek of Egypt will play his guest, Algerian Belouizdad Youth. This will be the fifth confrontation between Taraji and Mars in Champions League, after they had already met in the 16th round of the competition in 2010 and 2015, when at the time this role played out in the elimination round system. And while Esperance decided to qualify for the two groups in the 2010 edition at the expense of Mars, the Sudanese team managed to repay the debt, having ousted its Tunisian competitor from the competition version 8 years ago, to continue its career in the tournament at the moment. In the last four meetings between the two teams in Champions League, Taraji achieved two wins against a single victory for Mars, and imposed the same draw on a single confrontation. The last confrontation between the two teams in various competitions dates back to 2017, when they played in the Championship for club Arabs in Egypt, where Esperance won 2-0 against Al-Merreikh, after which the team called the sheikh of club Tunisians paved their way to the crowning glory of that version of the tournament. Esperance, who won the Champions League in 1994, 2011, 2018 and 2019, climbed to the group stage with great difficulty, after overcoming Nigerian side Plateau United in the round of 32. Esperance benefited from their superiority over their Nigerian counterparts in goal difference in away, which are invoked according to the tournament rules in the case in where any two teams draw in aggregate for home and away games. Esperance lost 1/2 in the first leg to Plateau, before winning hard 1/0 against their opponent in the second leg, which took place at the Hammadi Al-Aqrabi stadium in Rades. The situation is not much different for Al-Merrekh, who also reached the group stage at the expense of Al-Ahly Tripoli, Libya, in the previous round, having overtaken their opponent on a difference in goals scored on the ground. Al-Merreikh, still looking for his first title in Champions League, he won 2-0 in the first leg played in his stadium against Al-Ahly Tripoli, who beat the Sudanese 1-3, but it wasn’t enough to continue in the championship. And Esperance were assured of their readiness for their important continental fixture after a 2-0 win against their hosts, Amal Hammam Sousse, in their last game in the Tunisian league yesterday, Wednesday, to qualify while in heads its group for the crowning stage in the local competition, whose preliminary round takes place in the two-group system. Since last January 11, however, Al-Merreikh has not played any games in the Sudanese championship, due to the participation of the Sudanese national team in the African Cup for the locals in Algeria, noting that it occupies second place in the local competition standings, two points behind its traditional leading rivals Al-Hilal. The fourth round will also be at the rendezvous with a purely Arab match, no less ferocious, between Zamalek, who has won the title 5 times, and the youth team of Belouizdad, who hope to win the Champions League for the first time in his own story. Zamalek had no trouble advancing to the group stage, following a 6/1 first-leg win against Burundi’s Flamebois du Sonter in the 32nd round, which also saw Shabab Belouizdad win 2/3 on Djoliba Al-Mali in the total of the two games. Zamalek hopes to reconcile his fans frustrated by the team’s meager results in various competitions in the recent period, as it failed to retain the Egypt Cup title, which it crowned in its last edition, and also walked away from the competition for the Egyptian Premier League title, which it won in the last two seasons. Since the beginning of 2023, Zamalek has suffered a slump in its results in the local league, having played 7 matches in the competition, during which they managed just one win against two draws and 4 losses, to take fourth place in table, 8 points behind its traditional league leaders Al-Ahly, who have two games postponed. For his part, Belouizdad, leader of the Algerian league table, will use eight players from the match, who were part of the Algerian national team, which lost the final of the African Cup of local players (Al-Shaan) against Senegal by kicks penalty recently, while captain Sofiane Bouchard will be absent through suspension. The Tunisian Nabil El Kouki, coach of Belouizdad, addressed a veiled warning to Zamalek, telling the official Facebook page of the club: “Belouizdad’s youngsters don’t fear any opponents, and I don’t fear any team either. We are ready mentally and physically and we will do what we have to do. God willing, there will be nothing but good. He added: “The Champions League is a different competition from the domestic league. Big teams are always present in the tournament because in itself it is a great motivation for all the players. We must be ready and have the ambition to go far in this competition”. In the first round of that group, a single match will take place, where the Algerian JS Kabylie will be the guest of the Angolan Petro Atletico, after the postponement of the WYD meeting with his host, the Democratic Congolese Vita Club, to the third next March JS Kabylie, who won the Champions League in 1981 and 1990, suffers from a disastrous season, in what occupies the penultimate position in the Algerian ranking in this season, with a surprise that its more pessimistic fans weren’t expecting before the start of the competition. JS Kabylie qualified for the group stage, after defeating Togolese champions Asco Kara, 3-2, in the round of 32, while Petro Atletico advanced after defeating Cape Town, South Africa, 3-0 in the first leg and 1-0 in the first leg. the second stage. The two sides had previously met in the 2010 edition of the competition in the round of 16, where Al-Shabiba won the first leg 2-0 in Algeria, before Petro Atletico earned a crushing 2-1 victory over their Algerian opponent in the first leg in Algeria. second stage. The same goes for the second round. in which will be played in a single match in this round between Mamelodi Sundowns of South Africa, champion of the competition in 2016, and Al Hilal of Sudan, runners-up of the competition in 1987 and 1992. The meeting of Al-Ahly, who holds the record of victories in championship with 10 titles, was postponed with its host, Cameroonian Cotton, in the same round, to next March 3rd. This is the third successive edition of the competition where a confrontation is taking place between Sun Downs and Al Hilal, after they have already played each other in the same round in the last two editions, noting that they had previously met in the round of 16 of the tournament when the Sudanese side toppled their South African counterpart after defeating them 4/3 on aggregate. This is the seventh confrontation between Sun Downs and Al Hilal in Champions League, where the Sudanese team achieved only one victory, against the 4 victories of the squad (the Brazilians), and the draw…