Nahdet Berkane won the African Super Cup title, after defeating Wydad (2-0), in an exciting Moroccan summit hosted by Prince Moulay Abdellah Stadium in Rabat, today, Saturday.
Al-Berkany club owes the credit to its players, Al-Sharqi Al-Bahri and Sufian Al-Moden, who scored the winning goals in the 32nd and 71st minutes.
Thus, Berkane won the African Super Cup title for the first time in its history. This season, it collected the Triple Throne Cup, the African Confederation Cup, and the African Super Cup.
The match witnessed a great arbitration controversy, after the Algerian referee, Mustafa Ghorbal, awarded a penalty kick to each team, but the mouse intervened and made him retract his decision.
A strong start
The meeting started with sparring between the two teams, and Wydad put pressure on the goalkeeper Berkane Hamiani, through a cross that reached Senegalese Sambo Junior, who kicked the ball and shot it high in the seventh minute.
Wydad returned to the threat of Nahdet Berkane’s goal, this time by Jalal Daoudi, who tried his luck to shoot from a distance, but his ball went away from Hamza Hamyani’s goal in the 16th minute.
Nahdet Berkane entered the match somewhat late, due to Algerian Abdelhak Benchikha’s dependence on the bloc. In the back and the density in the middle of the field, in which the player Yassin Al-Behairi clearly excelled.
A sudden goal
and the haste seemed clear in the performance of the Wydad players, as Al-Hassouni shot a weak ball instead of passing to the Junior player, and Badi’ Awok lost an easy ball that floated in front of him inside the Berkane penalty area.
Contrasting the course of the game, Nahdet Berkane opened the scoring in the 32nd minute of the first real attack, as Al-Sharqi Al-Bahri took advantage of a cross and rose between Wydad defenders, to head the ball to the left of goalkeeper Reda Al-Taknaouti.
Wydad tried to equalize before the end of the first half, but the rush on the one hand and the isolation of Senegalese striker Junior, on the other hand, prevented him from that, so the half ended with the Berkani team advancing.
Wydad’s pressure
raised Wydad from the rhythm in the second half, as Jalal Daoudi came close to equalizing, but his ball from a direct free kick passed high.
Faced with the inability of his players to penetrate the strong defensive wall of Berkane, Al-Hussein Amouta resorted to many changes with the aim of giving the attack a revival. He pushed the duo, Onajem, Al-Hussein bin Ayada, and after them Zuhair Al-Mutarji.
A huge mistake
, Amouta’s ambitions, collided with a huge mistake by the Wydad defense caused by the duo Arsene Zola and Ayman Abu Al-Fateh, who hindered striker Shadrac Muzongo, so that the Algerian referee, Mustafa Gharbal, awarded a penalty kick.
Wydad’s reaction was fast and strong this time, as he got a penalty thanks to substituting Mohamed Onajem, a minute after Berkane’s second goal, before Gherbal returned to the mouse room, and retracted his decision with Onajem’s warning.
Arbitration controversy
and Nahdet Berkane almost caused a historic defeat for Wydad, after Mustafa Gharbal awarded another penalty kick at the last minute, so that the scene of the mouse’s intervention was repeated, and it was canceled after reviewing the video.
The Algerian Abdelhak Bin Sheikha spent the rest of the minutes making some changes to gain time, and the referee announced 7 minutes as lost time, during which Berkane kept the ball with the brilliance of his goalkeeper Hamza Hamiani.
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