A deadly goal that gives Pyramids the hope of the historic coronation in the African Champions League

The Egyptian Pyramids seized a fatal tie from its South African Mamelodi Sundays, 1-1, on Saturday at the “Loftos Verfeld” stadium in Pretoria, as part of the final match of the African Champions League football competition.
The Brazilian Lucas Ribeiro (54) was presented to the Handons and then Moroccan Walid Al -Karti (90+2) realized a draw for Pyramids.
The decisiveness will be next week when Pyramids will host the return match at the Air Defense Stadium in Cairo, where he hopes to exploit the result of going to win the title at home and in front of his fans.
The “Pyramids” team remains within the race for the Egyptian League title with Al -Ahly, and will play the Egypt Cup final against Zamalek after the continental final.
The “heavenly” team, which was previously known as Al -Assuiti, was looking for his name in 2018 to Pyramids, to become the fourth Egyptian team to be crowned the title after Al -Ahly (12 times, the last of which is 2024) and Zamalek (5 times, the last of which is 2002), and Al -Ismaili is the first Arab team to win the title of the championship (1969), while the final yarn lost once (1974).
On the other hand, Sundays looks forward to his second title after 2016, and next to break the dominance of the northern Arab region teams that have been going on since 2017 by twice to Moroccan Wydad (2017 and 2022) and twice for Tunisian Esperance (2018 and 2019) and four times for Al -Ahly (2020, 2021, 2023 and 2024), knowing that Mamilwe had lost the final in 2001 against Al -Ahly.
The relatively host team dominated the course of the first half, as it was the most acquired and worked to build the attacks from its area towards the goal of the Egyptian team, which was blocked in the defensive center, while relied on the quick rebounds that he often led in the Moroccan midfield and the Congolese Democratic striker Viston Mayile.
The pulse period was not overlooked, as the Egyptian goalkeeper Ahmed El -Shennawi was forced to shine to address a ball that he wore by his teammate Ahmed Sami, who tried to remove the Gululu Modaw ball (7), then Al -Shennawi removed a remote shot launched by the South African striker Ikram Rainers (9).
Mayile missed a favorable opportunity that was enough to put the Egyptian team at the forefront after it fired next to the goal after a pass from Ibrahim Adel (16). Adel gave another pass to Maille, but his shot this time (19).
The owners of the land regained the initiative, and the Brazilian Arshur Siles paid from the outskirts of the penalty area next to the Al -Shennawi goal (26), as Rainres header passed by the goal (36), and Mayyi lost another opportunity for Bramids after a lightning rebound where he fired next to the post while facing the net (42).
The “Brazilians” team stressed its pressure at the beginning of the second half, as the Egyptian team fell more to its region, and Ahmed Atef almost kidnapped the progress, but its shot lacked the focus (47), then the punishment came through Ribeiro, who took advantage of unjustified confusion among the Egyptian defense to remove the ball to divert the ball into the net of Al -Shennawi (54).
The goal gave confidence to the Mamilodi players who doubled their threat to the Egyptian goal, so the pressure of Pyramids fell on their opponent’s defense with random in implementing the rebounds, as the Moroccan back, Mohamed Al -Shaibi, emerged with two shots that did not pose the danger to the goal of the international goalkeeper Ronwin Williams.
While the match was pronounced its last breath, Pyramids players launched a coordinated attack, and Muhannad Lashin sent an elaborate cross with a veteran ball and turned the ball with his head to the net, giving his team tied with the taste of victory (90+4).
– The return in the presence of a mass with ministerial support – The Air Defense Stadium in Cairo accommodates thirty thousand spectators, but Pyramids miss a real public base, he will try to compensate with ministerial support and student partnerships.
The Pyramids matches, whether in the league or the cup in Egypt or the African Champions League this season, did not witness a mass attendance exceeding 500 of its fans, which predicts a crisis in supporting the team in the final leg, as it does not have a clear public base in a country with a population of a population of 100 million people.
The Minister of Youth and Sports, Ashraf Sobhi, pledged, with the help of Pyramids, to find a solution to the attendance crisis in the second leg.
“The ministry supports any Egyptian team participating at the continental or global level, and the minister has reassured himself on the preparations of Pyramids and will be present to support the team in the final match,” Mohamed Al -Shazly, the ministry’s spokesman, told AFP.
Al -Shazly stressed that the ministry will support Pyramids through a public presence of youth centers from Cairo and some other governorates.
He added that the ministry coordinates arrangements with Pyramids so that the mass scene is appropriate for the representative of Egypt, “We hope that Pyramids will be crowned the title for the first time in its history to complete the achievements of Al -Ahly, Zamalek and the former Ismaili in the championship.”