African party with all to play for

• Return legs of CAF Champions League semi-finals take place this weekend
• Ties are smoothly staid after a initial legs
• The winners of a foe will book a place during a FIFA Club World Cup

Contested by 4 north African sides, a semi-finals of a 2017 CAF Champions League are both finely staid forward of this weekend’s second legs. 

While USM Alger and Wydad Casablanca are sealed during 0-0 after their initial assembly in Algeria, Tunisia’s Etoile Sportive du Sahel reason a slight 2-1 lead going into their lapse with Al Ahly, with a Egyptians anticipating to make that changed divided idea count in their bid to strech a final.

The matches
Wydad Casablanca-USM Alger 
Stade Mohammed V, Casablanca, 21:00, 21 October

Wydad’s divided record has been shaky, with usually one win entrance their approach on a road, during Coton Sport in a organisation phase. Yet while a Moroccans unsuccessful to urge that statistic in a initial leg, they did during slightest conduct to reason their Algerian opponents to a goalless draw. Given Wydad’s 100 per cent home record to date, that outcome looks to be a good one. USM Alger’s divided record of dual defeats and 3 draws is a serve means for Moroccan optimism, while a Algerians are a usually one of a semi-finalists with a disastrous idea disproportion on a highway (four goals scored, 5 conceded). USM will be bolstered, however, by a lapse of their Algeria striker Oussama Darfalou, who has recovered from a damage he postulated in training with Les Fennecs on 6 October.

Al Ahly-Etoile Sportive du Sahel 
Borg el Arab Stadium, Alexandria, 19:00, 22 October

Three wins and dual draws: that is Al Ahly’s considerable home record in a CAF Champions League this year. Yet with Etoile Sportive du Sahel putting together accurately a same total on a road, Sunday’s lapse looks too tighten to call, generally with a tie so intriguingly staid after a initial leg. While Etoile have a edge, a Egyptians have an all-important divided idea in their favour, that means a 1-0 win will be adequate to take them through. The dual sides met in a 2007 final, when, following a goalless pull in Sousse, Etoile won 3-1 in Cairo to lift a trophy, a final time they did so.

Player to watch
Midfielder Mohamed Amine Ben Amor is Etoile’s form player. A few days after scoring his side’s leader in a initial leg with a glorious 30-yard drive, he steady a pretence for Tunisia in their 2018 FIFA World Cup Russia™ qualifier opposite Guinea. That double was done all a some-more important by a fact that a 25-year-old defensive midfielder had scored usually 4 goals in all competitions given creation his entrance in 2014.

The stat 
8 – For a eighth time given a pregnancy of a CAF Champions League in 1997, a final of a foe will be contested by dual sides from a north of a continent.

What they said
“We’re in with a good possibility and we’ll be fighting to keep it that approach right to a really final minute. There are no excuses. We’re looking for zero reduction than a place in a final. As prolonged as we believe, we will have a chance. It’s adult to us to do what we need to do to repay a faith invested in us.” 
USM Alger midfielder Hamza Koudri

Article source: http://www.fifa.com/clubworldcup/news/y=2017/m=10/news=african-quartet-with-all-to-play-for-2916089.html