The 2024/2025 CAF Champions League semi-finals will probably be an all-South Africa vs Egypt affair after Orlando Pirates booked their spot within the last-four on Wednesday night.
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The Buccaneers have been held to a 0-0 draw at residence by MC Alger of Algeria, however nonetheless superior to the semi-finals.
Orlando Pirates received the primary leg of the quarter-final 1-0 in Algiers final week by a Mohau Nkota purpose and progressed to the penultimate stage of the premier African membership competitors 1-0 on mixture.
South Africa vs Egypt
The semi-finals later this month will pit South African and Egyptian golf equipment in opposition to one another for spots within the two-leg remaining.
Mamelodi Sundowns face document 12-time CAF Champions League winners and defending champions Al Ahly whereas Orlando Pirates meet Pyramids, the one semi-finalists to not have received the competitors.
The 2-leg semi-finals are scheduled for the weekends of 18/19 and 25/26 April.
In semi-final 1, Mamelodi Sundowns will host Al Ahly within the first leg, whereas in semi-final 2, Orlando Pirates will welcome Pyramids to the Orlando Stadium.
The return fixtures will happen the next weekend.
The ultimate can be a two-leg affair and scheduled for Might 24 and June 1.
The primary leg of the ultimate will probably be hosted by the winner of the Mamelodi Sundowns-Al Ahly conflict.
The general winner will take residence $4 million (R79 million).
Orlando Pirates vs MC Alger match report
MC Alger got here to Soweto on the outskirts of Johannesburg assured of overturning the mixture deficit and the previous champions had a number of late possibilities to win the second leg and pressure a penalty shootout.
Abdelkader Menezia had a strong header saved by completely positioned goalkeeper Sipho Chaine, then fellow substitute Ivorian Kipre Zunon wasted a close-range likelihood by blazing vast.
Orlando Pirates additionally had an added-time scoring alternative as one other substitute, Tshegofatso Mabasa, swivelled within the space and his low shot struck the bottom of the far submit.
The South African membership are aiming for a 3rd remaining look.
They beat ASEC Mimosas of the Ivory Coast within the 1995 title decider, however misplaced to Ahly 18 years later.
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