Al-Ahly Club of Egypt turned a goal deficit against its host, Stade Abidjan Ivorian, into a difficult victory with a score of 3/1, to rise to the top of the standings of Group Three (C) in the African Champions League competitions with 10 points after five rounds had passed “temporarily” until the end of the Orlando match. Pirates of South Africa and CS Belouizdad of Algeria tomorrow afternoon, Sunday.

Abidjan Stadium took the lead with a surprise goal in the 26th minute, scored by player Jean Saint-Curie with a perfect shot with the inside of his foot from the 18th line after receiving a pass from Mohamed Nyamba. It hugged the far left goalkeeper, Mohamed El-Shenawy, who flew at it to no avail, ending the first half with the host team superior. With this goal, without any reaction from Al-Ahly players.

Between halftime of the match, Al-Ahly club coach Marcel Kohler decided to make several tactical adjustments to the plan he started with, so he withdrew Karim Al-Debis and Amr Al-Souliya from the midfield to field Mohamed Magdy Afsha and Karim Nedved.

Kohler’s interventions resulted in Al-Ahly’s possession and great control of the tempo of the game, so the equalizing goal came in the 53rd minute for the brilliant midfielder these days, Imam Ashour, after a distinguished preparation by Palestinian striker Wissam Abu Ali.

Within 10 minutes, Imam Ashour returned to add the second goal for Al-Ahly with an amazing flying header after receiving a perfect pass from Khaled Abdel Fattah Al-Muqaddam to play the attacking role in the 73rd minute.

During stoppage time, Imam Ashour celebrated his first hat-trick in his career with Al-Ahly, by scoring the third goal in the match with a missile shot from inside the penalty area in the 90+5 minute after receiving a pass from substitute midfielder Omar Al-Saei between two players. Abidjan Stadium defense line.

With this result, Al-Ahly club compensated for its loss with an unanswered goal against its host, Chabab Belouizdad, in the last minute of the fourth round match, a result that brought some doubt to its fans, two rounds before the end of the group stage.

Imam Ashour - who scored a goal in a match in the Egyptian League last weekend - was keen to keep the match ball, celebrating the hat-trick in front of the photographers' lenses by pointing with the number "3".

The CS Belouizdad team is now required to defeat Orlando Pirates in order to continue the competition to advance to the round of 8 of the tournament, as it collected 6 points from 4 matches, while Orlando Pirates collected 8 points, and the Stade Abidjan team is at the bottom of the group with an orphan point.