Swiss coach Marcel Koehler expresses happiness over Al-Ahly’s qualification to African Champions League semi-finals

Swiss coach Marcel Koehler, coach of the first football team at Al-Ahly Club, confirmed his great happiness at the team’s qualification to the semi-finals of the African Champions League, after overcoming the Moroccan Raja hurdle in the quarter-finals.

Kohler said in the press conference after the match: “We are very happy with the qualification. It was a difficult match as we expected. The first half was not good because there was no confidence from the players because they did not possess the ball, especially since the opponent was pressing hard.”

He added, “At the end of the first half, a penalty kick was awarded, and we were lucky that it was missed. The second half was better and calmer, and we had better possession of the ball, and at the end of the match we created chances to score. If there was some focus in the final touch, we could have scored goals.”

And he continued: “The largest part of our backs retreated in the first half because of hope, because he played well. He forced us to do so. He was very fierce in pressing. We had no spaces and no time to pass. We were losing the ball very easily, and we did not have the courage to transfer the ball. We spoke with the player between In both halves, the performance was better in the second half.

And he added, “For a while, I saw the full stadium in Egypt twice, the crowd today is very great and thirsty for its team to win, in a very international and great atmosphere.”

And about the possibility of Raja scoring the first goal before the end of the first half, Koller said: “I was going to tell the player the same thing I said between the two halves that we would be calmer in football and not affected by the goal. If Joule entered us.