Pitso Mosimane, Al Ahly’s head coach, spoke about the team’s upcoming match against Sudan’s Al Merrikh SC in the fifth fixture of the CAF Champions League group stage.

“We aim to qualify to the next round by achieving an important victory over Al Merrikh SC. Al Ahly will travel to Sudan focusing only on putting on a solid performance.”

“Defeating Al Merrikh SC will allow us to achieve many goals such as, qualifying to the next round, keeping our hopes in being the group leaders as we will face Simba SC in the last fixture, and sending a message to all the other teams that we are always capable of winning away from home.”

“Al Merrikh are difficult opponents and they were close to defeating Simba SC in their last game.”

“We analyzed Al Merrikh very well and we studied how they play at their home ground. We hope to have a bit of luck and achieve an important win. “

“Our upcoming two games against Al Merrikh and Simba are very important in our journey in the CAF Champions League. First of all, we have to qualify and secondly, we want to be the group leaders; it is Al Ahly’s norm to be leaders.”

“It’s not necessary to start the group stage in the best possible manner; however, we have to end the group stage in the optimal way possible.”

“Finally, the group stage phase in the CAF Champions League is like a marathon. The most important thing is to end it in the best possible way and that is what we are seeking for in the remaining two games.”