Champions League | Group stage (1st day) – EST-Teungueth FC (2-1): Basit, the detonator!

Barely a quarter of an hour after entering the game, the Ghanaian transcended his own when his comrades were struggling to unlock a Senegalese defense as catchy as one could wish.

Hammadi-Agrebi Olympic Stadium in Radès. EST beats Teungueth FC: 2-1. (1-1 at halftime). Goals from Djibril Sylla (34 ‘) for Teungueth FC, Yassine Khénissi (sp 44’) and Khalid Abdul Basit (73 ‘) for the EST. Arbitration by Kenyan Peter Waweru.

EST: Ben Mustapha, Nagguez, Chetti (Ben Hmida 74 ‘), Badrane, Tougai, Coulibaly, Chaalali (Ben Romdhane 36’), Benguit, Badri (Togui 74 ‘), Khénissi (Basit 58’) and Marzouki (Fadaa 58 ‘ ).

Football has changed a lot in Africa to the point where you are never safe even when you play at home. The “Blood and Gold” learned it yesterday the hard way by conceding a goal against the game. The Senegalese team of Teungueth, their host on the occasion of the first day of the group stage, played without complex although ” she suffered the full brunt of the pressing operated by the attackers “blood and gold” who multiplied the attempts from the first minutes of play, in particular through Nagguez, very active on the right lane, delivering a good number of assists just like his centering of the right for Khénissi whose recovery of the head passed largely above the transverse (27 ‘).

The Esperantists therefore opted for the outrageous attack. However, it was the Senegalese who would open the scoring against all odds. We played half an hour of play and while we thought that the Esperanto goal was heating up, the Senegalese were going to operate with a counter-attack and following a collective action at three, Djibril Sylla took advantage of a centering of the left to accommodate , with a flick, the ball in the nets of Ben Mustapha (34 ‘). The “blood and gold” porter and his defenders saw nothing coming. Another harmless error of the Esperanto defense which cost him a “stupid” goal.

At 44 ‘, two minutes later, the referee awarded a penalty to EST after an opposing defender touched the ball with his hand in the middle of the penalty area. A penalty converted by Yassine Khénissi (44 ‘).

Paid changes!

After the break, the Esperantists had to find the loophole again at all costs in order to sign the winning goal. The Senegalese, although they were new to the continental event, were going to give the Esperanto attackers a hard time by applying an old defensive scheme.

For its part, the technical staff “blood and gold” made changes that were going to pay off, including one in particular. Barely a quarter of an hour after entering the game, Khalid Abdul Basit, the new Ghanaian recruit, was going to be decisive. Served from the left by Ben Romdhane, Basit headed back to lodge the ball in the nets of Assane Cissé who could not do anything (73 ‘). More than a goal of victory, it was the goal of deliverance. Thanks to Khalid Basit, EST did not miss its start in the group phase against a novice, certainly, from the African C1, but who made his life difficult. The numerical inferiority at the end did not harm the EST which provided the essential.

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