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Al Ahly head coach Jess Thorup has described his side’s TotalEnergies CAF Champions League quarter-final against Esperance Sportive de Tunis as a “tough mission for both teams” but insists the Egyptian giants remain firmly focused on reaching the semi-finals.<\/em><\/p>\n The draw, held in Cairo on Tuesday, paired Africa’s most successful club with the four-time Tunisian champions in one of the standout ties of the last eight.<\/p>\n Al Ahly will travel to Tunisia for the first leg between 13 and 15 March before…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a> Al Ahly head coach Jess Thorup has described his side’s TotalEnergies CAF Champions League quarter-final against Esperance Sportive de Tunis as a “tough mission for both teams” but insists the Egyptian giants remain firmly focused on reaching the semi-finals. The draw, held in Cairo on Tuesday, paired Africa’s most successful club with the four-time Tunisian […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":224539,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[642],"tags":[9809,258,256,11757,53715,7346,14400,257,11502,254,53714,653,6132],"class_list":["post-224538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tunisia","tag-advantage","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-ahly","tag-awayfirst","tag-coach","tag-esperance","tag-news","tag-showdown","tag-south-africa-today","tag-thorup","tag-tunisia-news","tag-welcomes"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224538","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=224538"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224538\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/224539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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