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00:00Both goalkeepers captaining their sides today.
00:04We are underway on Matchday 5 in this crucial tie between Stade Dabijon
00:09and Al-Ali, the defending champions.
00:12Stade Dabijon needing to win.
00:18They are not to exit in the group stages, but in all likelihood
00:22they are going to finish bottom of Group C.
00:27And go home early, unless they can do something very, very surprising today.
00:36So Al-Ali play.
00:40Left to right, early start and an early save.
00:43Brilliantly so by Bamba, to deny Wessex.
00:47They made their last campaign Stade Dabijon.
00:52Al-Ali's first of 12 titles didn't come until the early 80s.
00:57Pretty understandable how they've missed each other over the years.
01:00It was 4-2 in Cairo on Matchday 1.
01:04To the defending champions as they're through the middle, in comes Ashur.
01:07On the volley, Ashur straight at.
01:10The goalkeeper then tipped away.
01:12Bamba would have been relieved, but he was in behind.
01:15Going too far before it was cut out, Emad Ashur.
01:19Abu Ali would have been a couple of kilometres offside had that gone through to him.
01:25Gay, this is better from Stade Dabijon.
01:27Corey in behind, little slip.
01:29Is it costly?
01:30Oh, yes it is!
01:32Because Saint-Jean-Corey has called home an absolute beauty
01:36to give Stade Dabijon the lead in a game they have to win
01:40against the African champions Al-Ali.
01:43A little stumble and how the 26-year-old profited from that.
01:49Only one thought in his mind, he got his body shape all right.
01:54Since the second round, he hasn't always convinced in front of goal,
01:58but look at that from Corey.
02:03It's touched in by Niamh, but you can see the slip from Yasser Ibrahim.
02:08It'll take nothing away from the finish.
02:10Open up his body, just inside the right-hand post.
02:15Absolutely stunning goal.
02:17Look at that.
02:18He got it absolutely right.
02:21From Marley's whistle goes to signify half-time
02:25and it is advantage to Stade Dabijon.
02:29Appearing in the competition for the first time in over half a century,
02:32their African Champions League debut.
02:36They've reached the group stages for the first time
02:39and they currently lead Al-Ali.
02:41The defending champions' record, 12-time African winners.
02:48The club kings were beaten last time around.
02:53They're trailing here in Abidjan at the break as well
02:56because after that sensational goal from Saint-Jean Corey,
03:00his first of the group stage, it is...
03:02The reigning African champions.
03:07Because Jerissa Bamba, apart from the very opening minute,
03:12when forced into a proper safe zone with Al-Ali.
03:16A fairly comfortable half.
03:24Mohamed Afshar, now he's known.
03:28Coming on.
03:30El Saliha, the other to leave the park.
03:3534-year-old.
03:39Afshar will be some creativity.
03:43Kareem Willi, goes by the nickname Njedved.
03:47Playaway number 20 for Al-Ali, who's just come on.
03:51Given a supposed similarity in position and looks
03:56to the Czech legend Pavel Njedved.
04:0325.
04:06Atia.
04:12Njedved.
04:13Afshar.
04:14And here just camps on the edge of the stands, Abidjan.
04:18Boggs, which we didn't see at all in the first half.
04:21El Shahatz with the delivery, deep.
04:23Abu Ali, free header!
04:25And Abu Ali tees up the goal.
04:28And Al-Ali, a level.
04:30A little simplicity in the end.
04:33Deep cross.
04:34Wessem Abo, Ali with the header.
04:37And Emad Ossor with the simplest of touches.
04:41From all of an inch or two out.
04:44His second goal of the competition.
04:47And the second goal of the group stage.
04:53Has rewarded Al-Ali's brief spell of pressure.
04:59With bringing them level early in the second period.
05:03And that did not take the Egyptians very long whatsoever.
05:08Focus and kept their space.
05:13Emad Ossor was at Belouiste in Algeria, of course.
05:17Swung in this, that's dangerous.
05:19Ball into the middle!
05:20And Al-Ali take the lead.
05:22And Emad Ossor has his first ever double in the African Champions League.
05:28Well, his first was simplicity from all of an inch or so out.
05:32And his second required a little bit more work.
05:35Diving header.
05:37To finish off a really inviting cross.
05:40And Al-Ali, the defending African champions have come from behind.
05:45To turn this game in their favour.
05:472-1 up against Dabijon.
05:49And Assur has got both of them.
05:53Look at that ball in.
05:55Emad Soukouakou just couldn't get the right side to get his head in front.
05:59Really good header, just needed a touch, needed anything.
06:04Excellent delivery, look at that.
06:09By those two to get out of there.
06:11And then excellent body strength and positioning as well from Al-Shahad.
06:16Ashfaq, Assur in a bit of space.
06:18And here is Ashfaq.
06:19Assur right down the middle.
06:20In for the hat-trick, Assur.
06:21Oh, he couldn't take it.
06:24He was falling over off-balance as he went to do so.
06:28Could have been a wonderful...
06:30Great one here for Al-Ali as well.
06:35Ashfaq with so much space down this right-hand side for the Egyptian.
06:39An African champion just in the middle.
06:41It goes.
06:42Well, they could have wrapped it up there.
06:43Ashfaq goes down.
06:44Was he clipped?
06:45Not so according to the referee.
06:46Chance for a strike.
06:47Good goal here.
06:48And that seals the win for Al-Ali.
06:50The third of the day.
06:52To take the top of Group C.
06:55And Eman Assur has his first hat-trick in the African Champions League.
07:01And what a way to seal it.
07:06His first was a toprope.
07:08His second, a nice header.
07:10And his third was a rocket in stoppage time.
07:16To secure a much-needed victory for the reigning African champions.
07:21And to ensure that Sam Zabijan are eliminated
07:26from the 2024-2025 Champions League group stage.
07:33Even though there is still one more game still to play.
07:38And look at the first touch.
07:40And then the second, wrapping his foot around it.
07:43Assur, the referee, has played advantage.
07:46The ball inside to him.
07:48And the finish absolutely unerring.
07:50And it was the last action of the game as well.
07:55And Al-Ali are top of Group C.
07:59They go two points clear of Orlando Paris
08:02and four clear of Beloista.
08:04Ahead of both those teams meeting in Johannesburg on Sunday.
08:08They came from behind as well to do it.
08:11Sam Zabijan scoring, opening the scoring for Sam Zabijan.
08:15Sam Zabijan.
08:17And when they needed the Ivorians to have any chance
08:20of making it through to the knockout phase,
08:22which was incredibly slim.
08:24But with a short equalize,
08:26seven minutes into the second period,
08:29all those dreams of the Ivorians began to die.