Rabat seek Pyramids vengeance with CCL spot at stake

by Austin Ditlhobolo

Tuesday Apr 08, 2025. 14:00

AS FAR Rabat will battle it out with Pyramids in the CAF Champions League quarter-final second-leg clash on Tuesday.

Kick-off is at 9:00 pm CAT.

The match is scheduled to be played at the Honneur Stadium, one of the four Imperial cities of Morocco, Meknes.

Rabat succumbed to a heavy 4-1 loss to Pyramids in the first-leg match played at the 30 June Stadium in Egypt on 1 April, and the defeat ended their five-match unbeaten run across all competitions.

Abdelfattah Hadraf scored the goal that gave the Moroccan side hope of progressing to the semi-finals and they will be banking on their home-ground advantage when they take on Pyramids.

“Our mission will be very difficult, but we will do our best to succeed,” AS FAR Rabat head coach Alexandre Santos told reporters.

“We made a lot of mistakes in the first leg, and we must avoid those in the second leg, as there is no room for error.”

Meanwhile, Pyramids extended their impressive unbeaten run to 24 matches across all competitions when they hammered Rabat in the first-leg encounter, having registered four draws and 20 wins.

The Egyptian side will be looking to avoid losing by at least three or four clear goals in order to reach the semi-finals of Africa’s biggest club football tournament for the first time in the team’s history.

“We are not qualified for the semi-finals yet. We made a good result in Cairo, but FAR is a strong team,” Pyramids head coach Krunoslav Jurcic told reporters.

“And they still have a chance at home. We must be fully concentrated during the game to achieve our target.”

Rabat and Pyramids have met three times since the latter was established in 2018, after purchasing Al Assiouty Sport’s Egyptian Premier League status.

It is a stalemate as each team has recorded one win and the other game ended in a draw.