Egyptian defender Ahmed Hegazy topped the official formation of his Saudi team, Al-Ittihad Jeddah, against its guest, the Uzbekistan champions, Navpakhor, scheduled for 6:00 pm today, Thursday, in the second leg of the 16th round of the AFC Champions League for the current season 2023-2024.
French striker Karim Benzema leads the Jeddah club’s attack in tonight’s confrontation against the champion of Uzbekistan. .
The formation of the union was as follows:
Formation of the union
The “Radiant Jewel” King Abdullah International Stadium will host the Saudi Al-Ittihad match against Uzbekistan’s Navbakhor, at exactly six o’clock this evening, Cairo time.
The Saudi Al-Ittihad team returned with a goalless draw against Uzbekistan after its match against Navbakhor, which brought them together at the Central Stadium, in the first leg of the AFC Champions League semi-final.
Al-Ittihad succeeded in returning with a valuable goalless draw from Navbakhor Stadium, and it needs to win by any result in order to pass to the quarter-finals, but it also fears falling into the trap of a positive draw that would end the Dean’s Asian journey early.
Hegazy and his companions are seeking to win to snatch the ticket to qualify for the quarter-finals of the AFC Champions League, to compete for the title that is absent from the coffers of the Saudi general.
While the Uzbek team Navbakhor will try to achieve a positive result, whether by a draw or a win, to snatch a pass to the quarter-finals of the Champions League.
Al-Ittihad Club faces a negative number in the continental competition, as the Al-Ameed Club has not won the AFC Champions League knockout rounds outside its stadium for 10 years.
She explained that the last victory achieved by Al-Ittihad outside its stadium in the knockout rounds came at the expense of Al-Shabab Saudi Arabia in Riyadh, with a score of 3-1 on May 13, 2014, nine years and more than nine months ago, and after that it achieved victory over Iran’s Zhon Ahan Isfahan, back and forth, in the eighth final of the 2019 edition. However, both matches took place on neutral grounds, the first in the UAE and the second in Qatar.
