09:39 PM | Sunday, May 14, 2023
Boli Junior Sambo, striker of Wydad, during the Sun Downs match
Belgian coach Sven Vandenbroeck, coach of the Moroccan Wydad team, received shocking news, because it was confirmed that Senegalese striker Pauly Sambo Junior will not participate with his club, during the upcoming confrontation against Sun Downs of South Africa, in the second leg of the CAF Champions League semi-finals.
Boli Sambo suffered a severe injury, during the first-leg match that brought together his Moroccan team, Wydad, and the South African Sundowns Club, after a strong intervention by Abdel Moneim Botawil, the guests’ defender, as a result of which he was forced to leave the stadium, and was replaced in the 68th minute; The Belgian coach pushed Hamid Haddad instead.
Wydad coach: Poli Sambo suffered an ankle and leg injury
Vandenbroek confirmed, in his statements during the press conference after the first-leg match against Sun Downs, that Sambo had suffered an ankle and leg injury as well, indicating his absence from the return match, after he left the stadium limping.
The Moroccan newspaper, Al-Botula, revealed that the Senegalese striker will undergo accurate medical examinations, in the coming hours, to fully determine the extent of the injury and the duration of his absence.
The date of the Wydad and Sun Downs match in the second leg of the African Champions League semi-finals
It is scheduled that the Moroccan Wydad team will be a guest at the South African Sun Downs Club, next Saturday, at four o’clock in the afternoon, Egyptian time.
The first leg ended in a goalless draw between the two teams, on the grounds of the Mohammed V complex, and witnessed the expulsion of two players from the ranks of Sun Downs.
