matches involving club sides or
national teams participating in
international competitions.
WORLD CUP: FIFA and the AFC
agree to postpone the Asian World
Cup qualifying matches in March
and June due to the coronavirus.
Tuesday March 10
CONCACAF CHAMPIONS LEAGUE:
Olimpia of Honduras win a game in
the knockout stage of the
tournament for the first time,
beating Montreal Impact 2-1
away in their quarter-final first leg.
INDIA: Former La Liga striker
Baba Diawara scores his 10th
goal in the last nine games to give
Mohun Bagan a 1-0 win over Aizwal
and secure the I-League title with
four games to spare.
UEFA CHAMPIONS LEAGUE: Lastseason’s runners-up Tottenham
Hotspur are knocked out by RB
Leipzig, who are joined in the last
eight by debutants Atalanta after
they beat Valencia 4-3, with Josip
Ilicic scoring all four goals.
Wednesday March 11
HOLLAND: Former Bayer
Leverkusen and Beijing Guoan
coach Roger Schmidt agrees totake charge of PSV next season.
ITALY: Andrea Pirlo, who retired in
2017 after a short stint in MLS with
New York City FC, is reported to
have agreed a return to Juventus
next season as coach of their
under-23 side, who play in Serie C.
UEFA CHAMPS LEAGUE: Atletico
Madrid knock out holders Liverpool,
while Paris Saint-Germain beat
Borussia Dortmund.Chemmam was handed a six-game suspension and
Raouf Benguit got four matches.
In the return a week later Esperance could only
muster a single goal, a penalty converted by Billel
Bensaha, and Zamalek now face a semi-final against
Raja, who have won the competition twice before.
Raja overcame TP Mazembe Englebert from the
DR Congo in another tie clouded by bad blood.
Having won their home leg 2-0, Raja were forced
to change outside the stadium in the return after their
changing room was vandalised but they held on despite
conceding an early goal to Isaac Tshibangu.
Mazembe’s reaction to the loss was to fire coach
Mihayo Kazembe and move technical director Dragan
Cvetkovic into the dugout.
Al Ahly will be chasing a record-extending ninth title
WORLD SERVICE
and feeling rather smug after eliminating Mamelodi
Sundowns of South Africa.
The two clubs also met in last season’s quarter-finals,
where Sundowns inflicted a 5-0 first-leg thrashing on
the Egyptian giants, which was their heaviest defeat in
77 years. However, this time round Al Ahly won the
first leg with two goals from Tunisian international
full-back Ali Maaloul. In the return they extended
their aggregate lead with an own goal from Sundowns
striker Lebohang Maboe and eventually progressed 3-1
on aggregate.
Last season’s runners-up Wydad are through to the
semis for a fourth time in the last five editions after
eliminating Etoile Sahel with left-back Mohamed Nahiri
scoring both goals at home in the first leg before
winning 2-1 on aggregate.
Success...Raja’s Ben Malango celebrates