Egypt's Zamalek clinch place in CAF Confederations Cup final

Egypt's Zamalek sealed their place in the CAF Confederations Cup final with a win over Dreams of Ghana, but they face an anxious wait to find out the identity of their opponents after the match between Renaissance Berkane of Morocco and Algeria's USM Alger was called off for a second-straight week.

Cairo giants Zamalek won their semi-final away leg by a record margin as they defeated Dreams 3-0 in Kumasi on Sunday. The first leg finished goalless in the Egyptian capital.

Zamalek bettered the previous best away result in the penultimate stage – a 3-1 victory by SuperSport United of South Africa against Club Africain of Tunisia seven seasons ago.

The Cairo club are likely to face Renaissance in the two-leg final on May 12 and 19 in what would be a repeat of the 2019 title decider after USM Alger refused to enter the pitch in the northeastern Moroccan city of Berkane for the semi-final second leg, which has been dogged by off-field drama.

On Sunday in Berkane, only the home players took the field and they saluted their fans as the stadium announcer told the crowd the match had been cancelled.

Moroccan television reported that the USM team left the stadium just before the scheduled kick-off time.

Berkane were awarded a 3-0 win in the first leg, which was not played on April 21 because Algerian authorities confiscated the shirts of the Moroccan team and refused to return them.

The shirts had a map of Morocco on them that included the Western Sahara.

Morocco administers about 80 per cent of the 266,000-square-kilometre desert region. The remainder of the sparsely-populated area is held by the Algeria-backed self-declared Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic, a breakaway state that is not recognised by the UN.

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