After a match that lasted two hours and 45 minutes, the Moroccan national team was able to defeat the Egyptian U19 team, which was promoted to the World Cup finals in Spain 84/87. In the second overtime, coalitions, the original ended in a tie 74/74. This exciting meeting in the second extra time with a score of 7/4 through the game maker Zahra Wagih, a professional player in France, who scored the highest score of 26 points. What is remarkable here is that the Egyptian team did not take advantage of its control over the first half of the match and its lead by 10 points (41/31) to let its competitors control events in the third and fourth periods and exceeded 22/16
and 21/17, he could have ended the match in its original time, unless Zahra Wajih missed a throw in the last two seconds. It also required extending the time by five minutes, during which each team scored 6 points, so that the tie continued and the second extra half smiled at the Moroccans, who were the best party in this half. It is also remarkable that the arbitration staff resorted to Video technology four times to adjudicate in four doubtable cases.
Egypt A retains the lead
In the second match, which was followed by Major General M. Ismail Al- Karqawi, President of the Arab and Emirati Basketball Federations, and Dr. Magdy Abu Freikha, Vice President of the Arab Federation, President of the Egyptian Basketball Federation, the Egyptian team achieved an easy victory over its Algerian counterpart 50/104, retaining the top spot in the standings and waiting for its last match with the Egyptian youth team at the end The preliminary round this evening, Friday, is an exhibition match, the result of which will not affect the rank of the teams that will play the semi-finals next Sunday, which is led by the first Egyptian team, the candidate for the title, followed by the Moroccan team, then Algeria and Kuwait, and according to this rank, the owners of the land will meet the Kuwaiti team in the next round, while the two teams meet Moroccan and Algerian and the winners qualify for the final match scheduled for next Monday, preceded by a meeting to determine the third and fourth places.
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