Espérance crowned CAF Champions League winner as Wydad AC refuses to play over VAR dispute
All eyes were on the second leg after last week’s drama, where the CAF’s referees committee handed match official Gehad Grisha – who was in charge of England’s World Cup match against Panama – a six-month ban due to his ‘poor performance’.
Trailing 2-1 on aggregate, Wydad’s Ismail El Haddad saw a header disallowed for an infringement, but complaints for the goal to be reviewed by VAR were waved away as the technology was deemed to be broken before kick-off, something which the players weren’t made aware of.
The CAF Champions League final was then delayed for 95 minutes before the win was eventually awarded to Espérance, who have now become just the fourth team to ever retain their title.
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