The Tunisian Derby Under New Circumstances – Hope has the advantage and the African participates in the contest

Contrary to the usual practice of the Tunisian derby, Mustapha Ben Jannat stadium, Sunday, at 14 hours, Tunis time, will face Esperance against Africa in the 11th round of the Tunisian championship.

Not only is the stadium strange, but the meeting will be held without public presence. According to a statement by Bab Suweika's board of directors, they were forced to cancel the public's participation, after being less than 4,000 spectators, which he rejected. (See statement)

The match was to be held at Bradds Olympic Stadium, but maintenance work continues and officials refused to stay at Al-Menzah because of its inability to host the derby.

He will also lead a foreign arbitration team from Egypt, led by Mohamed Adel, badisted by Ahmed Tawfiq and Samir Gamal.

Whatever the technical situation of the team, the Tunisian derby remains one of the strongest matches locally and at the level of North Africa.

The blood and gold team enters the meeting, finishing third in the table with 23 points, and winning at tonight's meeting amounts to sharing the top with Benzerti's 26 points, but will be a priority because his game is postponed, with the exception of Benzarty.

Africa is seventh with 17 points and the win is in the semifinals to maintain its hopes for the title competition this season.

In the following lines, we review the fate of both teams in the match according to the history of their matches.

Derby is number 129 in the history of both teams and at the last meetings, Esperance won 51 games, while the African scored three points in 30 games and equalizer was the word of order in 47 games.

The blood and gold players scored 154 goals against their rivals, while African players visited Esperance with 116 goals.

The biggest winner of the derby Esperance and African was the latter, who had already won 5-1, while the biggest result was a draw 5-2.

Hbadan Baeou, the former African player, is the derby's top scorer with nine goals, while Tariq Diab, the former Esperance player, has recorded the most matches with 29 games .

The last meeting of the team took place last February and was won by two Africans Wissam Bin Yahia and Tijani Balabad, against the goal of the tournament recorded by Anis Ben Htira.

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