Smba players have started to get used to the weather in Marrakech after arriving yesterday afternoon ready for Saturday's Champions League game against Wydad Casablanca
Simba will be the guest of Wydad in the match that will be played from 10:00 pm at the Marrakech Stadium, with the memory of being eliminated by the team in the quarter-finals of the Champions League last season with a penalty after the overall result was 1-1
Each team has already played two matches in Group B, with Simba picking up two points after a 1-1 draw against Asec Mimosas of the Ivory Coast and a draw against Jwaneng Galaxy of Botswana, while their home team won all games against their opponents. those who got a draw for Mnyama, thus making the match difficult.
However, the records bear Benchikha, the best coach of African football especially in the Northern Region with his assistant Farid Zemiti as they have met the team 10 times and won four, lost four and two ended in a draw
Benchikha met Wydad for the first time on October 14, 2013 as the head coach of Morocco's Difaa El Jadida in the quarter finals of the Moroccan FA Cup, the match ended in a 1-1 draw but he ended the match in a dominant fashion. his team winning 6-5 and advancing to the semi-finals.
After years passed, in the 2018/2019 season he met Wydad again with Maolodia where in the first game on February 28, 2019 he was defeated 3-2 but when they met again on July 29, 2020 they drew 1-1 before leaving October to join Difaa.
December 9, 2020 he met Wydad again in the League match and lost 1-0 but after that he met them again on June 9, 2021 in the league match and lost again 4-2, however he paid for the defeat in the match of the replay played on December 8, 2021 by winning 2-1 and the following season he lost 2-1 on June 22 and then joined RS Berkane.
With RS Berkane 2022, Benchikha met Wydad three times starting with a 2-0 loss, in the League match played in October 2022, but he showed his dominance by beating them twice in a row starting with 2-0, in a friendly match played August 27 then beat them again 2-0, September 10, 2022 in the Caf Super Cup final and carry the big bucket to Africa in front of them.
Those records give Simba the strength in the next match, also the recent result of Wydad losing four matches in a row before winning yesterday, gives strength to Simba which has drawn its last four matches.
