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   Champions League match impressions: 
    Raja Casablanca (Morocco) - Hearts Of Oak (Ghana)
    (date: August 22nd 1999) 
 
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 The match saw another of those first Champions League week's early goals, the 1:0 lead for Raja Casablanca (Redouane Elhimer, 3rd).

 Despite the goal it became one of those matches often typical for matches involving teams from Ghana.
 Hearts Of Oak, a team of skillful players with a lot of (often successful) challenges and a jerkily passing game, often won and lost balls again which lead to a match suffering from short posessions, fouls, some injuries, some theatralics, and fragmented team displays.

 After being reduced to 10 men short after halftime (a retaliation blow), Hearts Of Oak did not create much in front of the Morocco goal anymore.  

 Raja Casablanca, not playing sensationally themselves, at least had a few opportunities when smartly spotting the few weaknesses among the Ghana backs. 1:0 the final result.

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