00:00So we are underway, as Nairobi United, the home side, kick us off, playing from right to left, in yellow.
00:20And then Azam of Tanzania, from left to right, all in white with a yellow or gold trim.
00:37And Ernest Mohamed will appreciate some early touches on the ball, the Nairobi United goalkeeper.
00:50Even this is, as I said, his first action of the campaign.
01:08Well, as you might imagine, Solo Oduo can properly take charge.
01:14Solo Oduo, who recently been coaching in South Sudan, Jamus FC, one of the wealthiest clubs there.
01:19That's lovely effort.
01:21First touch, first time.
01:23And what a way to open the scoring and score Nairobi United's first ever goal in the Confederation Cup.
01:31Well, it is Duncan Oluwoc O'Mahla who made that look absolutely supremely simple.
01:39But it was anything but what it needed.
01:40It was an awareness, an execution, and an invention as well.
01:45And it was taken very, very stylishly.
01:51He knew exactly what he wanted to do, did not get too much power on it.
01:55And spotted Fobba a little way out of his line.
01:59Look at that.
02:02Absolutely brilliant.
02:03Active incentive, of course.
02:05So, face out, Saloum.
02:12Delivery.
02:15A number of players up from the back for us, Sam.
02:17Instead, they play it short.
02:18Well, this needs to get in.
02:21Now it seems to be a waste.
02:22They had eight players awaiting that delivery from Saloum.
02:26And it was a wasted trudge forward for some of them.
02:33That's loose again for Mohamed.
02:38Deepa from Saloum.
02:40Mohamed with the punch clearance.
02:43The volley is an opportunity.
02:44Kitabela on the turn.
02:46Well, that is Lash.
02:47So, two goals in pretty much just as many minutes.
02:52And now it is the turn of Azam FC to get their first goal in the group phase of the 2025-26 Confederation Cup.
03:02Instant response.
03:05That is his fifth of the campaign.
03:07Aware of where the players were around him.
03:10Around him.
03:11And he eventually joins and they slow it right down.
03:20And now Faisal Saloum springs and is in behind.
03:24Options in the middle.
03:25If he's going to play it, he does.
03:27And Kitabela's strike, well, lacked any real conviction.
03:35Success in the African Nations Championship as well, did.
03:39And Bengay finds Faisal Saloum into the middle.
03:42And that was a really important intervention because Kitabela was just waiting and hoping to profit from that ball.
03:51Numbers forward, they played it square and then never got it into the middle.
03:55Well, not accurately enough.
03:59Will they be more direct?
04:03And less intricate this time around.
04:06They do go in.
04:15And then Mohamed gathers under no real pressure either.
04:20And then kicks out at Kitabela.
04:23Well, that's extraordinary.
04:25He was struggling to get away.
04:26And the referee has got a decision to make here.
04:29And that was needless from Ernest Mohamed.
04:33Kitabela was paying close attention to him.
04:36Well, the first time, half whistle blows.
04:47As Chanchi Kosongo brings the period to an end.
04:52It was the first half which saw both Nairobi United and Azzam FC score their first goals in the group phase of the Confederation Cup so far.
05:01Lankan Oluwac with a fine strike after 14 minutes and then just a few moments later, Jephte Kitabela responded with a good swivel and volley to ensure that at halftime in Nairobi, it is at the break in this Confederation Cup game.
05:17Nairobi United 0.
05:18Oh, sorry, Nairobi United 1, Azzam FC 1.
05:2320-year-old forward.
05:25So what will those changes do?
05:35Well, obviously, the swap for Nairobi United will be very simple.
05:40Well, Benson on the watch.
05:46Just slotting straight into a place.
05:49Caramor.
05:51Here's Kitabela into the middle.
05:52No chances taken by Ogutu.
05:56To turn that behind for an early corner for Azzam.
06:00Well, two of them.
06:12On the Kitabela.
06:16Here's the man to keep quiet.
06:18Good ball in from Himid.
06:19Headed away by Otieno.
06:22Idi.
06:22Idi, a goal.
06:23And Idi straight.
06:25And that's Mohamed, but well-struck from Idi.
06:34And easily the best chance of this.
06:43Duncan on the watch again with the delivery.
06:52Swinger over Fobba.
06:55Just about away.
06:57Well, that was not convincing.
07:01And it was perilously close to the goal line as well.
07:04And his goal for the Azzam FC goalkeeper.
07:15That Fobba came.
07:18And they won't there that.
07:21His race is run as well.
07:23And what a bad first showing in the Confederation Cup for Okao.
07:31Saloon down the line.
07:33Into the middle it goes.
07:34And Himid has climbed it over.
07:36The line forced it over.
07:38And Azzam, with just over 10 minutes on the clock,
07:42take the lead for the first time in the game.
07:44And it is the veteran, Himid, Mahoum Kamek, who has steered it in.
07:53Well, Nairobi United had made the changes.
07:55But Azzam had only one thought on their mind.
07:58And Faisal Saloon started that off with his free kick down the left flank.
08:05And he is not known for his goal scoring.
08:09And it may not even go down as his goal.
08:12In truth, it may well have to be registered as an own goal off Ernest Mohamed.
08:17Coming back off the post, losing a bit of energy and a bit of puff and charge, let's say.
08:24Kitambala just drops to the floor.
08:31Samatimba.
08:33That's it to his fellow substitute, Muhajiri.
08:36Forward, long.
08:38Looking for the flick.
08:39And it just needed a touch.
08:40And they were so close as well.
08:41And again, the offside flag going up.
08:47But that was more direct.
08:49And that was far more dangerous from Nairobi United.
08:56Kitambala finds out Saloon can hit them.
08:59Himid might have the taste for goals standing over it.
09:032-2, Idi.
09:07And it is going to be Idi.
09:08And it is Idi just over the crossbar.
09:13That sounds an EM-wide man.
09:20I'm sure Mohamed would tell us he had it covered.
09:23So into the 90th minute we go.
09:27Nairobi United staring at yet another defeat.
09:31Nairobi United with that stunning, sweeping strike from Duncan Oluwoc.
09:36But they were only ahead for less than three minutes in the end.
09:41Zidane.
09:43Strike a goal.
09:44And saved by Mohamed.
09:49Idi hit it really well.
09:53And Azzam trying to get the two-goal cushion that will absolutely put this game to bed.
09:58Benson Oluwoc.
10:03Still, he goes forward.
10:05That's really good from Faisal Saloon.
10:07Working right to the end.
10:09To stop the incremental advance of Nairobi United.
10:15We are in the seventh minute of additional time with only six signaled.
10:19There was a little bit of break in play as the keeper went down.
10:22But not enough because the final whistle blows.
10:25And Azzam FC have their first ever victory in the group phase of the Total Energies CAF Confederation Cup.
10:33And it has come courtesy of a 2-1 victory over Nairobi United in the Kenyan capital.
10:40And they had to do it when coming from behind as well.
10:43Duncan Oluwoc with a fine strike after just 14 minutes.
10:47But Jephte Kitambala with his fifth of the campaign.
10:50Just a few moments later leveled it up for the Tanzanians.
10:54And then near the end, it was a strike by Hamid.
