Monday, April 05, 2010

Djoliba Athletic Club: Advancing To Second Round of CAF Champions League

At Saint-Louis, Senegal:

The final two-match series of the CAF Champions League's first proper round concluded on Monday.

Mbaye Thiam scored at 39 minutes in game two as ASC Linguere took the home leg 1-0 over Djoliba Athletic Club, deadlocking the two-match set at 1-1 on aggregate.  But, after 30 scoreless overtime minutes, the visiting club from Mali won the penalty-kick shootout 4-3 to advance to the Champions League's second round.

Here are the match-ups for the second round, with the host club for the opening contests of their respective two-game series listed first.

Djoliba Athletic Club (Mali) vs. TP Mazembe (DRC; defending champions)

Al-Hilal Omdurman (Sudan) vs. Ismaily (Egypt)

JS Kabylie (Algeria) vs. Atletico Petroleos Luanda (Angola)

Esperance ST (Tunisia) vs. Al-Merreikh (Sudan)

Dynamos FC (Zimbabwe) vs. Gaborone United (Botswana)

Al-Ittihad (Libya) vs. Al-Ahly (Egypt)

ES Setif (Algeria) vs. Zanaco (Zambia)

Supersport United (South Africa) vs. Heartland (Nigeria)

The opening contests are scheduled to take place on April 23-25, with the return matches to take place on May 7-9.  The winners would advance to the group stage.

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