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Caf ACL Group A Round-Up: Pillars Go Top

Zesco United are 3rd in Group A of the Caf African champions League at the end of match day 2.

This is after Kano Pillars 3-1 home win over Sudanese  side El Merreikh on Saturday afternoon in Kano to see the two sides go 1st and bottom respectively in Group A.

El Merreikh, whom Zesco face away in Khartoum on match day 3 on August 15, are in 4th place with 1 point.

Meanwhile, Pillars shot into 1st place courtesy of  a brace from Victor Namo in the 18th and 33rd minutes.

El Merreikh’s Nigerian striker Endurance Idahor made it 2-1 in the 51st minute against his homelands’ club.

Moses Ogaga made sure of the 3 points for Pillars deep into injury time  to see the hosts rocket into top spot on 4 points from two games, level with 2nd placed Al Hilal who beat Zesco 1-0 on Friday in Khartoum.

 [standings league_id=14 template=extend logo=false]

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4 COMMENTS

  1. if you have access to SABC1, TP Mazembe is in action now and our boy Singuluma is in action now.

  2. Eishhh, i’m now very careful on how i support my country Zambia & it’s clubs. Chipolopolo boys almost murdered me a month & half ago after that 2 nil loss to Algeria. So no comments…

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