Eneramo goes down with Esperance
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Mazembe yesterday trounced Michael Eneramo and his club, Esperance of
Tunisia, 5-0 in the first leg of the Africa Champions League final
match played in Lubumbashi, Congo.
The Super Eagles’ striker’s dream of winning Africa’s top prize in club football has thus suffered a huge setback.
When both teams
clashed in the group stage of the competition, Mazembe managed only a
2-1 home win, before they fell apart 3-0 in the reverse fixture in
Tunis.
Presumably with
this result, Mazembe are now on course to becoming the first team to
win the competition back-to-back twice having first successfully
defended the crown in 1968.
Meanwhile,
Esperance now need to score at least six goals with no reply from the
defending champions to win a second African crown; a feat yet to be
achieved by a Tunisian club Nevertheless, Eneramo will still have his
eyes on winning the top goalscorer award as he currently leads the
chart with eight goals.
“I have said many
times that I would like to score 10 goals this year in the competition
and that should be enough for Esperance to win the trophy a second
time,” he said, before the defeat to Mazembe yesterday.
In last year’s final, Mazembe beat Nigerian side, Heartland FC to lift the crown.
The winners of this year’s edition will pocket a prize money of 1.5
million US dollars and will represent Africa in December at the FIFA
Club World Cup in the United Arab Emirates.
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