Matchday 4
Group A: ES Sétif (Algeria) v Enyimba (Nigeria) (first leg Enyimba 2-1) (8 pm), Orlando Pirates (South Africa) v Al Ahly Benghazi (Libya) (first leg 0-0) (5 pm)
Enyimba go into this game as group leaders. It’s a fragile lead though as Orlando Pirates and Al Ahly Benghazi are respectively only one and two points behind the Aba-based team.
The Nigerian representatives picked maximum points at home against tonight’s opponents, who badly require victory to bounce back to reckoning. African Cup of Champions Clubs winners in 1988 and CAF Champions League victors in 2014, ES Sétif have picked only a point in three matches to lie uncharacteristically at the bottom of the table.
In the other fixture, Pirates and Benghazi will be engaged in a supremacy contest having ended the first leg barren.
Group B: Coton Sport (Cameroon) v NAPSA Stars (Zambia) (first leg Coton Sport 1-0) (2 pm), JS Kabylie (Algeria) v RS Berkane (Morocco) (first leg 0-0) (8 pm)
Like Group A, the margin between the first three teams here is small. Coton Sport lead second placed JS Kabylie by a point, which is the gap between the latter and RS Berkane.
Coton Sport will knock NAPSA Stars out of the equation if they inflict the third defeat of the group phase on their Zambian opponents.
Group C: CS Sfaxien (Tunisia) v Étoile du Sahel (Tunisia) (first leg 0-0) (5 pm)
It’s a tough call here! Sfaxien, who host Étoile, lead the table with just a point more than both this evening’s opposition and Senegal’s ASC Diaraf.
Diaraf have their match shifted to tomorrow with Salitas of Burkina Faso, the home side. The Burkinabe fall short of Diaraf by a single point.
Group D: Nkana (Zambia) v Namungo (Tanzania) (first leg Nkana 1-0) (2 pm), Pyramids FC (Egypt) v Raja Casablanca (Morocco) (first leg Raja Casablanca 2-0) (8 pm)
Raja Casablanca are riding high after winning all three games, including the testy one against Pyramids a week ago.
Pyramids will be determined to pay Raja back in their own coins. And if they succeed, both sides will be tied on nine points going into their last two matches of the group campaign.
For the Tanzanian whipping side Namungo, the chase is for their first point of the group stage, while Nkana hope to make it two wins out of four games.
