Rivers United Crashes Out Of CAF Confederation Cup
By Mazino Dickson-Amagada on December 6, 2021
Rivers United has been evicted from this season's TotalEnergies CAF Confederation Cup after losing 1-0 to Al Masry of Egypt on Sunday.
Rivers United exited from the playoffs on away goals rule after as the first leg had ended 2-1.
Enyimba is now the only Nigeria team that could reach the group stage of the CAF Confederation Cup as they defeated Al Ittihad 2-0 at the Enyimba Stadium in the second leg.
The first leg was yet to be played as CAF is yet to fix a date and venue for the game.
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With the playoffs completed, Sfaxien of Tunisia, RS Berkane of Morocco, JS Saoura of Algeria and Zanaco of Zambia are throng to the group stage.
The quartet completed a 14-teams pack in the mini-league stage, with the last two seats to be determined between Al Ittihad (Libya) – Enyimba (Nigeria) and JS Kabylie (Algeria) – Royal Leopards (Eswatini).
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