{"id":393186,"date":"2011-04-23T22:23:01","date_gmt":"2011-04-23T22:23:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/04\/23\/esperance-thrash-diaraf-in-champs-lge\/"},"modified":"2011-04-23T22:23:01","modified_gmt":"2011-04-23T22:23:01","slug":"esperance-thrash-diaraf-in-champs-lge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/04\/23\/esperance-thrash-diaraf-in-champs-lge\/","title":{"rendered":"Esperance thrash Diaraf in Champs Lge"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<table border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" align=\"right\" width=\"226\" cellpadding=\"0\" readability=\"1\">\n<tr readability=\"2\">\n<td readability=\"4\">\n<div readability=\"7\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/ba7b51977942_champslgetrophy226.jpg\" width=\"226\" height=\"170\" alt=\"The African Champions League trophy\" border=\"0\" vspace=\"0\" hspace=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Esperance are on course for a place in the group stage<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p><strong>Tunisian giants Esperance hammered Diaraf of Senegal 5-0 in their third round, first-leg clash of the Champions League in Tunis on Saturday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Title holders <strong>TP Mazembe<\/strong> of DR Congo suffered a 1-0 away defeat to Moroccan side <strong>Wydad Casablanca<\/strong> in another first-leg game.<\/p>\n<p>Seven-time champions <strong>Al Ahly<\/strong> of Egypt managed to hold <strong>Zesco United<\/strong> to a 0-0 draw in Zambia to give them hope ahead of the second-leg in Cairo.<\/p>\n<p>Algerian side <strong>Mouloudia Alger<\/strong> fought back to hold <strong>Interclube<\/strong> to a 1-1 in Angola.<\/p>\n<p>The biggest win of the day went to Esperance with striker Oussama Darragi scoring twice in the match in Tunis.<\/p>\n<p>But it was Malian striker Dramane Traore who opened the scoring on ten minutes before Darragi grabbed his brace.<\/p>\n<p>Further goals from Idriss Mhirsi and Youssef Msakni gave Esperance a huge advantage ahead of the second-leg in Dakar in two weeks&#8217; time.<\/p>\n<p>Mustapha Allaoui&#8217;s 16th minute strike gave Wydad their hard fought victory over Mazembe ahead of the second leg in Lubumbashi.<\/p>\n<p>The winners of the third round ties will advance to the group phase of the Champions League.<\/p>\n<p>The losers will then meet the winners from the last knock-out stage of the Confederation Cup for group-phase places in the second tier continental club competition.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/6104o.gif\" width=\"1\" height=\"10\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>see also<\/p>\n<hr class=\"pufff\"\/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/6104o.gif\" width=\"1\" height=\"10\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>related bbc links:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/6104o.gif\" width=\"1\" height=\"5\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>related internet links:<\/p>\n<p>The BBC is not responsible for the content of external internet sites<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/6104o.gif\" width=\"1\" height=\"10\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/ba7b51977942_champslgetrophy226-150x150.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The rest is here:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/go\/rss\/-\/sport1\/hi\/football\/africa\/9466742.stm\" title=\"Esperance thrash Diaraf in Champs Lge\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Esperance thrash Diaraf in Champs Lge<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Esperance are on course for a place in the group stage Tunisian giants Esperance hammered Diaraf of Senegal 5-0 in their third round, first-leg clash of the Champions League in Tunis on Saturday. Title holders TP Mazembe of DR Congo suffered a 1-0 away defeat to Moroccan side Wydad Casablanca in another first-leg game<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-393186","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-business"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Esperance thrash Diaraf in Champs Lge - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/04\/23\/esperance-thrash-diaraf-in-champs-lge\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Esperance thrash Diaraf in Champs Lge - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Esperance are on course for a place in the group stage Tunisian giants Esperance hammered Diaraf of Senegal 5-0 in their third round, first-leg clash of the Champions League in Tunis on Saturday. 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