Sikiru Alimi scores two to help Lobi Stars sign off CAF Champions League group stage with home win

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Lobi Stars rounded up the group stage of the CAF Champions League with a 2-0 home win over ASEC Mimosas of Cote d’Ivoire in Enugu today.

Striker Sikiru Alimi bagged a first-half brace for the Nigerian representative.

Lobi Stars thus ended in third place in Group A with seven points from six matches.

ASEC also recorded seven points but had an inferior goals difference.

Morocco’s Wydad Casablanca won the group after a 1-0 home win over closest rivals Mameldo Sundowns of South Africa.

Both teams qualified for the knockout rounds of the competition on 10 points apiece.

CAFCL Quarter-Finals

GROUP WINNERS
Wydad AC 🇲🇦
Esperance Tunis 🇹🇳
TP Mazembe 🇨🇩
Al Ahly SC 🇪🇬

SECOND PLACED
Mamelodi Sundowns 🇿🇦
Horoya AC 🇬🇳
CS Constantine 🇩🇿
Simba SC 🇹🇿

Draw is on Wednesday, 20th March.

Group Winners will be seeded.

Teams from same group can’t meet.