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CAF Champions League: Plateau United arrive in Tunis for Esperance duel
By Bethel Kalu
Plateau United FC has arrived in Tunisia for the second round, second leg encounter of their CAF Champions League duel with former winners, Esperance of Tunisia.
Fidelis Ilechukwu tutored side are in the second round of the preliminary stages of the competition and a win against the Tunisian giants will send them to the money-spinning group stages of the Champions League.
The club traveled with a thirty-seven man contingent of players and officials aboard a Turkish airlines aircraft and arrived at the Carthage International Airport few minutes past four in the evening on Thursday.
The team’s head of delegation is the Commissioner for Youth and Sports in Plateau State, Daniel Dung Dalyop, the club’s General Manager, Pius Henwang and former Commissioner for Sports, Victor Lapang.
Ilechukwu kept faith with most of the players that beat Esperance 2-1 in Abuja except for Douglas Eru.
The Plateau Club will face the former African champions on Saturday and will hope to get a good result, enough to send them to the group stages of the competition.
Should they do that, it will be the first time they will qualify for the group stages after two attempts in which they failed at the second round. The match will be played at the Rades Stadium in Tunis.
