CAF Champions League: Rangers Is Out 

The “Flying Antelope” Rangers International Football Club of Enugu, beat Zamalek FC of Egypt 2-1 on Sunday, but failed to achieve the target of advancing to the group stage of the 2017 CAF Champions League. 

The Nigerian side crashed out on a 3-5 aggregate, in the return leg clash of their second round pairing in the competition, played at the Nnamdi Azikiwe Stadium in Enugu, they needed a 3-0 win at least to advance to the group stage of the competition, which they fail to do.

But things looked promising, even though a bit late, when Rangers got their first goal through Olusesi Tope in the 45th minute of the match.

However, they failed to build on that, and things got complicated when Bassem Morsi equalised in the 71st minute.

Rangers were only able to get another goal through a penalty kick by Aguda in the 89th minute of the match.

Rivers United, another Nigeria side last Saturday crashed, losing 3-4 to Sudanese team El- Merriekh. Rangers and Rivers United will now play for honours in the CAF Confederation Cup.

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