Idris Adesina
Plateau United on Sunday crashed out of the CAF Champions League despite beating Etoile du Sahel of Tunisia 1-0 in Kano.
The Tunisians went through 4-3 on aggregate having won the first game in Sousse 4-2.
The country’s other representatives in the competition MFM of Lagos crashed out of the competition on Saturday after losing 6-0 to Algerian side MC Alger in Algiers. They lost 7-2 on aggregate after a 2-1 win at the Agege Stadium.
Plateau and MFM will now battle to reach the group stage of the CAF Confederation Cup. Nigeria will thus have four clubs in the next round of the Confederation Cup.
It is two years since a Nigerian club featured in the group stage of the Champions League. Enyimba were the last Nigerian club to feature in the group stage of the competition in 2016.
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