African Champions League trophyDefending champions Esperance of Tunisia will play Algeria's CS Constantine, who have never been to this stage before, in the quarter-finals of the African Champions League. The winners of their tie will play either South Africa's Mamelodi Sundowns or Egyptian giants Al Ahly in the semis. That means if Mazembe get through against the Dar-es-Salaam giants, they will face a north African team in the last four. But the Congolese team's general manager Frederic Kitengie said they had no problems facing north African teams. "TP Mazembe is not at all afraid of North African teams - it is the north African teams who are afraid when you tell them you are going to meet [us]", he told the BBC.

Source: The North Africa Journal March 21, 2019 07:18 UTC