CAFCC: JS Kabilye Too Strong For Coton Sport, Raja Edge Pyramids On Penalties

CAFCC: JS Kabilye Too Strong For Coton Sport, Raja Edge Pyramids On Penalties By Omolagba Oluwayemi Algeria’s JS Kabilye were too strong for Cameroon’s Coton Sport as the beat them convincingly to book a place in the final of the TotalEnergies CAF Confederation Cup, BSNSports.com.ng reports. A 3-0 win in the return leg of their semi-final on Sunday evening in Algiers earned Kabilye a 5-1 aggregate victory having won the first leg in Garoua 2-1 last week. A brace from Zakaria Boulahia, in between Badreddine Souyad’s penalty was all The Canaries needed to sail into a continental final for the first time since 2002. Anas Zniti saved a penalty in sudden death as Raja Club Athletic beat last year’s finalists Pyramids 5-4 on post match spot-kicks on Sunday to set up a final date against JS Kabilye. The game was forced to penalties after a second successive barren stalemate in Casablanca, the two sides having also played to a 0-0 draw in the first leg in Cairo last week. It had to take eight penalties, before a winner was picked out in the tense encounter at the Stade Mohamed V. The 2021 CAF Confederation Cup Final, the 18th season of Africa’s premier club football tournament organised by CAF under the current CAF Confederation Cup title after the merger of CAF Cup and African Cup Winners’ Cup will be staged at the Stade de l’Amitié in Cotonou, Benin on 10 July 2021.