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Champions: Etoile du Sahel beat Orlando Pirates to lift Confederation Cup

By Allsports.com.gh
Sports News Champions: Etoile du Sahel beat Orlando Pirates to lift Confederation Cup
NOV 29, 2015 LISTEN

Tunisia's Etoile Du Sahel beat South Africa's Orlando Pirates 1-0 in the second leg of the African Confederation Cup final in Sousse to triumph 2-1 on aggregate.

Captain Ammar Jemal scored the winner for the Tunisians to add to his late equaliser in the first leg, which had finished 1-1.

Sunday's game was played amid tight security, following  Tuesday's bomb attack in Tunis,  with a reduced crowd and an earlier kick-off time.

Jemal - the 28-year-old centre back, who previously played in the German Bundesliga with FC Cologne and Ajaccio in the French Ligue 1 - emerged as his team's star, as Etoile won Africa's second-biggest club competition.

His bundled finish in the 24th minute of Sunday's decider at the Olympic Stadium in Sousse added to his vital equaliser in the final minutes of last Saturday's first leg in Soweto, which cancelled out Thamsanqa Gabuza's strike.

Jemal's second goal of the tie came after Pirates defender Happy Jele miscued a cross and the ball spun viciously back towards goal, with the centre-half managing to bundle the ball over the line.

Originally scheduled for an 1830 GMT kick-off, the last major match of the African continental club season was brought forward by four-and-a-half hours.

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