Kinshasa, April 12th, 2021 (CPA).- TP Mazembe from Lubumbashi and AS V.Club from Kinshasa, the last two representatives of the DRC to the 25th Champions League of the African Football Confederation (CAF) have posted several common points in their respective groups of this continental competition. The Englebert from Lush and the Dauphins Noirs from Kinshasa, who completed their respective mini-tournaments, gleaned their one and only victory at home on the 6th and final day of the group stage. Mazembe won in front of Al Hilal of Sudan by 2-1, Friday April 9th at the TP Mazembe stadium in the town of Kamalondo, in Lubumbashi, thanks to goals from Joël Beya and Isaac Tshibangu. V. Club, meanwhile, saw the smile return the same Friday at night at the Martyrs of Pentecost stadium, in Kinshasa, at the expense of El Merreikh of Sudan, beaten by 3-1, on the achievements of Zemanga Soze , Eric Kabwe wa Bantu and Ricky Tulenge Sindani. This makes Al Hilal the only club, which allowed the Kinshasa Greens and Blacks to pocket 6 points home and away. Second, the Lushois Ravens and the Koirian Dolphins all finished the tournament in third place in their respective groups with 5 points in 6 outings, for the first, and 7 points, for the second. Third, during their travels in Algeria in front of CR Belouizdad, for Mazembe, and in Tanzania, for V. Club in front of Simba, the two Congolese clubs, who hoped to sublimate and raise their heads with an extra muros success before doing better in the last game at home, were quickly disillusioned. Mazembe lost to CR Belouizdad (0-2) and V.Club was slapped by Simba on the mark of 1-4. Defeats which resulted in elimination from the 5th day.
Throughout the tournament, the two ambassadors each suffered a double setback from the same opponent back and forth. Mamelodi Sundowns was the executioner of Mazembe: 2-1 in Lubumbashi and 1-0 in South Africa. Simba was for V. Club: 1-0 in Kinshasa and 4-1 in Dar-es-Salam. The last point is the similarity between these last two Congolese Mohican in their performances at the continental C1. Each has conceded 3 losses in six outings. Mazembe folded twice against Mamelodi Sundowns (1-2 and 0-1) and once against CR Belouizdad (0-2). V.Club stumbled twice in contact with Simba SC (0-1 and 1-4) and once in front of Al Ahly of Egypt (0-3).