Mauritanian side Nouadhibou FC have touched down Ghana for the second leg of the preliminary round of the CAF Champions League against Asante Kotoko in Accra.

The Mauritanian giants landed at the Kotoko International Airport on Thursday evening ahead of the crunch clash against Asante Kotoko on Saturday.

FC Noudhibou, who moved to their Accra City Hotel base shortly after arriving in the West African country, will hold their first training session at the Accra Sports Stadium on Friday.

Both sides will be gunning to punch their tickets to the next stage of the qualifying round when they square off in the return encounter on Saturday.

In the first leg, Kotoko opened the scoring Osman Ibrahim before the Northwest African nation side rallied back to pick a draw courtesy Hemeya Tanjy’s penalty.

The game will be coming off on Sunday 3:00 GMT

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Asante Kotoko will have three extra days to prepare for their CAF Champions League after their game against Nouaghibou in Mauritania was rescheduled.

The game was initially set for Friday 27th of November but information coming from CAF reveals that the game has been shifted to Sunday 29th of November due to the country’s Independence celebration on Saturday, 28th November.

Sahara Football understands the Mauritanian military will be preparing for the Independence celebration on Friday and won’t be able to provide security for the game, that’s why CAF shifted the game to Sunday.

Asante Kotoko have already landed in Mauritania and will have few extra days to prepare for the game.

The game will be played at the Nouakchott-Stade Cheika Boidiya on Sunday and the return leg will take place in Accra at the Accra Sports Stadium next weekend.

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Asante Kotoko SC have been drawn against Mauritania giants FC Nouadhibou in the preliminary round of the 2020/2021 CAF Champions League.

The draw for the preliminary and first rounds were done earlier today in Cairo, Egypt.

The Porcupine Warriors travel to Mauritania for the first leg before they play at home for the second leg.

Winner between Asante Kotoko and Nouadhibou will face the winner between Al Hilal Club of Sudan and Ugandan champions Vipers SC.

The first leg is scheduled to take place on 27–29 November 2020 whereas the second leg comes off on 4–6 December 2020

Nouadhibou are the current holders of the Mauritania Ligue 1 championship and have won it 8 times.

They are also four-time winners of the Mauritania FA Cup.

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