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   Champions League match: 
    St.Louisienne (Réunion) - Espérance Tunis (Tunisia) 
    (date: October 9th 1999) 
 
 
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 The match went as expected. St.Louisienne leaving the field to Espérance, lurking for counter attacks. Espérance using offside against. Espérance had their biggest opportunity after half an hour, but altogether the match was disappointing in the first half.
 Some déja vu took place when the referee played the icebreaker for the Tunisians after 54 minutes: Nsilulu dribbled around some defenders and came to fall in the penalty area. What looked like a penalty became very doubtful in the slowmotion: Azaiez converted the penalty anyway: 0:1
 From now on the match became totally lopsided and it seemed only a question of time when the Tunisians would add another goal.
 But suddenly after 70 minutes St.Louisienne had two huge opportunities in counter play, one featuring a shot against the crossbar of the Espérance goal.
 Julius Aghahowa finally put the match away with his goal in the 86th, what he celebrated spectacularly like in the first leg described.

Final result: 0:2

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