Mazembe held to goalless draw by Petro de Luanda

On Saturday in Lubumbashi, former champions TP Mazembe and Petro de Luanda played out a goalless draw in the first leg of their TotalEnergies CAF Champions League quarter-final encounter.

In another match, Ahmed Koka, who has been with Al Ahly since the age of seven, found the net to secure a 1-0 victory for the Egyptian club against Simba of Tanzania on Friday in the first leg of a CAF Champions League quarter-final.

The 22-year-old midfielder scored his first goal of the African campaign just four minutes before a crowd of 60,000 in the Indian Ocean city of Dar es Salaam.

A precise pass from Amr el Solia enabled Mohamed Hany to deliver a cross, and a defensive mix-up in the Simba team allowed Koko to slot the ball past Moroccan goalkeeper Ayoub Lakred.