Mamelodi Sundowns will have to create club history to beat AS Togo-Port in their African Champions League group C clash in Lome on Tuesday. The Brazilians have played 109 matches in African club football over the years but have never won in West Africa. South African teams traditionally struggle in that part of the continent and it has been no different for Sundowns‚ who even lost there twice in their Champions League-winning season of 2016. South African club sides have travelled to West Africa for 32 matches in all competitions and won only four times‚ remarkably Orlando Pirates every time. Their most famous win was the 1-0 success over ASEC Abidjan in the second leg of the 1995 Champions Cup trophy, which saw them crowned continental champions. They have also beaten Ghana side Hearts of Oak and Guinea outfits AS Kaloum and ASM Sangarendi. Sundowns are expected to defeat a side considered pool minnows. Togo-Port have already lost two matches in the group and will be without their ...
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