A stoppage-time goal from Yassine Khenissi doubled CS Sfaxien's advantage as they beat TP Mazembe 2-0 in the first leg of the African Confederation Cup final in Tunis on Saturday.

The Tunisian club, coached by former Dutch World Cup captain Ruud Krol, now have a defendable lead to take to Lubumbashi in the Democratic Republic of Congo for next Saturday's return match.

Khenissi netted two minutes into added time to double his side's lead after Gabon import Idrissa Ndong had opened the scoring on 16 minutes.

“It was a tough game and Mazembe showed they can play good football especially if they are given spaces and we gave them some today. We should be very concentrated in the return leg because they will surely be much more motivated,” Sfaxien coach Ruud Krol said after the game.

The Tunisians were in a jubilant mood after securing this comfortable lead ahead of the Lubumbashi game next Saturday.

“After watching them I thought the title was already sealed. Hopefully this state of mind will help us reverse the situation back home in the second leg. We had several attempts to comeback when it was 1-0 but we ended up conceding a second. It is very hard but we will have to work hard to overturn our deficit,” concluded TP Mazembe coach Patrice Carteron.

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