CAF Champions League resumes with Match Day 3 fixtures on Friday 8 December, as Africa’s premier club football competition shifts into higher gear.CACEFA representatives Young Africans SC and Al Hilal will face stern away tests this evening with the Tanzania reigning champions keen to record their first group win this term.After losing their opening group match 3-0 away to CR Belouizdad and picking a 1-1 draw against African giants Al Ahly, Yanga sits at bottom of the Group D and will square out with the in-form Medeama FC at the Baba Yara Stadium in Kumasi with all eyes fixed on picking maximum points.In an exclusive interview with CAF online Medeama coach Augustine Evans Adotey hinted at a tough match for the visitors as he looks to repeat the heroics of 2016 when he got the better part of his today’s opponents.”I know them very well,” Adotey stressed. “I will never underrate Young Africans knowing their history and what they have done in football.”##NAJAVA_MECA_7727560##Nonetheless, the Ghanaian does spy vulnerabilities in a Yanga backline that has leaked four goals in their opening two group matches.”We have conceded in every match since the group stage started, so we are working on improving that,” Adotey noted. “We want to prevent our opponents from scoring as well as continuing to be productive in attack.”Elsewhere, fresh from picking a 3-1 win against Tunisia’s Esperance Sportive de Tunis, Sudan’s Al-Hilal will be all out to try and collect more points when they face Group C bottom-placed ES Sahel in Tunisia. Kenya renews rivalry with Uganda in CECAFA U18 finals“We need to keep focused because we are facing a team that has not collected a point yet and are playing at home,” says Al-Hilal coach Florent Ibenge. Al-Hilal who started their campaign with a 1-0 defeat away to Petro de Luanda are second on the log with 3 points.##NAJAVA_MECA_7727561##On Saturday Simba SC will return to action in a Group B match away to bottom-placed Wydad AC. Simba SC, quarter-finalists last season will welcome newly appointed coach Abdelhak Benchikha on the bench when they play away in Morocco.The Tanzanian giants, have endured a tough start to the campaign playing stalemates in the opening two matches a performance that places them third in Group B standings.
