At the Baba Yara Sports Stadium, Rail Club du Kadiogo, the Burkina Faso League champions, defeated Kumasi Asante Kotoko on penalties.
The game marked new head coach Seydou Zerbo’s first home match in the CAF Champions League since taking over as technical head at Kumasi Asante Kotoko.
Kotoko has not played in the CAF Champions League at the Baba Yara Sports Stadium in a long time, having previously used the Accra Sports Stadium for their home games in the CAF Champions League.
After conceding a goal in the sixteenth minute of the first half, the home side Kotoko lost in penalty shootouts. Rail Club du Kadiogo then went on to win the shootouts after winning the game overall.
Rail Club du Kadiogo’s first choice keeper was Babayouré Aboubacar Sawadogo.
The presence of Danlad in the penalty kicks post at the highest level did not frighten the fans at Baba Yara Sports Stadium because he kept the post for Black Galaxies against Super Eagles B at a CHAN Qualifier in Abuja, where he saved a kick for qualification.
The away team’s goalkeeper, Babayouré Aboubacar Sawadogo, saved three penalty penalties and scored the game-winning goal to advance his club to the competition’s next round, despite Danlad Ibrahim saving one penalty shot for his side.
Babayouré Aboubacar Sawadogo recounted how the stadium Baba Yara constantly grinned at him when playing a game on the turf in an interview by ghanaportsmarket.com, a website of Gariba Raubil, according to a report from the adventurous and enthusiastic editing crew at www.atspo.com.
Babayouré said, “Like I told you at the beginning, the Baba Yara Sports Stadium smiles at me always. The name of the stadium is Baba Yara, and myself my name is Babayouré, so it is my stadium. I always have a great game here. “
The goalkeeper responded to how he stopped three penalties from entering your net during the shoot-out at the famous Baba Yara Sports Stadium.
He again revealed that he had achieved success at the venue anytime he played at the venue, he revealed, “I told my teammates that we could eliminate Kotoko in this stadium (Baba Yara Sports Stadium). For me personally, this is my third qualification over a Ghana side here at this stadium. In 2017, I came here with the local Burkina Faso team to eliminate the Ghana team at this same stadium. In fact, on two occasions, I was captain of the Burkinabe team that came here to beat Ghana and qualify. So this was what I told my friends that we were capable of achieving the feat, and thank God we did it.”
It may be summed up by the goalie of RC Kadiogo saying that he was luckier than Danlad Ibrahim.
