Caf Champions League - St Georges, Côte D’Or match completed after wash out |21 February 2017

Côte d’Or have been eliminated from the Confederation of African Football (Caf) Champions League after they suffered a 0-3 defeat against St Georges of Ethiopia in a preliminary round second leg game that was played over two days.

Following the earlier abandonment of this second leg match due to heavy rains on Sunday, the match was successfully completed on Monday morning.

The game continued from the 55th minute after being stopped due to a flooded Hawassa stadium on Sunday with St Georges leading 3-0.

At the time of stoppage, St Georges had scored three first-half goals through Salhadin Said (7th), Aschalew Tamene (32nd) and Adane Girma (36th penalty).

After the downpour, the day’s referee deemed the ground unfit to be used as the ball could not easily move.

Caf then issued a directive through the match commissioner that the game would be completed the following morning from the minute of last stoppage.

In first leg match, Côte d’Or conceded in the 40th minute as Ahmed Salahdin Said scored to open the score, before he glided past captain Jones Joubert’s tackle and eluded goalkeeper Lesperance’s intervention to slot the ball into an empty net to make it 2-0 as he bagged his brace.

St Georges thus qualify 5-0 on aggregate, having won the first leg 2-0 in Seychelles last week.

This was Côte d’Or’s only second appearance in this tournament, having lost at the same stage in 2014 against Kabuscorp of Angola on a 2-7 aggregate score.

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A flooded Hawassa Stadium after the rains