JOHANNESBURG, Mar 30 (AFP): Tunisian club Etoile Sahel served notice that they will be strong CAF Confederation Cup contenders by crushing SuperSport United 4-1 in South Africa this weekend.
The outstanding performance under the guidance of former France manager Roger Lemerre completed a 5-1 aggregate triumph in the second-tier African competition.
Michailou Drame was the two-goal destroyer-in-chief during the second leg of a second round tie in Pretoria township Atteridgeville.
Youssef Mouihbi and Marouane Troudi were also on target for the only club to have won all five CAF club competitions.
Etoile have lifted the Champions League and Confederation Cup once and the African Cup Winners Cup, CAF Cup and Super Cup twice each.
SuperSport, furious at the refereeing during a narrow first leg loss in Mediterranean resort of Sousse, scored from a Lebogang Manyama penalty on the stroke of half-time.
That goal cancelled the first from Drame and left the club, bankrolled by satellite sport channel SuperSport, needing two second-half goals without reply to advance.
But those hopes were dashed midway through the half when Malian Drame struck again and Mouihbi and Troudi netted to emphasise the visitors' superiority.
SuperSport, also eliminated at the last-16 stage last season, had no answer to the swift counter-attacking of the North Africans.
Senegalese Mame Niang wasted a late chance to lessen the hosts' embarrassment when he fired a penalty straight at goalkeeper Aymen Ben Ayoub.
Nigerian club Bayelsa United and Difaa El-Jadida from Morocco also secured places in play-offs against CAF Champions League second round losers with the draw scheduled for Tuesday.
Bayelsa, who reached the 2009 Confederation Cup semi-finals, scored twice during the second half to defeat Zimbabwean visitors How Mine 2-0 in the south-eastern city of Sapele.
