Barcelona motivates Mapeza

FC Platinum coach Norman Mapeza will be banking on home support as he seeks to emulate Barcelona’s Uefa Champions League spectacular comeback, as the Zvishavane side host Angolan side Desportivo D’ Agosto in the Caf Champions League second leg of the preliminary round at Mandava Stadium next Wednesday.

The Spanish giants staged one of the biggest comeback stories in world football last season when they overturned a 5-0 first leg defeat to PSG to win 6-0 in the return leg and progressed to the next stage of the competition.

And Mapeza believes his men, who were thrashed 3-0 in the first leg in Luanda, can use their home support and overturn the deficit.

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