The 17-12 months-vintage, who notched 3 goals within the CAF Champions League this season earlier than ASEC have been demoted to the second one-tier Confederation Cup, struck after forty eight and 90 mins in Abidjan.
Many Ivorian pundits believe Konate will soon join many countrymen in Europe, hoping to at some point emulate retired legends like Didier Drogba and Yaya Toure.
ASEC have been among 5 former Champions League winners in movement and Hearts of Oak from Ghana, Orlando Pirates of South Africa and TP Mazembe from the Democratic Republic of Congo additionally triumphed.
Hearts, the primary winners of the Confederation Cup in 2004, have been 2-0 victors over JS Saoura of Algeria thanks to goals from Salifu Ibrahim and Isaac Boateng in Accra.
Soon after Boateng doubled the lead on seventy two mins, the journeying team were decreased to 10 guys whilst goalkeeper Zakaria Saidi become despatched off.
Pirates, the first South African membership to be crowned African champions, netted late in each half to build a 2-0 benefit over LPRC Oilers of Liberia in Paynesville.
Tshegofatso Mabasa put the Soweto Buccaneers ahead on forty two minutes and Fortune Makaringe doubled the lead in added time.
Given they'll enjoy home benefit next Sunday, Pirates appear honestly sure to reach the institution degree for the second one successive season in the African equivalent of the UEFA Europa League.
- Mazembe facet Marumo -
Mazembe pipped every other South African membership, Marumo Gallants, 1-zero with Lehlohonolo Nonyane turning a Soze Zemanga loose-kick into his own internet on the stroke of half-time in Lubumbashi.
