Etoile Sahel president Othman Jenayeh believes that the Tunisian side's ability to regularly score away from home could provide the club's first ever Champions League victory this weekend.
Etoile play Nigeria's reigning African champions Enyimba in Abuja this Sunday, with the Tunisians holding a 2-1 lead from the first leg.
"We can get a good result in Abuja because up until now, we have scored in all the matches we have played outside of Tunisia in the Champions League," Jenayeh told BBC Sport.
The Sousse-based club scored in all their away Group A matches of the Champions League and followed this with a goal in Dakar against Senegal's Jeanne d'Arc in the semi-final.
"I think we can also score on Sunday and if we can score one or two goals, this will be the key to winning the final," the Etoile president added.
Abuja's National Stadium can seat 60,000 supporters, and Enyimba supporters are mobilizing their fans to travel to the centre of Nigeria from their Aba home in the south-east.
Enyimba were ordered to move the second leg away from Aba by the Confederation of African Football who ruled that the Township Stadium's facilities were not up to scratch.
Yet the Etoile chief, whose team has played twice in Aba in the African Super Cup and the Champions League group stages already this season, feels the switch may suit Enyimba.
"In the two matches against Enyimba, we played well and Enyimba had problems making dangerous attacks and scoring goals," Jenayeh said.
"They need more space."
The big National Stadium will afford this space to Enyimba, whose players have been offered plots of lands and further financial incentives to win the trophy.
Jenayeh revealed that Etoile arranged a deal with the club's players before the start of the Champions League whereby all will receive just under US$17,000 if they win the competition.
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