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Egypt 2023 : Bosso Confident His Charges Will Neutralize Uganda For World Cup Ticket
Coach Isah Ladan Bosso believes he has the lads to push Uganda’s Hippos off the way in which of their Africa U20 Cup of Nations quarter-final duel on Thursday and attain the FIFA U20 World Cup finals scheduled for Indonesia, twentieth Might – eleventh June.
Each groups conflict on the 22,000 -capacity Suez Canal Authority Stadium in Ismailia as from 7pm Egypt time (6pm Nigeria time) on Thursday, and the Flying Eagles’ tactician says that whereas he doesn’t underrate the Hippos, he trusts his expenses to make Nigeria proud and attain the match’s final 4.
“Earlier than we left our coaching camp in Morocco, the NFF President, Alhaji Ibrahim Musa Gusau advised us clearly that the primary goal must be getting a ticket to the FIFA World Cup. We’re at that the majority necessary stage now and we can not afford to falter.
“We’re conscious that Nigerians are trying as much as us to ship. Whereas our mission stays bagging the World Cup ticket, we’re additionally eyeing the trophy, which remains to be quite a lot of matches away. For the second, we’ve got Uganda in our view and we’re working arduous to see that we management proceedings on Thursday.”
Two-time silver medallists and one-time bronze medallists Nigeria are looking for to make one other look on the FIFA U20 World Cup finals. They completed in third place when the match was staged in then USSR in 1985, beating the host nation on penalty shoot-out within the bronze medal match. 4 years later, in Saudi Arabia, the Flying Eagles misplaced 0-2 to Portugal in a traditional Last in Riyadh. And in 2005, Lionel Messi and Argentina had been 2-1 winners within the Last match in The Netherlands.
The Hippos of Uganda completed high of their Group B which additionally included Congo, South Sudan and the Central African Republic. They defeated Central African Republic 2-1, and drew 2-2 and 0-0 with Congo and South Sudan respectively. It took a drawing of tons by the Confederation of African Soccer to separate Uganda and Congo and decide the winner of Group B, as each groups completed with the identical statistics.
In the meantime, the Flying Eagles might be with out the companies of group captain Daniel Bameyi as a consequence of accumulation of two yellow playing cards. The defender was cautioned twice within the group video games towards Senegal and Mozambique.
Within the different quarter-final video games, nine-pointer The Gambia will tackle contemporary birds South Sudan, who shocked Central African Republic 1-0 and drew 0-0 with Uganda to complete in third place in Group B with 4 factors. Their solely defeat was a 1-2 reverse towards Congo. The match will maintain on the Haras El-Hedood Stadium in Alexandria on Friday.
On Thursday, earlier than the Flying Eagles tackle Uganda in Ismailia, Group A winners Senegal will tango with Benin Republic on the Cairo Worldwide Stadium. The Younger Cheetahs completed in third place in Group C with solely two factors having drawn with Zambia and Tunisia, however unfortunate to concede an personal objective two minutes to the tip of their encounter with group winners The Gambia on Monday.
The final quarter-final duel is between Congo and Tunisia, on the Cairo Worldwide Stadium on Friday night. The North Africans pulled their weight to defeat Zambia 2-1 on Monday, after having misplaced 0-1 to The Gambia and drawing 0-0 with Benin Republic earlier in Group C.
All 4 winners will advance to the semi-finals of the competitors, however extra importantly, qualify to characterize Africa on the FIFA U20 World Cup finals in Indonesia.
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