Super Eagles challenge South Africa in Port Elizabeth
Nigeria’s Super Eagles face South Africa on Saturday in a bold that will actuate the hosts’ connected advance in the qualifiers, although the aggregation is about assured of a abode in the next appearance of the 2010 African and World Cup qualifiers.
The Super Eagles accept accumulated the best credibility in all four amateur played in June adjoin the South Africans, Sierra Leone and Equatorial Guinea but accept not been absolutely stretched. Saturday’s bold promises to be altered as the hosts will be bent to cavity the 100 percent almanac of Drillmaster Shaibu Amodu and his players.
A blooper in the bold agency the South Africans will not be in Angola for the African Nations Cup in Angola in two years time. Daniel Amokachi, abettor drillmaster said the Eagles were in South Africa to win.
“We are not actuality in Port Elizabeth to joke, instead it is addition acceptable airing for the Eagles,” he said. Also speaking advanced of the Saturday encounter, Peter ancillary Idah, Nigeria’s media co-coordinator said the Eagles are in acceptable spirit.
The hosts will advance from the admission in the bold planned for the patchy angle in Port Elizabeth. Meanwhile, South Africa’s striker, Bennie McCarthy who did not yield allotment in the June matches, has alternate to the band and his attendance will addition the adolescent side, still attempting to ensure it afflicted at the World Cup on home clay in 2010.
The arguable striker of Blackburn Rovers has apprenticed the Super Eagles to appear to the EPRU Stadium in Port Elizabeth on Saturday for their 2010 Nations Cup/World Cup condoning bold adjoin South Africa with accoutrements of handkerchiefs.
McCarthy, who rubbished Blackburn’s affirmation that he was fat and unfit for the encounter, said on Thursday he would be all over the acreage battlefront on all cylinders on Saturday to advice his country authorize for the next date of the qualifiers.
“Nigeria accept to not anticipate they can appear actuality and go home with a smile on their faces. We will accomplish abiding they are not animated afterwards Saturday,” McCarthy was quoted adage by Despatch online on Thursday.
“We will action them all the way. We all apperceive how important this bold is to the country. I apperceive Nigeria is a chic ancillary but we are at home and accept to win at all costs. “We all apperceive we accept to win to break in with a adventitious of extensive Angola in 2010. We are up for it.”
According to him, the Bafana Bafana would draw afflatus from their 2-2 draw with Australia in a affable in London to go for achievement over Nigeria. “We got our pride aback and we apperceive no amount who plays for Nigeria adjoin us, will be angry to exhausted us. Butwe showed a lot of spirit adjoin Australia and we accept to abide from there,” he said.
Joel Santana, drillmaster of the Bafana Bafana promised the South Africans achievement over the Eagles, abacus that the players were battle-ready for the encounter. “Nigeria is a acceptable ancillary but we are traveling to win,” he said.
