Guinea-Bissau winger, Carlos Mane has warned the Super Eagles they must be ready for a difficult contest on Monday.
The Djurtus lost their opening two games at the 2023 Africa Cup of Nations to hosts Cote d’Ivoire and Equatorial Guinea.
Baciro Cande’s side have a slim chance of progressing into the Round of 16 going into the game against the three-time African champions.
Mane however said they will do their best to stop the Super Eagles.
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“We have zero point in the competition but we have to fight to get a good result. We will go into the game with a strong mentality, we will try to win,” Mane told press conference in Abidjan on Sunday.
“We know Nigeria very well. They have a good coach (Jose Peseiro) He was my coach at Sporting Lisbon four years ago.
“It’s going to be difficult to beat Nigeria, but we will play for our country and our family. We will surely make things difficult for them.”
Guinea-Bissau are yet to record a win at the AFCON.
By Adeboye Amosu in Abidjan
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The worst you can do is is play low block. That’s what teams like youra do when up against a team like Nigeria. But we are our own game plan
I tried to understand you. Well, what the Eagles need is a game of pressing pressing which will unlock whatever game plan of the Djurtus. Im predicting 4 to nil in our favor.
They are just talking. Super Eagles will wallop them.
It will be like Super Eagles are training.
This is what the Ivorian coach said that provoked Nigeria to approach the game like one going into a war.
You have just provoked the Nigerians now.
You will make things difficult for the Super Eagles? Are you guys just waking up? Why didn’t you make things difficult for Ivory Coast and Equatorial Guinea? You lost match 1, you lost 2, you didn’t remember making things difficult na now you wan make things difficult in match 3 or do you think we eat Banku like the Ghana who has no tactics on the field?
You guys must understand something today. African countries don’t play Nigeria the way they play other countries. They come out to kill and make things difficult for us. They play like they want to die on the pitch. It’s never same when they play other countries. I live in Canada, I also see it play out in our lives. Once they hear I’m Nigerian, you need to see the beef. They already think I’m there to take their job, the people just love us immediately they see us and these other Africans hate it. We speak better English, dress well and so many other things, so when these people love us, they get so vexed. I’m a university in Canada, a whole faculty of law graduates were Never Nigerians. 7 guys went to look for a Job in South Africa, after the interview, they took the Naija guy. Guess what, those other guys were all more qualified than the Naija guy. But the Naija guy was taken for his flare, vibe, energy, smartness, dress sense etc. Guess what? When he came out, they almost attacked him. “That’s how you leave your country and come here, take our women, take our jobs, etc” Go to Kenya, they want Nigerian men. In US, it’s the same thing. Ask any black American the African they want, you hear Nigeria. Go to UK, it’s the same. Now, in music, we are ruling. You think they’ll like us? That same thing applies in football. The best strikers in Europe now are Nigerians, so they want to just finish us when they play us. That’s why I always tell Nigerians to take it easy on the team, it’s never easy to be a Nigerian player, No be Joke.
My Ten Kobo.
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My youth, I hear you and I agree with all you’ve said – I myself have seen all this and know this and any of us 9ja who have any kind of level will have seen what you describe in one way or another, guaranteed!
However, the only thing I will add is that – yes, I see where you are coming from by saying to take it easy on them but I beg to differ there – actually this is the main reason why we must never take it easy on them on any level whatsoever!
We must also rise to our highest and be our best every time we are challenged by these haters – there is not a single African country where they don’t hate Nigerians (men and women) and it is simply because they fear us!
They speak ill of us in the most appalling and abhorrent ways, they accuse us of being the biggest fraudsters but anybody with half a brain or anyone in the know, knows that we are nowhere near as corrupt as the chief culprits – Kenyans, Ghanaians, Indians and even Europeans who are actually the biggest in the sense that they have refined the process and only someone who is savvy enough to know will know about their coded fraudulent ways – They accuse us of being drug dealers lol, at least with the fraud, okay we might have started it (in Africa) simply because we are the smartest ones on the continent, but many of those who were involved have evolved and gone straight and there are far fewer Nigerians getting involved in that nonsense these days than all these Ghanaians, Kenyans, Ugandans, Zimbabweans, Indians, Chinese etc etc etc – yet they are always the first to open their smelly mouths and accuse Nigerians of being 419’s- but we all know it’s just jealousy, they will do whatever they can to try and soil our names – Anyway, back to the drug dealing – I laugh because Nigerian’s are babies, infants in drug dealing – even in Africa we are nowhere near the actual drug dealing peoples of the continent not to mention in the world – You want to compare Nigerian’s to the European and American drug barons? the Mexican drug cartels or the Ghanain drug mules? Come on!
I happen to have mixed with and have business associates among almost every race of people on the planet from Africans to European and Asians, Arabs, you name it so I know what I am talking about, and I will tell you now that no one hates Nigerians more than Africans and it is not because we have done them any bad at all! In fact, Nigerians are some of the most innocent, friendly and sometimes naive to a point of being easy to take advantage of people on this planet! Sometimes it is frustrating to see and then when you examine the mindset of Nigerians on ground in Nigeria? You will almost want to wash your hands and give up on the whole country as a whole but then you realise that you know some that are not at all like that and are very upstanding, intelligent, proud, honest, God fearing, real salt of the earth kind of people – no doubt including one’s self and one’s own family for example and their own close circles of Nigerian friends and family, peers and close associates and so you realise that yes it is a curse but at the same time also a blessing – One must not throw out the baby with the bath water so we must continue to persevere and pray for better days –
But in the meantime – Let’s not spare anyone who dares to challenge us and let’s not go easy on these wicked haters who try to spoil and soil our names and push Nigerians forward as the bad guys so that the naive in the world will pay harsh and undue attention to the Nigerian so that they can carry on with their dastardly acts unnoticed – This is why it winds me up when you see some “Nigerians” here who see and hear the kind of hatred some Ghanains bring to Nigeria and Nigerians here and yet will be responding to them like friends even though they hate you and call our team the super chickens but as soon as they say one thing that does not contain their obvious hatred for Nigeria, these “Nigerians” come out calling them pally pally names and nicknames and actually reasoning with them and agreeing sometimes with the crap they say – and these ones think that they are smart- they fail to understand that those haters of reprobate minds are just toying with them because they know there is ZERO repercussions, that they can just come here and call us super chickens for no reason and yet these “Nigerians” will still be cracking jokes with the enemy – they don’t realise what these reprobates say about Nigerians when they are not listening or how these undesirables feel about Nigeria actually in the privacy of their own groups and the crap they tell among themselves especially to their women about Nigerian men etc etc, always trying to run us down – So I will disagree with you when you say we should take it easy on them –
No sir! rather I will say lets light a big fire under their jealous arses and run them clean out of town every time they open their smelly traps and attack us for no reason! And lets go all out and hand their arses to them any time they try and challenge us!
What these “Nigerians” don’t realise is that Ghana of all African countries cannot compare with Nigeria at all in any stretch of the imagination, but because of these “soft” Nigerians, they have allowed some of those retards to genuinely believe that they are somehow our rivals or even peers and that is so annoying because nothing can be farther from the truth!
We are not on their levels! Never – Khaki no be leather lojo kojo!