Sierra Leone defender Osman Kakay says the team is not scared of Nigeria and his confident the Leone Stars can get a positive result in their 2021 Africa Cup of Nations qualifier on Friday, reports Completesports.com.
John Keister’s side are looking to record their first win in Groul L after picking just one point from their opening two games.
They will come up against the three-time African champions who have some of the best players on the continent.
Kakay is however adamant they can beat the Super Eagles in their territory.
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“Nigeria have a lot of good players but we are not afraid of them. We respect them because of their pedigree and the quality of their players,’Kakay told Completesports.com.
“It’s a football game and we are not scared. We have a lot of good players too and a young team as well.
“We know what it takes to play against a top side like Nigeria and we will give our best against them.”
“Our ambition is to be in Cameroon and we will keep fighting hard to achieve that”
Friday’s encounter at the Samuel Ogbemudia Stadium, Benin City will kick-off at 5pm local time.
By Adeboye Amosu, in Benin City
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What else will you say? That you are afraid? of course not as it will not be good for the morale of the players before the big game against the Super Eagles.However, I feel we will record a bigger win away to a slender one at home.Nig 2 – S/Leone 1 (home). Nig 4 S/Leone 1 (Away)
ChtisB i agree with you on the home and away score line….By the time they get to Sierra Leone they would hyave blended enough to with with a wider margine
whaaaaat!! ok we shall see.. after tomorrow, i know u people will complain, nigeria use juju.
you should, kakay, you should.
“Courage is more than bravery. Bravery is fearlessness – the absence of fear. The merest dolt may be brave, because he lacks the mentality to appreciate his danger; he doesn’t know enough to be afraid” – Napoleon Hill.
your team could only salvage one point out of a possible 6, and your current opponent bagged the whole 6 points against the very same team that both won and drew you.
I know you are trying to be patriotic in order to boost morale, I understand. pray that rohr shows you mercy by playing only one striker (probably osimhen) instead of both osimhengoal and Iheanachoski.
then, and only then, would you know true terror!
Okay…. No problem
Don’t underate this Leone star team. Anything can happen in football that is for sure. We saw what our last opponent did to us in away match that ended 2-1 in favored of Nigeria in this Afcon qualifiers. Madagascar did the same thing.
We should remember that must of our players are new to the African football. That is another challenge.
All I can say is to wish our team the best. Fingers crossed. God bless Nigeria!!!
Which last opponent did you win 2-1 away….??? Or are you drunk as usual…? I hope you have started your fasting and prayer for Nigeria to lose once again. Your default setting is always for Nigeria to lose. Always making references to the matches we lose and overlooking the many we won…we lost an inconsequencial match agqaist madagascar and then….? Did we not win against Guinea, did we not win against Burundi, cameroon, SA, Tunisia…?? Always hyping all our opponents ahead of SE…..only U hype libya, only u hype lesotho, only u hype south africa…..and latter you will claim you are a patriotic nigerian who doesnt hate Rohr….shior…!
na person wen no even dey play match at all for QPR dey open he gutter mouth dey boast.