KORHOGO, Ivory Coast
An exciting photo-finish is expected in Group F of the TotalEnergies CAF Africa Cup of Nations on Wednesday evening when two-time champions, DR Congo take on Tanzania at Korhogo’s Amadou Gon Coulibaly Stadium.
DR Congo are second behind
group leaders, Morocco while Tanzania are bottom of the group but have an
outside chance of qualification should they get all three points against the
Leopards.
The Tafia Stars have not
enjoyed a good start to their campaign following their 3-0 loss to Morocco
which was followed by a 1-1 stalemate against 2012 champions, Zambia.
In DR Congo, they are up against a motivated side who are yet to lose a match,
but yet to register a victory either having drawn both their matches by 1-1
against Zambia and Morocco.
This is what the coaches and
players had to say:
Hemed Suleiman – Tanzania
assistant coach
“After travelling yesterday,
all our players are fine. We know we are going to face DR Congo tomorrow. It’s
a final for us. We tried to work on our problems. These games are hard but
there is solidarity in the group. Ours for now is to focus on tomorrow’s game.
We have to forget about the previous games and focus on this new task.
Mbwana Samatta – Tanzania
Forward
“All the teams are difficult.
Looking at the levels of both teams, we can never look down on DRC and think it
will be easier than Morocco or Zambia. It is not an advantage playing against
them in the last fixture. They will not be easily beaten, if anything, they
will be even harder to beat”.
Sebastien Desabre – DR Congo
Coach
“We intend to give our best.
The pitch is slightly different, but we have to continue. We are confident and
concentrated on the task. We playing to win and its very important that we win.
We need the victory, and we also want to qualify because that is very
important. We do not want to find ourselves in a situation of making
calculations. We want to win and gain automatic qualification because anything
less than that puts our fate outside of our hands”.
Yoane Wissa – DR Congo Forward
“We will intensify our
efforts. The match will decide our future in the competition. Our aim is to
have a good match tomorrow. We didn’t get a result in the last two matches. We
made some mistakes and high-level matches such as these are about the finer details.
We have character and we will fix our mistakes. This AFCON has had many
surprises, and it is proof that if you want to win, you need to work hard for
it”.
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