We Won't Disappoint Nigerians" - Salisu Yusuf Confident Of Picking U23 AFCON Ticket

"We Won't Disappoint Nigerians" - Salisu Yusuf Confident Of Picking U23 AFCON Ticket

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Nigeria U23 Eagles head coach, Salisu Yusuf has promised to deliver the 2023 CAF U23 African Nations Cup ticket, BSNSports.com.ng can report.

According to the coach the Nigerian side is prepared for any challenge.

At the U23 level, the Wednesday match will be the third confrontation of Nigeria and Guinea.

They had twice met at the football event of the Harare 1995 All Africa Games. In their first confrontation on 18 September 1995 in a group game, Guinea won 1-0. They later met in the classification duel that ended 1-1 at regulation time. Nigeria later prevailed 4-1 in the ensuing penalty shootout.

They meet again in Abuja on Wednesday. The Head Coach Salisu Yusuf said his Nigeria U23 boys are very much up to the task of grabbing one of the tickets to this year’s Africa U23 Cup of Nations in Morocco.

"I won't disappoint Nigerians. The coach said.

“I am satisfied that we have been able to work hard these past days and are now set for action. The players know that reaching the Africa Cup of Nations presents them a tremendous opportunity to fight hard for a ticket to the Olympics, which is a global tournament.

“We have invited a number of players from overseas that we believe can help us stake a very strong claim to the ticket, and we will be aiming for a good win on Wednesday. The second leg is on neutral ground, but we don’t want to entertain that in our minds. We have the objective of working assiduously to wrap up things in this first leg.”

Guinea’s U23 squad had their official training at the Moshood Abiola National Stadium on Saturday evening, hours before the Olympic Eagles took to the same pitch for their final workout ahead of the encounter.

The return leg of the Nigeria/Guinea has been scheduled for the Complexe Sportif Prince Heritier Moulay Al Hassan starting from 7pm Morocco time (8pm Nigeria time) on Tuesday, 28th March.

For Wednesday’s encounter in Abuja, CAF has appointed Sabri Mohamed Fadul from Sudan as referee. His compatriots Abdelgabar Mohamed Abdelgabar and Ahmed Subahi will serve as assistant referee 1 and assistant referee 2 respectively, while Ring Akech Malong from South Sudan will work as fourth official.

Munkaila Nassam Adam from Ghana will be the match commissioner.