The Pharaohs will seek to make amends when they face off with record winners Nigeria at the ongoing Afcon U20 tournament.
Afcon U20 Results Tuesday 21.
Gambia 1-0 Tunisia
Benin 1-1 Zambia
Remember, Egypt fired blanks in a barren draw with Mozambique in the opening group A Encounter on Sunday.
“We started working right after the Mozambique game,” Mohammed Gaber said as quoted by CAF. “Every one is ready and we’re well motivated to win.”
“It is possible that we will change the way we play against Nigeria.We watched the Nigeria -Senegal match and we prepared well for the match,”Said the former Ismaily coach.
“We suffered from a low defensive block against Mozambique, and we will not suffer from this against Nigeria due to the different way of playing “.
The Pharaohs seek to at least avoid defeat as they want to keep their Chances of progressing to the next round alive.
Remember, the top two teams in the group and two best third placed teams from all the three groups Combined all reach the Knockout stage.
Egypt who have won this tournament 4times including in 1991 when they won it as hosts will have a hard task today as they play Senegal.
Infact Since winning their last title in 2013, Egypt have fluttered to deceive.They didn’t qualify in 2015 and 2019 and failed to go past the group stage in 2017.
On the other hand, Nigeria are record winners with 7titles and last won it in 2015.Although they failed to qualify in the last edition in 2021(Mauritania).
Nigeria lost to Senegal 1-0 Courtesy of Soulaymabe Faye goal and seems to have done a thorough revision on how they lost.
