AFRICAN Cup of Nations hero, Sunday Mba going into today’s game against the Harambee Stars of Kenya has urged his team-mates not to disrespect their rivals in the 2014 World Cup qualifiers.
Mba, embattled by an ownership tussle between Warri Wolves and Rangers of Enugu, stated that the Eagles should expect a tough game against the Kenyans, adding that they will not be pushovers. The Kenyans are in Calabar hoping to record an upset against the Africa Champions and Mba added that the Eagles must have to keep a level head if they are to prevail. He refused to make any predictions for the game.
“We must respect the Kenyans. They have some excellent players and they just appointed a new coach, so I do expect a difficult game from them but we are capable of containing any threat they would pose,” said Mba in a cafonline interview.
The player who scored the winning gold of the AFCON 2013 and also sealed the fate of highly favoured Ivory Coast in the semi-finals said that the Nations Cup was a different ball game from the match at hand in Calabar and the Eagles needed to be in their best elements even as six players from the winning team in South Africa 2013 will not be in action today.
“We have put the Nations Cup success behind us. It’s a new task now, the World Cup qualifier and it’s busy as usual. “We are confident going into the game but not over confident because we know there are no minnows anymore in African football.”
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