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AFCON 2023: Super Eagles Vice Captain says team will act on the field, not talking

Posted : 30 January 2024

2013 Africa Cup of Nations winner Kenneth Omeruo states that the Super Eagles have little or no time for confabulation and would prefer to do the talking on the turf of the Stade Félix Houphouët-Boigny against Angola in the quarter-final of the 34th edition in Abidjan on Friday.


The experienced defender came in to help stabilize the rearguard in the closing stages of Saturday’s Round of 16 defeat of five-time champions Cameroon at the same venue and is confident that the Palancas Negras (Sable Antelope) will bite the dust by the final blast of the referee’s whistle.


“We have absolutely no need to go into back-and-forth chatter with any team. The Super Eagles are in Cote d’Ivoire for serious business.


“We have not played Angola for a long time, but I remember we played them in 2012 in a friendly, and it ended in a draw.


“I have also read of how previous encounters between the two countries have been quite close.


“There is no possibility of Friday’s match ending in a draw; a winner must emerge. So much talk has been going on.


“Our collective resolve is to do the talking on the pitch. The Nigeria Spirit trumps all.”


A number of the Angolan playing personnel, including captain Fredy Kulembe, have been talking about stepping on the Eagles to achieve their aim of a place in the semi-finals of Africa’s most prestigious football competition. But Omeruo insists that talk is cheap.


“We drew our first match (against Equatorial Guinea), and many people concluded that we are not here to compete strongly for the trophy.


“They have since admitted that we may be up to something after we defeated Cote d’Ivoire, and then Cameroon.


“We must continue to work hard, believe in ourselves, and put in a solid shift each day and time we get onto the field.”

 

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