Salah: “Give everything no matter what”

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The African Championship, which is taking place these days, continues today (Tuesday) with three different games. In the spotlight, the reigning champion, Algeria, will start its campaign against Sierra Leone, Egypt and Nigeria, two of the strongest teams in the tournament, will also meet for their opening game. In the third and final game for today, Sudan and Guinea will meet in Bissau.

Egypt – Nigeria
In today’s second game we have the battle of the giants, between Nigeria and Egypt. No less than ten wins can be counted between the two teams, who will be looking to continue to fill their closet of titles. The coach of the Nigerians, who reached the semi-finals of the tournament in 14 of their last 16 tournaments, sounded confident in his team’s ability: “We respect Egypt, but we did not come to lose. We are a great team and we will fight for the title no matter what.”

On the other hand, the champion of winning the African Championship will not give up so quickly. “We are in the middle of a process of building the next generation of Egyptian football. We have a good team with good players, and we will give everything, no matter what,” said Muhammad Salah, who has never won the Egyptian team with the trophy and hopes to do so this year.

Algeria – Sierra Leone
Today’s first match will be between reigning champions Algeria and Sierra Leone, returning to the African Championships for the first time in 26 years. The Algerians have recorded no less than 34 unbeaten games and will look to continue their streak, en route to the third African Championship in history. The one who will be missing from the Algerians in the game is Ismail Banaker, who has accumulated yellow cards and will be absent from the game. On the other hand, Sierra Leone will be looking to continue its momentum from the qualifying game for the tournament against Nigeria, so they came back from a 4-0 deficit to a 4-4 draw, which raised them to the tournament.

Sudan – Guinea-Bissau
The last game of the day, unlike its predecessor, will bring together two of the weakest teams in the tournament. Sudan, who were at the African Championships for the last time in 2012, have not scored a clean sheet in a Black Continent tournament since winning it in 1970 with a 0-1 final against Ghana.

Guinea-Bissau, on the other hand, will take to the field for what will be the third African Championship in which it participates. She has so far recorded no less than 437 minutes without a goal in the tournament, and this is the longest streak without a goal among all the participants in the tournament. None of the teams will be able to get that far, but whoever goes further will probably be the one to win this match, which will lock up the championship game day.

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