Angolan coach Jose Manuel: “We won’t be happy with a draw versus Algeria”
Angola coach Jose Manuel
Taking the floor yesterday in a press conference at Luanda's Tropicana hotel, Angola coach Jose Manuel has talked about the decisive match opposing Monday at 17 hours local time (16 hours GMT) in Luanda stadium the Angolan side to the Algerian squad for the qualification to the second round of the 27th edition of the African Cup of Nations tournament.
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“No other choice but victory”
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Jose Manuel has indicated that this match is the last in Group A and the qualification for the next round depends on it “ The draw has decided that the last and decisive match will be against Algeria, but this will not change anything in our plans and will platy as we did in the previous matches, and our sole objective is the win; I suppose that Algerians have the same ambition”.
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“We are aware of the difficulty versus Algeria”
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The Portuguese has indicated that the Algerian national squad is one of the best in Africa and is preparing to take part to the World Cup, that’s why we are aware that our task won’t be easy before a squad that play a nice football and tactically well organized”.
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Jose Manuel has dwelt on the qualities of the Algerian players” Algeria squad possess good and talented players in addition to their physical abilities”.
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The match will be tough
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As to the match, the coach went on saying” Everybody knows that today’s match will be extremely difficult but they are ready and want to win though a draw is enough for us. We won’t take any risk and we will play for the win, the match will be tough”.
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