{"id":73999,"date":"2022-10-10T11:10:14","date_gmt":"2022-10-10T10:10:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/cafcl-rivers-united-will-be-brave-against-wydad-in-casablanca-eguma-assures"},"modified":"2022-10-10T12:33:06","modified_gmt":"2022-10-10T11:33:06","slug":"cafcl-rivers-united-will-be-brave-against-wydad-in-casablanca-eguma-assures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sport\/cafcl-rivers-united-will-be-brave-against-wydad-in-casablanca-eguma-assures","title":{"rendered":"CAFCL: Rivers United will be brave against Wydad in Casablanca \u2013 Eguma assures"},"content":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>Rivers United head coach, Stanley Eguma says his team must be courageous when they take on defending champions Wydad Casablanca of Morocco this weekend.<\/p>\n

The Nigeria Professional Football League champions defeated Wydad 2-1 in the first leg of the CAF Champions League first round, first leg tie at the Adokiye Amiesimaka Stadium, Port Harcourt, on Sunday.<\/p>\n

Senegal forward Bouly Junior Sambou put the visitors ahead on 32 minutes.<\/p>\n

Rivers United, however, rallied back with strikes from Malachi Ohawume and Paul Acquah.<\/p>\n

The Port Harcourt dwellers will need to be at their best to protect their slim advantage in the reverse fixture.<\/p>\n

Eguma reckoned his team will put up a brave fight against the North Africans.<\/p>\n

\u2018It\u2019s tight, but I am very optimistic; it\u2019s a game of football. If you look at the standard of the game (Sunday), Wydad AC were not far better than us,\u201d Eguma told the club\u2019s media.<\/p>\n

\u201cAll we need do is to summon courage and then make our tactical plans on how to play them in Morocco. It\u2019s a difficult terrain but its football, it\u2019s not mathematics.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI know a lot of people will write us off, but I want to let you know that it is not yet over.<\/p>\n

\u201cWithin us, we know that we have a big fight to do and am assuring you that we will not go there to sleep but to work and also put them under severe pressure to see that we get passage through to the group stage.\u201d<\/p>\n

The overall winners will proceed to the money-spinning group stage of the competition.<\/p>\n

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