Africa-Press – Senegal. Senegalese international Sadio Mané maintained Thursday in Dakar that the Senegal team is “ready and impatient” to face Algeria against whom the Lions have recorded two defeats in the last two confrontations in 2019.
“We have a great team. We are expected every time. It won’t be easy against Algeria, but we can beat anyone. We are well prepared and we are looking forward to D-Day,” said Mané.
The Senegalese star was speaking at the end of a training session as part of preparations for the international friendly match against Algeria next Tuesday in Dakar. He was delighted with the “magnificent state of mind” of the group and the intensity with which his teammates are preparing to face Algeria.
The Senegal team faces the Algerian team in a friendly match next Tuesday at 7 p.m. GMT at the Abdoulaye Wade stadium in Diamniadio. The two teams will play their tenth friendly match since 1977.
The Lions lost by the same score (0-1) against the Fennecs their last two matches of the 2019 African Cup of Nations. During the Egyptian CAN, they were beaten from the start in the group match before losing. losing again in the final against the men of coach Djamel Belmadi.
According to Al-Nassr’s new player in Saudi Arabia, Senegal has since become another team. “I don’t think Algeria is our pet peeve. Certainly we have lost our last two matches against her. It was deserved. Tuesday’s match will not necessarily be a rematch, but an important meeting that we play at home, ”analyzed Mané.
“The great teams are those who know how to keep the bar very high in every game. We know that with Algeria, it will be a different context, but we are capable of reproducing the same match won against Brazil (4-2),” reassured the former Liverpool winger (2016-2022).
Reacting to the match on the sixth day of the 2023 Africa Cup of Nations qualifiers in Ivory Coast against Rwanda, Mané encouraged the A’ team present in Huye (Rwanda).
“This team has the qualities it takes to win against Rwanda,” he said.
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