AfricaPress-Tanzania: TANZANIA’s Simba SC has disclosed it expects opponents, Sudan’s Al Merreikh, will be out to overcome the former in the CAF Champions League’s match, slated to take place in Khartoum today.
Simba SC holds the top spot in Group A of the showpiece after collecting six points with victory over DR Congo’s AS Vita Club and the showpiece’s defending champions, Al Ahly of Egypt.
Selemani Matola, Simba’s assistant coach, said that their impressive start to the competition is one of reasons making the game against Al Merreikh quite tricky.
He noted: “We are facing opponents who have nothing to lose as they have just lost both of their first two matches.”
He said: ”They are not under the kind of pressure we are experiencing, given we have six points and are in needing of victory.”
“Let us also remember that Al Merreikh are aware that our head coach Didier Gomes was in their squad and decided to leave on his own so it will put a lot of pressure on them to want to win.”
“They need to revenge for their coach’s decision to leave them because they needed him but he left them and headed to Simba, many think that it will be an easy task, there is no such thing.”
“All in all we have organized ourselves to see to it that we are getting positive results as we are aware the showpiece is extremely competitive.”
”Our fans should continue to pray for us,” he said.
Gomes was roped in by Simba to replace Belgian Sven Vandenbroeck who parted ways with the side in early January and he is now in Morocco.
