Football
Technical manager of Rivers United FC, Stanley Eguma says there
will be no talk of revenge when his charges face Enugu Rangers in the second
game of the annual pre-season tournament of the Nigeria Professional Football
League (NPFL), the Super 4.
The Flying Antelopes go toe to toe with the Pride of Rivers from
6:45pm on Wednesday, December 7 at the Nnamdi Azikiwe Stadium, Enugu in the
stand out fixture of match day one.
Rangers trounced Rivers United 4-0 the last the two sides met at
‘the Cathedral’ on September 4 but Eguma says revenge will be the last thing on
his mind on Wednesday night.
“The main thing about this tournament is to ascertain the level of
preparedness of players in the squad.
“The team that Rangers beat 4-0 is quite different from our
current team.
“There are some new players in the team now, the tactics are
different and the general orientation is completely different.
“The outcome of the game is really unimportant as our main focus
is to see if the new players are responding to our philosophy.
“We also want to know if we have reached the standard required to
give Nigeria creditable representation in next year’s Caf Champions League.
“We are not going for revenge against Rangers because we know that
the amount of stiff competition we will face in the new season will not come
from Rangers alone.
“So we have to look beyond Rangers,” he told the club’s official
website, www.riversunitedfc.com.ng.
Rivers United and Enugu Rangers will represent Nigeria in the 2017
Caf Champions League.
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