It’s all set. Defending champions, Senegal will come up towards host, Côte d’Ivoire on Monday, 29 January on the Charles Konan Bani Stadium, Yamoussoukro for the Spherical of 16 conflict of the CAF Africa Cup of Nations.
The sport guarantees to be a tricky encounter primarily based on the ambitions of the 2 sides within the ongoing continental showpiece. With the Elephants trying to right the wrongs of the group stage, they may go all in.
The Teranga Lions certified from their group unbeaten and will probably be hoping to proceed with the identical vitality within the knockout stage.
Côte d’Ivoire needs to make up for his or her poor exhibiting within the group stage, which they progressed with solely 3 factors as probably the greatest third-placed groups.
The Elephants will wish to compensate their residence followers for the poor exhibiting of their final two video games towards Nigeria and Equatorial Guinea by eliminating Senegal and qualifying for the quarter finals.
Aliou Cisse – Senegal coach
“Our staff goes by way of interval after three matches, the place we achieved good leads to the group stage, and I’m happy with it. We’re in state to focus. The statistics are there and I can not change the previous and the outcomes. We’re within the current, and we’ll stay centered. We at the moment are within the eighth last, towards Côte d’Ivoire staff. We are going to play a really troublesome match. If we win, we’ll proceed the journey, and if we lose, we’ll return residence.
“We certified with 9 factors and the opponent with 3 factors, this doesn’t matter. Now a brand new competitors has begun. Côte d’Ivoire stays a serious staff in Africa, they’ve good gamers. The defeat of their final two matches stay simply an accident, they may present one other efficiency in entrance of their followers.”
Moussa Nyakhate – Senegal defender
“We labored nicely this week. We should stay centered on the way in which we play in protection and assault. We are going to stay centered on ourselves within the match, and our aim stays to win. The Côte d’Ivoire nationwide staff is nice, they usually have gamers with good potential, and we respect them so much. The environment is nice throughout the Senegalese staff. Everyone seems to be in good situation. We’ve a beautiful group of veterans who’re mentoring the younger gamers.”
Faye Emers – Côte d’Ivoire coach
“We ready nicely for the Senegal match, and we’ll enter the match with confidence loads of confidence. The gamers are motivated. I do know the group nicely, and I’ve been with them for a 12 months and a half. The gamers know what to anticipate from them within the Senegal match. We are going to enter the match with good confidence. We’ve labored nicely since I got here to move the nationwide staff. Côte d’Ivoire will
stay Côte d’Ivoire although we didn’t carry out nicely within the group stage. If we ask Senegal which staff, they wish to face within the final 16, they may select one other staff that occupied the perfect third place aside from Côte d’Ivoire.
Jean-Michael Seri – Côte d’Ivoire midfielder
“If you find yourself aggressive, you wish to win the continental title, particularly while you host the competitors. On this competitors, something can occur. Issues have now handed, and we should look into the long run, the place the match towards Senegal awaits us. I don’t wish to speak about what occurred. There will probably be a brand new competitors inside this competitors within the knockout spherical, and we wish to progress with the brand new coach, who can also be an enormous brother to us.”
