'Our Task Looks So Difficult Against Nigeria Team With Several Good Individual Players' - Rennes' Algeria Defender Wary Of Super Eagles

Published: July 12, 2019

Rennes' Algeria defender Ramy Bensebaini has admitted that they need to be wary of the Super Eagles when both countries face off in the semifinal of the Africa Cup of Nations on Sunday evening.

The Desert Foxes are the most in-form team at the Africa Cup of Nations, winning their first four matches without conceding a goal, before beating Ivory Coast on penalties in the quarterfinal.

Given the caliber of players in the Super Eagles ranks, Bensebaini says it is not going to be easy for the new tournament favorites who beat the top ranked African nation, Senegal in the group stage.

''We are in the semifinals and we do not think which opponent to face and which to avoid,'' said Bensebaini to Le Buteur

''At this stage of the competition, all teams are formidable, especially when it comes to a top team like Nigeria who are having a great Africa Cup of Nations.

''It is also a team composed of several good individual players. Our task looks so difficult.''

Of the last nine meetings between the two nations, Nigeria have won seven games, drawn one and lost once (3-0), only after FIFA punished Nigeria for fielding an ineligible player in a World Cup qualifier in November 2017.

Ifeanyi Emmanuel

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