AbdAllah: Enyimba fear no foe in Confederation Cup

Morakinyo AbodunrinENYIMBA International By Morakinyo Abodunrin FC coach Usman AbdAllah has alluded to the popular dictum that only the grass would suffer wherever the Peoples Elephants after they were drawn inn Group D for the 2019-20 Total CAF Confederation Cup group stage.In the draw conducted yesterday at the CAF Headquarters in Cairo by CAF Director of Competitions Samson Adamu assisted by Ugandas football legend Edgar Watson and DR Congos former captain Herita Ilunga , Enyimba were drawn against Cote dIvoires San Pedro, Algerias Paradou and Moroccos Hassania Agadir. But AbdAllah said there was no cause for alarm:At this stage, we are waiting for anybody and you know that any team that has gotten to the stage must have worked so well to here. So, we are going to prepare very well for all the matches. Now the goal is for us to get to the quarter-finals by whatever means whether we top the group or come second is immaterial; we just have to do our best and get to the quarter-finals first before we can set another goal for ourselves. No Nigerian club has won the CAF Confederation Cup since its launch in 2004 and only the defunct Dolphins FC of Port Harcourt had gone all the way to the final but they lost 3-1 on aggregate to Moroccan side Association Sportive des Forces Armes Royales in the 2005 finale.Football is changing and we are going to reckon with the fact that Nigerian clubs have not done recently well especially against teams from North Africa, admitted the 45-year-old who led Enyimba to semi-finals of the CAF Confederations Cup before losing to Raja Casablanca of Morocco in the 2018 edition.This time, we are going to do things differently b and we are going to get all the information about all the teams in our group. Our focus now is to reach the quarter-final first. Meanwhile, in the other groupings, Egypts duo of Al MAsry and newcomers Pyramids will lock horns together in Group A, which also includes Mauritanian debutants Noadhibou and Nigerias Rangers. Group B will see a Western derby between Malis Djoliba and Guineas Horoya, while South Africas Bidvest Wits and Libyas El Nasr complete the Liverpool squad.
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