Nigeria’s representatives at the on-going Confederation of Africa Football (CAF) Women’s Champions League in Morocco, Edo Queens will this evening at the Stadium in El Jadida, file out against FC Masar of Egypt in the third place match of the tournament.
Both teams ran out of steam in their semi- final clashes on Tuesday after Edo Queens were bundled out by TP Mazembe following a 3-1 defeat.
FC Masar on the other hand, suffered a 2-1 loss to AS FAR FC of Morocco.
Meanwhile, Edo Queens and FC Masar have a score to settle today after they both tied goalless in their group match earlier on with a whopping 350,000 USD to be won by the winner of the encounter while the loser will go home with 300,000 USD.
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In his press briefing for today’s encounter ,coach of Edo Queens, Moses Aduku, said: “So far, so good we want to thank God where we found ourselves, it is a game in football, you win some, you lose some. “Like you said, we are not out yet, we are fighting for the third place. So by tomorrow I’m expecting my girls to go all out and see how we can win.
“I know it is not going to be easy, the Egyptian side is a good team, last time we played them it was goalless.
“We are putting finishing touches to our training today by tomorrow we go in there and fight it out,” he added.
Meanwhile, TP Mazembe will face AS FAR in the grand finale tomorrow to determine who becomes 2024 champions in the continent with the winner getting 600,000 USD in addition to the prestigious Gold Cup.