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Sudan skipper Agab predicts victory over Black Stars in 2nd leg

The skipper of the Sudan national football team, Ramadan Agab, says the team is optimis­tic about beating the Black Stars in the reverse fixture of the AF­CON 2025 qualifiers tomorrow at the Benina Martyrs Stadium in Benghazi, Libya.

The 10,550 all-seater stadi­um will be used by Falcons of Jediane as their home grounds due to the unrest in Sudan.

Speaking exclusively to the Times Sports after surviving a second-half scare from the Black Stars to draw goalless at the Accra Sports Stadium on Thursday, Agab stated they were going to beat Ghana 2-0 in the return leg.

“I’m sorry, we will beat Ghana 2-0 in Libya. Ghana had a good game today; the draw is a very good result for us.”

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According to him, the first leg outcome was good for their chances of qualifying to the AF­CON and it would spur them on to do their best in the remaining games to qualify.

“You have good players but I’m sorry we’ll beat you to bright­en our chances of qualification. Coach Kwesi Appiah knows the Ghana team well and that would help us to beat them, “the Al-Merrikh SC player further stated.

Agab heaped praises on his colleagues for the brave dis­play, especially their goalkeeper, Mustafa Mohamed, whose sec­ond-half heroics denied Ghana, including a save of Mohammed Kudus’s tap in from close range off the line, with two minutes to the end of the game.

The Al-Merrikh SC shot-stopper, who is on loan at Azam FC, stood between the Black Stars and a goal as he de­nied forwards Antoine Semen­yo and Inaki Williams similar opportunities earlier.

“My goalkeeper, Mohamed, is another reason we were able to get the draw, he was superb.”

Ghana is placed third in Group F with two points below Sudan who is second with four points while Angola leads the pack with nine points after beating Niger 2-0 in Luanda on Friday.

Niger is last on the log with just a point earned in their draw with Ghana

 BY RAYMOND ACKUMEY

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