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Kate Obodo<\/p>\n

1 July 2011<\/p>\n

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Ex \u2014 International Friday Ekpo is confident the Under-23 team, Dream Team V will repeat the 3-1 feat against Ghana in the return leg of the All Africa Games qualifier next week in Accra.<\/p>\n

According to Ekpo, the Austin Eguavoen led team are capable of beating Ghana at their backyard but he warned the Nigerian side not to underrate their host.<\/p>\n

“First of all, I will say congratulation to Eguavoen and his team for winning 3-1 but 3-0 would have been better. Since the Ghanaians scored a goal here, what is left for them is just two goals to eliminate Nigeria.<\/p>\n

But I know with the high scoring Nigeria side, we will come out victorious because there is no way the Ghanaians will score without them retaliating. So I do not see them beating us in the second phase of the qualifier,” he said.<\/p>\n

Continuing Ekpo said: “Football is not mathematics, it all depends on how you plan your game and then execute it with your brilliant players, which I believe is what the coach is trying to do. Though we might have beaten Ghana over and over again but that does not mean we should underrate them.<\/p>\n

I know they (Ghana) will be working so hard to eliminate us. For instance the Falcons have been beating Ghana’s Black Queens but all of a sudden they started beating us. But I do not believe such things will happen with the boys,” he said.<\/p>\n

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