2023-08-25 23:21:55
Dakar, August 25 (APS) – The captain of ASC les Jaraaf, Assane Mbodj, assured on Friday that his teammates are ready to win the final once morest Stade de Mbour on Sunday (5 p.m.), to write a new page in the history of the Medina club.
“We have to win this final and write our history for the Jaraaf. Our elders have already written their history, it is up to us to play our part,” he said at a press conference 48 hours before the final scheduled at the Abdoulaye-Wade stadium in Diamniadio.
“We will have to stay focused throughout the game. We are the Jaraaf we have to play and win this game. We are ready to do it, “he argued.
For his part, the team’s coach, Ablaye Guèye, assured that his team is “ready on all fronts to achieve the assigned objective”. “At the start of the season, our final goal was to win either the league or the Senegal Cup. Finishing in fifth place in the championship is a failure for the Jaraaf which deserves better. We still have the cup and if we don’t win it, it will be one more failure, ”he argued.
Ablaye Guèye recognized the good mental level of the players at Stade de Mbour. “In the first leg of the league, they scored a goal for us in the 93rd minute and in the return match, they equalized in the 95th minute. But it’s a final. We know their flaw and we worked on it to win this game. ” , he said.
“We want to win for ourselves, for club president Cheikh Seck and for the fans who have always been with the team even in difficult times. he said, calling on all parties to show fair play and discipline.
The Jaraaf is fifteen times winner of the Senegal Cup, in 1967, 1968, 1970, 1973, 1975, 1982, 1983, 1985, 1991, 1993, 1994, 1995, 2008, 2009 and 2013.
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