France's Thierry Henry (L) fights for the ball with Houcine Ragued of Tunisia during their international friendly soccer match at the Stade de France Stadium in Saint-Denis. Photo: REUTERS

Tunisia star warns Super Eagles

By Semiu Osho

June 24, 2009 12:29AM

Carthage of Tunisia midfielder Houcine Ragued has declared that his team is ready to face the Super Eagles in Saturday’s World Cup qualifier in Rades.

Tunisia have taken maximum points from two games in Group B and know that victory against their Nigerian counterparts will enhance their chance of qualifying for South Africa next year.

“We’re doing very well in these qualifiers, essentially because of the qualities of our group,” said Ragued in an interview with FIFA.com.

“Our squad is pretty young, but is full of very good players and is very united. We’re aware of the fact that winning this game would lead us into a very good position in qualifying, especially as winning against a team like Nigeria could shock a bit all our opponents.

“That said, we shouldn’t think about that too much in order to leave the pressure on Nigeria, who definitely need to win.

“Nigeria has been, is and will always be a great football nation in the world. They’ve always had very good players and we respect them a lot. But we also have good guys and I’m sure this game will be a great one”.

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Reader Comments (3)

Posted by Nigerian_ulysses on Jun 20 2009

We go crush una .

Posted by Oyeyiola joel a. on Jun 20 2009

All i want from Super Egles is winning the match,for our opponent 2 admmit our superioty infact,Egle must do us proud.

Posted by okoye emmanuel ndubuisi on Sep 08 2009

am from greece this is a game any way we played well but what we need is presur marking untill the game is over this is what happening to us every time if we first score goal we get to reras no if we are scored about 12345 goal we do need to reras becos this is a game any thing can happen at any time that all.