Racheal Kunandanji has revealed that the Copper Queens will go into Wednesday’s second-leg Olympic qualifier against Ghana with full force at the Levy Mwanawansa stadium in Ndola.
The 23-year-old, who recently broke the world record for the most expensive female player following her move to National Women’s Soccer League side Bay FC for a transfer fee of $860,000 from Madrid CF, stated that she is aware of the threats posed by the Black Queens and has warned her team not to underestimate them.
“We need to work on all the mistakes we made in the first leg,” she told FAZ media. “As you saw, Ghana dominated in the last minute [of the first leg]. We need to concentrate from the start to the end of the match……. Because football is played for 90 minutes, so we need to focus.”
The Copper Queens striker, who scored the only goal in the first leg, also warned her teammates not to become complacent ahead of the match.
“We are not going into the match thinking we won the first match [and then we should relax],” said the Bay FC striker. “So we are starting at zero-zero and we need to win that match. We are going with full force because… We know and believe that Ghana is coming with full force because they also want to go to the Olympics.”
The victor of the Zambia-Ghana tie will face either Morocco or Tunisia, whose match today finished 2-1 for the former.
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