By Obaloluwa Joshua, LAGOS
South Africa midfielder Gabriela Salgado, says they are up for the challenge against the Super Falcons of Nigeria, Prompt News reports.
Desiree Ellis’ side will take on Nigeria in a semi-final encounter at the 2024 Women’s Africa Cup of Nations on Tuesday (today).
Salgado declared that they are ready for the task ahead.
“We know we’re going into the semifinal game, it’s going to be a challenge, but we are physically and mentally prepared. We know the responsibility we hold, and we just look forward to a good game and hopefully finishing it within the 90 minutes,” said Salgado.
“Every game that we play we take our lessons, and we obviously take it into the next game and improving what we learned from that game.
“Just going into this game, I think the Senegal game of course brought us together as a team, we saw the desire, the hunger in each other’s eyes and it brought us just closer together knowing how we’ll need each other going into the next game.
” I think the team is prepared, we’re ready, we know what we have to do, and I think everyone is just on the same page and we are excited for the game.”
The last meeting between the two women’s football giants was in 2022 in the group stages of same tournament with South Africa winning 2-1, courtesy of goals from Jermaine Seoposenwe and Hilda Magaia. Banyana Banyana went on to win the continental title.
The winner of this semi-final clash between Banyana Banyana and the Super Falcons will face off with the last team standing in the other last four fixture between hosts Morocco and Ghana.
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