Named TotalEnergies Man of the Match at the end of Equatorial Guinea’s demolition of Cote d’Ivoire on Monday evening, Jesus Lazaro Owono revealed his team’s winning strategy after the 4-0 drubbing of the hosts.
“I’m very happy, we did a lot of work. We worked very hard for this match; we knew we were playing Cote d’Ivoire at home. My team had a big match, it showed that it has a big personality,” declared the 22-year-old shot-stopper.
He also mentioned the tactics put in that saw them crush the host nation in front of their home supporters.
“We had a great match tactically; we knew they were going to try to press us. We said to ourselves that if we resisted the first 15 minutes, the match would be for us,” he revealed.
After this brilliant qualification for the round of 16, the Equatoguinean goalkeeper and his teammates intend to continue their efforts to continue creating surprises in the competition.
“We had two great African teams in our group and proved that we were well prepared. We will continue to work as we have done so far to go as far as possible in the competition”, Jesus Lazaro Owono concluded.
