Leone Stars must win to eliminate Chad in 2018 World Cup qualifier
By Mohamed Fajah Barrie in London
Leone Stars
Sierra Leone are to host Chad at the Adokiye Amiesimaka stadium in Port Harcourt in the return leg of 2018 World Cup preliminary round qualifying match on Tuesday at 15:00 local time (14:00GMT)
It'll be the second ever
meeting between the two teams and it'll be officiated by Guinean referees.
Aboubacar
Bangoura will serve as the referee while Assistant Referee 1 & II will be
Sidiki Sidibe and Moustapha Toure respectively. The fourth official is Yakhouba
Keita.
Leone
Stars are going to the match one goal down from the first leg played in
N'jamena on October 13.
They
need to win by at least two clear goals margin to overturn the result and
automatically qualify for the next round.
A 1-0
victory for Leone Stars will force the match to extra time and eventually go to
penalty shoot-out if the result remains the same.
Leone
Stars will be knocked out if they get a draw or lose or win by one goal margin
with Chad on the scoresheet.
Coach
Sellas Teteh took the same squad from the first leg to Port Harcourt which
comprises of 10 foreign based players and nine home based players.
Among
the the foreign players are Skipper Umaru 'Zingalay' Bangura based in Belarus,
Stockholm based Mohamed 'Poborsky' Bangura, Sheriff Suma who now plays in
Azerbaijan and the Sierra Leone Football.com Player of the year 2014 John
Kamara who plies his trade in Greece.
It's
expected that the bulk of the Leone Stars players if not all that played in the
first leg will feature on Tuesday.
Leone
Stars will for the second time play without in-form forward Kei Ansu Kamara
after he announced his break from international duty ten days ago.
Kamara
is leading goal scorer in the ongoing United States Major League Soccer (MLS).
Chad
ranked 54 places behind Sierra Leone are now on commanding position to go
through but can still be eliminated.
The
Central African country is also expected to use the same team that gave them
victory in the first leg.
