By Solomon Nwoke, Marrekech

GOLDEN Eaglets players are in joyous mood to finish up the good work they started in the on going Confederation of African Football (CAF), Under-17 championship as they take on their Tunisian counterparts in Wednesday’s semi final match here in Marrakech, Morocco .

After routing the Ghanaian Starlets 6-1 in the opening game and bowed 1-0 to Young Elephants of Cote DÍvoire in the second match, they bounced back to thrash Congolese team 7-0 in the last group match to book a place in the forthcoming FIFA U-17 World Cup in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and also set up a semi final clash with Tunisia on Wednesday.

The victory brought great relief to both the players and the coaching crew as they were all wearing smiling faces at their Hotel Riad Mogador, Menana here in Marrrakech when Sports Vanguard visited on Sunday night.

Speaking ahead of the semi final match against Tunisia, Head coach, Manu Garba was grateful to God for their qualification to both semi final and next FIFA World Cup. He said the team will study the match video of the Tunisians and fashion out a way to approach them on Wednesday.

“They are also a good team and tactically disciplined. They have boys who are very good in  aerial contests and set pieces around the goal area, but we’ll make sure the Tunisians play to our own rhythm”, he said recalling that in the 2007 edition of the championship in Togo, both teams met in the same semi final match and Nigeria beat them 2-0.”