RIYADH: Al-Nassr coach Mano Menezes is not worried about which opponent his team draw on Friday for the quarterfinals of the 2021 AFC Champions League and said his players were ready to take any of the sides left in the competition.
The Riyadh club qualified for the quarterfinals of the continent’s premier club competition on Tuesday after beating Tractor of Iran 1-0 with a goal scored by Cameroonian forward Vincent Aboubakar in the game at Hamad bin Khalifa Stadium in Doha.
“We are not thinking about our opponent in the next round of the tournament, we will be ready for any team. The performance was good after the long international break, and we could have settled the match in the first half, but we did not take advantage of our opportunities. But the most important thing is victory in such matches,” Menezes added.
Al-Nassr will face either Saudi rival Al-Hilal, Al-Wahda of the UAE, or Iran’s Persepolis from the AFC Western Zone in the quarterfinal. The semifinals will also be an all-West affair before the final pits together the best of the Western and Eastern zones.
