Turkish Women's Cup: Black Queens coach Mercy Tagoe confident of victory over Chile

Published on: 04 March 2020

Black Queens head coach Mercy Tagoe is confident her outfit will open their Turkish Women's Cup campaign with a win over Chile on Wednesday.

The Ghana female senior national team have been placed in Group B together with Chile, Northern Ireland B and fellow Africans Kenya for the 8-nation invitational tournament in Turkey

Coach Mercy Tagoe-Quarcoo’s side will face Chile in their opening group match at Starlight Sport Complex later today and is highly-optimistic of a victory.

"We are happy to be here and fully ready for the tournament and everybody is in shape and have adapted to the weather," Tagoe told Goal.com

"We watched Chile at the Women's World Cup in France last year and so, we have a fair idea about them.

"We have already put some tactical training sessions in place that will help us cope against them on Wednesday.

"During our training here, there were one or two things we've introduced that I think will be very useful for us in the match against Chile.

"We know their style of game is quite different from ours and when they tend to increase the pace of the game, we will try to calm and slow things down.

"We have organised ourselves well and also planned to provide antidotes to every approach they want to put up against us."

The match will kick off at 16:00 local time.

The Black Queens will face Northern Ireland B team in their second group game before playing Kenya on March 7 and 10 respectively.

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