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Oceans’ Amarante already eying semis |
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Friday, 05 March 2010 08:39 |
 Esfahan: Nagoya Oceans coach Adil Amarante already has one eye on the semi-finals of the AFC Futsal Club Championship as they chase a second successive victory when they face AUB Altyn Tash Bishkek of Kyrgyzstan on Saturday to strengthen their bid for a top two finish in Group A.
Esfahan: Nagoya Oceans coach Adil Amarante already has one eye on the semi-finals of the AFC Futsal Club Championship as they chase a second successive victory when they face AUB Altyn Tash Bishkek of Kyrgyzstan on Saturday to strengthen their bid for a top two finish in Group A.
The Japanese champions produced a dominant performance on Thursday to see off Uzbeks Stroitel Zarafshan 5-2 (pictured) and get their campaign off to the ideal start.After playing AUB, Nagoya's last group game - and arguably their most difficult - is against tournament hosts Foolad Mahan.But Amarante feels Port Authority of Thailand are the danger side at the AFC Futsal Club Championship and is eager to avoid facing them in the last four.The match against Stroitel Zarafshan was very difficult because they are a strong side, said the Portuguese coach.
We organised ourselves very well to tackle this and created many chances and scored goals.We don't think about who can win this group just yet.
We have our match against Tash Bishkek and then we play Foolad.Of course Foolad are very strong and have the home advantage and also have eight national team players and many supporters but we try to win all the matches regardless of who we play.
If we finish runner up in this group then we might have to face the Thai team.
They are god side and we would prefer to avoid playing them in the semi-finals so ideally we want to win Group A.AUB, meanwhile, will be keen to bounce back from their 8-1 opening game defeat to tournament hosts Foolad Mahan Sepahan on Friday.
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