Rwanda coach Vincent Mashami is confident Amavubi will qualify for the 2020 Africa Nations Championship (CHAN) which will take place in Cameroon.
Amavubi head into the last leg of the final round of qualifiers at Amahoro Stadium in Kigali on 19 October enjoying a 1-0 advantage from the first leg played against Ethiopia in Addis Ababa.
A draw or victory will see Rwanda qualify, for a third consecutive time, to the finals of the tournament designed exclusively for footballers playing in their domestic leagues.
According to coach Mashami, it will be folly for Amavubi to go for a draw at home soil, thus he has backed his players to put up a strong performance and get ‘the result that every Rwandan expects’.
[perfectpullquote align=”full” cite=”” link=”” color=”” class=”” size=””] “I believe we have the necessary quality and talent. And, I also think I don’t need to remind my players of how much the game (against Ethiopia) means to us as a team and as a country.” [/perfectpullquote]
“The target is not to hold on to the first-leg lead, but rather to fight for another victory.”
Mashami has no injury concerns heading into the match as Rwanda look to maintain their 100 per cent winning run at home in recent months with the latest result being a goalless draw against Tanzania in an international friendly played on Monday night.
Rwanda made its CHAN debut in 2011 before hosting the 2016 showpiece and qualifying for the 5th edition, hosted and won by Morocco, last year.
The Central African nation best performance in the tournament was reaching the quarter-finals in 2016. Amavubi bowed out from the group stage at the 2011 and 2018 editions.
CHAN 2020 Qualifiers final round, second leg fixtures
North Zone
19.10.2019 Berkane Morocco vs Algeria (0-0)
20.10.2019 Sale Libya vs Tunisia (0-1)
West A Zone
20.10.2019 Bamako Mali vs Mauritania (0-0)
20.10.2019 Conakry Guinea vs Senegal (0-1)
West B Zone
19.10.2019 Lagos Nigeria vs Togo (1-4)
20.10.2019 Abidjan Cote d’Ivoire vs Niger (0-2)
20.10.2019 Ouagadougou Burkina Faso vs Ghana (1-0)
Central Zone
20.10.2019 Kinshasa DR Congo vs Central African Republic (2-0)
20.10.2019 Brazzaville Congo vs Equatorial Guinea (2-2)
Central-East Zone
18.10.2019 Omdurman Sudan vs Tanzania (1-0)
19.10.2019 Kampala Uganda vs Burundi (3-0)
19.10.2019 Kigali Rwanda vs Ethiopia (1-0)
South Zone
19.10.2019 Lusaka Zambia vs Eswatini (1-0)
19.10.2019 Windhoek Namibia vs Madagascar (0-1)
20.10.2019 Maseru Lesotho vs Zimbabwe (1-3)
