The Mares take on Les Fennecs at the Pere Jego Stadium in Morocco at 9pm (Botswana time). The team will aim for a positive start in a bid to enhance their chances of achieving their target of reaching the knockout rounds. The Mares are in Group B of the competition alongside record champions, Nigeria and Tunisia, and win over Algeria on Sunday evening would come in handy for the local girls. The team's head coach, Alex Malete, is of the belief that his side has done their assignment well ahead of the Sunday clash and knows Algeria very well.
On Wednesday, Malete said the team has aligned their training sessions as per their game plan in a bid to outsmart their North African counterparts in the opening game. "We are only left with three training sessions before we kick start our tournament against Algeria on Sunday. We are looking forward to the game, we have done well in terms of analysing our opponents and in terms of getting statistics, and in terms of getting data matrix about our opponents. They have given us enough in terms of being specific in our training so that we can do what we are doing when the game comes. So, our trainings have been specific to the game plan because of the data we have on Algeria," said Malete.
