Cyprus will be preparing to take on the Slovenian national team looking to take advantage of the poor form of the opposition, but they are not in the best possible shape to take advantage of this according to the manager. Cyprus come into the match with a number of injuries, which have forced them to use a number of non-regulars for the squad.
Cyprus will be preparing to take on the Slovenian national team looking to take advantage of the poor form of the opposition, but they are not in the best possible shape to take advantage of this according to the manager. Cyprus come into the match with a number of injuries, which have forced them to use a number of non-regulars for the squad.
One of the major absentees from this match will be the captain Marios Nicolaou. Marios Nicolaou has pulled out of the squad after requiring an urgent dental surgery, which has only increased to the problems for the Cyprus manager. Andreas Avraam, Constantinos Makrides, Giorgos Merkis, and Dosa Junior are some of the players out of this match for Cyprus.
However, the Cyprus National team does have the services of the young striker Demetris Christofi, who has been spoken of as the next big thing within Cyprus. He has said that even though the team is suffering from a number of injury problems, he does not see a reason why they can take a positive result of this match and look forward to playing away in the next match. He has said that the atmosphere within the squad is one of the reasons for his positive attitude.
“We will do everything we can to return to Cyprus with a positive result and focus on the next match against Norway in the best possible atmosphere. We have many players missing for different reasons, but those who will play will fight for them too. The atmosphere within the squad is great and with God’s help I think that we can get all three points. We have a very good team and we showed that against Iceland last month. Whenever we wear our country’s jersey, we all give everything we have, no exceptions,” said the Cyprus striker Christofi.