Henri Michel Quotations

It is not the fear factor that makes me want to avoid Cameroon. It is a tactical matter. It is best to avoid the strongest teams in the last eight. But I repeat it has nothing to do with fear.

It is a win gained against a very good Moroccan team. Now we look towards the next match.

Our goal was to qualify for the World Cup and the African Nations Cup. After that, we focused on qualifying for the quarterfinals and then the semi-finals. Now we have qualified for the final and I am very satisfied with the performance.

Today wasn't our best performance but we met a tough opponent. We'll be better for the final, especially if all the players are available. We're very satisfied.

This result permits us to have a more relaxed atmosphere before we play our last game against the host nation.

We've had a good run. Now there's the cherry on the cake - and let's hope we can place it correctly.

We want to go far in this tournament and I needed to give some of the others some match play.

We missed too many chances and we didn't give the kind of commitment we need. But we were too strong to lose the game.

We are very happy to have qualified after the second game. The Libyans played great football. For our next match against Egypt, of course we'll play to win.

It was scandalous. It was robbery against Senegal and now it's robbery against us too.

It's going to be a very hard game, very physical, but we will be on a equal footing because both of us have played extra time.

It's going to be a very hard game. But now we are in the semifinals, anything can happen.

Aruna has left for his daughter's funeral. We don't know when he is going to come back. We all hope that he does return to be among us. But we don't know what day or how.

I'm delighted that we've qualified for the quarter-final and all credit go the players.

I'm satisfied because we've qualified after only two games and we've beaten a very good side.