The Phobians have vehemently denied the juju allegations levelled against them by their opponents few hours to kick off in Algeria
Ghana champions Hearts of Oak have denied all allegations levelled against them by Algerian side JS Saoura ahead of the second leg of Caf Confederation Cup play-offs in Bechar, Algeria on Sunday.
After the first leg at the Accra Sports Stadium last weekend, JS Sauora President Mohamed Zerouati accused the Phobians of using diabolic tactics to defeat them.
The Phobians won the day 2-0 over a ten-man Souara thanks to goals in each half of the game from Ibrahim Salifu and Isaac Agyenim Boateng.
However, Zerouati believes his side were drastically troubled ahead of the game since their dressing room were intentionally sprayed with some terrible materials.
“When we arrived and during our first training session at the stadium that they hosted the game, we reported a weird strong smell, very unpleasant odour. We were promised that the problem will be fixed but on match day we ran into the same problem, it’s weird. ” Zerouati said in an interview with the Algerian Press.
“We do not know what it is but maybe is something [like Juju] that they did to defeat us in the game,” he added.
However, another allegations were made that the Phobians have repeated the same actions after touching down in Algeria for the second leg.
“It has come to our notice that the JS Saoura officials have decided to tarnish our hard-earned reputation. They are accusing us of dealing in magico- religious powers in Accra and in Algeria to cause their defeat,” a Hearts statement read.
“We will like to put on record that Hearts of Oak has never engaged in anything of that sort as alleged and will never do because we are a professional club and we will always hold on to our high sporting standards.
“Well, our opponent seems to be frightened by our potentials and the possibility of winning the game today so we guess they have deployed these barbaric tactics to prepare the minds of their supporters in most likely the event that they lose the match.
“We are motivated by our motto Never Say Die until the bones are rotten. We are Hearts of Oak and we are focused,” the statement added