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Egyptian ace Amr Zaki received many words of
recognition from his coach Steve Bruce. The manager
revealed that he is full of confidence that Zaki will
not let him down this season.
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Wigan's coach Steve Bruce was interviewed by SkySports,
the manager heaped praise on Egyptian striker Amr Zaki
ahead of Saturday's Premiership clash with West Ham.
Bruce started with: "Well, he's different, that's
for sure.
The manager added confidently: "He's got to be
a bit different but the one thing about him is he's
proved since he's trained with us and played with us,
he wants to score a goal - he's a goalscorer.
Bruce warned defenders from big man Amr Zaki: "He's
not interested in anything else. (He's a) big physical
sort of brute of a man who if you're a centre-back,
you wouldn't want to play against him."
The Wigan manager added that he started monitoring
Zaki after watching him retain Egypt's ACN title in
Ghana.
"I'm sitting watching him thinking 'he looks a
hell of a player'. So since then really we've monitored
him, been out there and watched him and every week he
scores,".
Bruce also added that he is confident of Zaki's success
and he hopes that the Egyptian will increase the number
of goals that Wigan score this season.
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"Well we've struck up a deal with Zamalek that this is
his big chance and I know for a fact that it won't be for
a lack of trying and he doesn't succeed so we wish him the
best of luck and hope that he can produce the goals because
that was our Achilles Heel, we needed to score more than what
we did last year."
When asked to compare Zaki with Mido in terms of temperament,
Bruce said:
"His temperament's definitely not like Mido's that's
for sure, although people like Mido and I like Mido too, but
he's different.
"But he's certainly got something different than anybody
else but he comes and he works and he trains hard and wants
to succeed, wants to be a player - and there's a bit of hunger
there for him to succeed and I hope he does."
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