Rwanda women head coach Andre Casa Mbungo is looking forward to a better second leg when his face Egypt in Cairo on February 25.

Amavubi fell to a 1-0 loss to the Cleopatra's of Egypt in the first leg of the 2026 Women’s AFCON qualifier at Kigali Pele Stadium on Friday and Mbungo believes they can get a good result.

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"We are going to prepare the next match against them which we expect to do better, we lost at home but anything can happen in the away encounter," Mbungo told the press.

"It went the way which wasn&039;t planned, we will learn as I said previously, our opponent is a good team. Egypt has a culture of sports which we could learn from them to develop further."

On his tactical approach, the experienced Rwandan coach mentioned that their movement of the ball was poor and the Egyptians made good use of their chance.

"We tried to defend but, on the other hand, the ball transition within the squad was difficult, our opponent used their chance once to score a goal. On our side, we tried twice which means shooting on target was also an issue," he added.

Egypt coach Ramadan Ahmed on his part admitted he came with a strategy and it worked out perfectly.

"Our strategy was to put the ball on the ground and it went well. We didn't have many chances, the one we got we scored. The tie is not over as the second leg could be difficult." Ramadan emphasized

The winner over the two legs will meet West Africa giants Ghana in the next stage of the qualifiers.