Tolu Arokodare was named Man of the Match after Nigeria’s hard-fought 1-0 win over the Amavubi of Rwanda at the Godswill Akpabio International Stadium, Uyo on Saturday night, reports Completesports.com.
Arokodare replaced Frank Onyeka after the break, and scored the winning goal in the 51st minute.
The 24-year-old, who recently moved to Premier League club, Wolverhampton Wanderers has now scored two goals in five appearances for the Super Eagles.
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The former KRC Genk striker went home with N1m as reward for winning the individual accolade.
The award was sponsored by the Nigeria Football Federation, NFF, official automobile partner, Carloha.
Carloha are the exclusive dealer, and franchise holder of Chery vehicles in Nigeria.
A dummy check was presented to Arokodare after the game by Chairman of the National Sports Commission, NSC, Shehu Dikko, NFF President Ibrahim Gusau, and top officials of Carloha.
By Adeboye Amosu in Uyo
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INigeria had not won a home World Cup qualifier in four years.
4 years…
Despite playing largely minnows.
The last time was a 2-0 win over Liberia in September 2021. Since then, the Super Eagles’ home record in qualifiers read: DDDDDL.
Yesterday’s win was only the 2nd in 10 qualifiers (home and away)!
Bad streak at home should have ended.
Hopefully.
Whoever thinks there was any better player on display in that game other than Rwanda’s GK Ntwari must have watched that game with eyes closed.
That guy has faced Nigeria 4 times in nearly a year and each time he has continued to remind us why Kaizer Chiefs signed him ahead of our Nollywood Gk Nwabali.