Super Eagles head coach Eric Chelle has named a strong starting X1 for his side’s friendly against Team Melli of Iran,reports Completesports.com.
Maduka Okoye will start in goal ahead of Francis Uzoho, and Adebayo Adeleye.
Bright Osayi-Samuel and Bruno Onyemaechi will start as full-backs.
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Igho Ogbu will partner Hull City defender Semi Ajayi in defence.
Captain Wilfred Ndidi, and Alex Iwobi will take charge of the midfield.
Akor Adams will lead the attack, and will be supported by Ademola Lookman, Samuel Chukwueze, and Moses Simon.
Super Eagles X1 Iran
Okoye
Osayi-Samuel, Ajayi, Ogbu, Onyemaechi
Ndidi, Iwobi,
Simon, Chukwueze, Lookman, Adams
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You can’t be repeating same action and expect a different result. Recycling of players that failed to qualify for two consecutive WCs is not a smart move. This match could have been used to give opportunities to new players that could add value to the team..
Failure to qualify for the next WC just got kicked off..
Cameroon fielded a starting lineup of of new players against Cameroon and were impressive.
Our non- qualification for the world cup is not the fault of the players,instead you should blame the administrators for poor management at that level.
The sacking of Rohr at a very crucial time of our 2022 world cup qualification cost us the previous time.The reason we failed this time is the fault of our administrators led by the NFF chairman who is so tight with money…Had he appointed a very good coach at the beginning of our play-offs we would have beaten South AFRICA to it..The same players who were struggling with our previous coachesl started playing good football almost qualified under Eric Chelle.
If he had got his appointment sooner Nigeria would have made it to the world cup with the same players.
Blame the administrators!
What a boring game.
What channel?
Yeah! That’s called mirror football, where Cameroon played against Cameroon in Cameroon.
*against Australia*
A good showing by the boys. Chelle should be bold and blood the new guys in the next match.
Cameroon vs Cameroon ke? Oboy na wa for yuh o, yuh sure say yer telly dey on reasonable wafelenght? Abi na de bak or yer telly yuh dey from wash march? lmaoo
Chelle should know thatany of current se players as in about 80% will be out of peak by next year. Players Simon, ndidi, iwobi, eze, ajayi, etc. these are players in their 30s or near, start trying new players now and get your new formation right.
Don’t wait till another major tournament before doing plugging and unplugging.
While you give new players the chance you still want to keep the group together.
You don’t bring a whole new bunch in. You bring them in one by one.
Not everyone deserves to have a super eagles cap.
Remember he is building a team.
Remember the Nigerian factor too.
We missed the world cup he has to sustain the fan’s interest. He doesn’t want to lose at this stage.
Sometimes we always forget that many factors come into play sometimes.
Good performance by the players and the coach