Senegal forward Sadio Mane has tipped the Super Eagles to secure a place at the 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar, Completesports.com reports.
The Super Eagles currently top Group C of the African zone of the qualifiers with nine points from four games.
The three-time African champions will face the Lone Star of Liberia and Blue Sharks of Cape Verde in their last two games in the qualifiers this month.
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Maintaining top spot in the group will see Gernot Rohr’s charges secure a berth in the play-off round.
Five of the 10 teams who make it to the play-off will feature at Qatar 2022.
“In Africa, you know the top teams and they are always favourites,”Mane stated.
“Nigeria, who have a very good team, Cote d’Ivoire, Ghana, Cameroon, Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco, Egypt. They are the usual rivals in Africa. They should progress.”
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Ighalo returns has inevitably increased super eagle profile among African footballing Nations. They know what a game changers he brings to the games. After they looked at what happened in a game with the ‘beast of CAR’, they were not worried about the young newbies, but brining Odion in suddenly changed their reckonings.
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