The Super Eagles will have an open session with the media today (Monday) inside the MKO Abiola Stadium, as preparation continues for the crucial 2022 World Cup qualifying playoffs against Ghana.
This is according to the team’s media officer Babafemi Raji.
According to him, the training will commence at 4.45pm with the first 15 minutes open to the media.
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Also, there will be pre-match press conference on Monday at 5.30pm for both teams.
Recall that the first leg between the Eagles and the Black Stars ended goalless in Kumasi on Friday despite the presence of over 50,000 Ghanaian fans.
An outright win for the Eagles will secure a seventh World Cup appearance while Ghana are eyeing a fourth outing.
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1. Eguavon will have himself to blame if we don’t qualify for world cup.
2. He made a very fooflish decision to start it even yse chukwueze in the first leg. A good coach should learn from the last set of matches. At afcon chukwueze was useless. Why start him again in Ghana. Thank God he is injured.
3. I read on owngoal he is likely to start Musa innolace of chukwueze. Another senseless decision. When we have lookman or Denis that can do better than Musa.
4. Are these coaches blind? Why do they always allow who they favor or like overshadow what is right and helpful to the team. Rohr was doin rhe same.
5. When a good player begin to give sub par performance, it’s normal to bench him and let another take his place. The can help him to rediscover himself. Rohr stuck foolishly with Simon and ekong then. Now eguavon is doing the same.
6. We lost to understrength Tunisia because of this nonesense. We should have won the match in Ghana if we had chosen the right playing personnel or if we had made the right changes very early.
7. Lookman and Dennis or even amoo should have been the surprise inclusion to replace chukwueze in the starting line up. Now he is repeating the same mistake with Musa. For goodness sake Musa should only be coming in from the bench when it’s necessary.
8. Please get ready to see iheanacho again in the starting line up. When you see that, then you should just turn off your tv set.
9. Even a blind man knows that Aribo needs to move up tomolay behind oshimen but our clueless coaches don’t think so and we continue to underutilize Aribo. We will do the same for Dennis and lookman. It’s a pity.
10. If I see anything less than Aribo etebo and onyeka tomorrow then eguavon needs to be stoned.
Well I wish those boys all the best. In all honesty they deserve to be at the workd cup. They have struggled to give us results and to push us this far despite the foolishness of our coaches..
God help Nigeria tomorrow.
Your predictions about Iheanacho is likely going to be accurate. I read on soccernet that Nigerian officials were surprised to see the lineup that was released by the coach for the Kumasi game. Frankly, we are better off crashing out of this qualifying event because sentiments will rule when it comes to teams selection for the World Cup. In 2014, guys like Uchebo, Michael Babatunde, Azeez that didn’t play the qualifiers just showed up out of no where. Just like Brian Idowu and Simi Nwankwo in the last tournament. Very weird and hurtful trends. We are better off if we lose rather than qualify and still fail deliberately to do the right thing.
Supported!! If Musa starts then this coach is very very clueless. We go stone walahi. WTF!! Musa wen u have Lookman and Deniss. E be like them cast the coach spell self. Hope me scale through though
The above comments are so disgraceful they hardly deserve a response. I agree that tactically Eguavoen is still a novice. But to completely write off the experience of Ahmed Musa who has scored 4 World Cup goals across two tournaments and even think the likes of Lookman and Denis are better than him is shocking and extremely laughable. It also shows that ethnic and religious bigotry may be at play here. In that respect, you are also the problem of Nigerian football. Even Omar Saddiq has scored more goals than two gentlemen you mentioned. So sad.
And the same sentiment is exhibited in the calls for the replacement of Zaidu Sanusi – a first team regular and serial Champions league campaigner with FC Porto with Calvin Bassey a debutant in the team purely on the basis of a brief cameo in Kumasi. It’s also only in Nigeria where people can express the moronic view that a squad player at Leicester City like Lookman should be allowed to walk straight into the starting eleven of one of Africa’s leading football power houses in place of the more seasoned campaigners ahead of him. Is he another Messi? If he’s that good why is he not in the England team?
Our people simply defy belief in their sentimental analysis of the beautiful game and pathetic ignorance and mockery of global best practices. And that is where the Ghanaians are better than us. You don’t see the same nauseating manifestation of bigotry when it comes to comments on the make up of their national team.
We have a long way to go!