Victor Osimhen and Umar Sadiq will lead Nigeria’s attack in today’s 2023 Africa Cup of Nations qualifier against the Leone Stars of Sierra Leone, reports Completesports.com.
Head coach, Jose Peseiro opted for a 4-4-2 formation in his side’s first game in the qualifiers.
Moses Simon and Samuel Chukwueze will operate from the wings.
Omonia Nicosia’s Francis Uzoho will be man between the sticks.
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Peseiro opted for the quartet of Ola Aina, William Troost-Ekong, Semi Ajayi and Calvin Bassey in defence
The duo of Joe Aribo and Alex Iwobi will operate in the midfield.
The game will kick-off at 5pm Nigeria time.
Super Eagles X1
Uzoho
Aina, Troost-Ekong, Ajayi, Bassey
Aribo, Iwobi, Chukwueze, Simon
Sadiq, Osimhen
By Adeboye Amosu
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Good
But PASEIRO should try to be making used of FIVE-SUBSTITUTION in match in order to give chances to other players, most especially when the team is winning.
But they’ve not won any cos your post suggests he had the opportunity but not been using it.
Instead of moses I would prefer lockman. Best of luck lads
Very Good!
Have always CLAMOUR for a two man ATTACK for the SE…
Lets go Boys…
In all FACET Dem no reach…
5th POOREST country in the WORLD???
Come on Boys!!!!!!!
Who and who dey BENCH??
We need to see our BENCH…
No marker in this midfield
Our midfield of Aribo, Iwobi, Chukwueze, Simon is empty oooo, none of these players can mark ball….
Very offensive from you…using the word’empty’
@Empire.
I agree with you bro. But maybe the coach has other ideas. let us see.
This more like 424 when attacking,depends on the application,a compact system when the wingers are instructed to drift in to offer support to the two central midfielders,the wingers are the key in this formation they have to function in dual roles, supporting the midfield as well spreading out to the wings when attacking.Sadiq Umar will play behind Osimhen he’s expected to win balls and combine well with the later as we go in search of goals.
Sadiq’s 12 assists this season will come in handy as he seems a team player probably why he got the nod to partner first choice striker Victor Osimhen,apparently,this combo will be put to test against a hard tackling Leone stars defenders and I know every Nigerian looks forward to see how this combination will fare at the Moshood Abiola stadium in Abuja.
Augustine Eguavoen’s preferred formation but could have a different application.Well after 90 mins we have a lot of analysis to make.
However,the re-emergence of a reformed and better super eagles me think.
Hopefully,we win tonight.
Good luck lads!
LMFAO!!
WONDERFUL ANALYSIS @GREENTURF but please can you quit calling EGUAVOEN name here so we don’t have ILL LUCK by probably LOSING or DRAWING this MATCH and then start bringing out our CALCULATOR or putting the BLAME on FIFA RULE..
LMFAO!!
Thanks…
So you mean Augustine Eguavoen’s name is synonymous with failure?!haha
No hard tackling DM…iwobi and aribo are soft players. African football is kinad physical. Moses Simon and chukwueze most prove themselves to all of us. The play like amateur most times. Good luck guys
Yeah absolutely @Mutum,Simon and Chukwueze are disappointing lately both players have done well for clubs but could not do same for Nigeria.Their poor performances have affected us so much because we don’t have players at their levels in Europe at the moment,our coaches kept recalling them into our first team.
Let us be positive and hope there could be improvement in performances under a new manager.Though Simons performances in our last friendlies in the united states was disappointing,he wasted all the corner kicks we had dude can’t even cross!
I will be interested in seeing how Peseiro’s 4-4-2 differs from that of Eguavoen. I think Umar – Osimhen Combo is the way forward.
Lol… Goal!
@Onwajunior, shame on you. you are laughing bcos Nigeria conceded first.