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Former Nigeria international Friday Ekpo has urged coach Gernot Rohr to hand opportunities to fringe Super Eagles players ahead of tomorrow’s Third place playoff against their Tunisian counterpart as the two teams fight for the consolatory honour of picking up a medal at the AFCON’s penultimate game in Egypt.
Ekpo speaking in a chat with www.brila.net said the next is to focus on players with plenty of years ahead of them and be bold enough to check them out against the Tunisian Carthage Eagles in the Third place match. He urged the coach to still ensure the team looks competitive enough in his approach notwithstanding.
“It’s a good thing playing in the Third place game as well, it gives us ample opportunity to introduce younger players into the team and giving them a chance to play. We have seen others on the bench that haven’t played but come Wednesday they should be given opportunity to play.”
African women wrestling champion in the 68kg Blessing Oborududu has expressed joy at finishing with a medal after claiming Bronze at the just concluded international wrestling ranking series in Turkey together with compatriot Commonwealth and Africa wrestling champion in the 57kg Odunayo Adekuruoye who claimed Gold.
Coach of Nigeria’s U16 basketball National team Fubara Onyanabo has stated that he is very proud of the outing of the Junior Tigers at the just concluded FIBA Africa U16 championship in Praia Cape Verde where the team finished third with a 54 – 53 win in the third-place game against Guinea.
Algeria captain and Manchester City winger, Riyad Mahrez has revealed that he remains wary of Senegal despite beating them in the group stage of the ongoing 2019 AFCON, even as both countries get set to battle once again in Friday’s final.
Algeria will face Senegal – a team they have already beaten in the group stage at the AFCON – in the final in Cairo on Friday night.
The midfielder already has two league title medals with Leicester City and now Manchester City in the just concluded season. Adding another winner’s medal around his neck will be a beautiful love story in his football journey.
On facing Senegal in the final, Mahrez stated he remains focused on one of the best teams in the tournament.
“We played Senegal in the group stages and we know they are a very good team. It will be a tough final. Always even if it is another team finals are always tough. But for Senegal, we know their strengths and weaknesses and we will go to give them a good game – We are in the final after 29 years.”
This will be the fifth AFCON meeting between these two sides. Interestingly, Algeria and Senegal played in the semi final when Les Fennecs won the title in 1990.
The Algerians were 2-1 winners. They met in the group stages in 2015, Algeria winning 2-0 and met again in 2017 drawing 2-2.
Super Eagles and Levante of Spain winger Moses Simon believes Nigeria will recover from their 2-1 defeat to Algeria ahead of tomorrow’s third place game.
Gernot Rohr’s men had started the Algeria game on the wrong foot after William Troost-Ekong’s own goal. Late on Riyad Mahrez powered home the winner after Odion Ighalo’s equaliser.
Defeat to the Desert Foxes mean the Super Eagles have been eliminated in five of their last six semi-finals at Afcon, after qualifying in six of their previous seven.
However, Rohr’s team still have the third-place medal to fight for, and Simon has backed his teammates to refocus ahead of the tomorrow’s clash.
“We are very disappointed because I think we didn’t deserve it [to lose to Algeria],” Simon stated.
“We all know how disappointing this defeat is but we are professionals and we’ll try and get this past us and fight back.”
Tunisia have won only one of their three third-place games in the Africa Cup of Nations . That was a 3-0 triumph over Uganda in 1962.
Super Eagles midfielder, John Ugochukwu Ogu has voiced his firm belief that the national team of Nigeria will not leave Egypt empty handed, after seeing their hope of winning the AFCON trophy extinguished by Algeria.
The Eagles however do have a chance to win the bronze medal at the tournament in tomorrow’s losers final against the Catharge Eagles of Tunisia by 8:00pm Nigerian time.
With the players already trying to put Sunday night’s loss behind them and focus on defeating tomorrow’s opponents, Ogu, formerly with Israeli side, Hapoel BeerSheva, told brila.net that they will not leave Egypt without winning anything.
“We need to really go back and work so as to make sure we leave this country with something”.
“The match against Tunisia is very important for us, and we need to be sure we get something out of it”.
“Everyone is sad, but what can we do? We just need to focus and prepare for the game against Tunisia”.
Former Super Eagles goalkeeper, Peterside Idah has called on the Nigeria football federation to sack the senior national team coach Gernot Rohr, after Afcon semi-final failure to Algeria.
Nigeria lost 2-1 to the Desert Foxes last Sunday and ended the hope of winning the trophy for the fourth time in the country‘s history.
While reacting to the performance of the team and its technical crew, Idah believes Rohr has overstayed and should be moved on from the job by his employers.
“For the Eagles to soar to greater heights, the coach should be sacked, let him go. Rohr was not prepared for this job. You don’t learn in the national team, you must come prepared to do the job,” Idah begins his critique of Rohr’s game plans.
“At some point during the Algeria game, he did not know what to do next. He played most of the players out of position which affected the balance of the team. Iwobi was clearly tired against the Algerians and he did not change him.
Idah who spent most of his playing career in South Africa added that he would be surprised , should the glass house failed to sack the Franco-German manager.
“Feelings come to play in this. I think Rohr feels he has done well enough by taking us to the World Cup, qualifying for the Nations Cup and needs new challenge. I would be surprised if they (NFF) keeps him on the job,” he concluded
Rohr is expected to lead the Super Eagles out against Tunisia for the third place match on Wednesday.