Author: Tolu Adedayo

Super Eagles Boss Gernot Rohr has confirmed that Eddy Ogenyi Onazi and Abdullahi Shehu face a spell on the sidelines and will not travel with the team to face Libya in Tunisia. Trabzonspor’s Onazi suffered a training ground injury on Thursday while Bursaspor defender Shehu had to make way for Ola Aina after 19 minutes in yesterday’s match in Uyo due to injury. ”Shehu suffered a muscle contraption in the quadriceps on his right leg during the game. It was not a groin injury. “He’s going to be out of action for the second game,” Rohr said post-match. ”We…

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Former Watford striker Odion Ighalo bagged a hat-trick for the Super Eagles to get their 2019 AFCON qualifying campaign back on track in Uyo. The Super Eagles are now second in Group E with six points from three matches, a point behind new leaders South Africa, who earlier today trounced Seychelles 6-0 in Johannesburg. Ighalo gave the home team some comfort in the 58thminute, when he scored his second after he was released by Alex Iwobi. The under-fire striker then completed his hat-trick on 69 minutes, when he put away a low cross from the right by the…

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Super Eagles Boss Gernot Rohr has reaffirmed his trust in striker Odion Ighalo by giving him the nod to start for the Super Eagles in Saturday’s 2019 AFCON qualifier against Libya in Uyo. Ighalo has scored twenty goals in twenty five matches for his Chinese club Changchun Yatai but his goalscoring return for the Super Eagles has kept fans consistently calling for his omission from the team. However, in spite of the reported performance of Watford forward Isaac Success in training and a seeming overload of attacking talents, Rohr has opted to start Ighalo in the must-win game…

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Super Eagles forward Aaron Samuel has completed his transfer to Israeli Premier League club Beitar Jerusalem. The Nigeria international has penned a one-year deal with Beitar Jerusalem, with an optional year at the end of the contract which may be guaranteed at the discretion of the club. Samuel had been linked with a couple of clubs in Europe but preferred a move to Israel and it is known in the last few days, a Spanish club attempted to snatch the striker from under Beitar Jerusalem’s nose. The 24-year-old has been handed the number 40 jersey by the capital outfit and…

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