Speaking to the players after Friday’s official training at the impressive Grand Stade de Tangier, Pinnick charged the players to work assiduously as a team to earn the win that would lift the pressure off their shoulders going into the final group phase encounter against Cape Verde’s Blue Sharks in Lagos on Tuesday.
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Balogun opened scoring in the 29th minute just before Osimhen extended the lead few minutes to the break.
Nigeria is in Group B alongside Mozambique and Angola, with Group A having hosts Cameroon, Cape Verde and Kenya.
Rohr had to improvise after missing several key first team players largely the UK based who were unavailable due to the UK Government COVID-19 red-alert travel restrictions to the Island country.
The News Agency of Nigeria recalls that a 75th minute own goal by Cape Verde, earned Nigeria a 2-1 win in their qualifying clash in Mindelo on Tuesday.
Describing the victory as well-deserved and timely, the Senate Chief Whip stressed that the national team demonstrated football expertise during the match.
Cape Verde drew the first blood in the 17th minute with a well-taken shot after a striker found himself free with goalkeeper Maduka Okoye.
The Gernot Rohr lads on Tuesday defeated Cape Verde 2-1 to sit tops with six points in Group C of the qualifying series
As Cape Verde is on the British government’s travel red list, anyone returning from the country to the UK has to quarantine in a hotel for 10 days, so forcing players to miss matches for their clubs.
Tuesday’s encounter in the Group C qualifier is scheduled for the 5,000-capactiy Estádio Municipal Adérito Sena.
Shortly before the team departs the country’s shores for their Match Day Two of the FIFA World Cup qualifier against Cape Verde, the Omonia Nicosia defender took to the social to appreciate the teeming fans.
This is in adherence to the protocols of the Federation of International Football Association on Coronavirus Disease.
‘Senior Man Kelz’, as he is fondly called by his admirers, opened his World Cup qualifier goal account by beating Liberia goalie Kpah Sherman in the 22nd minute of the encounter.
The Super Eagles face a double-header of World Cup qualification games this week against Liberia and Cape Verde.
The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, gave the admonition while speaking with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Wednesday in Sal Island, Cape Verde.
All teams in the same pot avoid one another but they could be drawn against any in the other pots, so no one can rule out the likelihood of the Super Eagles clashing with the Pharaohs, the Blue Sharks and surprise packets Coelacanths.
The match, which is scheduled for today will be airing live on a special pop-up channel, SuperSport Nigeria Pop-Up (GOtv channel 35) at 7:30pm.
In a four-page letter dated April 14, 2021, written on his behalf by the law firm, Babalakin & Co, Omojuwa insisted that Dr. Ezekwesili was a Director of the firm and that she in fact gave her consent before being listed as one of the company’s Directors in 2012.
He will be assisted by his compatriots Jorge Correia Semedo Helio (assistant 1), Delgado Fernandes Wilson Jorge (assistant referee 2) and Antonio Manuel Fortes Tony Rodrigues (fourth official) also on duty.
The continent’s national senior football teams have been at war since Wednesday and will be till next week in double header matches for qualification for Cameroon 2022.