Owngoalnigeria.com can exclusively reveal that coach of the Super Eagles of Nigeria Gernot Rohr has revealed the players who will start for Nigeria when they take on Madagascar later today by 5pm.
The coach kept to his words by giving some players rest with goalkeeper Ikechukwu Ezenwa and John Ogu getting their baptism in the tournament for the first time while full recovered Samuel Kalu comes in for his first start.
William Troost-Ekong also returned to rekindle his “Oyibo Wall ” partnership with Leon Balogun in defence with Ola Aina and Chidozie Awaziem keeping their position as left and right full back respectively.
Captain John Obi Mikel returns to the midfield while Alex Iwobi dropped out of the starting lineup alongside Wilfred Ndidi who is given a rest with John Ogu to play in his place.
Lineup :
Ikechukwu Ezenwa
Chidozie Awaziem
Ola Aina
William Troost-Ekong
Leon Balogun
Oghenekaro Etebo
Mikel Obi
John Ogu
Ahmed Musa
Odion Ighalo
Samuel Kalu
