The Flying Eagles of Nigeria got their campaign at the WAFU U20 Africa Cup of Nations qualifiers underway with a 1-1 draw against Côte d’Ivoire.
Chris Nwaeze gave Nigeria the lead in the 60th minute by heading home a free kick from Wisdom Ubani but less than ten minutes after scoring he was sent off after picking his second booking of the game.
Côte d’Ivoire took advantage of playing against a ten man Nigerian team when they level with the last luck of the game to deny Nigeria the chance of topping the group after the first round of games.
“ We took advantage of the loss of concentration on the part of Côte d’Ivoire to score and after the goal we had a player sent off. Even after the red card we played really well but towards end there was loss of concentration from my defence line and it gave them the chance to level up”, Bosso said after the game.
“ However we look at those areas we had problems and that is now what we can see here as they are mostly internal. We’ll go back and plan for the next game”, he concluded.
Speaking ahead of their next game against Ghana, Bosso said his boys need to get their acts together for the game as only an outright win will be good enough for them to scale through to the next round of the qualifiers tournament.
