Head coach of the senior national team of Nigeria Austine Eguavoen says the first choice striker of the Super Eagles Victor Osimhen will thrive in the system he has in mind for the team, when they take on Benin Republic and Rwanda on the 7th and 10th of September respectively in the AFCON qualifiers, OwnGoalNigeria.com reports.
Osimhen didn’t have the best of AFCON despite Nigeria going all the way to the final of the tournament, he ended it with just a goal scorer in the team’s opening game of the tournament which ended in a 1-1 draw against Equatorial Guinea.
The style of former coach Jose Peseiro was roundly blamed for the poor return of the 25 year old, who recently secured a one season loan deal to Turkish based Galatasaray from Italian Serie A side Napoli.
Speaking ahead of the game against Benin Republic, Eguavoen said the team will play an attacking formation, that will aid the chances of the team’s striker and mentioned Osimhen in particular as one player he hopes will benefit the most from the system.
” We (Super Eagles) will go all out for goals because that is what you need to win games. So our formation is one that will allow the strikers get into scoring positions to win the game for us”, he said.
On if Osimhen who is due to arrive in the camp of the team tomorrow following the conclusion of his loan move, 48 hours to the game at the Godswill Akpabio stadium in Uyo.
” He ( Osimhen) is our big man in attack and he is motivated to play these games for us. The entire idea is to have him be at his best with the right formation for him to thrive”.
