The interim coach of the senior national team of Nigeria Austine Eguavoen has picked Boavista defender Bruno Onyemaechi among the players who will start today’s AFCON 2025 qualifiers game against Benin Republic, OwnGoalNigeria.com can exclusively reveal.
Eguavoen who will be leading the team in the two first games of the qualifiers with today’s game, followed by another away to Rwanda in three days time has decided to play with three center backs.
In the setup, Onyemaechi will be having his sixth start for the senior national team of Nigeria and also increasing his caps to seven operating as the left wing back in a 3-4-3 formation.
Ola Aina is likely to occupy the other spot as the right wing back just in front of a back three that will be Semi Ajayi, William Troost-Ekong and Calvin Bassey per what we exclusively gathered.
It was the same formation that the team played at the AFCON and got all the way to the final before losing 1-2 to the host Cote d’Ivoire. Eguavoen is reverting to it in a bid to halt the poor run of the team since the AFCON, which has seen them win just one of the four games since the tournament.
