The lineup of the players who will start for the senior national team of Nigeria in today’s AFCON qualifiers game against Rwanda has been exclusively revealed to OwnGoalNigeria.com.
Interim head coach of the team Austine Eguavoen started his reign with a 3-0 win over Benin Republic on Saturday, and ahead of today’s game he has made it clear that the team is going all out for a win.
To that extent the coach stucked with the same 3-4-3 formation that worked to good effect against Benin, but like we exclusively reported made some changes to the starting lineup.
While the back five remained unchanged, the coach altered his two man midfield with Fisayo Dele-Bashiru who came in as a second half substitute getting the nod to start in place of Alex Iwobi.
Team’s top striker Victor Osimhen is still not fit enough to start with Victor Boniface who had a rather below par performance getting another chance to lead the line with Ademola Lookman and Samuel Chukwueze.
Starting XI:
Stanley Nwabali
Ola Aina
Bruno Onyemaechi
William Troost-Ekong
Semi Ajayi
Calvin Bassey
Fisayo Dele-Bashiru
Wilfred Ndidi
Samuel Chukwueze
Ademola Lookman
Victor Boniface
