Head coach of the senior national team of Nigeria Austine Eguavoen is excited over the sharpness of three key players ahead of the Super Eagles AFCON qualifiers game against Benin Republic on Thursday, OwnGoalNigeria.com reports.
Eguavoen had his first training session with 22 of the 23 players invited for the game with only Sadiq Umar, who arrived in the early hours of this morning missing the session due to flight hitches from Spain to the camp in Cote d’Ivoire.
Sadiq is expected to take part in today’s full session , but some players have already shown what they can offer to the team in yesterday’s light session much to the delight of Eguavoen who supervised the session.
Samuel Chukwueze was particularly impressive showing his sharpness after a run of games for AC Milan, he was excused from the botched game against Libya due to a knock but he has since recovered and showed real sharpness yesterday.
Victor Osimhen who was absent during the last international break also showed the better side of his game, and appears to be in his sharpest form for a while thanks to a run of games for his loan side Galatasaray. The only games he played in the qualifiers so far were the games against Benin Republic and Rwanda in the opening round , and he operated in both games without playing an form of football for three months.
That won’t be the case tomorrow and he is sure going to lead the attack. It is the same for Alex Iwobi who was recently described by his club coach Marco Silva as one the best players of his team Fulham.
Iwobi showed the run for Fulham is no fluke with the manner which he trained yesterday, and could start tomorrow after playing the role of an unused substitute in their sole away game against Rwanda in the first round of games in the qualifiers.
