The form of out of favour Super Eagles duo Kelechi Iheanacho and Paul Onuachu is putting head coach Eric Chelle under pressure to hand them a spot in his squad for the world cup qualifiers in October, OwnGoalNigeria.com can exclusively reveal.
Nigeria will round up their world cup qualifiers with games against Lesotho and Benin Republic respectively, and Chelle is drawing up the final list of players for both games.
We can exclusively reveal that the duo of Iheanacho have been mentioned to the coach by some respected individuals, owing to their fine form for their respective teams.
Iheanacho who is very popular in the team has started life in Scotland with a bang following his move on a free transfer from Sevilla to Celtic. He has two goals and one assist in four games so far.
Onuachu is the most impressive so far with five goals in seven games in Turkey for Trabzonspor, including a potential goal of the season contender when he produced a wonderful bicycle kick in their win over Fatih Karagumruk.
A final decision is expected to be taken by Chelle, who has also watched the duo as part of his monitoring of Nigerian players based abroad.
Ade Emmanuel
