The two most celebrated players in the senior national team of Nigeria is arguably the duo of Ademola Lookman and Victor Osimhen, OwnGoalNigeria.com reports.
They were instrumental in helping the team at the last AFCON with Osimhen scoring four goals with two assists. Lookman weigh in with four goals ans four assists as the team finished third at the tournament in Morocco.
During the course of the tournament, they had a heated arguement on the pitch during the 4-0 win over Mozambique in the round of 16 at the tournament.
Lookman shrugged it off as nothing serious saying it’s just football, but Osimhen hasn’t said a thing about the incident in which he was the aggressor and even asked to be substituted after the incident.
” We have to thank the senior players in the team for not making that incident to blow open. It was scary for many of us the new players but two senior players spoke with Osimhen and he apologised before our next training session”, a player in the team revealed.
We sought to know if it subsequently affected their relationship, and he said they didn’t have any before so it affected nothing. ” They are not friends and everyone in the team know about it but it’s not like they are not cool with each other. That kind of close relationship is what they don’t have although Lookman can be said to be close to anyone”, he concluded.
Mohammed Mowiz Suleiman
