Victor Osimhen is among three players of Italian Serie A side Napoli who will likely miss the team’s first game in the group stages of the Europa League.

The decision of the Nigerian forward to travel to Cape Verde, a country on the UK travellers red list due to coronavirus could see him miss out on the opening game against Leicester City in England.

England requires players coming from red zones to quarantine for at least ten days before they can resume their normal lives leaving Osimhen at the mercy of the British authorities.

It’s the same situation for his teammates, the duo of Kalidou Coulibaly and David Ospina as they would have spent just ten days upon their return from a red zone, three days short of the days required by the UK government to avoid quarantine.

According to Corriere del Mezzogiorno, Napoli are in frequent contact with UEFA to solve the issue, although it looks unlikely that the UK government would be willing to make an exemption for these players given the precedence they have set so far.

Coach of the senior national team of Nigeria Gernot Rohr says the playing surface of the synthetic pitch in Cape Verde where they will play is better than the one they trained on in Lagos.

Ahead of today’s 2022 World Cup qualifiers, the Nigerian team trained at the Legacy football pitch in Lagos to have a taste of what it takes to play on synthetic surface as the game will be played on it.

Yesterday after training the coach , who is without a host of players revealed he will pick from the 19 players available and hopefully get the result they aim for. He also spoke on handing debut to some players.

The coach also showed his knowledge of today’s opponent by explaining how they play and the players his team need to be wary about as they aim to make it two wins out of the first two games of the qualifiers.

On Playing On Synthetic Pitch:

“It’s a different pitch because and we are not used to playing on a synthetic pitch, some of our players have played on this pitch before when they were playing in Nigeria but they are now in Europe. 

“We train in Lagos on a synthetic pitch, but this one is softer and this is better to play on. We have to change the team, we have only 19 players available for this game and we have some problems and it’s a challenge.

Faith In New Players:

“I trust these boys that will play for the first time for the Super Eagles, Cape Verde wants to win because they drew their first game. We have been preparing since we are in Lagos, but Cape Verde had more days to recover. It will be a physical challenge, but we will be ready.”

On Cape Verde tactics:

“They like to play quickly in the attack, they have wonderful players like Mendes, they have players in France and they have offensive players. They like to set up with three at the back and we know they like to defend, but we have our idea and we have our tactics to score goals and win the game. I know it won’t be easy with our situation, but we are a super commando, and we have to show our fighting spirit.

Ahead of tomorrow’s 2022 World Cup qualifiers game against Nigeria, Cape Verde forward Ryan Mendez says he is hopeful of his team getting a positive result against a depleted Nigerian side.

The Super of Nigeria preparations for the Cape Verde tie has been seriously depleted with players forced out of the game for several reasons.

With nine of the players who took part in Friday’s 2-0 win over Liberia ruled out of tomorrow’s game for various reasons which included a failed coronavirus test (Oghenekaro Etebo) and also family issues (Ola Aina), Mendez fancies the chances of his team.

Speaking of the chances of his team, Mendez told reporters in Cape Verde that although Nigeria is blessed with lot of talented players, It will be difficult for them to assert themselves as they are without key players.

“ We know Nigeria have quality players like Wilfred Ndidi, Alex Iwobi and Kelechi Iheanacho but they won’t be playing and several others. It’s a new team and we are confident it will work in our favour”, he said.

The senior national team of Nigeria were forced to play with one of the three goalkeepers as a midfielder as they battle to overcome further depletion of the squad for tomorrow’s game against Cape Verde.

Coach of the Nigerian team Gernot Rohr is already without the services of seven of the players who started the 2-0 win over Liberia with Ola Aina, William Ekong, Leon Balogun, Joe Aribo, Wilfred Ndidi, Kelechi Iheanacho and Alex Iwobi.

Oghenekaro Etebo who was introduced as a substitute will also miss the game. Few hours ago two more players in Samuel Kalu who was a substitute in Friday’s win was ruled out alongside full back option Tyronne Ebuehi for testing positive to coronavirus.

Rohr in today’s training session ahead of tomorrow’s game played goalkeeper Daniel Akpeyi as an outfield player. A role he might likely be named with as one of the substitutes with Francis Uzoho on the bench as reserve goalkeeper.

The senior national team has been hit with a positive coronavirus news which has ruled two players out of the game, sources with the team in Cape Verde revealed to Owngoalnigeria.com.

Ahead of the game, the samples of the players was taken as part of CAF protocol and the duo of Bordeaux Samuel Kalu and Venezia of Italy defender Tyronne Ebuehi tested positive, hence ruled out of tomorrow’s game.

Kalu was billed to play as the number ten in the absence of Alex Iwobi while Ebuehi was pencilled down as back up full back following the depletion of the squad after Friday’s 2-0 win over Liberia.

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The coach of the senior national team of Nigeria Gernot Rohr has tested plans to switch from the traditional 4-3-3 he has always favored to 4-2-4 in the wake of the absence of key players.

As many as seven players who played in the 1-0 win over Liberia on Friday won’t be available for the game against Cape Verde tomorrow as they had to return back to their base.

Base on their ongoing training session which OwnGoalNigeria.com had details about, the coach plan to play a double pivot of Shehu Abdullahi and Innocent Bonke in midfield with Samuel Kalu playing in the number ten role.

Kalu isn’t entirely new to that role as he has played in it severally for his club Bordeaux and has the trust of Rohr as the replacement for Kelechi Iheanacho who played in the role on Friday.

A row over match bonus is slowly brewing in the camp of the senior national team of Nigeria with the players unhappy with the money on offer by the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF).

After the 2-0 win over Liberia in their first game of the World Cup 2022 qualifiers, the players were told their bonus will be paid in Naira as it is part of the new policy of the football body to pay bonuses for home games in Naira.

The sum of 1 million naira was said to be the agreed amount as match bonus for a home win, an amount which the players strongly rejected as their was no meeting for an agreement to the said amount as originally planned.

Leaders of the team were supposed to meet with the NFF to agree on bonuses before the first game but the meeting wasn’t held and it has now led to this impasse.

The players are demanding 5 million Naira and also full payment of their outstanding allowances before the next round of World Cup qualifiers games in October as the NFF can’t claim to be broke with the recent unveiling of three new sponsors.

The senior national team of Nigeria returned to training yesterday after the 2-0 win over Liberia in readiness for the next game away to Cape Verde.

Nigeria will be looking for their second consecutive win in the World Cup qualifiers when they play Cape Verde on Tuesday. They trained on synthetic pitch as the game will be played on similar surface.

A depleted Nigerian team following the departure of the United Kingdom based players were put through their paces by coach Gernot Rohr at the Legacy football pitch.

Rohr excused the players who were on from the start of action against Liberia and worked with the 14 who didn’t get to play or came in as substitutes. They were made to play a mini seven aside game.

OwnGoalNigeria.com watched the session and here is how they were lined up during the seven aside game which also had two goalkeepers in Francis Uzoho and Daniel Akpeyi taking part as well.

Team A – Daniel Akpeyi, Ahmed Musa, Paul Onuachu, Samuel Kalu, Kenneth Omeruo, Chidozie Awaziem, Innocent Bonke, Kingsley Michael

Team B – Terem Moffi, Chidera Ejuke, Henry Onyekuru, Tyronne Ebuehi, Shehu Abdullahi, Adeleke Adekunle, Zaidu Sanusi

Excused- Ola Aina, Jamilu Collins, Moses Simon, Paul Osimhen

Coach of Liberia Peter Butler says the defeat his team suffered against the senior national team of Nigeria was down to the quality of players in the Nigerian team.

The coach watched on as two goals from Kelechi Iheanacho handed Nigeria a 2-0 win over his wards in the first game of the 2022 World Cup qualifiers played in Lagos two days ago. Iheanacho hit a short well worked corner kick with force to open scoring before using his quick thinking to add another before half time.

Speaking on the result, the coach lamented the fact that the playing surface wasn’t of the quality for his team to show their worth but pin their loss down to the individual talents in the Nigerian team.

“ When you play a team of the quality of the Nigerian team you’re careful not to make any errors else they will punish you. That was the case in our defeat. They used the individual brilliance of Iheanacho. We were better technically and tactically”, he explained.

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