The trio of Wilfred Ndidi, Kelechi Iheanacho and Maduka Okoye have arrived the Super Eagles camp ahead of the Group D AFCON 2025 qualifier with Benin Republic in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire.
The latest arrivals was confirmed by the Super Eagles media officer Promise Efoghe.
With the latest arrivals, the number of players in camp is now 11.
They join Amas Obasogie, Raphael Onyedika, Frank Onyeka, Moses Simon, Bruno Onyemaechi, Samuel Chukwueze, Gabriel Osho and Fisayo Dele-Bashiru who who are already in camp.
The Super Eagles will take on Benin Republic on Thursday, November 14 in Abidjan for the matchday 5 fixture.
Then on November 18, they will host Rwanda inside the Godswill Akpabio Stadium in Uyo.
After four games, the Eagles are top on the log on 10 points and in second place is Benin Republic on six points.
In third place is Rwanda on five points while Libya are bottom with just one point.
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With three days to the game and we don’t have a full house at this moment fan should limit their expectations
Welcome boys.
With a ridiculously tight schedule such as this, we can see why coaches are reluctant to try new faces.
They would rather go to war with the “old reliables”.
When you have only two training sessions before a game, the coach has to walk a really tight rope with player selection. And as usual, Nigerians will not accept any excuses in the event of failure. So the pressure is on full blast.
So at times like this, I would rather hands off completely and let the coach make his judgment calls.
But when it’s time for friendlies, I expect to see new faces, especially in-form players that have been performing well of recent. And if these are still absent, then questions will be plenty!
As a good coach, would you give an informed player a chance over Boniface, who missed chances in the Super Eagles or not?
See, gentleman, I don’t like unnecessary excuses, Pompei kę. NFF and Eguavoen know the schedule that fits the features of the Super Eagles and they went for it. So no excuse. They knew the availability of their players based on their scheduled matches from Jan-Dec. Now, we don’t want to hear unmerited excuses. All we want to see is good results against Benin and Rwanda. Anything less than that is not acceptable.
I have an unfinished job against Oga Rohr. I want our own to show the NFF and the world that what we are looking for in Sokoto is in our Shokoto if properly managed kę.
Dessers is not new to the team while Maja has played for Eagles before now.
Osho is the only new player, but as a professional, I believe he will try his best.
Let’s call a spade a spade. Eguavoen is not the right coach that Super Eagles should have to manage the Super Eagles.
Eguavoen has never balanced his selections based on merit.
I love Eguavon but his biased selection makes me back out.
Gentlemen, please let’s be realistic here. With what he is doing with the selection of the national team, he can not give us what we want.
Siasia is way ahead of our local coaches because he has chosen dignity over money and is well-guided.
Mr. Pompei, bi ọmọde o ba mọ ęwę, aja ęwę si right hand pe ęwę ooo. This means that telling Eguavoen the truth will help him to prepare the team ahead of the World Cup because, as far as I am concerned, NFF will not hire a sound coach for the Super Eagles. Good luck to our darling
Super Eagles Ire o. God bless Nigeria!!!
mr 0mo9ja, pls rest yersel, yuore statemments makes no sense at al, yuh har just contracditing yersel.
how can yuh said “all yuh want to see is good results an anyting less dan dat is unaceptable an den with de same mouth say yuh want dessert to be da main striker? can yuh see dat yuh har make no sense? if yuh want deser to play den yuh must want nigreain to lost, the two tings cannot happen without de oda, so that is yer first controdaction, den yuh har calling for siasia but eguaveon had not lose a game yet but yuh want him sack and yuh are caling for siasia an amuneke, bia mr man, let me told yuh sonting eh, yuh nor sabi bal, just rest an leave de rest to dose who knew wat there are doing, biko pls enof is enof of all dis youre nonsese kai!
So Eguavoen cannot guarantee 1 point from the remaining 2 games (1 on a neutral ground and the other on home soil) with 5 new invitations in a 25-man sqaud…? I mean 5 NEW AND QUALITY invitations…? Really…?
I can understand when qualification isnt yet guaranteed, not now when it will take a miracle of humongous proportions for that not to happen.
Is he playing Brazil and Argentina…?
With the way they hype the home-based players, one would have thought we would even use the HB players whom we have been camping running to 3 weeks now to prosecute both games and help Gusau to SAVE MONEY.
But, hell no. The mafian boss is just too desperate to have the SE job on a permanent basis. But I put it to anyone who cares to listen this day that handing Eguavoen that job permanently will only end in tears. Take that to the bank.
we don heer yuh, oya told us, wetin edoman yer “friend” tink? hin agree wit yuh abi? lmaaoo! werey
Well, Eguavoen indeed could have invited a few new quality players to prosecute these games. But he chose not to, and as it is his head that is on the chopping block, the buck stops with him.
Perhaps a better coach would have the confidence to just select the best players who fit his tactics. But when you have a coach that is tactically bereft, and is under a time crunch with tremendous pressure to succeed, then you can expect a risk averse selection, which is what has happened.
This is an ejo e ma pa mi selection. Translation. It’s a make unu no kii me selection. Let me select boys that will keep me employed.
Can you really blame him? Did he employ himself? If NFF ONIGBESE had done the right thing by getting us the best coach we can afford, will we be having this conversation?
Eeeyaah! It’s like shouting wrongfully.
You can’t say his shouting when he didn’t type in caps lock