AFCON: Super Eagles to engage Guinea in friendly in Abu Dhabi

The Nigeria Soccer Federation has introduced that the Tremendous Eagles of Nigeria will interact in a heat up match previous to the African Cup of Nations in opposition to Guinea in Abu Dhabi on Monday, Nigeriasoccernet.com studies.

The encounter which has been scheduled for the Bani Yas Stadium will assist the workforce’s readiness for the match which begins on Saturday, thirteenth January in Cote D’Ivoire.

The 2 groups final performed on the 2019 Africa Cup of Nations in Egypt the place the Eagles beat the Syli Nationale 1-0 in a gaggle section encounter.

Nigeria who’s group A alongside hosts, Cote D’Ivoire, Equatorial Guinea and Guinea Bissau, begin it marketing campaign in opposition to Equatorial Guinea on Sunday, 14th January inside Abidjan’s Stade Alassane Ouattara.

The Tremendous Eagles will play subsequent the Elephants of Cote d’Ivoire on 18th January at Stade Alassane Ouattara, earlier than a remaining group section conflict with the Wild Canine of Guinea Bissau on twenty second January on the Stade Houphouet-Boigny.

In accordance with the discharge by the NFF, Twenty-four of Nigeria’s 25-man squad assembled within the Gulf earlier within the week and have been coaching forward of the continental houseparty, with ahead Kelechi Iheanacho hampered by damage and set to affix the group in Lagos on Tuesday night, forward of departure to the Ivorian capital on Wednesday, tenth January.

Uche Dozie