International Friendly: Nigeria and Saudi Arabia share spoils

The Tremendous Eagles of Nigeria and the Inexperienced Falcons settled for a 2-2 draw after 90 minutes of play within the worldwide pleasant performed on the Estadio Municipal De Portimao, Portugal on Friday evening, Nigeriasoccernet.com studies.

A late objective from the Asians ensured the factors have been shared in an enthralling encounter that the Eagles come again from a objective down and lead for a big a part of the sport.

Regardless of a domineering first half from the West African giants, there was nothing to decide on between the 2 sides after the referee blew the whistle for the tip of the primary half.

Nevertheless, Saudi Arabia grew into the sport and had the ascendency and shortly the objective got here for the Arabians as  Salman Al Faraj’s free-kick was pushed into the objective by Nigeria’s Francis Uzoho within the 60 minutes.

12 minutes later, the Tremendous Eagles restored parity via Victor Boniface after a high quality mixture from Bruno and  Moses Simon noticed Simon sq. the ball for Victor Boniface to slip residence, by way of a deflection.

The Nigeria coach Jose Peseiro made a raft of adjustments, and one in every of them, Kelechi Iheanacho turned the sport round, scoring an excellent objective from the sting of the field.

Nevertheless, Mohammed Kanno spoilt the occasion of the Eagles as he scored a freekick previous the helpless Uzoho to disclaim Nigeria victory within the final minute of the sport.

The Tremendous Eagles have subsequent Mozambique on sixteenth October, 2023 on the Estadio Municipal De Portimao, Portugal.

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