Forward of Nigeria’s worldwide friendlies in opposition to Saudi Arabia and Mozambique, the top Coach Jose Peseiro has been pressured to drop Ola Aina and Taiwo Awoniyi as the 2 have been dominated out with accidents.

Aina and Awoniyi each missed this weekend’s Premier League fixture for Forest and supervisor Steve Cooper gave updates on the Nigerian duo.

Whereas Awoniyi is anticipated to be out for a minimum of a month with muscle stress, Aina’s harm picked up a hamstring harm.

On Sunday, Tremendous Eagles official, Babafemi Raji gave notification on the state of affairs and offered names of the replacements referred to as up by the Coach.

RB Tyronne Ebuehi and FW Umar Sadiq will now be part of up with the squad within the Faro camp for the friendlies.

Ebuehi and Umar weren’t referred to as up within the preliminary 25-player checklist introduced final week, though the previous was named in Nigeria’s current worldwide recreation.

Ebuehi was on the bench within the Africa Cup of Nations qualifiers in opposition to Sao Tome and Principe.

The 27 year-old has 11 caps for Nigeria, whereas Umar, who has not featured for Nigeria since June 2022 within the AFCON Qualifiers, has been capped 7 occasions.

Within the Friendlies, Nigeria will first play Saudi Arabia on October 13, and three days later they’ll face Mozambique.

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