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SPORT Iheanacho happy with Super Eagles’ fitness

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Manchester City forward, Kelechi Iheanacho says he is happy to see his Super Eagles team mates looking sharp in training ahead of their friendly matches against Senegal and Burkina Faso.

The Manchester City forward is one of six strikers Coach Gernot Rohr invited for today’s match against Senegal and the one against Burkina Faso on Monday.

“It’s always good to be back with the team; everyone is looking sharp and fit this morning,” he wrote on his Instagram wall yesterday.

Iheanacho has scored four goals in seven internatio­nal appearance­s for Nigeria, who have won the Africa Cup of Nations three times in 1980, 1994, and 2013.

He is expected to make his eighth appearance for the Super Eagles against Senegal at the Hive stadium.

Nigeria and Senegal have met five times at the Africa Cup of Nations in 1992, 2000, 2002, and 2006.

In those encounters, Nigeria won five times and lost only once at the semi-final stage of the competitio­n in 2002 in Dakar. (NAN)

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