Osimhen, Ndah out of Portugal friendlies as Dessers, Awaziem make list
duo of victor osimhen and olisa Ndah will be missing in the super eagles squad for the upcoming international friendly against Portugal.
osimhen will now miss his second consecutive game for the super eagles after failing to feature in their last outing against the desert Foxes of algeria.
The 23-year-old sustained an injury in Napoli’s 3-2 home win against Udinese last weekend.
The forward opened scoring for the Partenopei in the thrilling encounter.
Centre-back Ndah has also been ruled out of the prestige match due to injury.
The orlando Pirates of south africa defender was hoping to make his first appearance for the super eagles since the 2022 africa Cup of Nations in Cameroon.
head coach, Jose Peseiro has already called up Cyriel dessers and Chidozie awaziem as replacements for the duo.
“Update Portugal v Nigeria friendly: Chidozie awaziem replaces injured olisa Ndah
While Cyriel dessers replaces injured victor osimhen,” NFF tweeted on its verified Twitter handle.
Thursday‘s friendly will be held at the estadio Jose alvalade, lisbon by 7.45pm Nigeria time.
however, in what seems like a morale booster for the team, goalkeeper trainer and former international, Ike shorunmu has revealed that the super eagles have what it takes to silence Portugal’s duo of Cristiano ronaldo and Bruno Fernandes on Thursday.
The super eagles will be absent from the Mundial, but they will look to make an impression under coach Jose Peseiro. This will be the first time ever the eagles and Portugal will clash at senior level.
Battle against the super eagles will be Portugal’s last friendly game before they head to Qatar for the 2022 FIFA World Cup.
The Portuguese are drawn in the same group with Ghana, Uruguay and south Korea.
“This game will definitely be an exciting game for the super eagles considering the fact that they will be playing against the ronaldo led Portugal side.
“I really don’t think the duo of ronaldo and Fernandes will be of a threat to the super eagles because we have players who are capable of keeping them quite,” shorunmu stated.