Augustine Eguavoen, the Super Eagles coach, expressed delight with his players ahead of the 2022 World Cup playoffs first leg encounter between Ghana and Nigeria in Kumasi on Friday, March 25.
The winner of the two-legged match will earn a spot in the 2022 World Cup, which will be held in Qatar later this year, and Eguavoen believes the team is ready to go and represent the country well.
Eguavoen told reporters following the Super Eagles’ first training session in Abuja on Tuesday, ahead of their travel to Kumasi, that Maduka Okoye, who had been ill, might yet be able to play, while Innocent Bonke has taken the position of the injured Wilfred Ndidi.
Eguavoen concluded, “I am very satisfied, you can see that the boys are ready to go. The good thing is that they are in season, they are in form and their confidence is very high. No injury worries and I am very satisfied with what we saw in our first training session, one hour, 15 minutes.
“I got a message from Maduka Okoye, that he is going to come but we have a backup in John Noble who is going join us. If Maduka recovers and joins us there is no problem, but we have Noble as a backup.
“Hopefully, we’ll have two more training sessions before the game, anything more than that will be suicidal. It is more of tactical talks than physicality now. We are ready to go.”
On Tuesday, March 29, 2022, the Super Eagles will face the Black Stars in the second leg at the Moshood Abiola National Stadium in Abuja.