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Eagles ready for Bafana challengeNigeria’s Super Eagles on Monday morning arrived the rainbow city of Cape Town, South Africa, ahead tomorrow all important Nations Cup qualifier against host, Bafana Bafana with a determination to put smiles on the faces of their teeming supporters.
The team made up of 21 players, technical officials and backroom staff was led into South Africa by NFF, Director of Technical, Dr Emmanuel Ikpeme. The team flew into Johannesburg from Lagos in a South Africa Airways plane. The flight from Lagos lasted six hours before it took another flight to Cape Town for the duel.
Among the 22 players that prosecuted the ill-fated game against Congo Brazzaville, only El-Kanemi FC goalkeeper, David Obiazor, did not make the trip. Head Coach Stephen Okechukwu Keshi decided to keep faith with the same squad and the team will have its first training session for the match at 8pm local time, which is 7pm Nigerian time.
Keshi who did not travel with the team on Sunday night due to pressing issues will link up with the rest of the squad today. In his absence, Dan “the Bull” Amokachi, will handled Monday work-out. The team is quartered at the serene Southern Sun Hotel on the outskirts of Cape Town.
Nigeria’ll bounce back–Temile
Ex-international, Clement Temile is confident the Super Eagles will overcome the setback suffered with the loss to Congo last weekend in Calabar and qualify for the Morocco 2015 Cup of Nations.
Temile told Daily Sunsports after the Eagles fell 2-3 to Congo that there was nothing to worry over the defeat, pointing out that the Keshi tutored side would get things right in their subsequent games.
He noted that upset is part of the round leather game, insisting that it would be wrong to write off the Eagles after the Calabar upset.
“In football the kind of upset the Congolese recorded against us can always happen. The Eagles simply had a bad day, but I see them recovering by beating South Africa and going ahead to win all their remaining matches in the qualification series,” Temile said.
The former Insurance of Benin attacker, however, warned that Keshi and his boys must be at their best against South Africa as they can not afford to take anything for granted despite the excellent scorecard Nigeria has in her head to head record against South Africa.
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