Nigeria Lines Up Ukraine Friendly Ahead Qualifiers

Nigeria will meet Ukraine in an international friendly next month as the Super Eagles begin to build towards the start of the Africa Cup of Nations and World Cup qualifiers.
The match was confirmed by Nigeria Football Federation President, Amaju Pinnick and will take place in Dnipro on September 10.
It will be a first ever meeting between the sides and the first game for the Super Eagles since they finished third at the 2019 Africa Cup of Nations.
Nigeria has a fairly gentle path to the next Nations Cup finals, needing to finish in the top two in a pool that also includes Benin, Sierra Leone and Lesotho.
They start at home to Benin on the weekend of November 15-17.
Meanwhile, Technical Adviser of the Super Eagles, Gernot Rohr has submitted the Super Eagles team list for the September 10 international friendly to the Nigeria Football Federation, NFF.
Confirming to Tidesports source, last Monday, the Franco-German tactician affirmed that he submitted the list last week. “I did last Thursday our (Super Eagles’ team) list for September friendly. Normally we will play on the 10th of September. NFF will confirm this to the press later”,
Rohr also confirmed that he has already started planning for the 2021 Africa Cup of Nations’ qualifying series starting in November this year, that he is leaving no stone unturned to prepare his team for the task ahead, a reason for submitting a strong team list for the Ukraine friendly.
It would be recalled that Nigeria, recently ranked 33rd best team in the world by the latest FIFA rankings will be meeting Ukraine ranked 25 best in the world in the high profile International friendly match.
The Super Eagles of Nigeria was placed third at the recent AFCON in Egypt under Rohr, who still has a year to run on his contract.