The Libyan Football Federation has reportedly opted for Tunisia rather than Algeria as the host country for their matchday four 2019 Africa Cup of Nations qualifier against the Super Eagles of Nigeria next month.
\nLibya and the Super Eagles will meet in back-to-back Group E matches on October 12 and 15. The Mediterranean Knights still cannot host home matches in their own country due to continuing political instability.
\nAccording to Libyan sources, the LFF would prefer to stage their \u2018home\u2019 match against Nigeria on October 15 in Tunisia, rather than the proposed Omar Hamadi Stadium in Algeria.
\nLibya coach Adel Amrouche had earlier requested that the qualifier against Nigeria should be played in Algeria and not Tunis, as the Belgian-Algerian tactician hoped Fennec Foxes fans would support the Libyan team, but the Federation has decided otherwise.
\nAlthough no stadium in Tunisia has been confirmed, it is widely expected that the Stade Chedly-Zouiten in Tunis \u2013 which hosted the Libya v Seychelles AFCON qualifier on June 9, 2017 \u2013 will get the nod for the crucial match.
\nThe Nigerian Football Federation has not yet announced a venue for the matchday three tie with the Libyans, but Ahmadu Bello Stadium Kaduna, Stephen Keshi Stadium and Enyimba International Stadium are under consideration.
\nLibya tops Group E on four points (level with South Africa) after a 5-0 win over the Seychelles last year and a goalless stalemate with Bafana Bafana earlier this month.
\nNigeria, who lost their opening clash 2-0 at home to SA last year, returned to winning form with a 3-0 triumph away to the Island minnows.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The Libyan Football Federation has reportedly opted for Tunisia rather than Algeria as the host country for their matchday four 2019 Africa Cup of Nations qualifier against the Super Eagles of Nigeria next month. Libya and the Super Eagles will meet in back-to-back Group E matches on October 12 and 15. The Mediterranean Knights still […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":185968,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76,26,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-185965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-front-pix","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185965","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=185965"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185965\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/185968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=185965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=185965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=185965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}