Nigeria\u2019s national team manager, Gernot Rohr has admitted his concern over injuries and complacency ahead of the Super Eagles\u2019 upcoming matches in March.
\nNigeria will round off their 2019 Africa Cup of Nations qualifying campaign with a clash at home to the Seychelles, followed by a friendly with North African heavyweights, Egypt.
\nThe German manager has taken note of injuries to the likes of Ahmed Musa and Tyronne Ebuehi, though he will surely be happy to see captain John Obi Mikel playing first-team football again following his move to English second-tier team, Middlesbrough.
\nIn addition, the match against the Seychelles may be one in which motivating the players to produce their best is difficult, given that the game is a dead rubber because Nigeria has already booked their place at the 2019 AFCON finals.
\nRohr declared: \u201cOur programme all the time is to improve the level of our Super Eagles and to respect what they are doing in the clubs.
\n\u201cIt is a moment to monitor our players to see if they are fit and of course have some news also from our injured players.
\n\u201cLike Tyron, who is in the training again but he can\u2019t start playing; also Ahmed Musa who has an injury at the moment.
\n\u201cThe match against Seychelles is not easy because everybody believes it will be won easily. That is dangerous and is a trap sometimes.\u201d
\nNigeria\u2019s match against the Seychelles and Egypt will both be played at the Stephen Keshi Stadium in Asaba.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Nigeria\u2019s national team manager, Gernot Rohr has admitted his concern over injuries and complacency ahead of the Super Eagles\u2019 upcoming matches in March. Nigeria will round off their 2019 Africa Cup of Nations qualifying campaign with a clash at home to the Seychelles, followed by a friendly with North African heavyweights, Egypt. The German manager […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-194479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194479","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=194479"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194479\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=194479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=194479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=194479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}