Super Eagles Land In Sfax Ahead Of Libya Clash
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Super Eagles of Nigeria have landed in Sfax, Tunisia today (Monday) ahead of Tuesday’s 2019 Africa Cup of Nations match day four clash against Libya.
The three time African Championship boarded an Max Air aircraft that took off from Uyo and had a stop –over in Kano to refuel touched down at the Sfax Airport at 4pm Tunisia time (same as Nigeria).
CSN gathered that the players and team officials immediately headed to their Zeitouna Hotel abode for a short rest before the official training session.
Ogenyi Onazi and Abdulahi Shehu were not part of the squad that touched down in Tunisia.
Odion Ighalo scored a hat-trick and Samuel Kalu fired a brilliant strike from the edge of the box to seal the win for the Super Eagles in his second start for the team.
Another win will see the Super Eagles earn nine points from four games with two games (against South Africa and Seychelles) to play.
The Super Eagles will have their first training session by 7pm ahead of the game.
Gernot Rohr’s men are currently second in group E with six points from two games following their 4-0 thumping of Libya in Saturday’s clash at the Akwa Ibom international stadium in Uyo.
South Africa who face Seychelles in Victoria in the other group fixture lead the group with seven points from three games while Libya are third with four points.
The Bafana Bafana had spanked Seychelles 6-0 at the FNB stadium in Johannesburg last Saturday.
Seychelles occupy the bottom of the group with no points earned from three games and they have a -13 goals deficit.
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