Afrigather Tremendous Eagles and Al-Kholood defender, William Troost-Ekong, has given credit score to Gernot Rohr’s Benin Republic for the show they put up in opposition to Nigeria final evening, Soccernet.ng experiences.
Augustine Eguavoen’s males wanted some extent on the Stade Félix Houphouet-Boigny in Ivory Coast to seal qualification to the AFCON 2025 event in Morocco, however it was the house facet that drew first blood.
A well-worked set piece noticed Mohammed Tijani break the impasse within the sixteenth minute, earlier than Victor Osimhen responded with a header to degree the scores with 9 minutes left on the clock.
Talking after the sport, Ekong praised Benin for placing up a worthy combat and expressed his delight at Nigeria’s resilience.
“I wish to congratulate our coach, our crew for qualifying for the AFCON. That was our goal 4 to 5 months in the past after we began this marketing campaign.
Our thought was at all times to attempt to win this sport, we don’t wish to placed on a displaying that isn’t worthy of Nigeria, so, at present, we clearly have to offer credit score to Benin.
They’d an excellent sport plan. I believed we had been somewhat bit unfortunate within the second they scored as a result of we had been lacking a person off the pitch on the opposite facet in Victor Osimhen and that’s after they scored the set-piece.
Credit score to them, we all know they’re an excellent risk from that, and we all know they tried to win the sport, however just like the coach mentioned, 1-1 was a good consequence and we’re very blissful to qualify and stay unbeaten on this marketing campaign,” the previous Watford man advised NFF Media after the sport.
Nigeria will play their remaining group sport in opposition to Rwanda on the Godswill Akpabio Worldwide Stadium, Uyo, on Monday.
