The 2024 CAF Participant of the 12 months award winner, Ademola Olajade Lookman, has revealed he has optimistic emotions concerning the Tremendous Eagles underneath Eric Chelle, Soccernet.ng studies.
The 27-year-old attacker touched down Kigali on Monday, alongside William Troost-Ekong, Calvin Bassey, Ola Aina and Alex Iwobi forward of Nigeria’s essential World Cup qualifier towards Rwanda on Friday.
After the staff’s second coaching session, Lookman admitted he’s feeling optimistic concerning the concepts Eric Chelle has carried out among the many remainder of his teammates.
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What Lookman stated
“I’m not feeling any stress in any respect. I’m simply glad to be again with the squad, again with the blokes. Now we have an enormous job forward of us and we’re wanting ahead to it,” the previous Everton man stated in an interview with OJB Sports activities.
“We’ve have a great deal of conferences about how the supervisor needs us to play, our sport plan, and points of how we defend and assault, so it’s all optimistic.
“We’re all keying into his concepts. As a gaggle, we’ve had our second session immediately, and yesterday’s session went properly too, so, optimistic emotions,” the 2024 UEFA Europa League winner concluded.
“No stress in any respect. I’m simply actually joyful to be again with the squad and the blokes. We’ve bought an enormous problem forward, and we’re all excited to take it on.”
–Lookman on his first sport for Nigeria since successful CAF Participant of the Yr final 12 months.#ojbsports #OJBinKigali pic.twitter.com/MOPUNolNaA
— Ojora Babatunde (@ojbsports) March 19, 2025
Ademola Lookman was out with an damage the final time the Tremendous Eagles of Nigeria took on Rwanda again in November on the Godswill Akpabio Worldwide Stadium in Uyo. Nigeria misplaced 2-1 to the Amavubi.
When Will Nigeria play?
Nigeria will commerce tackles with Rwanda in Kigali on Friday, March 21, earlier than returning to the Godswill Akpabio Worldwide Stadium in Uyo to lock horns with Zimbabwe 4 days later.
The 2 video games are must-win fixtures for the Tremendous Eagles, who’ve endured a torrid begin to the World Cup qualifying marketing campaign.
