Afrigather Captain of the Tremendous Eagles of Nigeria, William Troost-Ekong, has revealed his nationwide teammates should put of their greatest to grind out a end result towards Libya on Tuesday, Soccernet.ng studies.
The 31-year-old captained the three-time AFCON Champions to a 1-0 victory over the Mediterranean knights yesterday night in what was a good affair.
Augustine Eguavoen’s males journey to the Martyrs of February Stadium in Benghazi on Tuesday to tackle the Libyans in entrance of their dwelling crowd, and Ekong revealed they’ll have their work reduce out for them as they intention for 3 factors away from dwelling.
“Libya will come out preventing, however we wish to go there and seal our AFCON qualification.The group shall be hostile there, they may make it laborious for us, however we shall be prepared. Libya got here to get a degree, they performed defensively, eight defenders on the fringe of their field, they stored us out for a very long time. It was an unpleasant win and it took lots of time earlier than we scored, however we received the three factors and that’s good for us. A win is a win and I’ll take this win, however we have to be extra medical (in entrance aim), attempt to convert half possibilities to targets,” former Watford defender stated in his post-game convention.
Nigeria are at present prime of Group D, main with seven factors from three video games, scoring 4 and conceding none, whereas Libya’s probabilities of qualification are rising faint as they’ve gotten only one level to date.
