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Eagles In Group Of Death WORLD CUP by simplyolat(m): 3:09pm On Jun 25, 2016 |
The Super Eagles will play Zambia’s
Chipolopolo, Cameroon’s Indomitable
Lions
and Algeria’s Fennecs in the final round
of
qualification series for the 2018 FIFA
World
Cup finals.
In what is already dubbed the group of
death
by pundits, the three-time African
champions,
who will not play in next year’s Africa
Cup of
Nations in Gabon, face a tough route to
qualify for Russia 2018 given the high
quality
of their opponents in the group.
The draw conducted at the Cairo
Marriott
Hotel put all former African champions
in the
same Group B, with reigning
continental
champions Cote d’Ivoire to tackle
Gabon, Mali
and Morocco in Group C.
Tunisia’s Carthage Eagles head Group
A that
also includes Libya, Democratic
Republic of
Congo and Guinea, and Ghana’s Black
Stars
will do battle with the Pharaohs of
Egypt,
Congo’s Red Devils and Uganda’s
Cranes in
Group E.
Senegal’s Teranga Lions, which
reached the
World Cup quarter –finals in its debut
in
2002, head Group D that also includes
South
Africa’s Bafana Bafana, Burkina Faso’s
Etalons
and Cape Verde’s Blue Sharks.
“It is a tough draw, but then I have
always
said that you have to beat the best to
get to
the World Cup. Now we have the draw,
we
know how to prepare. The preparation
has to
start right now and we must make
good use
of every single day leading to the kick
–off of
the series. “The other pools are tough
as well,
because for me, you can never afford to
under
–rate any team these days. Now we
must
quickly sort out the issue of Head
Coach and
his assistants and put every other
thing in
place in good time,” NFF president
Amaju
Pinnick said.
Algeria knocked Nigeria out of the race
to the
1982 FIFA World Cup, but Nigeria also
overpowered Algeria to qualify for the
1994
finals in USA.
Nigeria beat Algeria 3-0 to lift her first
–ever
Africa Cup of Nations title, on home
soil in
1980, but the Fennecs avenged by
beating the
Eagles 1-0 to also nick their first
African title,
on home soil, ten years later.
Cameroon stopped Nigeria from
reaching the
1990 FIFA World Cup finals, winning
1-0 in
Yaounde in a group contest even
though
Nigeria won the home leg 2-0 in
Ibadan.
In Yaounde, only weeks after the death
of
Samuel Okwaraji, Nigeria needed a
draw to
shove aside the Lions but lost 1-0. In a
friendly in Belgium in October last year,
the
Super Eagles steamrolled the Lions
3-0. http://9jaspecial.com.ng/2016/06/25/eagles-group-death-world-cup/ |
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