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Former Super Eagles winger, Tijani Babangida, has advised the Super Eagles coaching crew not to be overly reliant on Emmanuel Emenike in the country’s quest for sustained glory.

The Atlanta ’96 Olympic football gold medal winner for Nigeria was the ‘Legend of the Night’ at the Heineken Champions Planet during the second leg semi-final match of the UEFA Champions League on Wednesday. He told a gathering of invited guests and consumers that as a former footballer, frequent injury to a player always has a lingering psychological effect. He wished Emenike could get back as soon as possible but in his absence, he cautioned that Nigeria must face the challenge of finding a suitable replacement for the crucial matches next month.

Emenike, who had been on the side lines since the semi-finals of the Africa Cup of Nations, returned to club action on Sunday. However, the attacker sustained fresh injury to his internal meniscus and partial damage to the internal lateral ligament of the knee.

“We are in a precarious situation for the World Cup qualifying matches, with the FIFA Confederations Cup in Brazil also in June. Having won the AFCON early this year, we have to sustain a high standard at the global level. Nigeria is blessed with potential from where we must find a replacement pending the return of Emenike. Becoming over-reliant on Emenike will equate us to a tag similar to the ‘No Messi, No Barcelona’ that the Catalan giants are currently living with now,” Babangida said.

Babangida was on his second visit to the Heineken Champions Planet and was delighted to be in the near-stadium environment that was created by the sponsor of the Champions League.