The Confederation of African Football (CAF) took note on Friday, October 8, from world soccer governing body, FIFA, of the provisional lifting of the suspension against the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF), following the recent positive development in solving the current crisis affecting Nigerian football.

Therefore the Orange Africa Cup of Nations 2012 Group B day two qualifier slated for Conakry between Guinea and Nigeria on Sunday, October 10, will go ahead as scheduled.

(source ? cafonline.com)

ThankGod, Bassey out as Eagles leave

Posted: 2010-10-09 09:41

Heartland captain ThankGod Ike and Bayelsa United captain Bassey Akpan were among the players left out as the Super Eagles squad was trimmed to 20 on Friday night writes www.kickoffnigeria.com

Also dropped are John Nnam, Kenneth Anyanwu, Chinedu Agu and Ugwu Uwadiegwu.

Seven players from the domestic league will be in the party to leave for Conakry on Saturday afternoon.

But the squad will have one last training session in the morning at the Abuja National Stadium.

Depleted midfield concern Eagles

Posted: 2010-10-09 09:48

According to www.kickoffnigeria.com, Nigeria travel to Conakry on Saturday with a depleted midfield, leading to concerns within the squad.

Chelsea's John Mikel Obi, Fulham's Dickson Etuhu and West Brom's Osaze Odemwingie all pulled out from the squad with injuries.

Former Udinese midfielder Chris Obodo was expected to be called up as replacement along with Michael Odibe, but neither got invited in the end, as the NFF faced a bigger battle upstairs.

Austin Eguavoen insisted though, that he has enough cover from among the domestic players.

Some on his squad are, however, not so confident.

Yusuf Ayila and Sunday Stephen were the preferred central midfield partnership at Friday afternoon's training session, but it did not appear like Eguavoen was particularly pleased with the combination.

Relieved Eguavoen expects pumped Eagles

Posted: 2010-10-08 22:05

Austin Eguavoen has expressed his relief at the lifting of Nigeria's suspension by FIFA, but says the uncertainty has taken it's toll on his players.

"I am relieved that the suspension has been lifted because it is so hard to prepare properly with all the uncertainty," he told KickOffNigeria.com after Friday's training session.

The Nigeria stand-in coach was unhappy at the performance of the team in Friday's practice, blaming the situation on the indecision "They looked sharp yesterday, but today it was a little sloppy. We will have to meet and talk things through.

"I think this whole thing has affected them mentally and they will have to work hard to get themselves in the right frame of mind to play."

Despite his unhappiness, Eguavoen is confident his boys will be overcome their mental fatigue "They are professionals and they will psyche themselves up as professionals to deliver a good result against Guinea."

And he is under no illusions as to the difficulty of the Conakry test "Guinea are a very good team and we don't expect an easy game there. But I believe in these boys and their ability to raise themselves for the game."

The squad are expected to leave on a chartered aircraft to Conakry on Saturday afternoon.

well,they might escape from conakry with a draw

A draw is enough i think

please can anyone provide the 20 man list and let us in on which stations will show the game?

^^^^
How do you expect us to know which station is going to show it? the game is not going on in Nigeria.

Anyways, i am hoping AIT would air it, as for the list, wait till 12am.

Anyone watching this match?

@ Baro,

has it started?

I think it's going to be 6pm, there's no station showing it and i heard from a source that it's 6pm.

Not even Super sport?

https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-528862.0.html#msg6913425

Someone said on this thread that it is 6pm. . . . . . . I hope it's true.

Its 5pm Guinea and 6pm Naija time. Still searching for where to watch the match but i read some where that it will be shown on AIT

Its on ait live

The match is abt to kick-off on AIT

AccoPen:

The match is abt to kick-off on AIT

Kindly help us with updates.

Niger republic just beat Egypt 1 nul in Niamey

picture quality is poor. . .

Guinea 1 - 0 Nigeria

@Goldcircle,

You mean they ve scored against us?
How many minutes of play?

Very boring match.

latest scoreline pls.

GoldCircle:

Guinea 1 - 0 Nigeria

Stop yarning rubbish for her.
It's still 0 - 0

Fifa plz ban us permanently, we ve got nuttin 2 offer,

Why do want fifa to ban naija permanently?

D-sense:

Stop yarning rubbish for her.
It's still 0 - 0

I don't know where you are watching the match but guinea has been in front for over 14 mins now.

get your facts right

@Jalether Are u sure u are watching d right match?cos d match am watching right now on AIT, Nigeria is a goal down.

The picture quality is totally unacceptable. . ,  for crying out loud in this day and age, all African TV channels should be broadcasting in standard definition

I pity the people who have to put up with this.

Many people has lost faith in the national team. Imagine, few people are following the match.

lakeside4love:

@Jalether Are u sure u are watching d right match?cos d match am watching right now on AIT, Nigeria is a goal down.

From my initial quote below, where did I suggest the contrary

jalether:

I don't know where you are watching the match but guinea has been in front for over 14 mins now.

get your facts right

Sorry Jalether.my last statement shuld be directed to D-sense.