Nigerian striker Sikiru Alimi has said the team's failure to qualify for the 2020 African Nations Championship was due to ill luck.

Alimi scored a brace on Saturday as Nigeria beat Togo 2-0 in a return leg tie. However, a 4-1 loss in the first leg condemned the Eagles to a 4-3 aggregate defeat.

“It’s quite unfortunate that we couldn’t make it to CHAN 2020, though we gave our all in both games. I think we got our tactics right, but we were just unlucky,” Alimi told Completesports.com.

The Lobi Stars striker scored four goals for the Super Eagles B in 2019, but he regrets the team’s failure to secure a berth at Cameroon 2020 African Nations Championship finals – a bigger stage he would have used to aspire for an invitation to Gernot Rohr’s main team.
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