Charles Ogundiya and Segun Bailey
The Confederation of African Football on Monday notified the Nigeria Football Federation that the FIFA World Cup play-off round between Nigeria’s Super Eagles and the Black Stars of Ghana will now take place on new dates.
The opening leg at the Cape Coast Stadium will now take place on Friday, March 25th, starting from 7.30pm Ghana time, which will be 8.30pm in Nigeria. It was earlier scheduled to be played on Thursday, March 24th.
As against the earlier date of Sunday, March 27th, the return match between both fierce rivals will now hold at the Moshood Abiola National Stadium, Abuja on Tuesday, March 29th, starting from 6pm Nigeria time.
Meanwhile, Eagles coaches Augustine Eguavoen and Emmanuel Ameneke were among the spectators at the Emirates Stadium in London as Arsenal defeated Brentford 2-1 in an English Premier League clash on Saturday afternoon.
Eguavoen’s intention was to kill two birds with one stone by checking out Super Eagles midfielder Frank Onyeka and one of the key players in the Ghana squad Thomas Partey.
A second Black Stars player, Tariqe Fosu was not in the Bees Match Day squad as he is way short on match fitness after recovering from a long-term injury but the winger remains in contention to be named in the Ghana squad having returned to action in a behind closed doors game against Southend United last week.
Partey was one of the standout players for the Gunners against Brentford and provided the assist for the second goal scored by Bukayo Saka in the 79th minute.
Onyeka would surely be disappointed that he did not taste against Arsenal with his national team coach in attendance.
However, the former FC Midtjylland midfielder met with Eguavoen after the game.
