18th November, 2015
Taiwo Adelu
Chief Coach of Nigeria’s Super Eagles, Sunday Oliseh, has confessed that lowly rated Swaziland made his star studded team worked very hard to get the qualification slot for the third and final round of the 2018 FIFA World Cup qualifying series.
Goals by Moses Simon and Efe Ambrose in the second half sent the Eagles through, but the much higher -ranked Nigerians were the first to admit that the Sihlangu made them work for the aggregate win at the Adokiye Amiesiamaka Stadium in Port Harcourt, Rivers State Tuesday evening.
“For a fact, Swaziland’s FIFA ranking is unfair to them. They played with their hearts over the two legs and made things pretty difficult for us,” said Oliseh said after the match.
Meanwhile, former Nigerian captain, Kanu Nwankwo, has congratulated Coach Oliseh and the Eagles for getting past the Swazi to the next round of the World Cup qualifiers.
Kanu said on his Twitter handle after the encounter that “Congratulations Oliseh and your coaching crew. Congrats to the boys, we are happy with you all, keep it up and keep winning, that’s wat we want.”
With this victory, the Super Eagles will be one of the 20 teams who have qualified for the group stage of the qualifying series.
Others are Gabon, Uganda, Morocco, Libya, Zambia, DR Congo, Guinea Cameroon, Congo, Ghana, Tunisia, South Africa, Egypt and Cote d’Ivoire