Why Eagles Can’t Afford Defeat In 2019 Afcon Qualifiers- Rohr

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Super Eagles head coach Gernot Rohr has said that the group must win their 2019 Africa Cup of Nations qualifier against Seychelles after they lost their first diversion to South Africa. 

Nigeria will go up against Seychelles in September, having, in 2017, lost their opening session of the qualifiers to the Bafana, setting them third in the four-group gathering. 

Some new players have been called up for the conflict however Rohr has uncovered that they probably won't play in the diversion. 

"We lost our first diversion against South Africa in June a year ago and the following amusement against Seychelles is essential to us," Complete Sports cited him as saying. 

"Furthermore, from that point onward, we will play two consecutive recreations against Libya. 

"Seychelles, I accept, have a decent group, so we need to plan well to beat them. At that point from that point onward, we need to play Saudi Arabia on September 11, which will be a decent opportunity to attempt some new players." 

The German included that "The amusement against Seychelles is a vital one and we won't have [a] longer time to get ready for it, so there is no genuine opportunity to experiment with new players, however we want to do that in friendlies. It's a diversion we can't stand to lose. 

"It really is ideal additionally that CAF has expanded the quantity of taking an interest groups from 16 to 24, and we want to start things out in our gathering." 

The Eagles have passed up the competition for two sequential releases, in 2015 and 2017, in the wake of rising African bosses, for the third time, in 2013 in South Africa.