As the Super Eagles of Nigeria gear up to face Sao Tome and Principe in tomorrow’s 2023 Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) qualifiers, the Nigerian team have been warned not to take the team from the island for granted.
While Nigeria started their campaign on a high edging Sierra Leone 2-1 in Abuja, Sao Tome and Principe coached by Adriano Eusébio and nicknamed Falcão e Papagaio were thrashed 5-1 by Guinea Bissau.
The results leaves them bottom of the group but ahead of their second game, team’s influential midfielder Jokceleny Carvalho “Iniesta” told local publication Nation that they are not in anyway going to make it easy for Nigeria.
” We want to win. Yes and we can do it to create one of the shocks of the qualifiers. We scored first in our first game but lose heavily. The lessons learnt from that game will be of great use for us against Nigeria. Who are the better team but we fancy our chances”, he concluded.