The coach of the senior national team of Nigeria Jose Peseiro has made a bold revelation about one of the first choice wingers of the team as they set for the start of the 2026 World Cup qualifiers, OwnGoalNigeria.com reports.
Nigeria will begin the race to make amends for missing out on the last world cup by hosting Lesotho in Uyo, before travelling for their first away game against Zimbabwe at their adopted home ground in the Rwandan city of Kigali.
Blessed with an array of options in attack and on the flanks, Peseiro has constantly rotated his options on the wings with the quartet of Moses Simon, Samuel Chukwueze and more recently Kelechi Iheanacho his preferred options on the flanks.
He has however hinted that Lookman could be handed a different role in the coming days with his statement that the former England youth international is more comfortable as a second striker than on the flanks, where he has played in all of his ten caps for the senior national team of Nigeria.
” Lookman is in a great moment, which I hope he maintains until the end to be able to do even better than last season , which was of a great level. He plays well both as a striker and as a second striker, but I think he can better express his skills as a second striker”, he said in an interview on Italian publication Fantacalcio.it.
Mohammed Mowiz Suleiman
