The coach of the senior national team of Nigeria Jose Peseiro has been forced into adjusting his back four ahead of the first of the two Africa Cup of Nations qualifiers games against Guinea Bissau, OGN can exclusively reveal.
Peseiro’s team will on Friday take on Guinea Bissau at the Moshood Abiola stadium in Abuja but preparation for the game which was short has been affected by the absence of a key player in the plans leading to the game.
OGN exclusively gathered that because of the short time available for preparation for the game, Peseiro’s plan was to stick with three of the players who were in the back four in the 0-4 defeat against Portugal.
In the absence of William Troost Ekong who is out injured, the coach wanted to stick with the quartet of Bright Osayi-Samuel, Calvin Bassey, Kevin Akpoguma and Zaidu Sanusi a player he is familiar with at left back but that plans has now hit a brick wall of some sorts.
Sanusi is yet to arrive camp, meaning it’s either Bassey switches to left back or Boavista star man Bruno Onyemaechi gets his debut. Peseiro already experimented with the set up during yesterday’s training.
