Super Eagles Final Workout: Team A & B Line-Ups, Shooting Practice, Train At Main Bowl
Published: October 07, 2017On Friday evening, the Super Eagles held their final training session before stepping out onto the pitch for Saturday's World Cup qualifier against Zambia, in which they can qualify for football's showpiece tournament with a victory.
For the first fifteen minutes, members of the press were allowed to watch the session, but the Zambians were more secretive as their workout was closed from start to finish, allnigeriasoccer.com understands.
After the warm-up exercises and ball work drills, the players focused on a shooting practice before they rounded up the workout with a mini-game.
The first part of the training session took place at the practice pitch of the Godswill Akpabio International Stadium, players and coaching staff had to wait for the Zambian team, who trained simultaneously, to conclude their session before moving to the main bowl.
All the 23 players were involved in the workout and are all available for selection today, having come out of the session unscathed.
The team not wearing bibs contained the eleven players likely to start against the Copper Bullets : Ikechukwu Ezenwa, Abdullahi Shehu, Troost-Ekong, Leon Balogun, Elderson Echieijle, Obi Mikel, Eddy Onazi, Wilfred Ndidi, Victor Moses, Moses Simon and Odion Ighalo.
The players that will start on the bench wore bibs on top of their green jerseys : Daniel Akpeyi, Ola Aina, Chidozie Awaziem, Uche Agbo, John Ogu, Mikel Agu, Oghenekaro Etebo, Ahmed Musa, Kelechi Iheanacho, Alex Iwobi and Anthony Nwakaeme.
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