Head coach of the senior national team of Nigeria Eric Chelle has gone with his strongest starting lineup for today’s high profile friendly game against Portugal, OwnGoalNigeria.com reports.
Super Eagles have been involved in a series of friendlies in the summer starting with the Unity Cup tournament in London, which they won after a 2-0 win over Zimbabwe in the semi final, and a 3-0 win over Jamaica in the final.
Chelle rejigged the team for their next friendly which ended 2-2 against Poland in Warsaw, and today’s game against World Cup bound Portugal he has made changes to the team that started the last game, and last we exclusively reported in the morning he made four changes.
In defence, the duo of Calvin Bassey and Semi Ajayi will start after playing as a substitute against Poland, Emmanuel Fernandez keeps his spot with Igho Ogbu is absent due to injury.
Abdullahi Bewene who made his debut against Poland stays with goalkeeper Maduka Okoye in goal like it was against Poland.
Alex Iwobi returns to the midfield and takes up his spot for what will be his 100th cap for the senior national team of Nigeria, with Tochukwu Nnadi dropping to the bench.
In attack Chelle handed a start to Samuel Chukwueze to play from the right , Terem Moffi drops to the bench while Akor leads the line.
Confirmed Starting XI
Okoye
Bewene
Fernandez
Ajayi
Bassey
Ndidi
Iwobi
Onyeka
Chukwueze
Simon
Akor
