The starting lineup for the senior national team of Nigeria against Ghana has been made known to the players of the team by head coach Eric Chelle, OwnGoalNigeria.com reports.
We can exclusively report that the coach has decided to hand a starting spot to majority of the players from the Nigeria Premier Football League (NPFL) with only three foreign based players set to start in today’s game.
Chelle will start with Stanley Nwabali in goal and and a foreign based player likely Frank Onyeka will play as part of a midfield three. In attack Cyriel Dessers will lead the team. For now they are the three players based abroad who are almost certain to play.
” Okoye would have been in goal if he arrived early. But he didn’t so Nwabali will start. The team starting lineup is largely made up of home based players with only two foreign based likely to start among the outfield players”, a backroom staff of the team revealed.
” The idea is to give them the chance to prove themselves and later in the second half we will see more of the foreign based players but that too is largely dependent on the score line. That’s the much I know”, he concluded.
Mohammed Mowiz Suleiman
