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Huge Eagles Head Coach, Augustine Eguavoen, has warned his crew to no longer be complacent when they confront Guinea Bissau on the Stade Roumdé Adjia in Garoua on Wednesday.
Nigeria admire made it into the Round of 16 as community leaders, with a match to spare, courtesy of the wins over Egypt and Sudan in their two matches and the combo of other outcomes, particularly Egypt’s defeat of Guinea Bissau on Saturday.
Yet, Eguavoen says his crew will deduct nothing from their consolidated one-match-at-a-time and take-all draw adopted for the 33rd Africa Cup of Nations, at the same time as there may be no longer the form of thing as a serious stress going into that ideally suited community part bump into.
“It is miles predominant for us to withhold the a hit mentality while we aid our heads on our shoulders. Proper as I educated the boys after the match in opposition to Egypt, we’re yet to take anything else here as an alternative of parts. Guinea Bissau need the three parts because they’ve most effective one so far and we must be ready for a extensive fight.
“If we let down our guard, we is probably to be punished, and that can per chance no longer be precise for the crew’s psychology. We are succesful of proceed for the three parts,” he acknowledged.
Guinea Bissau drew 0-0 with Sudan in their first match, dropping a penalty awarded to them late within the game, after which fell to a Mohamed Salah design in a match they gave their all and even felt they must were awarded an equalizer that used to be cancelled late within the bump into.
“With somewhat more success, they may well well moreover admire overwhelmed Sudan and may well admire drawn with Egypt. That’s the roughly opposition we face on Wednesday. No person will yell me they’re pushovers,” added Eguavoen.
Nigeria vs Guinea Bissau Officials
The Confederation of African Soccer has appointed Kenyan official Peter Waweru Kamaku as referee for Wednesday’s bump into. The 39 –300 and sixty five days susceptible has a doctorate degree in Pure Mathematics and is a college lecturer. He’s going to be assisted by compatriot Gilbert Cheruiyot (assistant referee 1), Mozambican Arsenio Maringule (assistant referee 2) and Moroccan Redouane Jiyed (fourth official).
The match commissioner will probably be Youssouf Guedi Guirreh from Djibouti. The match will probably be played by 8: 00 pm Nigerian time.
Eguavoen’s AFCON File
The conventional Huge Eagles defender, Eguavoen is almost definitely the greatest man to admire managed Nigeria to take all three matches within the neighborhood part of the AFCON since the country started taking fragment at this stage since 1963.
He used to be head coach when the Eagles defeated Ghana 1-0, Zimbabwe 2-0 and Senegal 2-1 on the Al Masry Stadium, Port Acknowledged to brush the stakes on the 2006 finals.
In 14 old matches correct through three stints, the 1994 AFCON winner and two-time FIFA World Cup defender has left the area victorious in 12 matches, dropping most effective two – the 0-1 defeat to Cote d’Ivoire within the semi-ideally suited of the 2006 finals and a 2012 AFCON qualifier in Guinea that used to be embroiled in situations of uncertainty, which the crew misplaced by the uncommon design.
As he monitored his crew correct through practising and thereafter entertained questions from the media, the conventional defender smiled simply at an provide that his crew may per chance cease up playing hosts Cameroon within the ideally suited match, as he moreover used to be enthusiastic as a participant within the 1988 ideally suited in opposition to the Cameroonians in Morocco that Nigeria misplaced by a lone design, and the bronze medal match of the 1992 model that the Huge Eagles won 2-1.
“That’s aloof a if truth be told perfect distance off. We are targeted on the match in opposition to Guinea Bissau. One sport at a time,” he concluded.
