By Saidu Abubakar
The Nigeria’s Pillar of Sports, Chief Donatus Agu-Ejidike (JP) has hailed the Super Eagles of Nigeria for their deserved 1-0 victory over the Mediterranean Knights of Libya, in one of the Match-Day-3 fixtures of group D of the AFCON 2025 qualifiers, played in Uyo on Friday.
Ejidike, in an interaction with some newsmen in Abuja, shortly, after the match, described the performance of the coach Austin Eguavoen-led team as gritty, considering how stoically the Libyans stood up, to soak the pressure being mounted by the Eagles attack line, led by Bayern Leverkusen’s Victor Boniface, who got replaced in the 74th minute by Nottingham Forest’s Taiwo Awoniyi.
The the goal that secured the victory came off the boot of Lazio midfielder, Fisayo Dele-Bashiru who came on, also, in the 74th minute as replacement for Fulham’s Alex Iwobi.
The Anambra-born Sports philanthropist admonished the boys to go to Tripoli next week (Tuesday) and complete the double over the North Africans, to secure qualification for the next AFCON to be hosted by Morocco.
Ejidike who is the patron of the Nigerian Football Supporters Club, also commended the technical crew led by coach Eguavoen for what he called a result-oriented approach to coaching that grinds out the results even when the players barely train together for 3 days.
The team leaves for Libya to honour the return leg of the fixture, slated for Tuesday, in Libya where the hope of Libya qualifying for the biennial African Premier Football competition, could be finally crushed, should they fail to win, and allow the Super Eagles to amass the 3 maximum points at stake.