The Black Galaxies of Ghana will play as guests to the Nigerian Super Eagles B this afternoon in the second leg of the 2023 African Nations Championship qualifiers at the Moshood Abiola Stadium in Abuja.
Ghana took a giant step with a 2-0 win over their Nigerian counterparts at the Cape Coast Stadium last Sunday in the first leg and will hope to replicate the same performance this afternoon.
Hearts of Oak forward Daniel Afriyie Barnieh opened the scoring account on the 49th minute from the spot after an epic first half before his club teammate Suraj Seidu sealed the triumph with just four minutes to full time.
The Ghana's home-based national team will set sights on nothing but qualification to the main competition, having appalingly missed out in the last three editions.
However, they are two time finalists in the said competition having lost to DR Congo in the maiden edition in 2009 and also succumbed to a very painful penalty shootouts defeat to Libya in 2014.
On the other hand, the Super Eagles B will play their hearts out this time to ensure they stun their sworn rivals to leave the streets of Nigeria especially the capital in total raptures.
Ghana edged out Benin with a 4-0 on aggregate victory to get into the final qualifying round whiles Nigeria only started from this stage, having had an early walkover.
TEAM NEWS
Coach Salisu Yusuf will have a full strength squad to select from going into the game and has boldly revealed that, they are ever ready to humble Ghana today despite having a two goal deficit to overturn.
Players like Baba Tunde, Eugene Martin, and the rest are all looking poised for the game coming up.
As part of attempts to qualify, the Nigerian FA per reports, have opened a free entry for football fans in order to get the numbers to rally behind their team and cheer them to victory.
Coach Annor Walker recorded no injury from their last training which held at the match venue yesterday.
David Abagna after making a stellar display in the first leg has been tipped to make the starting line up today with Evans Osei-Wusu likely to start from the bench this time.
Probable XI
Danlad Ibrahim, Augustine Randolph, Dennis Korsah, Mohammed Alhassan, Konadu Yiadom, Razak Kassim, Suraj Seidu, Gladson Awako (C), David Abagna, Jonah Attuquaye and Daniel Afriyie Barnieh
KICKOFF
1600GMT (4:00pm)
CHANNELS
Max TV, live stream on Kickgh.com
By: Iddriss Abdul Rahim
