Super Eagles Coach, Gernot Rohr, arrived in Lagos on Saturday to set the tone for his team’s preparations for the Qatar 2022 World Cup qualifying doubleheader against the Central African Republic (CAR). xNigeria will host CAR in Lagos on Thursday and then travel to Douala, Cameroun for the reverse fixture, which holds on October 10. According to team officials, the players were expected to start arriving in Lagos yesterday and today after their weekend matches in Europe. xApart from Oghenekaro Etebo and Wilfred Ndidi, who have been ruled out of the matches by different shades of injury, the 22 players listed for the game will move into the Eko Hotel camp on arrival, latest today. Already, Watford midfielder, Etebo Oghenkaro, has been ruled out of action for six months, meaning that apart from missing the rest of the World Cup qualifiers, he will also completely miss the Cameroun 2022 African Cup of Nations.

Source: The Guardian October 04, 2021 03:45 UTC