By Obaloluwa Joshua, LAGOS
Super Eagles head coach Éric Chelle has confessed picking his starting X1 for tonight’s clash with Egypt will be difficult, Prompt News reports.
Nigeria will be up against the Pharaohs in the third-place match of the 2025 Africa Cup of Nations at the Mohammed V Stadium, Casablanca.
Chelle admitted that his players are tired after a rigorous campaign.“I spoke about that, just told the truth, you cannot play two games in 48 hours with the same intensity,” Chelle told reporters in Casablanca.
“You have to wait 72 hours, this is not me who says this. It is the doctor and all of these guys who know the body and I think that we were tired (before the Morocco game). So I had two options, maybe take a risk change all of the team and if we lost you will tell me, ‘ahh why you change the team.’
“But my decision, I made the choice, the choice is not good but this is football. Sometimes, you lose some shots.
“For the third place, we have the same problem, same context, the players are tired, played the whole tournament, played 48 hours ago, so I will think only do my choice.
“My philosophy will be, we want to win this game. So will put the best players for this game.”
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