By Harry Awurumibe, Editor Abuja Bureau
Less than 48 hours to the crucial FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022 African qualifiers return leg tie between Nigeria’s Super Eagles and Black Stars of Ghana, the Tunisian match officials have arrived the country.
The crucial return leg match is billed for Tuesday March 29, at Moshood Abiola National Stadium, Abuja.
This is even as the Super Eagles who have since arrived from Ghana in the wee hours of Saturday intensified their training at the match venue to perfect the strategies to be adopted to outwit their tough opponents after the first leg ended 0-0 at the Baba Yara Sports Stadium in Kumasi last Friday.
Prompt News reports that the Tunisian Centre Referee for the win or burst match, Sadok Selmi and his compatriots Khalil Hassani, (Assistant Referee 1); Attia Amsaaed, Libyan; (Assistant Referee 2) and Haythem Guirat, Tunisian, (Fourth Official), arrived Abuja on Sunday.
Others already in Abuja are two Frenchmen, Jérôme Brisard, Video Assistant Referee (VAR) and Willy Louis Delajod Assistant VAR; Prince Kai Saquee of Sierra Leonea (Match Commissioner) and Kabelo Bosilong, a South African (General Coordinator) as well as Senegalese Badara Diatta, a former FIFA referee (Referee Assessor).
Meanwhile, the Augustine Eguavoen-led Super Eagles returned to training late Saturday, hours after the team returned from Ghana, to underscore the importance of the return leg tie against the Black Stars on Tuesday at the Moshood Abiola National Stadium, Abuja.
Nigeria is condemned to beat Ghana by whatever goal margin, if the star-studded Super Eagles can lift their game higher than what they displayed in Kumasi last Friday.
Many Nigerians are not impressed with the overall performance of the Super Eagles in Ghana and will expect the home team to be more purposeful now they are playing on home turf and in the presence of thousands of the home crowd.
