Ighalo Set To Kiss His Eagles Career Goodbye, See His Replacement

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Watford striker Odion Ighalo will have to intensify his efforts to regain his scoring form, otherwise he could be on his way out of the Super Eagles. Ighalo has failed to impress Super Eagles coach, Gernot Rohr, and he could subsequently be replaced by younger strikers Olanrewaju Kayode and Victor Osimhen in the senior national team.


An official of the Eagles said that Ighalo would be dropped permanently from the team as he has scored just one goal after 11 weeks of action in the English Premier League and has only scored one goal for Nigeria in a competitive match. That goal came in a 2017 AFCON qualifier against Chad in Kaduna in June 2015. If Olanrewaju, who has been prolific so far for Austria Wien in all competitions this season, and Osimhen, who is soon to sign a professional deal with Bundesliga side Wolfsburg shine against Egypt in Dubai in a friendly in January, that could well spell the end of Ighalo’s time in the national team.

Rohr has already said he was impressed with the performance of Osimhen in the build-up to the Tanzania match and will offer him another opportunity to show he is ready for the big stage. “Rohr has not been impressed with the performance of Odion Ighalo and Brown Ideye,” a team official told africansports. com.
“Against Tanzania, Ighalo was wasteful and hardly had two shots on goal, while against Zambia, Ideye was full of endeavour, while others were scoring the goals.