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GERNOT ROHR: Ighalo, Ebuehi close to fitness

Nigeria’s senior soccer team’s coach Gernot Rohr has revealed that Super Eagles striker, Odion Ighalo and defender Tyroone Ebuehi are closer to being fit to play for the country, having recovered from injuries which sidelined them recently.

Disclosing this at Friday morning’s Peak breakfast with Rohr session in Lagos, Rohr stressed that both Ighalo and Ebuehi have started running in their clubs’ training facilities pointing out that their return to full fitness is good news for the Super Eagles.

According to Rohr, ” It is true that Ighalo’s club has been relegated. I don’t think Ighalo will want to drop with his team in China. When a striker scores goals in a particular league such that he is the second highest goal scorer in the league, it is obvious that he will get a new club easily. But, Ighalo didn’t tell me that he had seen any new club or was on the verge for changing either, when we spoke on Thursday night.

”I also won’t be surprised if Ighalo considers a return to Europe. For now, he is working very hard to return to full fitness and be available to play matches for Nigeria and whichever club he finds himself next season. Ighalo gave his critics the wonderful answers after his goal scoring lull for Nigeria with the goals he has scored since after the World Cup.”

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Asked why he fielded Samuel Kalu at the right wing back position in the game between South Africa and Nigeria inside the FNB Stadium in Johannesburg, Rohr said: ”I have been monitoring Kalu while playing for Bordeaux FC and I noticed that he could defend and also join in the team’s attacking onslaughts. I brought him to the Eagles and he exhibited those trait, which forced me play him as the right wing-back against Bafana Bafana. He did well. Kalu also gave me the opportunity to try someone else in other positions. The key is that I have a player who is useful to me in more than one posiiton and playing systems.

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