NFF confirms Onuachu as Osimhen’s replacement for Super Eagles friendly ties

Genk forward, Paul Onuachu, has been invited by the Nigeria Football Federation, to replace Napoli star, Victor Osimhen ahead of the Super Eagles friendly international engagements against Algeria and Tunisia.

Onuachu’s invitation was confirmed by NFF’s tweet on Sunday and the player is expected to play against Algeria and Tunisia respectively.

🔊 ❗️❗️@victorosimhen9 has been excused from @NGSuperEagles’ games against Algeria and Tunisia. His replacement is Paul Onuachu. #Team9jaStrong #SoarSuperEagles pic.twitter.com/UGJnS6jLub

— The NFF 🇳🇬 (@thenff) October 4, 2020

According to the NFF tweet: “@victorosimhen9 has been excused from @NGSuperEagles’ games against Algeria and Tunisia. His replacement is Paul Onuachu.”

The former Lille youngster has been prominent in all the matches played so far by Napoli in the Italian league.

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Onuachu, the Belgium-based forward has started the season in stunning fashion scoring seven goals in seven games for KRC Genk and the Sportinglife.ng had speculated that the player would soon be called up by the Super Eagles technical crew.

The former Midtjylland ace was recently named as the Pro League’s best player in September.

Onuachu first had the feel of the senior side when he was called up to the Nigerian under-23 national team in February 2015.

In March 2019 he received his first call-up to the Nigerian senior national team.

On 26 March 2019, Onuachu scored his first goal for the Nigerian team in a friendly match against Egypt. The goal was scored within the first ten seconds of the game, and the fastest ever scored for Nigeria.

Following the goal, he became “toast of Nigerian football” with “his coach, team-mates, journalists and fans talking about him”.[10] He was selected to the Nigeria squad for the 2019 African Cup of Nations.[11] He played in Nigeria’s 1-0 win over Burundi.