Players from the Nigeria Professional Football League may not feature for the Super Eagles against the Desert Foxes of Algeria in Oran on September 27.
The game, billed for the Miloud-Hadefi Olympic Stadium in Oran, will be their 22nd meeting since January 10, 1973, with the Eagles recording nine wins, three draws and nine defeats.
Eagles coach, Jose Peseiro, who will announce his squad list for the game in the coming days, may not consider the NPFL players due to their inactivity in recent months.
Speaking with The PUNCH, Eagles assistant coach, Finidi George, said it would be difficult to include the NPFL players in the squad for the game in Oran, as most of the Eagles B players were currently on holidays.
“Home-based players may not feature in the team for the friendly against Algeria because they just played in CHAN and will have to go for holidays,” Finidi told PUNCH Sports Extra.
“After their exit against Ghana, they went for a break, so I don’t think these home-based players will be involved for this friendly.
“Some of them are on holidays, some teams have not resumed pre-season, so it’s going to be difficult.”
Nigeria will be without Umar Sadiq, Akinkumi Amoo, Semi Ajayi and Victor Osimhen for the encounter.
Finidi George also commented on the injuries of Victor Osimhen and Umar Sadiq
“They said Osimhen’s injury is not that serious, but maybe he won’t be able to make the friendly game against Algeria. We’ll see if the injured players can make it or not, especially Osimhen,” Finidi added.
“For Sadiq, I think that is a critical one, those injuries take a longer time. I really feel for him, it’s very unfortunate but he will be back, he’s in Europe, and a lot of players have come out of it.”
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