A seemingly good start for Head Coach Eric Chelle following their two nil win over Rwanda on Friday 21st March, 2025 in their world cup qualifying group stage match. He was praised for a very good start winning his first match in charge of the Super Eagles.
Victor Osimhen opened scoring at the 11th minute of the game and completed his double and the only goals to be scored in the match at the 45+3 minutes of the first half.
They were cheered despite missing numerous chances in the game. The sixth match of the group stage game was a game a home against the Zimbabwe national team. It was a game that maximum points were required to give the Eagles a hope of progressing and making to the world cup next year.
They were leading with a goal to nil till the eighty-ninth minute through a goal scored by Victor Osimhen at the seventy-fourth minute. They lost the lead at the ninetieth minute when the Zimbabwean team equalized through a mistake at the Nigerian defense. The game ended in a one all draw and see the Nigerian team on the edge of crashing out of the next world cup tournament.
Eric Chelle and his team were seeing to be visibly frustrated at the end of the match as they had expected more. But it seems that the expectation and the effort did not match at the end of ninety minutes.
Nigeria is however down to popular mathematical calculations and permutation on how to reach qualification. This is highly disgraceful for the giant of Africa. With the abundance of talent in the country, one would have expected a smooth qualification.
The new man in charge will be praying for miracle now as well as all Nigerians and lovers of the Super Eagles.
A sad day it is.
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