Wikki tourists coach Abdu Maikaba, pray for flying eagles to defeat Senegal on Monday

Abdu Maikaba, former assistant coach in the National Youth Team of Nigeria, sent a prayer passionate about the Flying Eagles to defeat Senegal on Monday to choose a qualification ticket for the FIFA U20 World Cup.

Sports247 informs that Nigeria and Senegal will collide at the Suez Canal stadium in the Egyptian city of Ismaili, from 1 in the afternoon of Nigeria, with the winner not only moved to the semifinals of the nations of this year, but also qualifies for the youth World Cup in Chile.

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However, with Senegal entering the game as defense champions and with a better face -to -face advantage over Nigeria in the recent games of the national youth team, all are concerned about a very likely negative result for the Flying Eagles.

This has reported the resource to the fervent prayers of Maikaba, who is currently the Bauchi Wiki Tourist chief coach, but remembers his days at the National Camp and admitted that he defeats him on Monday will be a great setback for Nigeria.

“The World Cup ticket is the most important,” said Maikaba. “Anything we do, if we do not qualify for the World Cup, it would be as if we did not know anything and we have not done anything.

“I think they know what is at stake. So, I pray for this team to be among the four teams that the semifinals will reach; and that would qualify them for the World Cup in Chile.”

Sports247 controls reveal that Senegal won the last three confrontations between these two teams, the last of which was a 2-0 beating of the Flying Eagles in the U20 AFCon semifinals in 2023.

The Junior Teranga Lions had also previously defeated the Flying Eagles 1-0 during the WAFU B 2018 qualifiers in Lome, Togo and then won a 2-1 cruise on the same team in the second round of the FIFA World Cup U20 2019 in Poland.

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