The Super Eagles
and the Wasps of Rwanda compted for a place in the final round of the
South Africa 2013 qualification this Saturday at the UJ Esuene Stadium.
In the reverse game of this first round clash, both teams played out a 0-0 draw at the Stade Amahoro in Kigali on February 29.
Rwanda, ranked 119 by the world soccer governing body, FIFA, have failed to win in their last five matches.
The Wasps go into this game with a heavy 0-4 defeat at Algeria and a
1-1 draw at home to Benin Republic in the 2014 FIFA World Cup
qualifying.
Milutin Sredojevic's men come up against the Super Eagles, who have
taken four points in their opening two games in the World Cup
qualification this June.
But the Eagles under Stephen Keshi have averaged less than a goal per game in their last three competitive matches.
Keshi has expressed concern about his team's approach in the final third.
"We
have been working on our finishing in training because that has been an
area this team have not been prolific. Hopefully tomorrow (Saturday)
will be different," said Keshi to SuperSport.com.
For this game, Keshi has left out Dickson Etuhu, Peter Osaze
Odemwingie, Joel Obi, Taye Taiwo and Yakubu Aiyegbeni, who all started
in the first clash in Kigali as well as injured captain Joseph Yobo.
However, Sredojevic has named a strong Rwandan side of 18 players that
include influential captain and striker, Olivier Karekezi, Bokota
Labama, Steven Godfroid and goalkeeper Jean Claude Ndoli.
The Wasps have never beaten their Nigerian counterparts as the West
Africans have won once and drawn twice in their last three head-to-head
meetings.
However,
at the end of todays match between the wasps of Rwanda and the Super
Eagles of Nigeria. Goals from Ike Uche in the first half, and another
from Ahmed Musa in the second were enough to move Stephen Keshi's Eagles
to the next round of qualifying stages of the Nations Cup finals in
South Africa. To get minute by minute analysis watchout for Complete
Sports at news stands on sunday.
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