Super Eagles head coach, Jose Peseiro hopes goalkeeper Stanley Nwabali will be available for his team\u2019s quarter-final clash with Angola.<\/p>\n
Nwabali was forced out of Nigeria\u2019s Round of 16 clash with the Indomitable Lions of Cameroon on Saturday night after colliding with Cameroon winger, Georges Nkoudou.<\/p>\n
The 27-year-old, who had to be stretchered off the pitch was replaced by Omonia Nicosia\u2019s Francis Uzoho 20 minutes from time.<\/p>\n
The Chippa United shot stopper has caught the eye at the ongoing 2023 Africa Cup of Nations, conceding just once in four games. \u201cBut I am hoping that he will be fit for the next match.I want him to play. And the players want him to play.<\/p>\n \u201cWe have 25 players here, there are other players who can do the job. If he can\u2019t play we have a good replacement.\u201d<\/p>\n The Super Eagles will face the Black Antelopes at the Felix Houphouet Boigny Stadium, Abidjan next week Friday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Super Eagles head coach, Jose Peseiro hopes goalkeeper Stanley Nwabali will be available for his team\u2019s quarter-final clash with Angola. Nwabali was forced out of Nigeria\u2019s Round of 16 clash with the Indomitable Lions of Cameroon on Saturday night after colliding with Cameroon winger, Georges Nkoudou. The 27-year-old, who had to be stretchered off the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":17007,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[175],"tags":[406],"class_list":["post-17005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-afcon-2023"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17005","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17005"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17005\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17008,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17005\/revisions\/17008"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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\n<\/strong>\u201cWe will assess the state of Nwabali\u2019s injury in the next 24 to 48 hours. It\u2019s difficult to assess his condition, at the moment ,\u201d Peseiro said in a post-match conference.<\/p>\n