By Daily Sports on July 7, 2019

After netting a brace in Nigeria’s 3-2 win over Cameroon in the 2019 Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) Round of 16 on Saturday, hot shot Odion Ighalo has declared he and the rest of the Super Eagles team are looking forward to facing South Africa in the quarter-final on July 10.

“We are now in quarterfinals, waiting our opponent,” Ighalo, who is currently the joint-top scorer at AFCON alongside Senegal’s Sadio Mane with three goals, said.

Speaking shortly before South Africa stunned hosts Egypt last night to set up a quarter-final showdown with Nigeria, Ighalo described both teams as “strong contenders”  but quickly added: “Whoever the opponent is, we have to work hard and try, we now have three matches to the title.”

Speaking generally about his performance at the tournament, Ighalo claimed that his contributions were all about getting a win and not his goal tally.

The predatory hitman who scored two goals at the Alexandria Stadium and also provided an assist for Alex Iwobi’s match-winning effort, which guided the Super Eagles to the quarter-finals of the 2019 AFCON played down his personal ambition.

Gernot Rohr’s men had found themselves trailing 2-1 at half-time and the 30-year-old revealed their loss to Madagascar in the Group Stage motivated their comeback after the restart.

“It does not matter if I or anyone score, winning for Nigeria is what matters most, but I will remember these two goals for a long time, I have lived for a tough period of pressure,” Ighalo told Goal.

“We do not want to repeat what happened against Madagascar, we prepared well and did our best.

“We conceded two goals in a short time, we could collapse, but we tried until we achieved what we wanted.”

•Photo shows hot shot Odion Ighalo

Source Daily Sports

Posted July 7, 2019

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