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Russia 2018 World Cup qualifier: Cameroon no threat — Omeruo

By Victor Enyinnaya on February 15, 2017

Super Eagles ace defender, Kenneth Omeruo, has declared that the 2018 World Cup qualifier game between Nigeria and Cameroon would bring back the water tight traditional football rivalry that exists between both nations insisting that the Indomitable Lions would not stop the Nigerian side from picking the three full blooded points in Uyo in August and post another good result in Lambe, Cameroon come September 2 return leg.

He made the assertion from his base in Turkey while in an exclusive conversation with Daily Sports believing that the present crop of Eagles lads are loaded, focused, determined and have no other answer to their teeming fans than the sole group ticket to the Russia football summit.

“My teammates have said it before and continues to say bring on Cameroon. There is nothing so spectacular in the Cameroonian team that won the AFCON in Gabon recently. It is a side Eagles will effectively handle.

“We all knew how matches involving the two football powers in the continent have always been and this won’t be an exception. The fact remains that the Nigerian team is battle ready and will not look back on her quest to be in Russia for the World Cup in 2018.

“Real fact is that the kind of tempo with which Eagles began the qualifier, will not reduce rather it will continue to increase. We all are aware what is at stake and so every game is regarded as crucial whether on home or away ground. My teammates and I are equal to the task, no more, no less,” Omeruo explains.

The Turkey based star defence man revealed further that the remaining games of the qualifier are important and so we have to ensure that we take each as it comes. He added that the qualification series has entered its crucial stage and so, vigilance would be the watch word for all the sides. Eagles’ players and their technical crew won’t relent in their concentrated preparations. He posits that it is gladdening that quality friendly games are being arranged. The international friendly against Senegal in March and the other against Ghana no doubt will strengthen the Eagles more and also would give the technical crew the opportunity to fine-tune areas they will discover and fortify before the double header match against Cameroon.

“Nobody should lose sleep or be carried away over the Indomitable Lions threat. The team is not extra-ordinary in any way. Eagles will play its style of the game. It will be a tough, highly technical and tactical game as usual.

Players from both sides will not give each other breathing space as every space would be tightly contested for.

“The Central African country also knows it won’t be tea party against Nigerians and would throw everything to the encounter. It’s no boast, no matter how hard they will try, they won’t salvage any point. The Eagles are not ready to drop any point in Uyo or anywhere. The issue is not about Cameroon as African Champs but World Cup qualifier involving closest rivals. Once preparations are upbeat, when we reach the bridge we will cross it.

“This is not to say that the Nigerians are over confident or arrogant but it’s all about being realistic about the situation on ground. The truth is that no team in the World can intimidate us presently. We have grown and also have developed the thick skin to face any team squarely,” he remarks.

Omeruo however, called on all stakeholders to Russia World Cup 2018 to ensure that all hands would be on deck to mount solid preparations. According to him, “once no stone is left unturned, the issue of distraction won’t arise. The concentration will be at its optimum. The feelings among the players are conquest and we will continue to set our minds on that target,” he informs.

•Photo shows Super Eagles ace defender, Kenneth Omeruo.

Source Daily Sports

Posted February 15, 2017