Nigeria coach urges united front to beat Egypt

   Nigeria coach Sunday Oliseh has urged the country to put behind recent misunderstandings so as to forge a united front that will beat Egypt in an AFCON 2017 qualifier next month.

Nigeria will battle Egypt in a decisive AFCON qualifier on March 25 with the reverse leg in Egypt a couple of days later.



Seven-time African champions Egypt are top of the qualifying group with six points, while Nigeria are two points behind with only the group winners assured of automatic passage to the AFCON in Gabon in January 2017.

Oliseh has therefore urged that all be forgiven and forgotten after the country failed to go past the knockout stage of the 2016 CHAN, followed by his YouTube outburst and the fallouts thereafter.

“We have to move on, the interest of our nation should come first,” he pleaded.

“We have to fight Egypt and not ourselves now. We have to come together. Nigeria comes first.

“We have to be in Gabon (AFCON 2017) and Russia (2018 World Cup).