Super Eagles forward Ahmed Musa has said Nigeria can beat Argentina to top their World Cup group on Wednesday, africanfootball.com reports.
Nigeria and Argentina have met three times at the World Cup with the South Americans victorious on all occasions.
The African champions now need to avoid
defeat on Wednesday in Porto Alegre to guarantee their place in the last
16 of Brazil 2014.
And CSKA Moscow forward Musa promised that the Eagles would be victorious on their Group F clash against Argentina on Wednesday.
“Argentina have a great team and players,
same with us. We are not afraid of them, it will be a clash of giants,
it’s a game we can win and that we will play for and pray God crown our
efforts,” Musa told africanfootball.com
Meanwhile, defenders Juwon Oshaniwa and
Efe Ambrose have insisted the Eagles will not focus on Argentina
superstar Lionel Messi in the encounter.
“I am looking forward to a good, sound
and successful game against Argentina. It’s not all about Messi. Name
doesn’t play football but it is what players and team bring forth on
match day. We are ready to make ourselves and Nigerians proud against
Argentina,” Oshaniwwa said.
Celtic defender Ambrose said the focus was not on how to stop Messi, but how to beat Argentina.
“We are not thinking of how to stop
Messi. We are playing Argentina, who have 11 good players, we are equal
to the task. It’s going to be a battle and we are ready,” he said.
Meanwhile, former Eagles captain Sunday Oliseh has tipped Emmanuel Emenike to lift Nigeria past Argentina on Wednesday.
Oliseh praised Emenike for his
wholehearted performance against Bosnia on Saturday and said the big
striker could hurt a “fragile” Argentine defence.
“Did anyone notice how omni-present
Emenike was? In this player (Emenike), I believe we can threaten and
hurt the fragile Argentine defence,” tweeted Oliseh, who featured for
Nigeria at the 1994 and 1998 World Cups.
Incidentally, Emenike opened his goals
account in the Eagles with a goal in a 4-1 demolition of Argentina three
years ago in a friendly in Abuja.
However, the centre-forward is yet to score at Brazil 2014. (Punch)
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