Nigeria home based national team coach Daniel Ogunmodede has indicated that they must beat Ghana to compliment the CAF Best Player award annexed by Ademola Lookman.
Nigeria held Ghana to a goalless draw in first leg of their 2024 African Nations Championship (CHAN) qualifying duel at the Accra Sports Stadium last Sunday with the return leg billed for the Godswill Akpabio Stadium in Uyo on Saturday, December 28.
The winner of the two legs will book a spot for the tournament next year and Daniel Ogunmodede spoke to Pan-Africa Football after the first leg in Accra.
“We will go back and try to build on our attack, our clinical finish, we need to be clinical in front of goal. We had a couple of chances in the first leg like I told you but we were not clinical enough. We showed the Ghanaian team so much respect, we were afraid of their transition."
“We will go back home and work and if there is one thing we need to work on, it is putting the ball behind the net because we know that is what will get us the qualification ticket,” Ogunmodede told Pan-Africa Football.
“We have our chance to qualify now and we have to grab it. We were the best in Africa last year and the African best this time again so we want to prove a point to make our football better," he said.
Ghana will look for a repeat of what happened in qualifying for the 2022 edition when the Black Galaxies defeated Nigeria via penalty shootout to qualify for the last edition of the tournament. The main tournament will be hosted across Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania in February.
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