Ighalo Will Get His Chance In Eagles Team- Sunday Oliseh

Super Eagles gaffer, Sunday Oliseh has cleared the air on the exclusion of Odion Ighalo from the list of invited foreign based players for the African Cup of Nations qualifiers against Tanzania, saying the Nigerian international is still in his plans.

Oliseh added that if the strikers he invited failed to perform in their forth coming games against Tanzania and Niger in September, then a new set of strikers would be called up.

The 26-year old scored his first premiership goal when his newly promoted side stalemated Everton in their curtain raiser on August 8.

“Well, Odion Ighalo is in our plans but for this first game against Tanzania, we are only inviting two players for each position,” Oliseh told media.

"We are trying to get competition into positions. It is useless bringing in three professional players for the same position, paying their flight tickets and everything, bringing strikers and not been able to use one or two of them.

"So, in that also we have to take time. Also, I think we have some heavy weight in Emenike and Ujah for that position and if need be we might play the two of them.

“But if we want the best in our players we have to give them some respect. Emenike is a Nations Cup winner, a strong player, Ujah scored ten goals in the German League. We are talking about a league that hosts the world champions.

"Those who are commenting or laying emphasis on the fact that we rely mainly on foreign players to play should start asking questions because we are back home to train and we don't have people to train because every club is trying to hold on to them. 

"So, how do we now want them to learn and catch up with the ones that are in front of them. You can see that it affected our training today, we have to change our training from the beginning. We had invited 23 and we ended up with 14 players. So, I will leave you to judge from this,” he concluded.

The former Nigerian captain also lamented the absence of the local invitees from the Eagles camp as teams are jostling to consolidate their positions while others trying hard to avoid relegation. Goal