Osimhen Reveals Winning FIFA U17 Title Is more Important

Golden Eaglets forward, Victor Osimhen, has revealed that his focus in to help Nigeria beat Australia in their Wednesday's Round of 16 clash at the ongoing FIFA U17 world cup in Chile.

The forward, who's already being compared to Taiwo Awoniyi has got four goals since the tournament kicked off said he's not

under any form of pressure but to help Nigeria go pass the Aussie's come Wednesday/Thursday 12AM kick off.

He maintained that it is a good feeling to be the tournament's highest goal scorer at the moment but added that it's not compulsory as anyone can score, insisting that the objective os the team's glory not individual medals.

" I'm not under any pressure because we are a solid team and anybody can score goals for us," Osimhen told thenff.com" 

"It is nice to have scored four goals so far in this competition but as a team, our objective is to win collectively.”

Nigeria is already being tipped as the favourites in this Round of 16 clash against Australia based on past records since the Golden Eaglets have won all five of the two teams’ previous meetings at FIFA U-17 World Cups, scoring 12 goals along the way while conceding just two. The last encounter in 2003 ended 2-1 in favour of Nigeria.

"We are not going to underrate any team because all the teams left in the competition want to win and it is even going to be more difficult because we are the defending champions,” reasoned Osimhen.

"It doesn't matter to me if I score or not, what we want as a team is victory against Australia on and we are not going to underrate them.”

Meanwhile, the Golden Eaglets would revert to their white attire on Wednesday against The Joeys who will be in dark blue attire in a match that would be played at 12:00 midnight Nigerian time (8:00pm Chilean time) according to FIFA.

World soccer governing body has also confirmed the choice of Chilean officials for the match with the appointment of 34-year-old Roberto Tobar as the centre referee.

He would be assisted by Marcelo Barraza and Christian Schueman. The fourth official is Levgenii Aranovskyi from Ukraine.

The Golden Eaglets duo of striker Funsho Bamgboye and defensive midfielder, Udochukwu Anumudu would in the meantime, be available for selection against Australia after serving their mandatory one match suspension against Croatia.