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Wednesday Feb 15, 2023. 15:24<\/p>\n
Former Nigeria international Friday Ekpo has explained why Victor Osimhen is not replicating his club form in the Super Eagles colours.<\/p>\n
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The 24-year-old striker, who has scored 15 goals from 22 international matches for Nigeria, is in scintillating form for SSC Napoli at the moment.<\/p>\n
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Osimhen has found the back of the net 17 goals from 18 Italian Serie A matches for the Little Donkeys \u2013 making him one of the most in-form strikers in Europe.<\/p>\n
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Ekpo, who played in 19 matches for the Super Eagles from 1989 to 1993, stated that Osimhen shouldn\u2019t be put under pressure when he [plays for the West African giants.<\/p>\n
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\u201cWhen the coach is assembling the team, they don\u2019t spend an awful lot of time,\u201d Ekpo said on\u00a0Sports Ration<\/a>.<\/p>\n \n \u201cSo there should not be too much pressure on him to play for the Super Eagles as much as he does at Napoli.<\/p>\n \n \u201cOsimhen is not a one man riot. At his club, they understand him because they play regularly. That\u2019s a huge difference,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n \n \u201cThe Super Eagles coach should put on his thinking cap and have many good options in the striker position.\u201d<\/p>\n \n The Super Eagles are set to take on Guinea-Bissau home and away in the 2023 Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) qualifiers next month.<\/p>\n \n Coach Jose Peseiro\u2019s side needs three points to secure their place in the finals which will be hosted by Ivory Coast next year.<\/p>\n \n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Wednesday Feb 15, 2023. 15:24 Former Nigeria international Friday Ekpo has explained why Victor Osimhen<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":39087,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports-news"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/eagles-squard.png",720,375,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/eagles-squard-150x150.png",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/eagles-squard-300x156.png",300,156,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/eagles-squard.png",640,333,false],"large":["https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/eagles-squard.png",640,333,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/eagles-squard.png",720,375,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/eagles-squard.png",720,375,false],"elegant-magazine-featured":["https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/eagles-squard.png",720,375,false],"elegant-magazine-medium":["https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/eagles-squard.png",720,375,false],"elegant-magazine-medium-small":["https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/eagles-squard.png",300,156,false],"elegant-magazine-thumbnail-small":["https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/eagles-squard.png",50,26,false]},"author_info":{"info":["Imo Trumpeta"]},"category_info":"Sports<\/a>","tag_info":"Sports","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39259","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39259"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39259\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39260,"href":"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39259\/revisions\/39260"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/39087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}