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The interim head coach of the Super Eagles, Finidi George, has said he wants to defeat Mali in their second friendly of this international break.<\/p>\n
Last Friday, the former Ajax winger took charge for the first time, as Nigeria beat rivals Ghana 2-1 in another friendly.<\/p>\n
However, Finidi has to deal with absentees and injury to key players like Calvin Bassey and midfielder Frank Onyeka.<\/p>\n
But Finidi is confident going into the game on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe cannot at this time be dwelling on the injuries and absences that we have to cope with.<\/p>\n
\u201cOur intention has always been to win these two matches and then look forward to the World Cup qualifiers in June.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are determined to keep up the momentum and sustain the winning mentality derived from beating the Black Stars,\u201d he told\u00a0nff.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n \n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The interim head coach of the Super Eagles, Finidi George, has said he wants to<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":40774,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42941","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\/07\/finidi-george.jpg",480,640,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/finidi-george-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/finidi-george-225x300.jpg",225,300,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/finidi-george.jpg",480,640,false],"large":["https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/finidi-george.jpg",480,640,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/finidi-george.jpg",480,640,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/finidi-george.jpg",480,640,false],"elegant-magazine-featured":["https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/finidi-george.jpg",480,640,false],"elegant-magazine-medium":["https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/finidi-george.jpg",285,380,false],"elegant-magazine-medium-small":["https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/finidi-george.jpg",150,200,false],"elegant-magazine-thumbnail-small":["https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/finidi-george.jpg",38,50,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\/42941","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=42941"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42941\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42942,"href":"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42941\/revisions\/42942"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/40774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}