Iheanacho, Osimhen out as Eagles battle Black Mambas today

Osimhen is out of today’s game against Mozambique

The Super Eagles will be without strikers Kelechi Iheanacho and Victor Osimhen when they confront Mozambique’s Black Mambas today in their second international friendly match of the current FIFA free window.

The match will hold in Portugal, where the Super Eagles conceded a last-minute goal to draw 2-2 with Saudi Arabia’s Green Falcons on Friday.

Iheanacho, who changed the tenor of the game and netted a spectacular second goal against the Green Falcons, according to thenff.com, has left the camp to attend to personal matters, while Osimhen is nursing a hamstring injury.

There are fears that Osimhen may miss the African Cup of Nations again if the scan he had at the weekend showed that he copped a hamstring injury. The Napoli of Italy star missed the 2021 AFCON in Cameroon also due to injury.

Yet, Peseiro is bullish ahead of the encounter with Mozambique, insisting he has a clutch of forwards, who can send packing the southern Africans in their only fifth-ever clash with Nigeria at senior level.

“We will miss Kelechi and Victor, but we have other good players who can make Nigeria proud. I look at the bench and see players who can step up and take their chances,” he told thenff.com.

The Eagles are expected to beat the Mambas to have a positive mindset ahead of their 2026 FIFA World Cup qualifying matches against Lesotho and Zimbabwe next month.

The clash with the Mambas is the last gathering for the three-time African champions before the race to the 2026 FIFA World Cup begins, in which they host the Crocodiles of Lesotho and then fly to play Zimbabwe’s Warriors away, all within a few days in November.

With Iheanacho and Osimhen out, the Eagles’ attacking duty will fall on Victor