{"id":835453,"date":"2025-03-20T11:13:13","date_gmt":"2025-03-20T16:13:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/20\/positive-feelings-caf-poty-confident-about-super-eagles-under-eric-chelle\/"},"modified":"2025-03-20T11:13:13","modified_gmt":"2025-03-20T16:13:13","slug":"positive-feelings-caf-poty-confident-about-super-eagles-under-eric-chelle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/20\/positive-feelings-caf-poty-confident-about-super-eagles-under-eric-chelle\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cPositive feelings\u201d \u2013 CAF POTY confident about Super Eagles under Eric Chelle"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The 2024 CAF Player of the year award winner, Ademola Olajade Lookman, has revealed he has positive feelings about the Super Eagles<\/a> under Eric Chelle, Soccernet.ng<\/a> reports.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The 27-year-old attacker touched down Kigali on Monday, alongside William Troost-Ekong<\/a>, Calvin Bassey, Ola Aina and Alex Iwobi ahead of Nigeria\u2019s<\/a> crucial World Cup qualifier against Rwanda on Friday.<\/p>\n

After the team\u2019s second training session, Lookman admitted he\u2019s feeling positive about the ideas Eric Chelle<\/a> has implemented among the rest of his teammates.<\/p>\n

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Ademola Lookman Celebrating his goal against Angola at the 2023 AFCON in Cote D Ivoire. [Photo credit\/Imago]<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Soccer What Lookman<\/a> said<\/strong><\/h2>\n
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\u201cI\u2019m not feeling any pressure at all. I\u2019m just glad to be back with the squad, back with the guys. We have a big task ahead of us and we\u2019re looking forward to it,\u201d the former Everton man said in an interview with OJB Sports<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Calvin Bassey, Ademola Lookman and Ola Aina during the Super Eagles of Nigeria training in preparation for the match against Cheetahs of Benin Republic [Photo credit\/Imago]<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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\u201cWe\u2019ve have loads of meetings about how the manager wants us to play, our game plan, and aspects of how we defend and attack, so it\u2019s all positive.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re all keying into his ideas. As a group, we\u2019ve had our second session today, and yesterday\u2019s session went well too, so, positive feelings,\u201d the 2024 UEFA Europa League winner concluded.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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\u201cNo pressure at all. I\u2019m just really happy to be back with the squad and the guys. We\u2019ve got a big challenge ahead, and we\u2019re all excited to take it on.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2013Lookman on his first game for Nigeria since winning CAF Player of the Year last year.#ojbsports<\/a> #OJBinKigali<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/MOPUNolNaA<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Ojora Babatunde (@ojbsports) March 19, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

\nAdemola Lookman was out with an injury the last time the Super Eagles of Nigeria took on Rwanda back in November at the Godswill Akpabio International Stadium in Uyo. Nigeria lost 2-1 to the Amavubi.<\/p>\n

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Ademola Lookman of Nigeria during the TotalEnergies Caf Africa Cup of Nations Afcon 2023 match between Nigeria and Angola [Photo credit\/Imago]<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Soccer When Will Nigeria play?<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Nigeria will trade tackles with Rwanda in Kigali on Friday, March 21, before returning to the Godswill Akpabio International Stadium in Uyo to lock horns with Zimbabwe four days later.<\/p>\n

The two games are must-win fixtures for the Super Eagles, who have endured a torrid start to the World Cup qualifying campaign.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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Soccer The 2024 CAF Player of the year award winner, Ademola Olajade Lookman, has revealed he has positive feelings about the Super Eagles under Eric Chelle, Soccernet.ng reports. The 27-year-old attacker touched down Kigali on Monday, alongside William Troost-Ekong, Calvin Bassey, Ola Aina and Alex Iwobi ahead of Nigeria\u2019s crucial World Cup qualifier against Rwanda […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":835454,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34081,22550,2005],"tags":[20554,9731],"class_list":{"0":"post-835453","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-feelings","8":"category-positive","9":"category-soccer","10":"tag-feelings","11":"tag-positive"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/835453","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=835453"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/835453\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/835454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=835453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=835453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=835453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}