Revealed: What Zimbabwe captain said about Nigeria ahead of 2026 FIFA World Cup qualifier

• The Super Eagles of Nigeria volition big Zimbabwe astatine the Godswill Akpabio International Stadium today
• Nigeria disconnected the backmost of their 2-0 triumph implicit Rwanda volition anticipation to people different triumph implicit the Warriors
• Zimbabwe squad skipper Marshall Munetsi has fired a stern informing to the Super Eagles astatine the presser successful Uyo

Zimbabwe nationalist squad skipper Marshall Munetsi has fired a informing to the Super Eagles of Nigeria up of the 2026 FIFA World Cup qualifier lucifer aboriginal today.

Nigeria volition big Zimbabwe astatine the Godswill Akpabio International Stadium successful Uyo astatine 5 p.m. section clip contiguous aft a important triumph implicit Rwanda successful Kigali.

Marshall Munetsi playing for Zimbabwe astatine AFCON 2019. Photo by Oliver Weiken/Picture Alliance.
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The triumph distant revived Nigeria's hopes of qualifying for the 2026 Mundial aft a winless commencement successful the opening 4 games and they volition anticipation to proceed today.

Zimbabwe are bottommost of the radical with 3 points and came backmost from 2 goals down to unafraid a captious constituent against Benin Republic successful their archetypal lucifer of the window.

Group C is inactive unfastened adjacent though South Africa are champion placed to unafraid the automatic qualification spot from the radical arsenic they are archetypal with 10 points from 5 games.

Bafana Bafana look Gernot Rohr’s Benin Republic adjacent astatine the Félix Houphouet-Boigny Stadium successful Abidjan, the adopted location of the Cheetahs.

Munetsi sends connection to Nigeria

Zimbabwe skipper Marshall Munetsi, speaking during the pre-match league astatine the Godswill Akpabio International Stadium yesterday claims they volition not respect Nigeria.

He admitted Nigeria person a precise beardown onslaught but added that the Warriors person a young broadside and it would not lone beryllium astir Nigeria's attackers alone.

“For us, we are ever up for the challenge. History is ever meant to beryllium made, truthful successful immoderate case, we volition ever play our hearts retired and immoderate comes retired volition travel out,” helium said per Cosmos Chukwuemeka.“We besides person prime players who tin beryllium capable to grip definite situations and with the close experience. But for america supra each we volition not respect Nigeria.“It’s not to conscionable travel present and beryllium a instrumentality but we’ll instrumentality it arsenic a much superior crippled and effort to get the maximum points.”

The Wolverhampton Wanderers midfielder is 1 of the biggest names successful the Zimbabwe squad on with the likes of erstwhile skipper Knowledge Musona, who precocious came retired of retirement.

Zimbabwe skipper Marshall Munetsi playing for Premier League nine Wolverhampton Wanderers. Photo by Alex Broadway.
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The past lucifer betwixt the 2 sides ended successful a 1-1 gully with on-loan Middlesbrough midfielder Kelechi Iheanacho cancelling retired Walter Musona’s opener.

As noted by 11v11, determination person been 8 meetings betwixt the 2 sides and since Zimbabwe won the archetypal ever successful 1981, Nigeria person won 4 and drawn 3 of the different seven.

Ekong reflects connected captaincy

Legit.ng reported that defender William Troost-Ekong reflected connected Super Eagles' captaincy contempt being calved extracurricular of Nigeria successful the Netherlands.

Ekong admitted that enactment is portion of his DNA arsenic helium visited Nigeria during holidays arsenic a kid and this has instilled enactment successful him up of time.

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Source: Legit.ng