Ahead of the much international friendly tie between Costa Rica and Nigeria, Coach of the Super Eagles team B, Salisu Yusuf has predicted a very tough outing against the Central Americans.
The former Rangers and Elkanemi Warriors handler stated this while speaking exclusively with *Sunday Agunbiade (Mr VAR*) via a phone call from Real Intercontinental hotel in San Jose.
He assured football loving Nigerians that his lads would give a good account of themselves come Wednesday(Thursday in Nigeria).
My team is in good shape and we don’t have any injury concern. We had our first training session on Monday at match time, 8pm and we only walked out this morning
Then, we are going to have our second trainining tonight by 8pm (3am Nigerian time) at the venue of the match.”
The 2018 CHAN finalist gaffer added that : “So far so good, everybody is in good shape, we are in good spirit and I believe the team will give a good account of themselves against La Tricolor “.
Going down the memory lane, the World Cup bound side have not had it so smooth against African sides having lost twice against South Africa and won each against Cameroon and Tunisia.
On the hosts, Costa Rica have not lost their last four matches and they got to the quarter finals at 2014 FIFA World Cup losing via penalty Shootouts to the Netherlands.
The game is scheduled to kick off at 8pm Costa Rica time on Wednesday, 9 November (3am, 10 November in Nigeria).
