2021 AFCON Qualifier: Nigeria Qualification Is In Our Hands - Rohr

  2021 AFCON Qualifier: Nigeria Qualification Is In Our Hands - Rohr By Sampson Adedeji Barely a month to the match-day 5 of the 2021 African Cup Of Nations qualifier against Benin Republic, manager of Nigeria's Super Eagles, Gernot Rohr, has said that the hope of qualifying for the tournament is in our hands, BSNSports.com.ng reports Nigeria failed to pick the qualification ticket in the last round of matches after they played two draws against Lone Stars of Sierra Leone in the match day 3 and 4. While speaking to the Newscentral on YouTube Rohr further stated that he hope to have striker Victor Osimhen fully fit for the game. "We should get the points we needed to qualify, I believe we can do it and is in our hand. "We are unbeaten in the qualifiers, two wins and 2 draws and we also have best scorer in the qualifier in Osimhen I hope he will be back in full fitness. "We can hope to go to AFCON after the start of the World Cup qualifier because we started qualifier in June, then there will be a year of 2022, if we qualify for the World cup, there will be AFCON and World Cup , then you can imagine how long and how many games we have to play. "It's fantastic because sometimes we don't have so many games like now, no game since November until now and you have to be very and we should do better than what we did in the past. "We achieved Bronze medal in the past and everybody was happy and now we have to go forward and do better," he stated. Nigeria will take on Squirrels of Benin Republic on 27th of March in Port Novo for a place in the 2021 African Cup Of Nations.