By Amaechi Agbo

Ahead of the last 2021 Africa Cup of Nations qualifying match against Lesotho today in Lagos, Super Eagles coach, Gernot Rohr has stated that he is going to stick with his established players and not ready to give ‘unknown’ players chance in the encounter.  

Nigeria is playing Lesotho in the last Group L match of the qualifying race after sealing top position of the group on Saturday

With the match being described as a dead robber game in that Nigeria has already qualified for the tournament holding in Cameroon next year and Lesotho already eliminated, many football followers have excepted the German coach to rejig his team. But Rohr is not ready to gamble

According to him, the match against Lesotho is a preparatory game ahead of the 2022 World Cup qualifiers.

“We play Liberia and then we go to Central Africa, (for World Cup qualifiers) already it is a preparation.

“We don’t have so many games so I can’t give chance to play everybody.

“Some players are still missing, our wingers like (Simon) Moses, (Samuel) Kalu and perhaps (Alex) Iwobi again.

“There is already space to see other solutions like we saw in Benin Republic. It is a short time to travel and recover. We had only one training session but I think the team is ready and want to do very well to give a big pleasure to the fans of Lagos,” the coach said.

The Super Eagles will play Lesotho at the Teslim Balogun Stadium, Lagos by 4pm today.