Rohr Informs Moses, Iwobi, Idowu, Obis, Uzoho, 5 Others They Will Start Vs England; Ndidi Update

Published: June 01, 2018

Allnigeriasoccer.com can exclusively report that Nigeria manager Gernot Rohr has already picked the eleven players that will start the eagerly anticipated pre-World Cup friendly against England on Saturday.

Due to the inclement weather, the training that was scheduled to start at 1700 hours at Wembley had to be suspended for several minutes, but they finally had a short session before returning to their hotel.

The players didn't do much in training today, they performed warmup exercises and worked with the ball before Rohr called off the session.

There was some good news, with Leicester City midfielder Wilfred Ndidi training with the squad but that is not to say he's in contention to face the Three Lions as he's lacking match fitness and there was no practice game between the Team A and Team B to test his fitness.

After the training session, Rohr informed Francis Uzoho that he will be in goal against the Three Lions, and the German has also selected Abdullahi Shehu, William Troost-Ekong, Leon Balogun and Brian Idowu as the defenders.

Despite only one full training session with the Super Eagles in London, Victor Moses has been informed that he will make the starting line-up, as well as Eddy Onazi, Joel Obi, Obi Mikel and Alex Iwobi.

Former Watford striker Odion Ighalo starts upfront in a 4-2-3-1 system.

Nigeria Starting XI Vs England : Uzoho; Abdullahi Shehu, Troost-Ekong, Balogun, Idowu; Onazi, Obi; Victor Moses, Obi Mikel, Alex Iwobi; Ighalo.

Ifeanyi Emmanuel