Thursday, 21 November, 2024

AFCON 2023: Super Eagles midfielder Alhassan Yusuf ruled out of Ivory Coast encounter


Estimated reading time: 2 minutes

Alhassan Yusuf has been ruled out of Super Eagles clash against AFCON 2023 hosts Ivory Coast on Thursday, NRTC reports.

The Royal Antwerp midfielder played for 69 minutes during Nigeria’s game against Equatorial Guinea on Sunday before he got injured. He was later replaced by Joe Aribo.

Super Eagles player Alhassan Yusuf is out of the match against Ivory Coast at AFCON 2023 (Image: Adepoju Tobi Samuel on X)

Yusuf impressed a large number of the Nigeria fanbase during the game which was the nation’s AFCON opener.

ALSO READ: AFCON 2023: Traore, Sinayoko score in Maliā€™s win against toothless South Africa

After the game, he spoke about his optimism to feature in the next game against the Ivorians.

“Iā€™m not going to train fully today, but I should be back in full training tomorrow,” Yusuf said on Monday.

ā€œIā€™m getting better and should be available for the game against Cote dā€™Ivoire.ā€

However, Super Eagles head coach Jose Peseiro has confirmed the 23-year-old player will not be available for selection tomorrow.

Alhassan Yusuf will be missing when the Super Eagles file out against Ivory Coast in their AFCON clash tomorrow. (Image: X)

This was confirmed during the pre-match press conference held today. Peseiro responded to a question relating to Yusufā€™s present state following a scan. The coach said the player wonā€™t be ready for the Ivory Coast match but might be available for the subsequent game.

ALSO READ: AFCON 2023: The most notable tournament absentees

ā€œYusuf is out from tomorrowā€™s game, there are no other injuries, itā€™s a good news from Yesterday. But for this match, he [Alhassan Yusuf] is not ready, but the next game, he can beā€ Peseiro said.


Discover more from News Round The Clock

Subscribe to get the latest posts sent to your email.

Join The Conversation

Join Our Mailing List

Nigerian Wedding – Dolapo + Jide ā¤ļøšŸ’

GROCERIES CATEGORY

Premier League Table

The Super Eagles at the FIFA World Cup (1994-2018)

Follow NRTC on Twitter

Discover more from News Round The Clock

Subscribe now to keep reading and get access to the full archive.

Continue reading