‘Yan wasan Super Eagles na Najeriya sun yi murnar zira kwallo a raga a gasar AFCON 2025 wasan zagaye na 16 da Mozambique. Hoto: NFF Media
Najeriya Super Eagles A gobe ne dai kungiyar Desert Warriors ta Aljeriya za ta yi wani gagarumin artabu a filin wasa na Grand Stade de Marrakech mai daukar mutane 45,000, a wasan daf da na kusa da karshe na gasar cin kofin nahiyar Afirka karo na 35 da ake ci gaba da yi.
Kasashen biyu, wadanda ke da lakabi biyar na Afirka a tsakanin su, za su jefa komai a cikin karawar yayin da suke neman matsayi a cikin hudun karshe na watakila mafi girma da kuma kyan gani. AFCON gasar a tarihin gasar ta shekaru 69.
Dukkan kungiyoyin biyu sun kasance masu mallakar gidaje a wani wuri. Eagles sun tashi daga Fès – inda suka buga dukkan wasannin rukuni-rukuni da na zagaye na 16 – zuwa Marrakech a jiya, yayin da Fennecs kuma suka yi tafiya daga Rabat (inda kuma suka buga dukkan wasanninsu hudu da suka gabata).
Zakarun Najeriya sau uku sun zura kwallaye 12 a wasanni hudu na farko (wasanni uku na rukuni da kuma zagaye na 16), yayin da Fennecs (wanda aka fi sani da Desert Warriors) suka ci sau takwas, ciki har da doke Sudan uku kowannensu da Equatorial Guinea a rukunin E.
Sun kawar da Jamhuriyar Dimokaradiyyar Kwango da bugun daga kai sai mai tsaron gida Super Eagles ya yi gajeren aikin Mambas na Mozambique.
Ta’addancin Najeriya Victor Osimhen da Ademola Lookman, da sabuwar fuskar Akor Adams, wanda ke da kwarin gwuiwa da kwallonsa ta farko ta AFCON (da Mozambique a zagaye na 16) da ci gaba da murmurewa da mahaifiyarsa ke yi, ya yi zafi sosai ba zai iya jurewa zakarun 1990 da 2019 ba.
Osimhen da Lookman su ne suka jagoranci Najeriya ta zo ta biyu a Cote d’Ivoire shekaru biyu da suka wuce, kuma sun nuna kwarin guiwa a Morocco inda kowannensu ya zura kwallaye uku, yayin da Lookman ya ci guda biyar, Osimhen kuma ya ci daya.
Koyaya, gaskiyar ita ce, Fennecs suna da nasu fakitin waɗanda suka yi nasara a wasa, waɗanda suka tabbatar tsawon shekaru sun kasance masu dogaro sosai kuma suna iya samun sakamako lokacin da ba a zata ba.
Baghdad Bounedjah ne ya zura kwallo daya tilo a wasan karshe na 2019 da Senegal a birnin Alkahira, wanda ya baiwa Algeria kofin AFCON na biyu, kuma ta kasance daya daga cikin ‘yan wasan da suka fi karfin a tarihin Fennecs.
Kyaftin Riyad Mahrez ya zama mai fa’ida kamar Rabah Madjer (wanda ya dauki al’ummar kasar a kafadarsa kamar yadda kasar arewacin Afirka ta dauki bakuncin gasar AFCON a shekarar 1990), Lakhdar Belloumi da kuma Abdelhafid Tasfaout.
Ismael Bennacer wani abokin ciniki ne mai wayo, kodayake yana aiki daga tsakiyar fili, kuma mai tsaron baya Ramy Bensebaini ya ci kwallo daya tilo lokacin da Fennecs ta doke Najeriya a wasan sada zumunta a Austria a watan Oktoba 2020.
Adil Boulbina ne ya zura kwallon da ta kawo karshen fatan Leopards na DR Congo, sannan kuma Super Eagles dole ne su yi hattara da ‘yan wasan tsakiya Ibrahim Maza da Hicham Boudaoui, da kuma dan wasan gaba Anis Hadj-Moussa.
Sai dai duk da haka, Najeriya na ganin ta taka rawar gani sosai a wannan gasar, inda kungiyar ke buga wasa da manufa, da kishi, alfahari da sha’awa, kuma kyaftin Wilfred Ndidi da Alex Iwobi sun ba da kuzari da kuzari.
Kwallaye biyun da Osimhen ya zura a ragar Mozambique, ya sa ya zura kwallaye uku a tarihin Najeriya da ya zura kwallaye 37 a tarihi, kuma Lookman yanzu yana da kwallaye 6 a gasar AFCON, inda ya zura a ragar Kamaru sannan ya ci Angola a zagayen gaba na gasar karshe a Cote d’Ivoire. Duk ‘yan wasan gaba biyu za su yi marmarin ƙarawa ga ƙididdigansu.
Paul Onuachu ya zura kwallo a ragar kasar Uganda a wasan rukuni na 150 da ya ci Najeriya, kuma zai iya taka rawa a wasan na ranar Asabar.
Wanda ya yi nasara a karawar zai fafata ne da wanda ya yi nasara a wasan kusa da na karshe, tsakanin Indomitable Lions na Kamaru da Atlas Lions na Morocco, wanda za a yi ranar Juma’a a Rabat.
Ba zato ba tsammani, lokacin da Morocco ta karbi bakuncin gasar AFCON a shekarar 1988 (gasar da Masarautar Arewacin Afirka ta yi a baya), Kamaru ta kara da Morocco a wasan kusa da na karshe na farko yayin da Najeriya da Algeria suka fafata a wasan kusa da na karshe na biyu. ‘Yan hudu a yanzu suna maimaita tarihi a matakin daf da na kusa da karshe.
Shekaru talatin da takwas da suka gabata, Najeriya ta doke Algeria a bugun fanariti a bugun fanariti bayan da aka tashi wasa da kuma karin lokaci da ci 1-1, yayin da Kamaru ta yi waje da Morocco mai masaukin baki, inda aka tashi wasan karshe na Najeriya da Kamaru. Indomitable Lions ta yi nasara da ci 1-0 mai cike da cece-kuce.
