Golan Algeria #23 Luca Zidane da dan wasan gaba na Najeriya # 09 Victor Osimhen sun yi musabaha bayan wasan daf da na kusa da na karshe a gasar cin kofin kasashen Afrika (CAN) tsakanin Algeria da Najeriya a babban filin wasa na Marrakesh a ranar 10 ga Janairu, 2026. (Hoto daga SEBASTIEN BOZON / AFP)
Victor Osimhen ya dage cewa ya mayar da hankali ne wajen lashe gasar cin kofin nahiyar Afrika, ba wai ya zama dan wasan da ya fi kowa zura kwallo a raga a Najeriya ba, bayan da ya samu bugun daga kai sai mai tsaron gida a wasan da Super Eagles ta doke Algeria da ci 2-0 a ranar Asabar.
Dan wasan wanda ya rufe fuska ne ya baiwa Najeriya nasara a wasan da suka buga a birnin Marrakesh da kwallo ta 35 a wasanni 51 da ya buga wa kasarsa, kafin daga bisani ya kafa takwaransa Akor Adams a karo na biyu yayin da Super Eagles da ke da kwarewa a gasar ta tsallake zuwa wasan kusa da na karshe da mai masaukin baki Morocco.
A yanzu dai Osimhen, mai shekaru 27, ya rage kwallaye biyu kacal a ci gaba da buga tarihin cin kwallaye 37 da Marigayi Rashidi Yekini ya rike, dan Najeriyar da ya lashe gasar AFCON a shekarar 1994, kuma ya buga gasar cin kofin duniya sau biyu.
“Ko kadan,” Osimhen ya ce lokacin da aka tambaye shi ko doke tarihin zai kasance a zuciyarsa a sauran wasannin gasar cin kofin duniya.
“Na sha fada sau da yawa cewa ba kome ba idan na daidaita ko na wuce tarihin,” in ji tsohon dan wasan na Napoli wanda ya zura kwallaye tara a wasanni takwas na baya-bayan nan na kasa da kasa, ciki har da a karshen wasan neman gurbin shiga gasar cin kofin duniya.
“Rashidi Yekini shi ne dan wasan gaba mafi kyau da Super Eagles ta taba samar kuma a gare ni kawai na yi kokarin yin iya kokarina a kungiyar.
“Abin mamaki ne na zama wani bangare na tarihi a Super Eagles don haka kawai ina so in lashe wani abu ga kasata.”
Osimhen, wanda ya zura kwallaye hudu a wasanni hudu na AFCON, ya kara da cewa: “Ina da kwarin gwiwa kan yadda nake taka leda tare da taimakon abokan wasana, amma a gare ni ba a zura kwallo a raga ko taimakawa ba, sai dai in ci wani abu da wannan tawagar.
“Muna kan hanya madaidaiciya amma ba zai zama mai sauƙi ba.”
Najeriya za ta kara da Morocco ne a wasan daf da na karshe a ranar Laraba mai zuwa a birnin Rabat, birnin da aka kawo karshen fatanta a gasar cin kofin duniya da bugun daga kai sai mai tsaron gida da Jamhuriyar Demokradiyyar Kongo a watan Nuwamba.
Martanin da suka mayar a karo na biyu a jere a gasar neman cancantar shiga gasar cin kofin duniya ya taka rawar gani, inda Najeriya ta lashe dukkanin wasanni biyar da ta buga a wannan gasar ta cin kofin duniya kuma ta zura kwallaye 14 a gasar.
Za su iya samun nasara da tazara mai girma a kan Algeria bayan sun samu damammaki da dama a farkon rabin lokaci kafin Osimhen ya samu nasara bayan an dawo daga hutun rabin lokaci.
Kocin Mali dan kasar Masar Eric Chelle ya ce “Ina da hanyar taka leda a zuciyata lokacin da na karbi aikin kuma ina ganin muna da wani mutum a wannan kungiyar a yanzu, da kwallo da kuma babu.”
“Za mu iya tashi 2-0 a lokacin hutun rabin lokaci, mun kasance mafi asibiti a rabi na biyu, kwallon karshe ta fi kyau.
“Na yi farin ciki kuma ‘yan wasan suna jin dadin kansu, kawai muna bukatar mu yi kokarin ci gaba da wannan kyakkyawan aiki.”
