Ogunmodede Confident of CHAN Ticket for Home-based Eagles

*Galaxies coach promise Eagles hell in Uyo

Head Coach of the Super Eagles B team, Daniel Ogunmodede, has backed his wards to secure qualification for the 2025 CHAN tournament scheduled to hold early next year.

The Super Eagles Team B held their own and forced Ghana Galaxies to a goalless draw in the first leg of the qualifying playoff round for the 2025 African Championships at the Accra Sports Stadium on Sunday evening.

The result was the first time in the history of the qualifying tournament that the Nigerian team would come out of Ghana unbeaten.

This weekend, Coach Ogunmodede’s side will welcome the Galaxies of Ghana to the Godswill Akpabio International Stadium in Uyo Stadium, and the Remo Stars gaffer is confident his side has all it takes to qualify when they play on Saturday.

“I am satisfied with the draw. Now it is for us to qualify for the CHAN and knowing fully well the implication of the qualification, the players are up to the task and make a name for themselves.

The qualification will add more value to our league, the players and the Indigenous coaches. We had a shaky first half, but we improved after the restart,” the 44-year-old said in his post-match interview.

However, Ghana’s coach, Coach Draman, in his post-match presser, noted that his wards did well and were unfortunate not to have scored in a match they dominated.

“I think it was a very tight game and we controlled the greater part of the game and I will say we were lucky not to have conceded because in such games you can easily concede,” the gaffer noted.

The last time out in the same tournament, it was Ghana that picked the ticket after a 2-2 scoreline over the two legs, the Galaxies pipped the Nigerian side on penalties at the MKO Abiola Stadium in Abuja.

The Ghanaian team will be backed by the mentality of the last World Cup play-off tournament between the Super Eagles and the Black Stars to the Mundial in Qatar.

After a goalless outing in Kumasi, Nigeria forced the visitors to a 1-1 draw in Abuja and thus enabled the Ghanaians to pick the ticket on the away goal rule.

The overall winners of the final playoff will advance to the delayed 2024 CHAN to be played in Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda between 1st – 28th February 2025.