Headline : Guinea Bissau/Nigeria: Guinea Bissau 0-1 Nigeria Ratings - Osayi-Samuel Shines Again, Chukwueze, Sanusi Disappoint

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Osayi-Samuel proved his performances are solid and reliable while some players failed to live up to their club pedigree

The Super Eagles got the much-needed win over Guinea Bissau to give reprieve to the under-fire manager, Jose Peseiro, with a hard-fought 1-0 win that took Nigeria back to the top of Group A with nine points, with two matches left in the 2024 AFCON qualifying series.

A first-half penalty, expertly dispatched by Moses Simon, sealed the win, and even though the Eagles created chances to make the score line more emphatic, the lone goal was enough to give Peseiro more time to fashion a winning machine from the plethora of stars at his disposal before their matchday 5 encounter away to Sierra Leone in June.

Whatever was going through Uzoho's mind in the 60th minute must never occur again. On a bumpy pitch where it was hard to comfortably control the ball, the goalkeeper should have had more sense than to dawdle. That singular mistake almost gave an equaliser to the Guinea-Bissau team.

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