Eaglets battling with injuries

By way of contrast, Nigeria’s frontline are not enjoying such good fortune. Against Iran, Kelechi Iheanacho may have scored his fifth goal at the competition, but he was substituted off shortly afterwards with a muscle strain. His strike partner Success Isaac succumbed to a similar fate in the side’s group game against Sweden, suffering an injury moments after scoring in the first-half that has forced him to miss his country’s subsequent encounters