Babatunde was adjudged to have handled the ball in the eighteen yard box in the 89th minute. A closer view at the decision, and it was a wrong one on the part of the match referee, Mr Sani Abiodun from Osun State.
"It was the worst decision I have seen. I don't know what is happening with the level of officiating in Nigeria," the central defender fumed.
''We had a terrible officiating in Sapele. But a decision like the one today (Thursday) does not belong in Nigerian football, and certainly not in a match of the magnitude against a team competing at the continent," he continued.
"The penalty was a ''film trick'' after Eseosa Igbinoba's 80th minute stunner. The centre referee only used the influence of the game not beamed live to act a drama.
''It took the intervention of our head coach, Mohammed Baba Ganaru to calm us and continue with the game.''
''I am appealing to the League Management Company (LMC) to ensure that more games are beamed live to curb the excesses of the men in black, he told futbalgalore.blogspot.com moments after the match in Sapele.
Taiwo
Awoniyi, Alhassan Ibrahim and Musa Yahaya will lead the Flying Eagles
20-man squad to two tune-up matches in Morocco this weekend.
Awoniyi and Ibrahim each fired a hat-trick in a test game on Thursday in Abuja which the country’s U20 team won 12-0.
The new Flying Eagles under coach Manu Garba will play two friendlies against their Moroccan counterparts on Wednesday, April 9, and another game two days later.
Both teams are preparing for 2015 African Youth Championship qualifiers next month.
Nigeria face the winners of the match between Kenya and Tanzania, while Morocco take on the winners of the clash between Togo and Equatorial Guinea.
The squad to Morocco:
Goalkeepers: Adamu Abubakar, Abdulazeez Abubakar, Emeka Nwabulu.
Defenders: Aliyu Abubakar, Wilfred Ndidi, Prince Izu Omego, Ifeanyi Nweke, Mustapha Abdullahi, Zaharaddeen Bello.
Midfielders: Abdullahi Alfa, Akinjide Idowu,Ifeanyi Matthew, Samuel Mathias, Musa Yahaya, Anthony Omaka, Bernard Bulbwa.
Strikers: Taiwo Awoniyi, Alhassan Ibrahim, Suleiman Abdullahi, Abubakar Lawal.
- See more at: http://naijasportscentre.com/home/news_page.php?newsid=1222#sthash.sCDhMHAp.q7Vf5J64.dpuf
The new Flying Eagles under coach Manu Garba will play two friendlies against their Moroccan counterparts on Wednesday, April 9, and another game two days later.
Both teams are preparing for 2015 African Youth Championship qualifiers next month.
Nigeria face the winners of the match between Kenya and Tanzania, while Morocco take on the winners of the clash between Togo and Equatorial Guinea.
The squad to Morocco:
Goalkeepers: Adamu Abubakar, Abdulazeez Abubakar, Emeka Nwabulu.
Defenders: Aliyu Abubakar, Wilfred Ndidi, Prince Izu Omego, Ifeanyi Nweke, Mustapha Abdullahi, Zaharaddeen Bello.
Midfielders: Abdullahi Alfa, Akinjide Idowu,Ifeanyi Matthew, Samuel Mathias, Musa Yahaya, Anthony Omaka, Bernard Bulbwa.
Strikers: Taiwo Awoniyi, Alhassan Ibrahim, Suleiman Abdullahi, Abubakar Lawal.
- See more at: http://naijasportscentre.com/home/news_page.php?newsid=1222#sthash.sCDhMHAp.q7Vf5J64.dpuf
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