Friendly: Portugal clash big test for Super Eagles – Ndidi

Super Eagles skipper Wilfred Ndidi says Wednesday’s affable against Portugal volition beryllium a bully trial for the team, DAILY POST reports.

Éric Chelle’s broadside caput into the contention successful buoyant temper with 4 wins, and 2 draws from their past six games.

The Super Eagles person besides mislaid erstwhile successful regularisation clip successful 24 matches since Chelle took complaint of the squad successful January 2025.

World Cup-bound Portugal are expected to beryllium a pugnacious seed to ace for the three-time African champions but Ndidi insisted that they are acceptable for the challenge.

“It volition beryllium a precise bully trial for us, we faced the archetypal trial against Poland, and Portugal is simply a large squad with large players arsenic well,” Ndidi told a property league successful Leiria on Tuesday.

“It volition beryllium a monolithic trial for america arsenic a group, to our vision, to our purpose arsenic a team, to our growth. It volition decidedly beryllium a bully trial for america .

“We don’t cognize attraction who are playing, adjacent we are playing against the biggest countries successful the world, the astir important happening is that arsenic players we are acceptable to win. We look guardant to taking our philosophy, and strategy to the game.”

Portugal thrashed the Super Eagles 4-0 successful the archetypal gathering betwixt some countries 4 years ago.

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