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2026 W'Cup qualifiers: Rwanda's Amavubi to arrive on Tuesday


2026 W'Cup qualifiers: Rwanda's Amavubi to arrive on Tuesday

The Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) has said Super Eagles' opponents in Saturday's 2026 FIFA World Cup qualifying match, the Amavubi of Rwanda will arrive in Lagos on Tuesday, September 2.

According to the NFF, a one-man advance party will be in Lagos today, but the full delegation will arrive in Lagos tomorrow aboard a Rwandair Airline flight at 1.15pm, and will proceed to Uyo, capital of Akwa Ibom State by 4pm of the same day.

The Matchday 7 encounter has become very crucial to both teams as they are both wide away from group leaders South Africa, who have 13 points (prior to FIFA's decision on their use of an ineligible player in the win over Lesotho in March this year).

Rwanda are second in the pool with eight points, same as Benin Republic, with Nigeria in fourth on seven points.

Lesotho have 6 points, with Zimbabwe propping up the table on four points.

While the world still awaits FIFA's decision, Nigeria and Rwanda will go for each other's jugular in order to be appropriately-placed to benefit from Bafana Bafana's error.

The Crocodiles will leap to 9 points if South Africa are penalized for their infraction.

Saturday's showdown at the Godswill Akpabio Stadium comes five months and two weeks after the Super Eagles defeated the Amavubi 2-0 in the latter's homeground in Kigali in a Matchday 5 encounter.

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