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Argentina, Nigeria among favourites to win world cup, says Mikel

 

Super Eagles captain Mikel Obi has expressed the belief that the three-time African champions are among the favourites to win the 2018 FIFA World Cup, which kicks off in Russia on Thursday.

He also tipped Argentina with Lionel Messi as a top contender for the World Cup in Russia.

Mikel, who spoke during a press conference in Essentuki before the Super Eagles departure for Kaliningrad where they will face Croatia on Saturday, warned that the Super Eagles should not be judged by their poor results in their pre-World Cup friendlies.

“It’s a good time to try all of that. We know how we play. We know what we can give. We just need to focus more on the tournament,” Mikel began.

“We want to be Nigeria,cwe want to play our way and obviously we want to do that on Saturday. Now is the business time and we have to switch.

“I think we want to start from the blast of the whistle. We want to go in for every tackle and win every ball and dictate and control the game.

“This is how we play. We don’t want to wait for the second half. This is something we have spoken about and we want to improve on it. We can do better from from the first half of the game and we hope that we can start well in this tournament.”

On Saturday’s game against Croatia, Mikel admitted that they are a good team and it won’t be easy going against the fantastic players in the Vatreni side.

“There’s no easy team in this world Cup. We know that. Croatia is a team with fantastic players.

“Its going to be a difficult game. It’s going to be a game of tactics. But we have to make sure we control the game.

“It’s going to be tough we know how we play and we will carry on playing that way.”

The captain also added that the Super Eagles will benefit well from the reputation of the two Nigerian players plying their trade in the Russian League.

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