International Friendlies: Eagles Play Goalless, Bosnia Wins Again

The Super Eagles of Nigeria battled to a goalless scoreline against Greece in an international friendly played in Philadelphia on Tuesday, in a warm-up match for the 2014 FIFA World Cup.

Nigeria's number goalkeeper Vincent Enyeama kept the Greek team at bay with superb saves on Greece strikers Georgios Samaras and Dimitris Salpingidis through the duration of the game.

Early in the second half, the African champions went close with a positive attack from Chelsea striker Victor Moses, but his efforts could not materialise as the two sides played on till the 90th minute hoping that they do not concede a goal.

Greece had the majority of scoring opportunities in the first half with a 21st minute 30-yard strike from Lazarus Christodoulopoulos which went just high and later an Enyeama save of Loannis Fetfadzidis attempt in the 28th minute.

Nigeria who just named its 23 Man list on Monday June 2, played its first pre-world cup friendly against the Tartan Army of Scotland last Wednesday on a 2-2 ending, will play the USA next in its third and final international friendly before landing in Brazil for the finale:

Chief coach of the Super Eagles Stephen Keshi also had this to say:

Coach Stephen Keshi will lead his team of 23 to the World cup against Group F opponents; Argentina, Bosnia and Iran.

The Eagles have been tipped alongside Argentina to qualify for the second round from Group F at the expense of the other two against the recent show of excellent form of Bosnia in their last two friendlies against Ivory Coast and Mexico which the former USSR nation defeated the African and Central American Opponents 2-1 and 1-0 respectively.

The Greek team will play their next game against Bolivia on Friday before heading out for their base in Brazil, they will open their World Cup campaign against Colombia on June 14 in a group that also has Côte d'Ivoire and Japan.