AFCON 2025: Why Super Eagles players were angry with Osimhen before Algeria clash

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More information has surfaced regarding Victor Osimhen’s irate altercation with his Super Eagles teammates during the team’s 4-0 victory over Mozambique in the 2025 Africa Cup of Nations quarterfinal.

Former BBC writer Osasu Obayiuwana claims that, contrary to popular belief, Osimhen’s fury was directed at Bruno Onyemachi rather than Ademola Lookman.

He claims that the players met behind closed doors without the coaching staff to voice their displeasure with Osimhen’s handling of the matter.

Obayiuwana wrote on X: “Osimhen’s source of ire was not Lookman. It was Bruno Onyemachi, whom he felt was playing lackadaisically.

“Lookman stepped in to mediate and, as we say in Nigeria, “caught stray bullets”.

“After Osimhen was subbed, having switched off mentally from the game, some @thenff & @NatSportsComm officials wanted to head to the dressing room, before the end of the game, to mediate between Osimhen and his colleagues, when the game ended.

“But @Ndidi25, the captain, told them the players were going to have a closed door players-only post-match dressing room meeting, from which even Eric Chelle was excluded. The officials did not enter the dressing room as a result.

“All the players expressed their unhappiness with Osimhen for his onfield behaviour. And he wasn’t happy about that.

“But I imagine that now they have an #AFCON2025 semi-final against hosts #Morocco to play, after an emphatic 2-0 QF win over Algeria, that spat is done and they are going to concentrate on the task at hand. There you have it!”

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