Super eagles interim coach Augustine Eguavoen has named three players whose absence cost Nigeria a place In the 2022 world cup in Qatar.
Eguavoen said that his problems started when Leicester city's Wilfred ndidi got injured.
Wilfred was forced to withdraw from the two-legged play-off match after suffering a knee injury in a Europa conference League round of 16 tie at Rennes.
Explaining the ordeal let the super eagles failure to qualify for the tournament on SuperSport, the former coach pointed out that Judas replacement, Innocent Bonke was also good out after suffering an injury in Kumasi.
To further Worsen the situation,Frank Onyeka had to be changed at half-time due to injury.
This left the coach with only Oghenekaro Etebo and the word font star could only play for 60 minutes, having just recovered from a long-term injury.
"Imagine a Ghana without a Partey. Losing Ndidi what first of all a problem and then we made amends by bringing in Bonke who is a governor and then he got injured as well,"the 1994 African cup of Nations said.
Onyeka who was also on top of his game also got injured so he had a bit of problems.
"Etebo who is just coming back from injury played well in Kumasi when he came in better only had to give us his best for the first 60 minutes.
"If you look at the bench now, who would have come in? It is just change formation within the players. At 1-1 needed to get that one go but it just didn't happen".
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