Unfortunately, given the situation, Raphael Onyedika was always going to drop out of the Nigeria starting XI for today’s last-16 tie despite his goalscoring heroics against Uganda.

Ndidi, Iwobi and Onyeka have all been restored to the line-up, the midfield trident that helped see off Tunisia in Group C.

Despite none of the heroes of the Uganda win keeping their place for today’s game, Eric Chelle will be mightily pleased to have a handful of in-form players to call upon from the bench.