BY JACOB AJOM, Calabar
Two first half goals from  Success Isaac and Ihenacho Kelechi and a 68th minute strike by Alhassan Ibrahim  gave Nigeria a 3-0 win over Guinea in the first leg of the 2013 Africa U-17 championship qualifier .

The match which was played in Calabar, Sunday completed a perfect weekend for  Nigerian football.

Coach Garba Manu praised his players for beating the Guineans. He said that the Nigerian team will be better in the second leg billed for Conakry in a fortnight.

The coach said the Eaglets did their best to get the victory as four of his regulars were not available for the match.  “We have four of our regular players who are down with injuries and I am sure before the second leg in Conakry they will be fit.”

He said the Guineans gave his boys a good match and promised to work on the strikers in order that chances created could be converted in subsequent matches, “We couldn’t score more than one goal in the second half because of this injury problem.

“Twenty minutes to the end of the match our recovery rate became very slow. We intend to work on the fitness of the players and how to shoot on target. You could see we lost so many scoring chances in the first half. The second leg will be a different ball game,” the coach postulated.