The announcement from Napoli that Victor Osimhen would be ruled out for three months following surgery to repair cheekbone and eye socket fractures was a punch in the stomach, the ensuing gasp heard from desert to coast.
That swelled the list of confirmed Nigerian Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) absentees to two. However, and this is no disrespect to him, to speak of Oghenekaro Etebo’s unavailability in the same breath simply is not realistic. Whereas the Watford midfielder is willing and tenacious at his best, Osimhen is the entire point of the team, his running giving definition and the illusion of structure to what has largely been an uninspired, abstruse tactical set-up. He is the skeleton on which it all hangs.

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