Notable Stats After Recent Super Eagles Games.....

International Games in September 2018 -- Nigeria played two international matches in September against Seychelles Islands and Liberia. Here are some statistical nuggets that emerge after those games.

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Nigeria's often-vilified goalkeeper, Daniel Akpeyi, has now played 10 games for the national team but is yet to keep a goal out in each of those 10 games. This is an infamous statistic that appears to support the fan backlash against Akpeyi. His current per game rate for conceding goals is at 1.25 per game.

Samuel Kalu debuted as an "A" team starter in a competitive match to join a list of nine players to do so for Nigeria in the last 10 years. The most recent player to do so is Anthony Nwakaeme against Algeria in a World Cup qualifier 2017.

Odion Ighalo converted a penalty award against Seychelles Islands to break his streak of eight (8) consecutive games without scoring for Nigeria. His goalscoring rate for Nigeria is a pedestrian 0.22 goals per game having scored just five times in 23 games. His penalty goal was his second such goal for Nigeria. His first penalty goal was against Chad in another AFCON qualifier in 2015.

Meanwhile, Kelechi Iheanacho who started off his Nigerian career with 8 goals in his first 14 appearances has now failed to score in his last nine games, a drought which has taken his goal scoring rate to a mere 0.35 goals per game.

Ahmed Musa opened scoring for Nigeria against Seychelles and now has 16 career goals to his credit to go along with his 11 assists in Nigeria's colors.

Kenneth Omeruo's yellow card earned against Seychelles is his 7th in 42 games for Nigeria, which pushes him to 17% likelihood of receiving a caution in any game he plays for Nigeria. This has just passed Onazi Ogenyi's 15% likelihood of a caution per game.

Gernot Rohr debuted six players during the two internationals played this break. That brings the number to 25 players who have debuted for Nigeria under his tenure. This is not a staggering number by any imagination as his rate of debuting players is 1.19 players per game, which trails the likes of Christian Chukwu (1.91) and Sunday Oliseh (1.91) but surpasses Stephen Keshi (1.15) and Clemens Westerhoff (1.03).
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