Oshoala may likely miss Bata tie due to injury

If feelers from Liverpool Ladies FC are anything to go by, Super Falcons will again miss top star Asisat Oshoala for an all-important Rio 2016 Olympic qualifier against Equatorial Guinea due to injury.

The reigning African women’s player missed the first leg which ended 1-1 in Abuja due to same injury, and she won’t recover by the time the return leg will be played on August 2.

Oshoala is nursing a knee injury, which sidelined her from Thursday’s league game for Liverpool against Everton and she will be out “for weeks”, the club manager Matt Murray said.

England star Fara Williams and Satara Murray are also down with hamstring injuries.

Oshoala was injured on Saturday as she helped ‘The Reds’ beat Notts County 2-0.

“It’s the spine of your team – your central midfielder, your centre-back and your centre-forward – but it’s one of those things,” Beard told the BBC.


“They’re important players to us but it’s going to give maybe one or two of the younger players an opportunity.

“We’ll do as much as we can, while we’re still involved in everything mathematically, to finish as high as we can.”