For many years, the Nigerian national team were one of the national teams we followed the closest, thanks in large part to Mikel John Obi. The Chelsea legend served as the backbone for the Super Eagles for the past decade, through the good times and, the more recent, bad times.

Having missed out on back-to-back Africa Cup of Nations, Nigeria are looking to right the ship and qualify for next summer’s World Cup in Russia. And while Mikel has moved on to new challenges at club level, Chelsea remain well represented in the national team with Victor Moses earning a recall after missing recent games through injury and Ola Aina, currently on loan at Hull City, getting his second call-up since declaring for Nigeria at the end of last season as well. Meanwhile, serial loanee Kenneth Omeruo is on the standby list for the home and away qualifiers against defending ACN champions Cameroon coming up at the start of September.

Nigeria are off to a good start in the World Cup qualifiers, recording two wins from two and leading Group B over Cameroon by four points. Only the winner of the four-team group qualifies for the World Cup, so these two games coming up will be most crucial.

The full squad includes plenty of Premier League players, as well as our old pal Mikel.