Super Eagles: Serbia, Poland select Lewandoski, Matic for friendlies against Nigeria

The Super Eagles will play preparatory matches in March against Poland, Serbia

Poland and Serbia have included Robert Lewandowski and Nemanja Matic in their respective teams to face the Super Eagles of Nigeria in the upcoming friendlies.

Super Eagles head coach Gernot Rohr earlier revealed a list of 28 players invited to face Poland and Serbia on Friday, March 23 and Tuesday, March 27 respectively.

The opposing nations have also released their teams for the forthcoming friendlies.

The Polish national team has called up star players Lewandoski of Bayern Munich and Wojciech Szczęsny of Juventus.

The Serbian team list includes star players Dusan Tadic of Southampton and Matic of Manchester United.

 

Poland will also face South Korea in a friendly game while Serbia will play Morocco before the clash against the Super Eagles.

Poland team

 

Goalkeepers: Bartosz Białkowski (Ipswich Town FC, England), Łukasz Fabiański (Swansea City AFC, England), Łukasz Skorupski (AS Roma, Italy), Wojciech Szczęsny (Juventus FC, Italy).

Defenders: Bartosz Bereszyński (UC Sampdoria, Italy), Thiago Cionek (SPAL 2013, Italy), Kamil Glik (AS Monaco FC, France), Paweł Jaroszyński (AC Chievo Verona, Italy), Marcin Kamiński (VfB Stuttgart 1893, Germany), Tomasz Kędziora (Dynamo Kyiv, Ukraine), Lukasz Piszczek (BV Borussia 1909 Dortmund, Germany).

Midfielders : Jacek Góralski (Łudogorec Razgrad, Bulgaria), Kamil Grosicki (Hull City AFC, England), Grzegorz Krychowiak (West Bromwich Albion FC, England), Karol Linetty (UC Sampdoria, Italy), Maciej Rybus (Łokomotiv Moscow, Russia), Piotr Zieliński (SSC Napoli, Italy).

Strikers: Dawid Kownacki (UC Sampdoria, Italy), Robert Lewandowski (FC Bayern München, Germany), Arkadiusz Milik (SSC Napoli, Italy), Jakub Świerczok (Łudogorec Razgrad, Bulgaria), Łukasz Teodorczyk (RSC Anderlecht, Belgium).

Serbia's squad

Goalkeepers: Vladimir Stojkovic (Partizan), Predrag Rajkovic (Maccabi), Marko Dmitrovic (Eibar);

Defenders: Branislav Ivanovic (Zenit), Antonio Rukavina (Villarreal), Dusan Basta (Lazio), Nikola Maksimovic (Spartak Moscow), Vujadin Savic (Red Star), Matija Nastasic (Schalke), Dusko Tosic (Besiktas), Milos Veljkovic ), Aleksandar Kolarov (Roma), Ivan Obradovic (Anderlecht)

Midfielders: Nemanja Matic (Manchester United), Luka Milivojevic (Kristal Palas), Sergei Milinkovic-Savic (Lazio), Adem Ljajic (Torino), Mijat Gacinovic (Eintracht), Marko Grujic (Cardiff), Dusan Tadic (Southampton), Filip Kostic (Hamburg), Andrija Zivkovic (Benfica)

Forwards: Aleksandar Mitrovic (Fulham), Aleksandar Prijovic (PAOK)