Two Super Eagles players, captain Joseph Yobo and midfielder Onazi Ogenyi, will come face-to-face tonight as their clubsides Fenerbahce of Turkey and SS Lazio of Italy slug it out in the first leg of the quarter-final of this year's Europa League competition in Istanbul.
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Both players were part of the senior national team under Stephen Keshi that conquered the continent during the 2013 Africa Cup of Nations hosted by South Africa in February but any depth of friendship they might have shared in the national team will be put aside at least for the entire duration as Yobo who spoke ahead of the encounter has declared that there will be no room for error if his Turkish team wants to make it to the semi-final stage as a first major step towards winning the Europe's second tier club competition.
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"We respect our opponents but we understand that whatever team we meet in the quarter- final would have been strong and we have good players. We are preparing for the game very well because we want to get a good result. "
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The Turkish side overcame Viktoria Plzen in the previous round to advance to this stage of the competition while SS Lazio were comfortable winners over German side Stuttgart. Lazio boss Vladimir Petkovic has listed Onazi in the 19-man squad for tonight's encounter.
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Fenerbahce will enter the match full of confidence having won four of their last five matches in all competitions, a run of form that has left them in second position in their domestic league table- just four points behind leaders Galatasaray.