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As promised, this is what ACTUALLY happened: Osimhen's source of ire was not Lookman. It was Bruno Onyemachi, whom he felt was playing lackadaisically. Lookman stepped in to mediate and, as we say in Nigeria, "caught stray bullets". After Osimhen was subbed, having switched off mentally from the game, some @thenff & @NatSportsComm officials wanted to head to the dressing room, before the end of the game, to mediate between Osimhen and his colleagues, when the game ended. But @Ndidi25, the captain, told them the players were going to have a closed door players-only post-match dressing room meeting, from which even Eric Chelle was excluded. The officials did not enter the dressing room as a result. All the players expressed their unhappiness with Osimhen for his onfield behaviour. And he wasn't happy about that. But I imagine that now they have an #AFCON2025 semi-final against hosts #Morocco to play, after an emphatic 2-0 QF win over Algeria, that spat is done and they are going to concentrate on the task at hand. There you have it!