The Ghanian Football Association has begun mind games with the Super Eagles of Nigeria by labelling them ‘little babies’ hours before the crucial two-legged 2022 World Cup qualifier play-off between both nations.

Augustine Eguavoen’s men have departed Nigeria for the neighbouring West African country where they will face the Black Stars for the first leg of the encounter on Friday, March 25.

Speaking during an interview ahead of the crucial match, GFA president, Kurt Okraku, expressed confidence that the Ghanaians will be victorious.

Okraku further belittled the Nigerian squad that boasts of the like of Napoli’s Victor Osimhen, Leicester City’s duo, Ademola Lookman and Kelechi Iheanacho, as well as Watford’s Emmanuel Dennis, amongst others when he said that the Super Eagles are Ghana’s ‘little brothers’ who only pretend to be big boys.

“It’s that time of the year where every Ghanaian will have to stand up and be counted. It’s that time of the year where our country’s pride is at stake,” Okraku told Joy Sports.

“It’s that time of the year where Ghana must be at the Mundial, but before we do that, we have a common foe, the Super Eagles of Nigeria. They come across as our little babies, but they pretend to be the big boys.”

Meanwhile, okraku’s statement comes in response to Nigeria’s Sports Minister, Sunday Dare, who in a viral video, stated that the Super Eagles “will beat the sh*t” out of the Black Stars.

“We’re not going to play a draw in Ghana, honestly. We’ll beat the sh*t out of them,” Dare said in a video that has gone viral.

“These guys should just go out, there’s insurance to their next match. There’s insurance there and there’s insurance here.”

However, both teams will be expected to put up an explosive display in what has been described by social media users as the ‘Jollof War’.

Whoever emerges victorious after the second leg on Tuesday, March 29, 2022, at Moshood Abiola National Stadium Abuja will automatically qualify as one of Africa’s five representatives at the World Cup in Qatar later this year.