I nearly cried after scoring Nigeria's champ against Zambia in 2018 World Cup qualifying

Arsenal forward, Alex Iwobi has uncovered that he "nearly cried" in the wake of scoring Nigeria's champ against Zambia in 2018 World Cup qualifying diversion against Zambia on October 7.

The 21-year-old scored the main objective against the Chipolopolo that sent the Super Eagles to Russia 2018 in Uyo.

The Super Eagles required a triumph in the crunchy experience to book their place in the Mundial and the Arsenal winger's objective in the 73rd moment guaranteed the West Africans mammoths turned into the first in the landmass to booked an entry with a diversion to save.

Furthermore, in front of Gernot Rohr's dead elastic conflict against Algeria on Friday, Iwobi said he was 'glad' to have conveyed such a great amount of bliss to a huge number of Nigerians.

He revealed to Arsenal site, "When I really scored, the minute was insane, I kept running off celebrating.

"I nearly cried, I entirely cried to perceive how the fans were responding, to see my mum and father in the stands; it was only an astounding inclination.

To go to the World Cup you can see it's not quite recently the players' fantasy, it's the fans' fantasy too and for me to get the objective for us to experience I'm quite recently glad.

"Definitely, it's fundamentally my family, where they're from, where I'm from; it's my country, so it's dependably a respect to wear the green, white and green.

"I mean I've seen such a significant number of children in the city when we're similar to in the transport, they're shouting "go Nigeria, go Nigeria", so to speak to them, I'm quite recently pleased."