The Super Eagles will face Iran on March 27 at 4:00 p.m., before taking on Jordan on March 31 at 8:00 p.m. in Antalya.
Semi Ajayi opened the scoring for Nigeria in the 36th minute.
“It is massive. We are really disappointed about the World Cup,” the 32-year-old told The Gazette. “We are still hurting.”
The three-time African champions are scheduled to hold their first training session later this evening.
Nwabali’s two saves in the shootout were not enough to cancel out misses from Calvin Bassey, Moses Simon, and Semi Ajayi.
Nwabali had passed the fitness test and thus retained his position as the team’s number-one goalkeeper at the ongoing AFCON.
The Super Eagles will travel to Ghana for the first leg of the World Cup playoff scheduled for March 25.
The bottom club pulled an unlikely draw against league leaders, Liverpool on their home turf.
