Nigeria, April 16 -- The stakes are clear. The margins are thin. And for Nigeria, it is a night where allegiances split, but pride remains intact.

At the City Ground, three Super Eagles stars step into the same storm from opposite ends of ambition. Some will stand. Others will fall.

Nottingham Forest host FC Porto in a UEFA Europa League quarter-final second leg that refuses to tilt in any direction.

The first meeting in Portugal ended 1-1; tight, tense, unresolved.

Now, everything sharpens.

This is more than a club contest. It is a collision of compatriots.

For Forest, Ola Aina will solely carry the Nigerian flag as his compatriot Taiwo Awoniyi is not registered for this phase of the Europa League.

Aina, who has made six Europa Le...