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Ex-Nigeria Coach isn’t happy with Super Eagles Win against Sao Tome

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Ex-Nigeria Coach isn’t happy with Super Eagles Win against Sao Tome

It’s just Sao Tome for crying out loud, that’s what ex-coach of Nigeria’s Super Falcons, Godwin Izilein thinks regarding Super Eagles win against Sao Tome on Monday.

Instead, the former coach calls on Nigerians to not get too carried away by the score line but the lapses that were in the team’s performance.

Godwin Izilein, considers the Super Eagles were yet to improve in their playing pattern under the new coach, Jose Peseiro.

In his analysis with the News Agency of Nigeria on Wednesday in Calabar, he noted that the 10-0 mauling of Sao Tome and Principe in a 2023 AFCON qualifier in Morocco did not translate to what Nigerians may feel is an arrival of the Super Eagles at its best.

The former Super Falcons coach singled out Victor Osimhen’s performance but decried the lack of creativity in the midfield.

Izilein feels the continually lacks a fighting spirit which they exhibited in their lukewarm attitude during play.

The pundit on the day said:

“I am yet to see anything new, it’s still the same old pattern of play; lukewarm attitude towards games should be changed. They have no fighting spirit, it is only Victor Osimhen that does that and he does not get a good ball from the wingers. He (Osimhen) needs that deep penetrative passes.

“The basic fact is that we are still not playing as a team, that individual play is still very much visible in our games.

“There is also a need to introduce into the team element of speed, they are too slow for my liking.

“Another missing link is that of creative midfielders. With this, it will create that effectiveness in our attack as well as cover the defence. Our wingers should also remember that great goals are scored from pull-out.

“There is nothing new with the Eagles under the current coach for us to be celebrating 10 goals, we are yet to get that rhythm Eagles are known for.”

In his opinion, he feels the coach should scout further in the Nigeria local league to find players who could better combine with the foreign based players to fit his system.

 

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