Rohr speaks on Super Eagles failing to beat Sierra Leone again
Nigeria coach, Gernot Rohr, has congratulated his boys after their 0-0 draw with Sierra Leone in Freetown in an African Cup of Nations qualifier on Tuesday.
Rohr also blamed the bad pitch at the Siaka Stevens Stadium for the goalless draw.
The Super Eagles played out a 0-0 draw in Freetown, after giving away their 4-0 lead to draw 4-4 in the reversed fixture in Benin City days ago.
Kelechi Iheanacho’s disallowed goal in the second half formed a big talking point from the game.
The referee ruled out the former Manchester City man’s headed effort in the 62nd minute for offside.
“I don’t know if the goal was offside or not, but we tried, we tried to play well on this difficult pitch and congrats to the players,” Rohr said after the match that would have seen Nigeria qualify for the Nations Cup.
“They showed that they can fight together and play a goalless draw away,” he added.
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Kingsley Erebor
November 18, 2020 at 5:15 pm
The time to part ways with the German tactician is now! He did a great job in helping to identify and recruit some of Nigeria’s most talented soccer players into the team. However, his 4-5-1 formation is too defensive for an ambitious team. If the strategy is employed against great teams like Brazil, Argentina, France, Netherland, Italy, Spain, Belgium, England, e.t.c; it will be understandable. But not against teams like Algeria, Tunisia, South Africa, Egypt, Sierra Leone, e.t.c.
I think a Dutch coach will be better suited for this team because it parades some of the finest soccer players after the Clemence Westerhof tutored U. S. A ’94 side.
However, this idea is not immune from changes.
Prince Pascal
November 19, 2020 at 10:23 pm
pls let us live rohr alone so that he can concentrate on the good works he is doing.football is a coin it has two face the food and the bad side,when he qualified us with 2 matches to play for both afcon and world cup we sang his praise now he have drawn 2 matches we have started crucify him .pls let us encourage him to do better afterall the almighty Germans lost 0-6 in their own match yet we are complaining with a draw