Former national team goalkeeper, Ita
Egbe has told Nigerians not to despair because Super Eagles Could not
beat Tanzania, saying that Coach Sunday Oliseh still has room to
produce a team not only to qualify the country for the African Cup of
Nations in 2017 but also play the competition proper. The Taifa
Stars and Eagles played out a goalless draw in Dar es Salaam last
weekend in Oliseh's first outing as handler, forcing eye-brows in
some quarters about the country's chances. But Egbe, who spoke on
telephone said, “We have to accept there is a new man in charge who
is trying to mould a team. He will need time to put a functional
team in place. Thanks, we have time in between games for him to give
new players space, evaluate our more capped players and make his
decisions.” “In that game, I felt that some players were jittery,
hence played without confidence, some gave the ball away too quickly.
These are normal when you have new people together for the first.
Even old ones do have bad days but there is hope because they will
overcome these things with time,” he said. Egbe, who featured for
the former Iwuanyanwu Nationale of Owerri and Flying Eagles in his
Days urged Oliseh to concentrate on building a strong mid-field and
making the attack more lethal, as in his words, we need a good engine
room made up of ball blockers reliable play-makers and attacking
force that scores goals. We have always had good defenders. So, If
Sunday Oliseh concentrates on making the middle solid and the front
sharp, we will be winning our games. We can still overtake Egypt and
get the ticket. However, planning essential to win games ahead. There
are enough games to give us points and the qualification ticket,”
he stated
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