Super Eagles interim coach Austin Eguavoen believes the team is more than half way through to qualifying for this year’s World Cup in Qatar.
The Eagles held Ghana to a goalless draw, despite coming up to a vociferous home crowd inside the Babayara stadium in Kumasi on Friday.
They were unlucky not to take the lead after a penalty call was overturned.
After Friday’s encounter, the Eagles had their first training ahead of Tuesday’s second leg.
And Eguavoen stated the Eagles are close to qualifying for the 2022 World Cup in Qatar.
“The team is in high spirit we are more than half way through I had a word with them and praise them because they were resilient,” Eguavoen said on NFF TV. “They worked hard in such an atmosphere so I think it was a fair result.
“Some players didn’t get involved now because one or two had a knock yesterday and recover training, people that played 90 and 94 minutes usually we do just a little bit and then rest.
“People who didn’t play up to 70 minutes will do more, that’s exactly what we just did like few of them that had knocks like Chukwueze we just want to rest him and he can probably resume tomorrow.”
And speaking ahead of the reverse fixture, Eguavoen said the Eagles must go all out to seal qualification for the World Cup.
“We have to take the game to Ghana. We tried to take it to them yesterday but they were tough at the back especially the defence led by Amartey he was good
“But we had two, three clear cut chances we should have buried but we were not just calm enough in the box. But we will try to work on how we will try to give those finals balls to our attackers to have easy passage to goal.”
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God bless you sir.
Thank you my brother, I don’t know what the bitter segment of the platform was expecting.
Hihihi, bitter segment… you are indeed funny. I think they wanted ‘Mr’. Eguavoen to use his hands to carry the ball and drop it in the net. Somebody said they are latter day proud Nigerians who are happily advising us on who to field.
This selfnonsense that is claiming Ghana technically sound. The team that is technically sound could not get a single goal at the nations cup. He’s claiming we played defensive football but the scoring chances in the match we are the one that created them. Anyway is not your fault. They can’t even score and they want to win.
U sound retarded and when I reply idiots like u this way, they say am harsh
Maybe u didn’t watched the match because of u did, u wldve realized the vast difference in technical flair between the Ghanaians and ur players
Ghanaians were more comfortable on the ball than ur players!! Again ur captain claimed that the Kumasi turf contributed to their play and I guess the abuja pitch is good which means that, the Ghanaian players will even play better there!!
Again, it was just a flimsy excuse from eking who acknowledged that the Ghanaians were more superior on the ball than ur players!!
U were outplayed completely by a team starting 6 debutants!
Btw ur one dimensional coach has to open up in Abuja in search of goals and Ghana ll have the chance to dominate play and exploit the empty spaces ur team ll create and Ghana ll SCORE IN ABUJA!!
Unless eguaveon play a disruptive football like pack the bus like he did in ghana
He played 4521 in Ghana which means he had 7 players behind the ball but he can’t do that in abuja and Ghana ll dominate in abuja!!
The technical differences between the Ghanaian players and Nigeria was clear as day and any unbiased/neutrals ll attest to who is supreme in terms of technical abilities
Ghana is talented than Nigeria anyday and there’s nothing u can do about that!!
Our technical dexterity is GOD GIVEN that’s why Ghana has produced some great MIDFIELDERS and u know the midfield is the engine of football!!
Ghana is arguably the most TECHNICALLY GIFTED IN AFRICA and there’s nothing u can do about it!
U were outplayed, u were outsmart and u were dominated like never before and the the same thing ll happen in abuja!!
Ur dimensional coach has nothing under his sleeves than to continue his KICK AND RUN football whiles Ghanaians play dominating, eye catching football!!
The way you think really shows that you are not meant to be a human, even if you were made animal you fellow animals would have killed you saying you are not meant to be one of them. You that supposed to come out house blood. You are talking about Nigeria playing 7 behind ball when we played 4 2 4 formation, we had only 2 players in the midfield as against 5 3 2 that changes to 442 as the game progresses. Mumu like you you are technically strong and you can not create any chance at goal. Someone that is thinking through his anus. Empty brain, the head is empty barrel like Ghanaian strikers. The moment Eguavoen brought in Etebo and Onyeka your midfielders were totally lost, just two midfielders. If not that you are a cursed entity, I can’t even use animal for you bcos animal is better than you. You midfield can’t create chance for your strikers and you are there spitting nonsense.i am not surprised you everything about you is self made. Self made technically strong, self made we are the best in Africa without trophy since the last century. Self-made nonsense. If it pains you come and smell my ass you will get better.
SELFMADE KING! U need to change your name to SELFMADE SLAVE! B4 the match you said Ghana will trash SE in Mama Yara Stadium, but unfortunately the could not get a second goal because the are a good team without a sensible striker despite the whole population of Ghana came to the stadium to watch the game, including your President.
Ghana football played mind games to frustrate our players starting from the Airport up to the field of play, yet your Black slaves boys could not break down my darling super Eagles, what a shame to Ghana FA and the people of Ghana.
You guys are coming to Abuja on Tuesday, we will not play any stupid mind games with your team but we’ll show them what they call football, we’ll take them back to elementary school to learn more about soccer. God bless Super Eagles of Nigeria ⚽
SELFMADE KING! U need to change your name to SELFMADE SLAVE! B4 the match you said Ghana will trash the Super Eagles of Nigeria at the Mama Yara Stadium that the stadium is a slaughtring groung for any visiting team playing Ghana, but unfortunately Ghana could not get a single goal, despite the whole populations of Ghana came to the Mama Yara stadium to watch and support the black slaves, including your President.
Ghana FA played mind games to frustrate our players starting from the Ghanian International Airport up to the field of play in Kumasi, yet your Black slave boys could not break down my darling super Eagles, what a shame to Ghana FA and the people of Ghana.
You guys are coming to Abuja on Tuesday, we will not play any stupid mind games with your team because we are far better than playing mind games with our younger brother like (Ghana) but we will show the black slave boys of Ghana what they call football, we will take them back to elementary school to learn more about soccer. God bless Super Eagles of Nigeria ⚽
For those yapping rubbish on previous thread, Eguaveon has played 6 games so far and conceded only one goal – a goalkeeping error by fineboy-Okoye! Nothing suggest he’ll concede in Abuja.
What’s he going to do different in Abuja than to deplored the same tactics which is KICK AND RUN using his wingers!!
But one thing is for sure tho, Ghanaians are also nimble footed and fast as well and hence that tactics wldnt work well in Abuja!!
In Abuja, he has to dominate the midfield in order to press us and how is he going to do that!!
If he uses 5 midfielders, kudus and fatawu ll have enough space to outrun ur slow CENTRAL DEFENDERS precisely EKONG and we ll definitely have a goal or two in Abuja!!
I know egu is going to USE 3-5 in order to battle the Ghanaian midfield and that’s where we ll SHOW HIM how to deploy quick COUNTERS using our wingers against his three central defenders!!
Mark this down, if he uses 353 against Ghana in Abuja, any Ghanaian attack is going to be 3 on 3, kudus-gyan-Jordan against ur 3 central defenders and we ll know whose ball will be against the wall!!
Is hard defending than attacking
If he maintained a traditional 442 in transition to 4321 like he did in ghana, ur guess is as good as mines, Ghana ll dominate the midfield!
The pressure is of course on egu to vary his wing play tactics and he can’t!!
One dimensional coach
The most technically gifted team in Africa hasn’t won a single match in 2022. Mumu, check your record down here:
05/01/22
Algeria 3 Ghana 0
10/01/22
Morocco 1 – 0 Ghana
14/01/22
Gabon 1 – 1 Ghana
18/01/22
Ghana 2 – 3 Comoros
25/03/22
Ghana 0 – 0 Nigeria
But the Eguaveon you often abuse and malign has put this together in the same period for his country:
11/01/22
Nigeria 1 – 0 Egypt
15/01/22
Nigeria 3 – 1 Sudan
19/01/22
Guinea-Bissau 0 – 2 Nigeria
23/01/22
Nigeria 0 – 1 Tunisia
25/03/22
Ghana 0 – 0 Nigeria
I know you have some education. On current form, using the stat above, say who’s better. Your patriotism has a tinge of foolishness. And the hatred you’ve got for this beautiful country won’t help your case on Tuesday. Apart from the fact that your barrenness will continue, you will be disgraced openly by some humiliating defeat.
Your midfielders had a filled day in Kumasi because Eguaveon chose to be defensive, avoiding to concede a goal. You all saw what happened when he changed tactics by bringing attack minded, die hard warriors in the second half. Your defenders suddenly got busy. The last 20 minutes you saw in Kumasi is a glimpse of what you should expect in Abuja. Ensure you eat well because you may not have an ounce of energy left after the match.
@selfmade. Just a few questions for you. So within yourself, you believe Ghana has better players than Nigeria right ? And therefore no matter what the Eagles play they will definitely loose right ? Lastly, why didn’t your world best team defeat the Eagles even when we perform below average at your so called dreaded Baba Yara stadium ? You see when you criticize, you’ve to be realistic. Fine Ghana were the better team on Friday but that doesn’t mean the SE won’t take them to the cleaners in Abuja even with SE lackluster performance, we still create chances that if taken, it could have been 1 or 2 – 0. You might be right about Eguaveon tactics but yet he’s a Coach and he have an Assistant in Amuneke so they also have same advantage as your coach does to take a look at the Ghanian team, identify their weakness and explore it. So this kind of match is 50-50. Forget about record, forget about who is currently in form because both teams want to be at the world cup so it’s going to be very tough and put everyone on the edge of their seat. I’m not underrating the Ghanaians but common stop talking as if you people will just come to Abuja and tie the SE legs with rope not to play
One dimensional mister egu!
The onus is on u to show Nigerians ur tactical acumen on Tuesday by opening up the game for us to see
He can’t as he is going to deploy the same KICK AND RUN WING PLAY!!
He’ll open up and you’ll concede goals like you did in 2002 World Cup qualifier. Kwasia asem!
Self made slave you still have mouth to talk?
Yea keep dreaming, nobody in Ghana cared about that Nigeria game in 02 we weren’t gna qualify whether we win or lost in fact a lot of Ghanaians at the time wanted Ghana to lose so that Naija qualify ahead of Liberia in the group I beg relax
Respect urself John!! I don’t want to insult u because I know for a long time!! Respect ur self
Then also respect Nigeria. I’m half-Nigerian and half-Ghanaian. Let’s keep it at just healthy football rivalry and quit using profane and abusive languages. Onyame nhira!
Self made slave you still have mouth to talk?
Please, please Mr.Eguavoen and NFF, stop talking and focus on the job at hand. The Super Eagles performed very poorly in Kumasi to be honest.
This is where some of you are plain novices in soccer analyses or are simply stupid , please don’t begrudge my take here. Ok let me help you, if it were to be Ohene Djan stadium that could be understandable but not in Kumasi stadium. You don’t go to Kumasi to win the Black Stars, to even get a draw like the Eguavoen wards did, it’s oh God, I thank my stars. Go ask the pharaohs, ask Bafana Bafana or the chipolopolo. You go to Kumasi to collect 7goals, 6goals and on the lighter side, 4goals either to 1 or 0. We will leave all that and concentrate with Eguavoen since we are left with a day to go.
Some of these guys have no idea what they’re talking about. Beating Ghana in Kumasi is like beating Liverpool at Anfield with their relentless crowd yelling at you for 90 minutes lol.
Draw was a good result for Super Eagles
Truth that. Eguavoen get mouth and can say anything he likes, so be it. He needs more time bcos 2months is not even enough to raise a winning team and besides, it was an away match. Good luck S.E!!!
Eguaveon’s team is solid!
are u angry? u started the insulting things since before the first leg of the match, so while no insults? or u think say Ghanaian get bad mouth reach Nigerian abi? chop all d insult bcos at first u are not supposed to compare Ghana and Nigeria u should have respect ur father Nigeria who i believe Ghana as a nation due gain from us one way or the other. or are you afraid now?
I pray o mr cerezo, if u don’t stop the qualification with bad selection.. No more iheanacho playing as playmaker.. He is our weakest link on friday..