Super Eagles head coach Eric Chelle has said his players still have lots of work to do despite beginning their AFCON 2025 Group C camping with a 2-1 win against Tanzania.
Goals in each half from Semi Ajayi and Ademola Lookman gave the Super Eagles the perfect start.
Kokola M’mombwa cancelled out Ajayi’s opener with a brilliant equaliser, beating the offside trap to slot past Stanley Nwabali.
Speaking in his post-match presser Chelle praised his players but admitted they will need to work on their lapses ahead of the gane with Tunisia.
“We have to analyse this win because we did a lot of food things in the first half, we created chances to score and in the second half we gave Tanzania the chance to come back into the game.
“We did some mistakes but we are happy for the win and the most important thing at the AFCON is to improve in every game so now after the analysis we will do in the morning we have to continue to improve because we will face Tunisia next who are a big team. We need to improve on a lot of things defensively, put in more movement when we have the ball and when we don’t, so I praise my players for the win but we have lots of work.”
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Nigerian players don’t know how to use the ball effectively. They are inconsistent in a lot of areas, then they show up in a glimpse and switch off again to the point that they cannot even complete simple passes, convert begging chances. They don’t know who to pass to or when to shoot.
I hope we don’t start learning football against top rated teams. Because Ref will even pile our misery with some shady officiating added to our inconsistencies.
We need to play effectively the way we play at our clubsides. The coach must be bold to correct lapses like bad passes, poor build up plays and senseless shooting. This is Nigeria we need to grow up and wake up from slumber. Else we go eat double humble pie and Ghana go laugh us tire!!!!
To be frank, I was not impressed with this lackluster win. They fumbled to victory. A good team would have score at least 3 unanswered goals. The goal Nwabali conceded was very cheap give away. He had the advantages in the box and instead of boxing in the player he was busy raising his hands for off side. There was no sense of urgency in their play and this constantly back passing must stop. Not until Simon came in our attackers were afraid to take on Tanzanian defense. Maybe it is the coaches decision for them to play that way.