Eric Chelle has said the thoughts of not returning to Nigeria without a point motivated the Super Eagles B players to go all out and defeat Congo.
Second half goals from Anas Yusuf and Sikiru Alimi, who also provided the assist for the first goal, sealed a 2-0 win for the Super Eagles B team in their final group match at the Africa Nations Championship (CHAN).
While the Nigerian side had already exited the tournament following defeats to Senegal and Sudan, Congo needed to win to stand a chance of progressing to the quarter-finals.
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At the end of the group matches, Sudan finished top on five points, Senegal second also on five points, the Super Eagles B placed third on three points and Congo fourrh on two points.
Speaking in his post-match press conference, Chelle said:”We deserve to win this game because we had possession and we tried to play and during the first half we missed the last technical skill, the last pass or the last through ball.
“The players gave an answer, they did not want to return to Nigeria without any point but they need to improve. when you play in tournaments you need to have some experience.”
Reflecting on the losses to both Senegal and Sudan, the Malian added:”Senegal have great experience, they scored against us with our first mistake and against Sudan the pressure was so big.”
By James Agberebi
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Will u call that a game? The game that ur players cannot trap balls, can’t control balls neither strings 3 to 5 passes together. They played without pattern. They’re bunch of clueless players that played police ball (anywhere belle face kind of football). Football control is zero, pattern of play is zero. Everything about them is zero. Even tackling opponent is too, too poor. I wonder why the referee did not award our players at least 2 red cards. Most of our tacklings is too poor, bad, wrong timing and dangerous. I even wonder if the SE B team had ever played together for once. My secondary school team would have played better than that SE B team. This is the worst kind of team that we’ve ever assembled together for an international tournament. May God save our football from bad leaders and coaches.