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Former Kwara United coach, Samson Unuanel has urged Nigerians not to judge the Super Eagles based on los to Guinea in a warm up game ahead of the 2023 Africa Cup of Nations.
Recall that Guinea defeated Nigeria 2-0 on Monday thanks to goals from Aguibou Camara in the 14th minute and Facinet Conté in the 64th minute.
Monday’s defeat is coming hours after the Super Eagles wallopped a Dubai-based club 12-0 in another friendly tie.
However, in a chat with Completesports.com, Unuanel stated that friendly match is only meant to help the team fine tune their strategy without putting so much importance on the result.
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“You can’t judge a team or any coach with the result of a friendly game. Friendly game is friendly, it is not a game you use all your arsenal.
“It is not a game you do everything that you must win. It is a game to correct some certain things and to put things aright.
“So the result against Guinea is not all that is important as far I am concern. The most important thing is the tournament proper where you can judge the team.”
Nigeria, winners of the tournament in 2013, are in Group A alongside the host nation; Guinea-Bissau and Equatorial Guinea.
They begin their quest for a fourth continental title on Sunday, January 14th against Equatorial Guinea.
By Augustine Akhilomen
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Unuanel don forget say na how person mess smell na em we dey take judge how em shit go be o…
Tor I rest my case!
Make e no worry we go use World cup qualifiers judge them as e be say blind followers Don talk say make dem no use friendlies judge them.
Only solution we have is to jejely play 3-5-2. Load the midfield with Alhassan, Onyeka and Iwobi as creative spark. Wing backs in Osayi and Bruno or Sanusi and Aina. Play Bassey, Awaziem & Omeruoh as 3 central defenders. Upfront Kelechi should pair Osimhen if fit. As Boniface is out, Ademola can also support Osimhen upfront but he need to be advised not to be selfish.
Also we can play 4-2-3-1. Onyemachi and Osayi, Bassey and Semi Ajayi/Awaziem. Alhassan and Onyeka as defensive midfielders. Iwobi as 10, Simon & Kelechi on both side and Osimhen upfront.
4-5-1 is also an option to consider. With this formations, SE can still try because AFCON nobi European league or world cup. Na physical tournament so the battle is at the midfield and if you allow your opponent overrun you from the midfield and yet you lack technical players who can punish them from set pieces, counter, pick the strikers with swift passes, then tell me how you want to score.
Ihaenacho will be our go to Man if things get tight so i hope he’s fit in time cuz he will still function at left wing better than Chukwueze who called himself a winger.
Monkey post smelly ass. Your pidgin write up have finally confirmed what I have always suspected you are. Ghana imposter masquerading as a Nigerian to cause confusion in our football forum. I will advise you and your cohort to concentrate on encouraging your Black stars instead of coming here to demeaning our team. The famous Super Eagles.
Hehehehe Very soon they will say my usage of punctuation marks in my comments has finally confirmed that am a ghanian…
Are you a Ghanaiern or not ? Time to put it to rest. If you a true Nigerian, there are few signs to prove that you actually belong. We Nigerians knows ourselves no matter what.
E be u wey no say Monkey post na Ghana man? Yes e be u. .
Don’t mind those Ghanaians , they are so obsessed by Nigerians. They’d rather not concentrate on their own team but being obsessed by Naija.
What rubbish is he saying, we shouldn’t judge them, if we had won d match, it would have been a booster.. I don’t know why this kind of people settle for less n see failure as a normal thing.. you ought to challenge n question the boys for complacency, is Asif you are encouraging failure. No wonder we refuse to upgrade in this part of the world..
Please let try n change our mindset n see failure as a setback n not encourage bad act .
If guinea can beat Dem like this . Wat will happen wen dey face Senegal, Cote D’Ivoire, mali, Cameroon, Morocco, Egypt, Algeria, I hope Madagascar Lesotho is not in afcon 24 .
Even Comoros will beat eagles with 1 goal and close their defense for 95mins.lol