Jose Peseiro has explained what he feels can make the Super Eagles a better team who he believes are a high quality side.
Peseiro will take charge of his second game as Eagles coach when they take on Ecuador in their second friendly on Friday.
In his first game in charge, the Eagles lost 2-1 to Mexico.
And speaking in his pre-match press conference ahead of the game against Ecuador, Peseiro highlighted what will make the Eagles improve.
“If I am a Nigerian I will be happy with the Super Eagles because they have good players. We have too much qualify in the team but all that needs to improve are organisation, good system, consistency.
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“We need to improve all that but our national team has quality and there is room to improve a lot.”
He blamed a lack of enough training session for the defeat to Mexico.
“Like I said earlier, in the first half against Mexico we didn’t play well and I’m responsible for that because I was the one who out out the team. Due to lack of enough time for practice we could not play well, we only had two trainings before the game against Mexico.
“In the second half we changed the system and we improved, showed good character, good quality only the result wasn’t good, no team wants to lose any match.
“For the game against Ecuador I want us to do well, I want us to do better than Mexico. Everybody knows Mexico are in eight position in the FIFA ranking and you have to play better against Mexico.”
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Good talk coach, we may have found another Westerhof!
Indeed, Nigeria has several things to work on to become a better team.
But in my opinion, our biggest problem is FINISHING.
We create chances, but we just do not convert enough of them. If we had converted 1 out of every 4 chances against Tunisia at the Afcon, we probably would have beaten them. Same thing against Ghana. And we saw it yet again against Mexico. Our players are wasteful when chances come there way. They hardly take responsibility to shoot at goal. If you don’t shoot at goal, where will goals come from?
Even when they shoot, the shot is not of a good quality.
Peseiro needs to work on the finishing issue. Let the training sessions include shooting drills. Emphasize shooting from distance with proper technique. Also work on finishing in the box.
Goals win matches. We have to be more ruthless in front of goal.
@Pompei you are spot on. Since Anguissa scored against us way back last year from a ferocious shot in the friendly against Cameroun, teams have known the weakness of our goalkeepers and we have paid dearly for it with the losses against Ghana and Tunisia.
Did you know that since those matches, you can count the number of times the Super Eagles players have forced a save from the opponents goalkeeper. Even against Mexico, they shot aimlessly without hitting the target talk more of scoring. Partey, Msakni and Anguissa all did it but OWN could not even force a save or rebounds aside the Kelechi goal against Egypt. Can we find a coach to address this malaise. Errant and wayward shots from professionals?
Thanks@pompei,&Coache,!
Train the SE on fitness and shooting drills.
Shooting drills, shooting drills, shooting drills!!!
This will help both the players (attackers, Midfielders and defenders) and prepare the goalkeepers not to panic wen faced by an opponent.
Furthermore, our wingers/wingbacks should work on their crosses into the opponents 18 (see Bassey’s efforts vs Mexico as a case study; others should improve as well). Our strikers are ready to prey.
Shalom!!!
For me, finishing is a secondary point to the link-up between the midfield and attack, and the provision of opportunities from the wings. The first requires positive ball progression, where possession turnovers are quickly transitioned into attacks. For example, when Mexico lost the ball instead of quickly taking advantage of the disruption of their shape by progressing the ball into attack (counter-attacking), the Eagles allowed the Mexicans time to reshape into a defensive formation by square and back passing.
To improve opportunities from the wings requires not just dribbling, but the provision of crosses. Right now, Calvin Bassey has shown he can do this on the left but no one is doing this on the right. In fact, the ideal is if both the wingers and overlapping full-backs can provide crosses from the left and right.
Increasing the supply of balls to the center-forwards increases the number of chances. Our forwards are just about world-class, in fact better than Mexico’s and they were not even our first choice.
The provision of scoring opportunities from midfield and wings should be first addressed and then finishing.
The problem of the team is not finishing but goal creation. How many chances do they create?
A beginning of a new dawn in our football, NFF got this right. Good luck SE.
Early days, Eguavoen also started like a house on fire and eventually it ended in tears. I remain quietly optimistic.
I think it is clear he want’s to do well but he still has to deal with Pinnick and his cohorts.
On the contrary, Peseiro has not started “like a house on fire”, he’s lost his first match. What intelligent footballer watchers like about him is tactical nous. Something that was absent with Eguavoen. Eguavoen could not read a game, and could not identify and correct lapses in his team. Eguavoen had one idea and pursued it to the exclusion of all. Initially, it was successful but as others started analysing his gameplay they quickly identified how to frustrate his tactics. Both tactically and formation-wise Eguavoen remained unimaginative.
Your understanding for the game is on another level You are so intelligent
A.Eguavoen nice guy
Great personality
Has Passion for the game but! never ment to be a coach he could Excel in other things but definitely not professional Coaching
From the body language you could see he lack composure clueless and tactically zero
@ Tristan & Olisa…I’m in your corner… under Eguavoen, we played one way and that’s all we did making our team so predictable to our opponents. The moment we are decoded, Eguaveon found it difficult to adjust to another system because he so so much lacked in match reading and that was why when Moses on the left and Chikwezie on the right were neutralized and checked, we kept playing from those wings instead of playing through the middle. Also, in a competition such as AFCON, you go with all your best legs. Granted we had some withdrawals due to injuries and club sides not releasing some players, I still don’t understand the rationale of not calling Dessers to be one of the replacements for Ighalo and Osimhen. He gave an excuse to never has seen Dessers played before. What an excuse? He wasn’t just interested in the guy, period and that’s why a home bred coach will never do well with our team because of their bias attitude.
There are elements to take from Peseiro’s statements in the article above which are:
1) Belief in resources: the Portuguese coach already believes in the players at his disposal.”If I am a Nigerian,” he said, “I will be happy with the Super Eagles because they have good players.”
That is very encouraging.
There is no point leading players whom you feel either aren’t ready for the job because they are young or aren’t up to the job because they don’t play in Real Madrid, Manchester City etc.
According to late American journalist Frank Cane: “Nobody has things just as he would like them. The thing to do is to make a success with what material you have.” Which was why Zambia, Denmark and Greece made success with arguably limited talent at thier disposal in continental championships against all odds.
2) Organised approach glazed with consistency: the NFF and prudent planning and organisation parted company years ago. With thorough organization on and off the pitch, this Super Eagles can definitely reach for the skies under Peseiro.
“We have too much qualify in the team but all that needs to improve are organisation, good system, consistency,” said Peseiro.
The coach is definitely on the nose with that statement.
He does have a system that worked well enough to win the Egyptian Premier League. He started slowly against Mexico but picked up the pace in the second half. With an organized approach built on the foundation of a good, flexible and adaptable system, the Super Eagles should be able to produce decent and compelling performances consistently.
Clearly there will be ups and downs – as with any team – but the direction of travel should always be towards continuous improvement which should be inherent even in defeat.
Against highly ranked Mexico, the Super Eagles were disciplined, organized and grounded – it was an encouraging start despite the defeat.
In the next game, it will be interesting to see how the team would put the lessons learnt against Mexico to good use.
We may start badly but am telling everyone we are coming I love you sir thank you for the good work
Thank to Pompei and deo for their good comments ; but I think there are also technical elements Pesiero must do them for Super Eagles in order to change their shape then become a better team in Africa and the World; these elements are:- 1- to take care of goalkeeping that means to recall a high quality goalkeepers from outside and NPLF, developing goalkeers drills with modern trainings and good facilities; 2- he(Pesiero) he must make defensive style more agressive and pressing and offesive with recalling just like Anderson Esiti, Usman Mohammed, Joel Obi, Nwankwo Obiora instead of frail and shaky Etebo, Bonke, Onyeka, also recall a good NPLF defensive midfielders, all thoes are defensive midfieldes; on fullbacks he must change style of back defence with good coverage, slove set-pieces which commtt it thoes fullbacks with cohesive back defence style and with recalling strong and ferociuos and combative fullbacks like Oboabona, Ozernwafor, Kelvin Akpogoma players from NPLF; 3- he must creat a depth football in order to control deep center with recalling a good number 10 except Iwobi and Aribo he must recall Michael Oliseh to become a new Okocha for SE; if Pesiero do these elements properly and tightly he can success in his task on his new tenure.
Hmmmm….but how many of these players are available to be called? We can not call everybody and even then, call tired legs like Oboabona?
Who be dis abi U wan make peseiro comot make U come be coach,U go be worse than eguafraud by d looks of things
My problem is. NFF and local coaches imposing player on him. Pay players bonuses and the man salaries on time. The man might be a good coach..
I believe our main football issue is the NFF themselves.They are so drunk with this solo idea of bringing top goal scorers across the globe and no room to blend them together with proper friendly matches and experiment different tactics.The local teams in Nigeria are enough to blend our boys and get the best out of them. While Ghana was preparing we could only call our boys to camp 2 days before the match.I wish they had given Egwuavon sometime to continue and blend these boys together properly and either employ some better psychologist to handle our keepers or scout for better confident magnetic hands. Our current keepers are very good but so jittery coming out from the post. Everyone is blaming Egwuavon but we were all victims of our keepers blunders of which never had anything to do with Egwuavon as a coach. It was the time of Egwuavon we started to enjoy football again with our boys creating chances but how can Egwuavon perfect their clinical finishing when there was no sigle friendly match before Ghana’s encounter. Egwuavon himself was guilty of thinking he had gotten a killer team and friendly matches were no longer necessary. He forgot that he used two separate teams in AFCON of which he was yet to completely blend together as one before Ghana match. Honestly speaking I don’t see any magic from Peseiro, if NFF still remains with the old story of gathering 3 days before major tournaments. Thank God atleast they arrange two Friendly’s for him already.