Former Nigeria international Ifeanyi Udeze has identified long balls as a problem for the Flying Eagles despite their 3-2 win against Saudi Arabia.
The Flying Eagles got their campaign back on track with a hard-fought victory against Saudi in their second Group F match on Friday morning.
A stoppage time penalty converted by Daniel Bamayi secured the three points for Aliyu Zubairu side.
But the two goals the Flying Eagles conceded came from long balls lobbed into their backline.
Reacting to the win, Udeze lamented the Flying Eagles’ inability to deal with the long balls.
“Congratulations to the Flying Eagles the most important thing is the three points but they need to do some corrections because long ball is a problem for them,” Udeze said on Brila FM.
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“Against Saudi Arabia long balls were a big problem for the team so the coach needs to look into that and correct it.”
Up next for the Flying Eagles is a tough encounter with Colombia on Monday, who top after securing four points from two matches.
Ahead of the fixture Udeze labeled the Colombia a better opponent compared to Saudi Arabia.
“Colombia will be tough because they are a better team than Saudi Arabia.”
By James Agberebi
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3 goals from 3 defenders.
0 goals from our attackers after 2 matches.
That’s worth celebrating by some fans. Why? Low ambition.
A story of contradictions.
Goals win games, defence win championships, they say.
Now, where defence expend their energy to score goals, how ready would they be to combat ariel duels and opposition onslaughts if (not when) they advance to the latter stage?
NFF and poor preparations will always be a sabotage.
Wafu B and other afcon competitions will always produce champions every year but because we think cadet championships should be supervised carelessly, we will never win let alone produce future super Eagles players.
How many have broken through over the years anyway?
Foreign born to the rescue.
Nigerian football is pissing me off and it’s as if we are clueless and helpless in rescuing it.