Head Coach of the Nigeria U-23 football
team, Samson Siasia has identified the defence department as the weak link in
his team following an unimpressive outing at the just concluded 4 -Nation Suwon
Invitational Tournament in Korea Republic.
Speaking at the post match press conference
after his boys ended the invitational with a 3-1 defeat of Honduras yesterday,
Siasia said his team has learnt a lot from the tournament.
Siasia added: “The biggest problem we are
having right now is that we do not defend very well; we create several chances
but do not convert them. So, we need to make changes in those areas for us to
move ahead from here, we have other games coming up too in America. After
making those changes we will see how well the team will look going to the
Olympics.
“I don’t see any plus right now, I only saw
players that are not fit enough, that’s the biggest problem we had. The change
of weather actually affected the
few ones that we trusted to play well, most
of them faltered, so that’s a problem, and we need to address these things in a
hurry.”
While expressing happiness that the team
didn’t leave the tournament pointless, the coach assured that corrections will
be made where necessary to improve the team ahead of the Olympics.
“The best thing that has happened to this team
is that due to results at this tournament, we have heard Nigerians criticizing
us,” he said.
“These have served as motivation for us, we
have realized the areas that we need to improve on and those players that we
need to inject into the team to make up a very strong team going to the
Olympics.”
Nigeria finished third at the 4 -Nation
Tournament after beating Honduras 3-1 in their last game yesterday.
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