The reason why the senior national team of Nigeria failed to score in both friendly games against the Indomitable Lions of Cameroon has been laid bare by coach of the team Gernot Rohr.
Nigeria were beaten in Friday’s friendly by a lone goal and yesterday same opponent denied them a chance to score as it ended in a 0-0 draw.
Going into the games, the strength of the Nigerian team was picked by many as the attack with Paul Onuachu who had 35 goals for Genk leading the line. Kelechi Iheanacho with 17 goals for Leicester City was his partner in attack.
Despite that the duo failed to hit the back of the net in both games which they started and Rohr speaking after yesterday’s game explained why the team fired blanks.
“We didn’t want to concede a goal we wanted to score but we could not and when we are missing players like (Victor) Osimhen, (Joe) Aribo, (Samuel) Chukwueze, (Samuel) Kalu, Henry (Onyekuru), it’s not easy”, Rohr explained.
“But they (players) did well, we had a lot of chances in this two games we couldn’t score but the match today was interesting. We missed a little bit of realism in front of goal”.