Coach is the senior national team of Nigeria Gernot Rohr is already weighing up the possible formations he will use when the team converge for their next set of games.
Nigeria will play two high profile friendly games against former African champions Tunisia and Côte d’Ivoire on the 9th and 13th of October respectively in Austria.
The games will serve as part of preparations for their upcoming AFCON 2021 qualifiers in November. Rohr is already planning his tactics for the game.
According to the German tactician, the idea of how they want to play has been laid in previous games and they hope to build on it. He hinted that it’s part of the reasons why he isn’t keen on inviting new players most times.
Rohr told ESPN: “First [goal] is to renew our team spirit, to rebuild our good playing of offensive football like we did in the last games before the pandemic came, scoring a lot of goals.
“I am watching also for progress in the defensive work, not to get all the time a goal and then you have to run off the time to fight to win the game. We want to improve in our defensive work.
“There are some tactics also I want to see again. We played a different system in the second half in Lesotho. Do you remember we had the 3-5-2? We had also a 4-4-2 and we had this 4-2-3-1 sometimes.
He added: “That is why it is good to have players in our list who are already here with us and it is not easy for the new ones immediately to come in the team where they never played before.
“But we have to check, we have to see to give them a chance in the training sessions and also, a match is going 90 minutes so we can make six changes in friendly matches.”
