The newly appointed coach of the senior national team of Nigeria Jose Peseiro has pointed out the main problem he has observed in the set up of the team.
Peseiro who only recently took over as coach was asked about his opinion on the team ahead of the friendly game against Ecuador and he explained what he has seen so far as an issue.
“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. We need to improve all that but our national team has quality and there is room to improve a lot”, he said at the pre match conference.
On what led to the 1-2 loss against Mexico in his first game in charge of the team as coach, the Portuguese blamed it on lack of enough days to properly train for a game of that magnitude. He lamented the fact that they only had two training sessions before the game.
“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”, he said.
Ahead of today’s game, he said he is hoping for a better performance than the Mexico game owing to the fact that they have spent more days in training ahead of the game.
“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”, he concluded.
