Nigeria will take on Tunisia in today’s Africa Cup of Nations round of 16 game, a game they go in as favourite owing to how they finished the group stage by winning all of their games.
Ahead of the game , the team had their final training session under the guidance of interim coach of the Austine Eguavoen who was drafted in from his role as technical director following the sacking of Gernot Rohr as coach.
Eguavoen yesterday showed his willingness to shake things up as he tried several tactical drills using different formations all in a bid to go past Tunisia by 8pm later today.
The coach showed he is no a slave to the 4-2-3-1 formation the team have been using in games although they do alternate to 4-2-4 and sometimes 4-1-3-2. A new formation was tried out yesterday.
Also the team took out time to practice penalty kicks in the event that the game get dragged into shoot out. A session for endurance was also a part of the drill in anticipation of the game probably going into extra time.
