SUPER EAGLES WILL COME BACK STRONGER

 FOOTBALL POLITICS,TACTICAL ERRORS LED TO NIGERIA'S OUSTER IN RUSSIA

BY ABDULUMUMINI ADEKU..

A football technocrat has fingered football politics  and tactical error as major reasons behind NIgeria's elimination at the on-going soccer world cup taking place in Russia.

in an exclusive interview with this reporter shortly after the match as the News office Desk of the E.N.M.Paedia Express Multimedia Group of Lagos,Nigeria querried him on his thoughts or opinions on the game ,the source accused Coach Gernot Rohr of making a lot of questionable decisions as it regards the team at the mundial.

He wondered why a coach worth its salt will suddenly change his teams formation less than two weeks to the World Cup in Russia.

He noted that the Super Eagles played a 4:3:2 pattern in the qualifiers save  for  the game against the Indomitable Lions of Cameroun where it played a 4:4:2 formation only for the coach to switch to a 4:2:3:1 formation  in the first game at the mundial  against Croatia with emphasis on always seating deep to watch an opponent especially in the first half despite having the talent or playing staff to confront the opposition ,a strategy which shows that Gernot Rohr actually belonged to the Jose Mourinho and Antonio Conte 's school of football.

The source also criticized Rohr for his refusal to allow the media to watch the players during his close camping in Austria but this medium can confirm that Complete Sports did sent a correspondent of the rank of an editor to monitor the proceedings  .

He revealed that the injury that sent Moses Simon out of the world cup was not as serious as that of Mohammed Sallah of Egypt..

His words:"the doctors said moses simon will be out for three weeks and from that period to the world cup he will only have missed the first week of matches and will then be ready"

He wondered why  the coach  took a  Joel Obi  who was not going to play at all to the World Cup..

He lamented the fact that each time Nigeria lost out to Argentina with Lionel Messi scoring Kenneth Omeruo was always his ready -made customer  and this the former has achieved 3 times .

He affirmed that FIFA played politics by the  refusal of the referee not to award the 2nd penalty that Nigeria clearly had noting that with sponsors putting a lot of pressure on the organizers there was no way FIFA was going to allow Argentina,Portugal and Brazil to go home early in the fiesta.

Analysts feel that considering that a similar scenario played out between Portugal and Iran and which was duly punished by the centre referee then Nigeria has a right to feeling hard done in..

He paid glowing tributes to Ahmed Musa's sterling performance at the world cup insisting that if JUde odion Ighalo had not wasted the two sitters created by the former deep into the game ,Nigeria and not Argentina should have being in the knock out stages.

Throughout the match only the duo of Ahmed Musa and Oghenekaro Etebo ,ironically the two best players on the Nigerian side at the world Cup that did not appear to have been afraid of the Argentines either psychologically or otherwise as the Super Eagles appeared to over respect their opponents especially in the first half.

It would appear to the News office Desk of the E.N.MPaedia Express Group of Lagos, Nigeria that the so called video assisted referee technology is a big fraud targeted by FIFA and its teeming partners at doling out the trophy to a carefully anointed nation.

Check out this scenario though it is debatable :Musa leaves his marker for dead and passes to ighalo via a  floater and the latter in the course of an aerial melee forces an Argentine,Marcos Rojo to handle the ball.

As the argument went on over the incident on the pitch with the referee appearing to have made u his mind on what to do ,he nonetheless goes to do a VAR  review and the 200 million Nigerians were left stunned or shell shocked at his return and subsequent refusal to award the spot kick.

You did not need to go for a coaching course to know that Nigeria had just being 419ed by FIFA'S conspiracy and web of intrigues.

However,if Odion Ighalo had done the needful by burying the ball in the net to score at least one of the two chances he had late in the match Nigeria will never have lost.

It was also gathered that the altercation between John Obi Mikel and Ogenyi Onazi over a regime of heavy work load in the teams middle which affected the teams tactical formation also rubbed off on the super eagles general confidence at the mundial.