Coach
Daniel Amokachi has said he is not impressed with his team of
home-based super Eagles even after they thrashed FCT League side NYSC
5-2 on Monday, Africanfootball.com reports.
Amokachi said he was not impressed by the
performance of his Eagles as they showed signs of heaviness, adding
that more work needed to be done before the team departed for friendlies
against Cote d’Ivoire and Sudan in Abu Dhabi.
“If you concede such an early goal
against an experienced side like Cote d’ Ivoire you will be in trouble
because you will have to chase the game all day,” he said.
The NYSC side drew the first blood in
only the second minute of the match when number 10 shirted Nwowu Ikenna,
sleek dribbles in the Eagles vital area ended on the legs of teammate,
Omefe Ifeanyi, who did a ‘thank you very much’, by slotting home from
close range.
The goal jolted the national team to
reality and four minutes later hotshot, Mfom Udoh equalised after Gambo
Mohammed’s beautiful run from the right fell to him.
But the NYSC team will not let go, as
they again took the lead through Eugene Utom in the sixth minute after
another defensive mix-up that forced Amokachi to pull out experienced
defender, Azubuike Egwuekwe, who was apparently the culprit of the gaps
noticed in the backline.
The Eagles seemed to wake up after that
change with Nelson Ogbonna curtailing the excesses of the NYSC strikers,
while teen sensation Kingsley Sokari alias ‘Bobby’ equalised in the
18th minute with a neatly struck goal.
Sokari added his second of the day in the
21st minute after a neat interchange of passes with inform Heartland
winger Stanley Dimgba.
Two minutes to the end of the first half,
Udoh got also his second of the day, after Gambo had done the hard part
of the job. The first half thus ended 4-2.
http://www.punchng.com/sports/amokachi-not-impressed-despite-eagles-win
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