AFCON2021: I’ll Bring In Fresh Legs Against Guinea-Bissau– Eguavoen

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Austin Eguavoen Super Eagles interim coach, Austin Eguavoen, has disclosed that a few changes would be made to the beginning line-up against Guinea-Bissau in their last Group D on Wednesday, January 19.

This follows the group defeated Egypt and Sudan at the continuous Africa Cup of Nations in Cameroon

The coach also admitted that his side has not been scientific enough in front of goal in the tournament.The Eagles scored 4 goals and conceded one however Eguavoen is not pleased with his side’s wastefulness in front of the goal.Eguavoen made the declaration throughout an interview with PUNCH

Sports Extra.He said:”Sometimes scoring goals is still an issue. It’s in the goal location that we have actually missed a lot of chances. We are not medical enough in front of objective; we missed a number of sitters in the games we’ve played. We gave Sudan some opportunities to rating.”He went to describe that his decision to maintain the exact same squad for the Egypt and Sudan games was

due to the brief time he needed to prepare the group for the competition. With Nigeria currently ensured a spot in the knockout stage, Eguavoen, will bring in fresh faces against the Bissau-Guineans. Eguavoen said, “I didn’t want to take the danger, which was why I retained the exact same starting line-up. “Coaching of this team began on January 6 and it was challenging to take the threat due to the fact that it was much better to

play with a team that has actually been together for some time.”We banked on gamers that knew themselves. Everyone in this group has a possibility to play in this competition, so with qualification secured, we will be giving some gamers the opportunity to play in the next video game.”On his side’s possibilities of raising the title, he added,” There are 24 groups here and there are chances for groups to make it to the second round.”Every group at this competition is good enough to win this trophy, whoever comes our method we will be ready to play them. Whoever wants to be champions should be

prepared to play any group.” The Eagles will deal with among the third-place groups from Group B, E, or F in the round of 16 in Garoua. ToriNG