The Olympic medal-winning coach believes the Crystal Palace midfielder will improve the midfield of the Super Eagles.
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Former head coach of the Super Eagles of Nigeria, Samson Siasia, national team, Austine Eguavoen, to try convincing Crystal Palace of England midfielder, Eberechi Eze, to switch allegiance from England and represent the Nigerian national team.
Siasia believes that the former English U-20 national team captain has what it takes to transform the midfield of the Nigerian team. The Olympic Silver and Bronze medals winning coach believes that the midfield of the Super Eagles is lacking in creativity, opining that Eze has what it takes to fix that deficiency.
“Well, we don’t just have a number 10, that is a creative midfielder in the mode of Jay-Jay Okocha that can distribute accurate passes to the strikers,”
“We don’t just have them now and that is why I have been thinking of ChideraEze with Crystal Palace. The Super Eagles need that player. He could be the next Okocha if we invite him…I have told Eguavoen that the team needs a player of his mood. He will be a good addition to the Super Eagles. We need somebody like him in the team because if you don’t have an offensive player who creates chances for the strikers to score, the team will have problems.”
Siasia further opined that the inability of the Super Eagles midfield to create chances was evident in Nigeria’s 2021 AFCON elimination at the hands of Tunisia.
“That is why we had the problem we faced during the Nations Cup in Cameroon,’’
the former Super Eagles star said.
“Strikers like Awoniyi will run around without getting the ball and we will say he did not play anything, yet nobody gave him the ball…When Sadiq came in, even though he missed many chances, he, however, created some chances too…Awoniyi is a good player, scoring very well, but we have to understand the network between the midfielders and attackers…If the strikers don’t get the balls, they have to create the changes by themselves.”
Source:
Soccernet NG
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