Super Eagles Head coach Stephen Keshi gave a warning to Bafana Bafana saying Nigeria are getting stronger with each game they play at the 2014 African Nations Championship tournament.
"I prime my work on the mental (aspect), which I do all the time - more tactical, positional play, because they need to understand the system," Keshi said.
"I'm so happy with the players because they are getting it quickly, so I think we will get better and better as the tournament goes on."
The Super(CHAN)Eagles began their campaign with a 2-1 loss to Mali and then fought back by winning an adventurous Mozambique side 4-2 on Wednesday night.
The victory sets up a final Group A match with South Africa on Sunday. Nigeria must win the game to ensure they make the quarterfinals, while a draw would be enough for Bafana Bafana to go through,even though Bafana Bafana will be hoping to end the dominance of Super Eagles on them.
When coming into the competitoin, Keshi had little time to work with a squad made up of domestic players from the Nigerian league, most of them with very little international experience than their conterparts in the competition,making it worse,the Nigeria Premier League has been on recess for a couple of months.This showed in their lacklustre performance which resulted to defeat to west African neighbours Mali.
However, it was a far more clinical and composed Super Eagles which scored two goals without return in the second half of the Mozambique match after it was 2-2 at half-time,before winning 4-2 at the end of the match.
"I prime my work on the mental (aspect), which I do all the time - more tactical, positional play, because they need to understand the system," Keshi said.
"I'm so happy with the players because they are getting it quickly, so I think we will get better and better as the tournament goes on."
The Super(CHAN)Eagles began their campaign with a 2-1 loss to Mali and then fought back by winning an adventurous Mozambique side 4-2 on Wednesday night.
The victory sets up a final Group A match with South Africa on Sunday. Nigeria must win the game to ensure they make the quarterfinals, while a draw would be enough for Bafana Bafana to go through,even though Bafana Bafana will be hoping to end the dominance of Super Eagles on them.
When coming into the competitoin, Keshi had little time to work with a squad made up of domestic players from the Nigerian league, most of them with very little international experience than their conterparts in the competition,making it worse,the Nigeria Premier League has been on recess for a couple of months.This showed in their lacklustre performance which resulted to defeat to west African neighbours Mali.
However, it was a far more clinical and composed Super Eagles which scored two goals without return in the second half of the Mozambique match after it was 2-2 at half-time,before winning 4-2 at the end of the match.
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