Russia 2018 World Cup qualifier: You must make fans happy with goals – Bassey tells Eagles

• Chukwu faults Oliseh on home boys
TECHNICAL committee member of the nation’s soccer
governing body, NFF, and a seasoned sports journalist ,
Paul Bassey, has tasked the Super Eagles to go goal wire
in today’s Russia 2018 World Cup qualifier against
Swaziland at the Adokie Amiesiamaka Stadium in Port
Harcourt.
Bassey who is away in Congo on FIFA assignment told
Daily Sunsports exclusively that Sunday Oliseh and his
boys must rise to the occasion today and put smiles on
the faces of Nigerians by scoring as many goals as
possible, even as he insisted that Nigerian football has not
taken a nose dive to the level where the Eagles would be
struggling with Swaziland.
“I expect Eagles to beat Swaziland silly. Oliseh and his
boys should make the fans happy by scoring goals. Yes, I
agree with those who say there are no minnows in African
football, but even at that, if we start struggling against a
country like Swaziland, then you know there is a big
problem. We just saw the Golden Eaglets play good foot-
ball in Chile, I expect the Eagles to also get things right at
home by roasting Swaziland,” Bassey said.
While Bassey wants goals, former Eagles handler,
Christian Chukwu believes, Oliseh is getting things wrong
by using only the foreign legion. Chukwu stated that a
good number of the home lads called up by Oliseh are
good enough to pick shirts and do better.
“If Oliseh had used some of the home lads in Lobamba we
would have seen a better Eagles because the home lads
would have played better in that terrain. The boys from
Europe are not used to the kind of pitch they played in
Lobamba,” Chukwu noted.
The winner of today’s game will qualify for the group stage
where 20 countries will be drawn into five groups with the
winners of each group qualifying for the Russia 2018 World
Cup.
One player that is out of today’s game is Rabiu Ibrahim,
the mid- fielder who limped out of the action in the first leg
due to a knee injury after coming on as a half-time
substitute.
“Yes, he has been ruled out. He (Rabiu) will not play,”
Oliseh confirmed yesterday.

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