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Fans lambast Super Eagles for performance in match against Sierra Leone
 
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Sat, 14 Nov 2020   ||   Nigeria, Edo State
 

Super Eagles fans have slammed the national team coach Gernot Rohr and his team for their poor performance against Sierra Leone in Friday’s 2022 Africa Cup of Nations qualifier at the Samuel Stadium, in Benin City, Edo State.

Nigeria let a dominant four goal lead slip in a 4-4 draw with Sierra Leone in Benin City.

A double from Alex Iwobi and strikes from Napoli’s Victor Osimhen doubled the Eagles’ lead. Iwobi made it three just before the half-hour mark before Samuel Chukwueze scored the fourth goal.

The game, which ended 4-4, meant the Eagles have failed to keep a clean sheet in their last five games, with their last coming in the AFCON third place match against Tunisia.

Fans have been infuriated by the team’s inability to win in their last three games and believed the team have reached an all-time low under Rohr.

 Some fans outside the Benin stadium were said to have chanted ‘Super He-goat’, some pelted the team bus with sachet water as the team bus departed the stadium while many fans took to twitter to lambast the team.

“When we say Gernot Rohr is the wrong man for the job people, will think we just love to yab. There is no excuse for this show of shame,” Faulkner Joseph tweeted after the game.

“Maduka has shown to us that he’s not ripe to be Super Eagles number one goalkeeper. A sound coach will not leave Daniel Akpeyi out of team and bring a player who is yet to find his feet to replace him. See why Rohr isn’t the best Nigeria. Sunday Dareplease use your office to sack Rohr now,” Olawale Quadri wrote.

Popular musician PRAIZ queried in a tweet, “Problem follow Eagles enter pitch. How do you go from 4-0 to 4-4”.

Micheal Ekele tweeted, “Our coach lack game management we saw it clearly at the last world cup his substitutions is worse.”

Despite the draw the Eagles still lead Group L with seven points from three games while the Leone Stars who they face on Tuesday for the reverse fixture in Freetown – have two points from three games.

 

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