SAN FRANCISCO October 05, (THEWILL) – Team Coach of Nigeria’s senior football team, Gernot Rohr has declared that the Super Eagles have a target of picking all three points inSunday’s 2018 World Cup qualifier clash with Zambia in Ndola.
The tactician is optimistic his side will get the maximum points when they face the Chipolopolo despite injuries concerns rocking the team.
63-year-old Rohr assured that the Super Eagles have enough quality to secure victory and stressed his desires to try out the home based players.
“I’m happy with the preparation because most of the players have arrived and I’m happy we have good training condition,” Rohr said.
“I’m happy to work with a new and young team because we have a lot of younger players here with some local players here too.
“We are going to Zambia to win the game, though it would be very difficult.
“All the four teams in the group can hope to be the best. Of course we have a look on the Zambia team because they have good players; we focus on our team and have good preparation and hope everybody work well.
“We know that in Zambia, we are going to have a difficult pitch like we saw against Kenya.
“Unfortunately, we are missing some players due to injury, but I’m happy we have some local players and I think it is a good thing to show everybody that local players too could have their chance to come into the team.
“Well, we are missing Balogun, Ighalo and others, but we also still have others players in the team and they also have a chance to show their potentials and qualities.”
The Super Eagles will depart for Ndola on Saturday morning ahead of their clash against Zambia slated for Sunday at the Levy Mwanawasa Stadium.
With the 22 invited players already in camp, the team will continue training at the Abuja National Stadium till Friday evening before leaving for Ndola a day later in a bid not to be overwhelmed by the Zambian weather.
Story by David Oputah
