FORMER Super Eagles of Nigeria Head Coach, Sunday Oliseh, has warned the national football team not to take their semifinal encounter with South Africa lightly.
The Super Eagles team beat Angola to enter the semifinal stages and would play South Africa, who defeated Cape Verde to make it to the semifinals of the 2023 AFCON.
Oliseh warned the Eagles to be mindful of South Africa's attack and ensure the game doesn’t end up in a penalty shootout at the AFCON semifinal tie at the Stade de la Paix on Wednesday.
“South Africa are compact and dangerous when they go forward; when they go forward, they can hurt us,” Oliseh said on a Channels TV programme.
“And we should not allow the game to go to a penalty shootout because of the aura around the heroics of the goalkeeper. He saved four penalties, and the Super Eagles must have watched that,” he added.
The last time the Eagles played the Bafana Bafana at the AFCON tournament was in 2000, which was co-hosted by Nigeria and Ghana, in which the Super Eagles won the semifinal tie 2-0.
