MANAGER of the Super Eagles of Nigeria, Gernot Rohr, has successfully led the team to the knockout stage of the World Cup Qualifying competition.
Nigeria was able to qualify after pulling a 1-1 draw against Cape Verde yesterday at the Teslim Balogun Stadium.
Despite fans complaining about the lack of passion in the game with many agreeing it was a boring match, Gernot Rohr was happy with the draw.
Speaking to reporters post-match, Rohr said:
"Sometimes a draw can be like a victory, we wanted to qualify and we knew that a draw is already qualification.
"It was not an easy game because Cape Verde has a very good technical team, and they scored a goal in the moment when we believed that we had the match in the hand but we missed a lot of chances in the first half especially.
"I think that we deserved to score a second goal; second goal was not coming so we had to defend this draw and the players did it very well.
"The improvement I want to see is to exploit the opportunities we have to score, to be more effective offensively, that's what I want to see, and also to play quicker from behind, it is still too slow from behind for me.
"I want to have a quicker football with one, two touches. Coming from behind our central defenders still take much time to bring the balls forward".
Nigeria will face one of the 9 Africa teams that qualified for the knockout stage and the winner gets a ticket to Qatar for the World Cup.
