I'm Satisfied With One Point - Oliseh

Super Eagles coach, Sunday Oliseh has expressed his satisfaction with the goalless draw against Tafia Stars of Tanzania in last Saturday's African nations cup qualifier played in Dar es Salaam.

Oliseh told reporters that he was happy to get a draw since his team had a very short time to prepare for the match.

He admitted that certain departments of the team did not do well, but singled out goalkeeper Carl Ikeme for special praise. It was the Wolverhampton Wanderers Keeper's debut game for the national team.

“I can describe the match as a game of two halves because we struggled in the first half but came back strongly in the second half containing the Tanzanians, who also played very well.

“We only had two days to train together just as Ahmed (Musa) said and I am impressed with the way we played even though the striking was blunt but I am optimistic we will work on those mistakes step by step.

“This is far better than game that what we had in Abuja on Wednesday as our first friendly match. With what I have seen of this outing and the period leading to this match, I can confidently say that the third game will be better. And that’s what we’ll keep doing with subsequent matches.

“Our midfield was not covered properly that is why I decided to do some early changes but I don’t want to point at any player.

“Things did not work as planned that’s why I decided to make the change but I don’t want to be negative because I will have time to talk to the player and see how we can correct the mistakes we saw but if we hadn’t made that early change, we would have lost."

“In the second half, we organised ourselves better but lacked that quality supply from the midfield to the attack. But we will get better as we progress.

“We have to continue to build the team. We barely had two good days of training before this match so I am happy with the one point.

“I don’t like to single out players from the team but I have to admit that Carl Ikeme had a great game for us today. It can’t be described decent as you just said; that will be unfair. I think Carl had a very fantastic debut today.”