The failure of the Egyptians to stick to the fair play rule and loss of concentration by Nigerian players cost the Super Eagles victory in Friday’s AFCON 2017 qualification match at the Ahmadu Bello Stadium, Kaduna.
The Nigerian team conceded a late equalizer, helping the Egyptians to force them to a 1 - 1 draw.
“Firstly I will have to say that in football there is no more home advantage or away advantage. We lost concentration in the last three minutes of the extra time. One of our players (Godfrey Oboabona) was down and instead of kicking the ball far away for fair play he kicked it to our side which is wrong.
“Fair play sometimes is not fair play. If you are losing almost at the end of the game you won’t do the fair play rule. Fair play or not fair play we should be marking a player like Mohamed Salah until the last seconds of the game. I think we should blame ourselves not the Egyptians."
He however pledged to turn the table in Alexandria, Egypt noting that there is no more home advantage in football.
“We will turn the table in Alexandria, of course we can. We have been in this situation before so why can’t we (win in Alexandria). We have to move forward after today’s game. Moving forward is that we have to get ourselves together and try to go to Egypt and win. This is a game of football when anything can happen. So we will go out there and try and win in Egypt. If we don’t win that means we are out of the game. We will try our best to go and win there. Everything is possible," he said.
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