The head coach of the Super Eagles of Nigeria has identify one key area he wants his team to make proper use of when it comes to goal scoring.
Since Rohr took over the Super Eagles they have scored three goals from open play with Manchester City Kelechi Iheanacho and Arsenal Alex Iwobi the players to have found the back of the net for Nigeria under Rohr.
Nigeria will next play Algeria in the World Cup 2018 qualifiers, where they are presently on top of group B after their 2-1 away success over Zambia in Ndola.
Ahead of the game, Rohr is eager to see his team score goals from set pieces due to the amount of freekicks and corner kicks they usually get in games.
Before the game against Zambia, they had drills on scoring from free kicks and corner kicks, but during the game proper they failed to convert the chances that came their way from set pieces into goals.
” We have to work on scoring from set pieces, we usually have lots of corner kicks and free kicks in games. We have the players who could be threat in those situations but we are yet to make proper use of them. It’s a problem we hope to solve soon” He told Owngoalnigeria.com.
