Coach of the senior national team of Nigeria Gernot Rohr has been criticised for the Super Eagles approached to games in the past by the media, fans and some former players of the senior national team of Nigeria.
The coach who is gearing up for his team’s high profile friendly match against Brazil later today has however defended his playing style explaining that the idea is to use the available players to get the best result possible.
Rohr said the Super Eagles under him play a brand of football that involves keeping opponent high up their pitch by pressing them in order to frustrate them from playing out of the back with ease and building momentum.
” The players know how we want to play and it’s very simple because we have players who can do it with ease unlike before. It’s very simple on paper but difficult in interpretation”, Rohr told Owngoalnigeria.com.
” Our players should not make it easy for opponent to pass out of the back because that will help their rhythm before getting to us and in attack we have to move the ball a lot quicker with the forward players giving us options with their movement.
Speaking on players who he rely on to make the system work, the Franco-German coach named Moses Simon in the absence of Samuel Kalu as one player who provide the sort of balance he need while playing in his preferred way.
” Kalu understands this perfectly but we don’t have him with us. Simon is very technical in interpretation of tactics. He will be useful for us against Brazil in the way we want to play and other players will also play their part”, the coach concluded.
