Leicester City forward Kelechi Iheanacho believe he will be best utilized in the Nigerian team if he is played as the man behind the main striker in attack for the Super Eagles.
Iheanacho has been deployed as a top striker for the Nigerian team under coach Gernot Rohr mostly due to the fact that the German usually play a 4-3-3 formation.
He started off very well leading the lines for the team in the early days of Rohr with two goals in his first two games under the coach but he has since struggle to maintain that form and he is now pinning for a new role.
At Leicester City he has also been played in that position when paired with Jamie Vardy and he believe it was part of the reason why he had that turn around in form towards the end of last season.
His ability to make clever runs into the box where he finishes with aplomb still remains his strength and it means playing behind the main striker will help him make those runs unsighted.
Rohr is aware of his desire to play behind the main striker but the current set up of his team does not permit that. It remains to be seen if anything will change next month when they converge for their next round of international games in Austria where they will trade tackles with Tunisia and Côte d’Ivoire in a friendly encounter on the 9th and 13th of October respectively.
