The head coach of the senior national team of Benin Republic Gernot Rohr says he is worried over the state of his team ahead of their AFCON 2025 qualifiers game against the Super Eagles of Nigeria, OwnGoalNigeria.com reports.
Benin Republic will begin their journey towards making it to the next AFCON against the Super Eagles of Nigeria in Uyo , and Rohr who was coach of the Nigerian team for six and half years says his players are not having the best of season coming into the game.
” Some of my players are not that active at club level either because they are out of contract or looking for new teams. Nigeria have a few like that but they are many of them who are already very active and match fit. However we will do our best to put up a fight and have a good game plan to win”, he said.
Rohr who masterminded Benin’s first win over Nigeria in their football history gave thumbs up to the Godswill Akpabio stadium in Uyo, which will host the game on the 7th of September.
” Super Eagles will be happy to play in Uyo again because for two years they didn’t play there while I was there because of politics in the federation. It’s a nice stadium that allows both teams to play good football. Opponents are not comfortable there against us while I was coach of Nigeria, now I have the same feelings facing the Super Eagles in Uyo”.
