Following the Nigerian team’s loss against the South African side on Saturday in a match which ended 2-0, the Nigerian coach, Gernot Rohr has insisted on his high confidence in the team.
Recall that the coach during the match replaced Kenneth Omeruo with Chidozie Awaziem while keeping Ahmed Musa on the bench for Moses Simon.
Rohr while speaking to Goal.com said: “My young team had a good first half, they played very well but they didn’t score. And in the second half, we knew that the experienced South Africans could be dangerous on counters and that happened.”
He added: “We had difficulties to finish the match physically because some of my players were tired. We tried to put in three offensive players to bring some power in the attack but it was not enough .
“We knew that South Africa were unbeaten in 17 now 18 games and expected a tough game.
“After this kind of game, we are expected to make progress. My young team with an average age of 23 years today – the youngest in Africa will learn, they will not repeat the same mistakes.
“We controlled the game until the goal and after that, they became nervous. But I trust these players and I will not like to give any excuses.
“I am satisfied with my team and we have to be positive because we cannot always win. We win and we lose together.”