A Fifa licensed agent Ebi Egbe has said Nigeria’s 2-0 loss to South Africa in the 2019 Africa Cup of Nations (Afcon) qualifier in Uyo on Saturday should not come to him as a surprise.
According to Egbe, who is a stadium facility expert, the Super Eagles were bound to win the encounter because of the conditions of the playing pitch, Punch reports.
He boldly suggested that the domestic league players would have done better againstBafana Bafana because they are used to playing on undulated pitches unlike their foreign-based counterparts.
“I saw the problem the Eagles faced in Uyo coming. The interviews I granted the media before the game can attest to that,” Egbe said.
“The way the players express themselves in Europe is not the same way they would when they come home because of the undulated pitches we have here in Nigeria.
“The Uyo stadium pitch may be the best in the country today, but it is not anywhere near the zero undulated pitches our players are used to in Europe. We can clearly see that the players found it difficult to adjust after one or two days of training on the undulated pitch, For us, to get the best out of our players, we must invest in good pitches.”
He’s however tipped Gernot Rohr’s men to qualify for Cameroon 2019 by beating South Africa on their own turf.
“The terrain in South Africa in the return leg will favour the Eagles,” he said.
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