Mikel: Eagles Were Too Wasteful As Team Heads Home On Monday.

Super Eagles midfield manager, John Mikel Obi, has joined Head Coach Stephen Keshi in saying that the team’s marksmen at the ongoing Confederations Cup were too wasteful hence the team crashed out of the championship.

Speaking after the team’s 3-0 loss to Spain in its last group game, Mikel declared that opportunities created by the team were too numerous but were simply not put away. 

 “We came out to defeat the Spanish side and I think we may have even had the better possession against the World Champions but we simply did not take our chances and they took theirs, so we paid for our mistakes and are now heading out of the championship.

Mikel says he was not taking anything away from the Spaniards whom he describes as fantastic but simply want Nigerians strikers to be more potent in from of goal. 

The Chelsea of England midfield star, who played the last two games with a slight fever says Nigerian will be back in Brazil next year from where the world will see the best of the reigning African champions.

Meanwhile the Super Eagles will depart Fortaleza for Sao Paolo en rout Lagos on Monday morning. 

The team is expected to leave its Seara Praia Hotel in Fortaleza by 10:30am local time, which is 2:30pm Nigerian time for Sao Paolo from where it will link a flight to Johannesburg, South Africa and another to Lagos. 

Some of the foreign based players will not be part of the returning party as they jet out to either meet their clubs for pre-season tours or plan for new abodes in the coming season in Europe that begins in the August.


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