……. Big Names don’t play football, G’Bissau coach mocks Eagles, just as angry Nigerians have since taken to social media after the suprising loss insisting Peseiro must go, as well as mocking the Super Eagles, advising them to ‘go to court’ if they are not satisfied with the result..
Top football stakeholders in the country have called on the Nigeria Football Federation to sack Jose Peseiro, following the Super Eagles’ uninspiring 1-0 loss to Guinea-Bissau in a 2023 Africa Cup of Nations qualifier at the Moshood Abiola National Stadium in Abuja on Friday, Voice of Nigeria reports.
A first-half strike from Mama Balde secured a comfortable win for the Djurtus, who move one point clear of the Eagles to top Group A, with three games to play.
The defeat dented Eagles’ AFCON qualification hopes, but boost the Djurtus chances of reaching the continental showpiece for a second consecutive time in Ivory Coast, having appeared at the delayed edition in Cameroon last year.
It was the first time in three decades that the Eagles failed to win a game in three straight games.
The three time African champions suffered earlier friendly defeats in the hands of Algeria (2-1), Portugal (4-0) and Guinea Bissau 1-0.
Since Peseiro took charge as coach of the Eagles, he has recorded only two wins against Sierra Leone and Sao Tome in the seven games that he has been with the three-time African champions.
He was not with the team when they lost to Costa Rica in a pre-World Cup friendly last November.
Former Eagles defender Sam Sodje believes Peseiro’s defensive frailties were exposed by the Djurtus.
“You can’t win games if you do not defend well as a team,” Sodje said.
“He (Peseiro) should leave. Even the best teams defend well as a unit. We lost to Djurtus because they defended well.”
Ace sports broadcaster, Temisan Okomi, questioned the competence of Peseiro and his technical abilities.
“At the rate we are going I don’t even know if we have a coaching problem or a team problem,” Okomi began.
“The truth of the matter is that Peseiro is absolutely not useful as a coach to us. It’s not working at all. He has only won two games in seven games, its untenable. The problem we have is that we cannot even sack him because we don’t have money but if we can, the NFF should sack him immediately.
Afolabi Gambari, another journalist, believes Peseiro lacks the technical ability to lead the Eagles out of the doldrums.
“Peseiro’s competence is suspect, as far as I know,”Gambari said.
“He is clueless and not desirable for the Eagles and because of the cost, he should just go away.”
According to INFO DAILY, Nigerians have since taken to social media to react to the loss, with some sections of tweets telling the Super Eagles to seek redress in court:
@ChukwujiUchenna: Our super eagles should go to court if they are not satisfied with the result.
@Nsukka_demon: Hahahaha if Super Eagles no believe let them go to court 😂😂😂… we need you in the Ucl Abeg.
@onwunigbo: Super Eagles should go to court.
@dennislerizzy: Super eagles won 5:1 if you don’t like it go to court.
But how do we come to this jose pesero guy?
@OFFICIAL_ltanee: If the Super Eagles are not satisfied with the result, they should go to court.
Reacting, the Head Coach of Guinea-Bissau, Baciro Cande, has fired at the Super Eagles after his side’s shock 1-0 victory over the three-time African champions in Abuja on Friday in a 2023 Africa Cup of Nations qualifier.
Cande, while speaking at the post-match press conference, said his side deserved the win despite the array of “big names” paraded by the Nigerians.
“This victory is for the Guinea-Bissau people, we respect all the Nigerian players, but big names don’t play football on the pitch.
*They (Eagles) tried to do everything to beat us and created many scoring chances, but we deserved to win,” Cande said.
“We are very happy about today’s (Friday) victory and the boys did a very good job. The result is very important for us and the Guinea-Bissau people.”
Cande, however, admitted the result shocked his team.
