Gernot Rohr , the Technical Adviser of the Super Eagles has opined that tactical errors made by the technical bench of Kano Pillars Football Club led to the loss of the team to Rangers International Football Club in the AITEO Cup final reports, www.totorinews exclusively.
Rohr, one of the football stakeholders that graced the encounter at the Stephen Keshi stadium in Asaba, Delta state said it was a game of two different halves for both teams, adding that Pillars were lethally tearing apart in the first half, while the second half saw a very determined Rangers came from the dead to equalise the three goals deficit and eventually winning the game 4 -2 on penalties.
“It was a good game with different half for Kano Pillars in the first half and Rangers in the second half.Tactical errors from Pillars in terms of substitution cost the Pillars the loss.”Rohr said.
“The game became very difficult for Pillars after making the substitutions.The players gave too much space to Rangers, which was not what we watched in the first half,” he added.
After the miserable World Cup in Russia where Nigeria failed to make it to the second round of the mundial, the Franco – German football tactician has tinkered the affairs of the Super Eagles to three outstanding victories at the qualifying campaign for the African Cup of Nations Cup to be hosted by Cameroon in June, 2019.
The Super Eagles pummelled Seychelles to three nil victory in September before lynching Libya in the double header confrontations few weeks ago.
It is hoped that Rohr will give another opportunity to Lokossa and few other players in the Nigeria Professional Football League ahead of the crucial AFCON qualifying game against Bafana Bafana of South Africa in Johannesburg next month.
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