Algerians are dangerous, Rohr warns Eagles

Super Eagles coach Gernot Rohr has warned his players to be wary of the Algerians whom he said are likely going to be aggressive in their approach to the game having dropped points at home during their first game against Cameroon

Speaking with Cafonline.com, Rohr said the Eagles have the opportunity to leverage on their away victory over Zambia in their first match.

“Algeria which is the number one team in Africa must be disappointed for dropping points at home against Cameroon. They will come to Uyo very well prepared against us. So mathematically, it was a good operation for us that we won in Ndola; and we are the only team in the group with three points after the first round of matches,” he said.

He said they had a well-thought out plan to neutralise their opponents, assuring that preparations ahead of the November 12 encounter had been top notch.

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“The preparation has been to look at our players in their clubs because we cannot play any friendly match. We have to analyse the matches and we also have to keep eyes on our players because we have started building a new team with many young players. It was good we have two wins after two matches (Tanzania and Zambia) which is good for our confidence but there is still a lot of work to do,” he added.

The German allayed fears concerning his defence line insisting that the players that missed the last match who are back in the team for the Algeria tie will make the squad stronger.

“I want to believe the players we had in the defence are good. We have to look at those who were injured who could not play against Zambia. We have Leon Balogun and others like Victor Moses, Isaac Success, Odion Ighalo who were not around; it is good to have so many solutions and not just one list with same players for all the matches,” he added

 

 

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