CZECH FRIENDLY: Eagles have recovered from England defeat – Rohr

Super Eagles coach, Gernot Rohr says his team have recovered well from last weekend 2-1 defeat against the Three Lions of England in London, and promises that their final warm-up game against Czech Republic will be a good one.

A sloppy start in Wembley cost the Super Eagles, as they could not complete a comeback despite putting up a better performance in the second half, having conceded twice in the first 40 minutes.

The team are set to face Czech Republic in another friendly in Austria today (Wednesday), and the coach says they are fit ahead of the match as work in their training camp has been good.

“We are becoming fitter and fitter now because the work here (camp in Austria) is very good,” Rohr said in a tweeted video clip by the Nigeria Football Federation on Wednesday.

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“We have wonderful conditions, the grass is nice, we have not too hot, not too cold climate, really what we need and no injury. We have recovered well from the travel from England from the (friendly) match. We have Wilfred Ndidi coming back, he will start the game against Czech Republic.”

Rohr, who will be leading the Eagles to their sixth appearance at the FIFA World Cup, expressed that his team will continue the same way they played during the second half of the England friendly.

“We want to continue like we did in the second half against England. Our list of 23 [players] is done now, I hope there wouldn’t be any injury and we can stay with these 23 players.

“The team is in a good spirit, they work well and I hope they will continue with a good game against Czech Republic and take it to Russia,” he stated.

Nigeria will kick off their World Cup campaign against Croatia on June 16 before taking on Iceland and Argentina on June 22 and 26 respectively.

The Czech friendly holds 2:00p.m today (Wednesday) Nigerian time.

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