Former Nigerian international, Dosu Joseph has revealed that the Super Eagles will recover from their loss against Mali ahead of the 2026 FIFA World Cup qualifiers slated for June.
Recall that Nigeria lost 2-0 to Mali on Tuesday in the second friendly game, few days after defeating Ghana 2-1.
In a chat with Completesports.com, the Atlanta Olympic gold medalist stated that the team played well despite losing to Mali.
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He however, said that the Super Eagles will recover from the defeat before the start of the 2026 World Cup qualifiers in June.
“Losing to Mali should not be a major cause for alarm for Nigerians because it’s just a friendly game meant to access other players before the World Cup qualifiers commences in June.
“The players gave their very best but sometimes results might no come your way. Sometimes you win and sometimes you lose,this is football.
“A this point, the coach knows where to improve upon in his team before the World Cup qualifiers.”
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Let’s beg GENERAL PESEIRO to come back…
This is my opinion as well. The manner in which Mali won is annoying. With ease, they didn’t struggle at all. That’s what u get with continuity, by sticking with your coach.
Yes my brother…. I mean we sack GENERAL ROAR it later affected us big time now it’s GENERAL PESEIRO which has started affecting us…
Super Eagles will bounce back, why can’t they all go for coaching courses instead, and be updated, they are thinking we are still in 94’s, football has evolve. If you can’t read and counter what your opponent is doing, you’ve got nothing to do with coaching a football team.
All ex Super Eagles believe it’s birth right to coach the SE, look at Cisse in Senegal, he has some white assistants in his team, we can’t just keep employing ex SE, without license. I fully support NFF regarding this.
Dosu is right. Nigeria will be back. Finidi will qualify for the World Cup with games to spare. Finidi has to be employed without delay. Mali were just lucky.
Oh My god it is always these Ex footballers deceiving these boys the same thing they said before Ghana WC qualifiers the same thing they also said they are always saying the same thing NO finidi failed that is not how you experiment he completely went of track in his team selection he didn’t use the opportunity to try new players he only made 2 substitutions against Mali and 1 was forced.. He also did Not insist on replacing the injured players before the Internationals the likes of Awoniyi and co about 4 players got injured so we started the series short. It was a case of typical indigenous coaches Naivety with regards to relations with NFF hierarchy they said we don’t have money to replace them no need for that and he did not insist so he showed he will dance to their tunes. he failed to give us a look into Tella and what he can bring.. I mean the guy failed he is naive the job is too big for him and he will fail. It was clear as day yesterday
We need a skilled foreign coach and Finidi can be assistant to him and keep learning at the same time using the opportunity to improve his coaching skills and license
Liars,destroyers of the game and givers of hyper tension
Funny guys , desser is better than onuachu now na tella and bashiru dele will confront Malians ,you must be a novice for thinking that those players will make any meaningful impact