Poland vs Nigeria Friendly Match: How Will The Super Eagles Of Nigeria Line Up?
The camp of the Super Eagles of Nigeria opened in the Polish city of Wroclaw on Monday and the players in camp held their first training session on Tuesday and had another round of training session on Wednesday, both training sessions took place at old Śląsk Wrocław stadium, Oporowska street.
However today’s and tomorrow’s training session will take place at the 43,000 capacity Municipal Stadium, Wroclaw which is the venue of the showdown against the Bialo-Czerwoni (White and Reds) of Poland on Friday night.
“I hope to try different systems (in these matches), so we can change when necessary,” Rohr told reporters.
“We have played 4-3-3, 5-3-2 already. We also hope to improve team harmony after we did well in last two games, while playing offensive football,” he said.
Reliable sources very close to the team’s Radisson Blu Hotel camp in Wroclaw has confirmed to Allnigeriafootball.com, that Gernot Rohr, Super Eagles technical adviser, is expected to build his tactics around either of the 4-3-3 or 3-4-3 formations.
During the recent World Cup qualifying matches, the Super Eagles of Nigeria excelled making use of the 4-3-3 system.
This formation gave room to Victor Moses and Alex Iwobi or Moses Simon depending on who was on the starting line up, the freedom to venture forward at will, hence terrorising the opponent’s defense while linking up effectively with either Kelechi Iheanacho or Odion Ighalo in the attack.
However, in the last friendly match against La Albiceleste of Argentina, the Nigerian technical team adopted the 3-5-2 formation which was quite strange to the players as confirmed by team Captain John Obi Mikel during the post match interview.
“We played a new system that we never played before, so we struggled to find our feet in the first half, but we improved after the break,” Mikel said.
The Nigerian team is work in progress, as the coach is still trying out different formations with the aim of finding a formation that will be best suited to the current crop of players at his disposal.
However in tomorrow’s match against the Bialo-Czerwoni (White and Reds) of Poland, there’s a huge possibility that the Super Eagles might switch back to a 4-3-3 formation which was extensively used to great effect during the world Cup qualifiers.
Below is how Allnigeriafootball.com thinks the Super Eagles of Nigeria will line up tomorrow night against the Bialo-Czerwoni (White and Reds) of Poland.
