Coach Eric Sekou Chelle has admitted that it won’t be a walk in the park for the Super Eagles when they battle against the Warriors of Zimbabwe this evening for their 2026 World Cup qualifier Matchday 6 encounter at the Godswill Akpabio International Stadium in Uyo.
The Franco-Malian Chelle began his reign with a 2-0 triumph over Rwanda in Kigali last Friday as the Super Eagles secured their first win of the campaign after taken just three points from their opening four matches.
In previous games, the Super Eagles recorded to three successive draws against Lesotho (1-1), Zimbabwe (0-0) and South Africa (1-1) before that disappointing 2-1 defeat to Benin.
With the bounce against Rwanda, Chelle said the next game this evening against Zimbabwe is not going to be as easy as ABC.
“The second game (against Zimbabwe) now is the most important,” the 47-year-old Chelle, told journalists at his press conference in Uyo. “ I’m proud of my players, what they did in Rwanda was very difficult but they made the job so…
“We worked yesterday (Sunday) and made a good training session and we need to go again to the pitch to prepare for the game tomorrow.”
He continued: “It (the match) will not be easy because Zimbabwe has a good team with good players and good coach. This coach (Michael Nees) has a good game project and we need to be focus in order to do the job tomorrow.”
Team captain William Troost-Ekong said the Super Eagles have quality players that can turn things round, adding the objective of Chelle is to ensure that they function as a unit in order to achieve the maximum results.
He said: “We have a lot of intelligent players that plays at the highest level . They are used to changing tactics with different coaches, so it’s just about adapting (with Chelle) and I think the coach said it before, we have a lot of quality in our team .”
“He doesn’t need to explain much how we need to play football. Rather it’s just about getting everybody to play in harmony and understanding . I think we saw that in the last game but that is in the past , and we have to show that again in the next game (against Zimbabwe).”
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