By Maduabuchi Kalu on October 15, 2016

Former Gombe State FA Chairman, Alhaji Shuaib Ahmed Gara Gombe, has given a shocking verdict concerning the Super Eagles’ victory in faraway Zambia last Sunday in the 2018 Russia World Cup Qualifier played in Ndola.

According to him, the Eagles displayed individual skills and abilities and there was nothing to suggest that the team’s gaffer, Gernot Rohr has any input in their style or pattern of play.

He explained that inasmuch as he is happy that Eagles won the game, there was nothing to show that they are a team because they have continued to display individual abilities instead of playing as a team which they suppose to be.

Gombe, a down to earth football critic stated his mind in a telephone interview with Daily Sports on Monday in his response to Eagles’ away victory which has put Nigerian at the top of their group in the 2018 World Cup Qualifiers.

“We may have won but we still have a lot to do going forward. Unfortunately we don’t have a coach. I watched the game with bated breath particularly in the second half when the Zambians were run riot of our boys and the coach was helpless.

“The coach did nothing to provide answer to the troubles that the Zambians were causing the Eagles. I had expected him as a coach to have answers to the troubles of our opponents but he was just there doing nothing. I believe that if he had any answer to give he would have offered it but he had none.

“If you had watched the match you would have noticed that Eagles still play as they used to play. There was no difference between how they were playing before and how they played in Zambia. They were not coordinated. There was no cohesion in their pattern of play to indicate that the coach has any input in their game.

“So, if you have someone who calls himself a coach and his impart is not being felt, will you in every honesty say that you have a coach?” Gombe asked.

When he was reminded that the Franco-German tactician has not spent much time with the team for his input to be visible, Gombe disagreed saying that once a coach who knows his onions steps in to take charge of any team, two to three games are enough for his impact to be felt.

“Look, I get upset when people make this kind of excuse that he has not spent much time for his work to be felt or seen. But the truth of the matter is that in football, there is no such time that people are talking about or looking for.

“The fact remains that if coach steps up to take charge of any team as a professional who is also leading professionals, two to three games are enough for his work to reflect on the team. But we have not seen that with Rohr.

“I mean we are talking of players who are playing football as their career, we are talking of players who do not have any other job except playing football. These are professional footballers for crying out loud.

“These are people that have already learnt the elementary or the rudiments of the game. You only need to guide them to play the pattern you want them to play and to tell them the strategy with which to outsmart your opponents simple,” Gombe explained.    

•Photo shows Gara Gombe.

Source Daily Sports

Posted October 15, 2016

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