Samson Siasia says he and his boys have learnt from their mistakes
after ending the Suwon Tourney with a 3-1 win over Honduras. According
to Siasia, he and the team will work on the defense and other areas
after losing to Korea 0-1, Denmark 6-2 and winning Honduras 3-1 as
Nigeria's U-23 team prepares for the Rio Olympics this summer..
Speaking at the post match press conference to Journalists, Siasia said;
"I’m
happy we are not going back home pointless. The most important thing is
that team officials and the players have learnt a lot from this
tournament which we will take back home to start making our corrections.
"The
best thing that has happened to this team is that due to results at
this tournament, we have heard Nigerians criticizing us, we thank them
for all the negative things they have been saying about us. These have
served as motivation for us, we have realized the areas that we need to
improve on and those players that we need to inject into the team to
make up a very strong team going to the Olympics."
“The
biggest problem we are having right now is that we do not defend very
well; we create several chances but do not convert them. So, we need to
make changes in those areas for us to move ahead from here, we have
other games coming up too in America. After making those changes we will
see how well the team will look going to the Olympics.
"I
don't see any plus right now, I only saw players that are not fit
enough, that's the biggest problem we had. The change of weather
actually affected the few ones that we trusted to play well, most of
them faltered, so that's a problem, and we need to address these things
in a hurry."