Keshi fumes over 2nd defeat

Nigeria coach Stephen Keshi was outraged after seeing his wards succumb to a second consecutive defeat, this time against Peru in Lima on Thursday.

Jose Paolo Guerrero’s 37th-minute effort was the difference between the two sides, and Keshi was left fuming.

“We can talk about jet lag and all that but there is always a reason for failure, and I hate failures,” Keshi said as he broke with his tradition of giving his players the day off after a game and ordered them back to training in Lima.

CONTEST… Peru’s Claudio Pizarro vies for the ball with Super Eagles Gabriel Ruben during their friendly match in Lima thursday morning. Peru won 1-0.

”In my entire career as a player and a coach, I have never lost two matches consecutively. That is why we must regard this as the very last

loss of this new order and return to training in the  morning with an eye on victory at all times,” he thundered.

The Super Eagles struggled to gain a foothold in the game in the opening half, allowing Jeferson Farfan the freedom of the park.

The Hoffenheim man took advantage to orchestrate the game-winning goal on a break-away from a failed Nigeria free-kick.

Moments later, it could have been two, but for Juwon Oshaniwa’s timely goal-line clearance.

Keshi threw on Obiorah Nwankwo and Nnamdi Oduamadi in the second period, and the Eagles hauled themselves back into the game.

But it was not enough to earn them a share of the booty as they succumbed to their second defeat on the spin, following a 2-3 reverse against Egypt in their last match.

Keshi announced later that the foreign based quartet of Nnamdi Oduamadi, who led his Torino side to the Italian serie A promotion recently, Gege Soriola of Free State Warriors in South Africa, Atletico Belares’ Raheem Lawal and Obiorah Nwankwo of Parma of Italy, who is on loan at AS Gubbio, are to report to camp in Calabar latest Sunday evening. Only Lawal, who has a game on Sunday was permitted to report on Monday morning.

The coach is also expected to,  on arrival in Nigeria, announce the make up of the home-based squad for the tight three-way qualifiers against Namibia, Malawi and Rwanda.

“We have no time now and we must pick a team quickly and concentrate on them, that is what we would do when we get to Nigeria for the qualifiers”, he said in Lima.

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