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Nigeria Olympic team coach Austin Eguavoen has maintained his team could still play in the final game of the Olympic qualifiers in Morocco despite their 1-0 loss to the home team.<\/p>\n

On Saturday, Nigeria\u2019s U-23 team were disappointing in the opening game of the Olympic qualifying tournament and hardly troubled the host country.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe will put this game behind us and focus on the next game against Senegal. There is every possibility that we could still meet Morocco again in the final of this championship,\u201d said Eguavoen after Saturday\u2019s match.<\/p>\n

The Nigeria coach admitted his team were below par against Morocco, which could have been caused by the early exit of defender Kingsley Udoh as a result of injury.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe didn\u2019t do enough and the boys started off rather nervously, but saying that we lost a player in the first three minutes and that disturbed the team,\u201d said Eguavoen.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat early substitution due to injury to Udoh threw us out of our stride and we seem to be chasing the game from then on.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur forwards were also not sharp and alert enough to get to the end of crosses.\u201d<\/p>\n

Nigeria will be under pressure to beat Senegal Tuesday night at the same venue after both teams lost their opening games. Striker Daniel Uchechi promised the Dream Team will play a lot better in their subsequent games.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe know we can play better and taking one game at a time, we will go back and look at the game and see where we went wrong and correct that for the next game,\u201d said the England-based Uchechi.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis game is gone now and we have to look forward to the next match.\u201d<\/p>\n

Morocco coach Pim Verbeek praised his team for getting off to a winning start.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m pleased with the way we played and it is great to win the first match,\u201d said the Morocco coach.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe created many chances that should have seen us score more than the one goal we got. We should learn to put away chances we create.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe meet Algeria next, which means it will be a tough derby. We have to be ready.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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