Former Nigerian goalkeeper, Emmanuel Babayaro has stated that the Super Eagles are an average team at the 2018 World Cup and they need to face that reality in other to proceed further at the tournament. After bowing to a 2-0 loss to Croatia in their opening World Cup fixture, the former international believes the Super Eagles are not special and still have a lot of work to do.
‘We deceive ourselves too much. Nigeria have been an average team, we’re not spectacular but we won’t accept the fact that we’re an average team, Babayaro said. “We lie to ourselves saying we’re that good. But I will keep saying, as long as we don’t accept our inadequacies we are not going to improve, we have to tell ourselves the truth in order to work hard.”
“If we tell ourselves we are that good, there will be no room for improvement, but if we tell ourselves we are not that good, which is the truth, we will have a lot of room to improve then we will work hard.”