Sunday, June 17, 2018

2018 World Cup: Leon Balogun reveals why Croatia beat Eagles 2-0

Nigeria’s centre-half, Leon Balogun has defended super Eagles’ overall performance of their 2-0 loss to Croatia on Saturday in Kaliningrad.


In keeping with the defender, the super Eagles did not perform badly no matter the loss.

He additionally explained that the Croats won due to the fact they have been good, calm and focused in the game,


He told complete sports, “We lost this game and it’s long past. As a team, no need to live on that, however just ought to learn from the mistakes and prepare to win the subsequent match.

“Yes, we lost through set-pieces. It was tough, both in defending set-pieces and seeking to get goals via set-pieces.

“I suppose that normally, we didn’t create many chances. but, there is no need to drop our heads due to this loss. Of course, we want to look dangerous offensively. It turned into not that terrible as we were confident with the ball, however we need to create extra chances.


“Of direction, we in no way thought we might lose the match. imagine what a win could have done for us – something like a 50, 60 per cent progress toward advancing from the group.

“Now we've got  very important games remaining in the group, and we ought to win, at the least, one and of course watch what happens in the other games of our group opponents.

“The best we can do now could be to focus on ourselves, criticize and analyse what went wrong and what we did properly too, and stick to a high-quality mentality.

“With the way we played against them, and our self belief at the ball, I don’t suppose we performed against a totally skilled side, correct me if i was incorrect. I don’t sense we had been a bad in the game, we didn’t play badly. Of course, there are matters to learn from it and get proper results from the following games.



“The Croatians have been good, and calm in the game. if they didn’t have the ball, they stayed in their positions. That worked for them. perhaps we can learn from that. i am positive going ahead from right here.”

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