By: Ifreke Inyang
Head coach of Nigeria’s U-23 team, Samson Siasia, has said he is not losing sleep over who they play in the quarter-final of the 2016 Olympic Games.
The Dream Team VI beat Sweden 1-0, to book their place in the knock-out round of the competition, where they could face hosts Brazil.
“I think for me and the boys all we are doing now is taking it a game at a time, we are not bothered about the team we will be playing in the quarter finals, let’s play Colombia first and from there we will think of our opponents at that stage,” Siasia said.
“The issue of the team I will prefer to play in the quarter final stage doesn’t arise now; what is uppermost in my mind is getting my boys focused for every game.”
Despite keeping a clean sheet against Sweden, Siasia still admitted they were still causes over his defence which conceded four times in the first match against Japan.
“As you all can see, today [against Sweden] my defence line didn’t concede any goal, yes myself and my technical crew worked very hard to correct all the lapses we noticed in our first game and I am happy my boys stood their ground and kept a clean sheet today. All I can say for now is that it’s work in progress,” he added.
