Manu Garba Blames Defeat On Defensive Errors

Flying Eagles

Nigeria U20 coach Manu Garba has expressed his regret on the woeful outing of his team in their Group E’s opening game against Brazil at the FIFA U20 World Cup at the Stadium Taranaki in New Plymouth. 

The match was leveled 2-2 at the end of the first half with a goal in each half by Flor Da Silva Judivan plus strikes from Gabriel Jesus and Boschilia Gabriel which ensured the South Americans extended their superiority over the Flying Eagles to fourth time at this level of the competition.

The Coach, speaking at a post-match conference expressed his disenchantment with the result which he blamed on mistakes committed by his team in the second half of the encounter.

“It’s a huge disappointment. We carved out the better chances in the first half and we should have led at the break,” said Manu at a post-match conference.

“The first 45 minutes reflected what we’re capable of. We simply made two mistakes that cost us dearly in the second period.

“All in all we played our part in a really great match and I’d like to congratulate Brazil on their victory; they’re a very good team,” he said.

Nigeria’s next game will be against Korea DPR which also bowed 5-1 to Hungary in their first game on Monday comes up on Thursday June 4, 2015 at the same stadium.