By Victor Okoye
Babban kociyan Najeriya, Eric Chelle, ya yaba da karfin tunanin Super Eagles duk da rashin nasarar da suka yi a bugun fenareti a hannun mai masaukin baki Morocco a wasan kusa da na karshe na AFCON 2025.
Da yake magana bayan wasan ban mamaki a Rabat, Chelle ya bayyana rashin nasara a matsayin mai zafi amma ya dage cewa ‘yan wasansa sun ba da komai a filin wasa.
Chelle ya ce “Wasan bai kasance mai sauki ba, amma ‘yan wasan sun nuna karfin tunani kuma sun yi yaki da kowace kwallo.”
Najeriya da Morocco dai sun fafata ne da babu ci bayan da aka tashi daga wasan da kuma karin lokaci a filin wasa na Prince Moulay Abdellah.
Kamfanin Dillancin Labarai na Najeriya (NAN) ya ruwaito cewa rikicin, wanda aka yi wa lakabi da “na karshe kafin wasan karshe”, ya yi daidai da tsammanin da kungiyoyin biyu suka yi a hankali da kuma da’a.
Chelle ya bayyana cewa, bangarensa ya dauki tsauraran matakai don takaita barazanar kai hari ta Maroko.
“Mun matsa sosai saboda idan ba ku danna ba, kuna barin sarari kuma lamarin ya zama mai rikitarwa,” in ji shi.
Kocin ya yarda cewa ƙungiyarsa ta faɗi ƙasa da ƙa’idodin fasaha na yau da kullun, lura da rashin motsi da ƙarfi a lokacin mahimman lokuta.
“A fasaha, ba mu kasance a matakin wasanninmu na baya ba. Ba zan zargi gajiya ba, amma ba mu da motsi da iko,” in ji Chelle.
A fuskantar wannan kalubalen, Super Eagles ta sake yin wani kwakkwaran wasan na tsaron gida, inda Calvin Bassey ya taka rawar gani a baya.
Shima mai tsaron raga Stanley Nwabali ya taka rawar gani, inda ya yi wata kwallo da ya yi da hannu daya ya hana Hamza Igmane a bugun daga kai sai mai tsaron gida.
Sai dai bugun daga kai sai mai tsaron gida Samuel Chukwueze da Bruno Onyemaechi suka yi nasara, inda Morocco ta zura kwallaye hudu a raga.
Chelle ya bukaci ‘yan wasansa da su ci gaba da mai da hankali yayin da a yanzu Najeriya ke shirin kammala gasar.
“Mun yi aiki tukuru a duk lokacin gasar. Wannan kwallon kafa ce, kuma dole ne mu ci gaba da aiki,” in ji shi.
Najeriya za ta kara da Masar a wasan neman matsayi na uku a ranar Asabar a Casablanca.
Tun da farko Masar ta sha kashi a hannun Senegal da ci 1-0, bayan da Sadio Mane ya farke kwallon a minti na 78. (NAN) (www.nannews.ng)
Edited by Ismail Abdulaziz
