What were we xpecting? I guess a miracle. Because only a miracle would have enabled us to get to the finals and eventually win the competition. God indeed gave us a miracle by helping qualify for the quaterfinals. But really we couldn't have expected more going by the calibre of the crop of individuals who manage our football.

Looking critically at yesterdays game, all the boys played well but you needn't a soothsayer to tell you that there wasn't any game plan by the coach for the boys. The goal we got via the penalty, though favourably earned, was more or less a dint of goodluck. Our squad lacked attacking midfield and we didn't see any nice finishing because we don't have strikers.

Nigeria is fully loaded with players that can effectively man these parts of the pitch. But our coach would rather field players abroad rather than scow the entire country looking for talented players. I don't blame him. If the guys at NFA made that clear to him in the first place we won't now be crying over spilt milk. Again, what are we to expect when "abokis or mallams" whose specialty it is to rear cows man the helm of affairs at the NFA.

Until, we resolve all these we will still continue to suffer the same fate as we did yesterday in future tournaments.