Players hold crisis meeting

These are interesting times for the beautiful game in Nigeria here in Russia, following the revelation on Tuesday that Super Eagles players held a closed door meeting to tell themselves the truth about their sloppy performance against Croatia on Saturday inside the Kaliningrad Stadium, where Nigeria lost 2-0.

Sportinglife.ng gathered from those who should know inside the Eagles camp that the meeting lasted for three hours, with words rife that those who played badly were told pointedly their mistakes. Those indicted promised an improved performance in subsequent matches, beginning with the game against Iceland on Friday in Volgograd Stadium.

Since the heart-to-heart meeting, the players have watched the video recording of the Croatian game with their coaches to highlight their mistakes.

In fact, their last three sessions dwelt on correcting the mistakes and plotting how best to dislodge the Croatians in Volgograd.