Rohr still under fire after Eagles scrape through to 2022 World Cup playoffs
Super Eagles may have qualified to the final playoffs for the 2022 World Cup, but another unconvincing display has sparked calls for coach Gernot Rohr to be fired.
The Eagles parading their top stars from the top leagues in Europe had to labour Tuesday to a 1-1 draw at home with Cape Verde, who are ranked 40 places below them by FIFA, to squeeze through to the playoffs slated for around the end of March 2022.
The current qualifying campaign for the World Cup falls far short of a commanding performance the three-time African champions displayed on their way to reach the 2018 World Cup from a tougher looking group that had Algeria, Cameroon and Zambia.
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Even after they were docked three points and three goals for fielding an ineligible player, Nigeria still qualified for Russia 2018 with a round of matches still to be played.
But now it needed a draw in a final group game at home to Cape Verde before the Super Eagles could advance from a qualifying section that also had minnows Central African Republic and Liberia.
Fans and the local media are again demanding for the sack of the country’s longest serving national team coach Rohr, arguing that he is not the man to lead the team to a fourth AFCON triumph in Cameroon in January 2022 after which Nigeria will battle for a place at Qatar 2022.
Former international and TV pundit Idah Peterside did not mince his words on the future of the 68-year-old Franco-German.