West Eagles defence worries Taribo

With the Super Eagles AFCON 2015 campaign in dire need of salvation, former Nigerian international, Taribo West, has expressed concerns over the team’s defence noting that the backline needs to be firmed up properly.

Fielding questions from Daily Sunsport in a chat at the weekend, the former AC Milan and Inter Milan FC strongman noted that Keshi should work harder on the Eagles defence, arguing that it is obvious that the players are too young to man the team’s defence.
While weeping for the Super Eagles defence, Taribo said: “Well, I think they will grow but it is painful sometimes when you see them commit some blunders that ought not to happen in the defence of a national team like Super Eagles, especially in the match they played against Congo in Calabar. In the other matches, there were equally some elementary mistakes and errors the defenders made. The problem is that young boys are manning Eagles defence now like Omeruo, Oboabona. They need more years through the road.”
Continuing Taribo said “Echiejile has a bit of concern because in the last few months his game has really dropped. I don’t know whether it was because of the injury he copped before the World Cup but I pray he regains his full form.”  Taribo, who equally spoke on the bench role being played by almost all the Nigerian players in Europe, said: “It is really a difficult time for them and it means that our game has declined so much that sometimes when I sit to watch football I feel like returning to the field again.”
their various European clubs calls for concern.
stressing that the implication of most of them sitting on the bench shows a decline in the current generation of Nigerian players.
Asked his feeling on the Super Eagles in the verge of not qualifying for the 2015 Africa Nations Cup in Morocco, he said: “We will certainly qualify though we followed a very rough road in addition to the disagreements between the parties at the football federation. I think there is an opening for settlement which will help bring everybody back to the normal stage.”
“We all know the magnitude of the task ahead and we can only pray that everybody will accept to reconcile with the peaceful overtures on the table. The settlement will help encourage the boys to qualify,” he said.
“It is really sad but we can only pray for God to give us another generation of promising players from especially the Golden Eagles that won the last edition of the U-17 FIFA World Cup in UAE.
“They have many young boys including Iheanacho and I believe those boys will mature into the shoes of the former Eagles players so that we can have a better Super Eagles team,” he noted.