Life as Nigeria mentor got off to a not exactly favorable beginning for Jose Peseiro, as his new wards tumbled to a 2-1 loss against Mexico in Dallas on Saturday, and he'll require a fast arrangement in the event that he's to stay away from a 0-2 beginning to his residency, against Ecuador on Thursday.
It is a natural area for the Super Eagles, who presently slip into a two-game losing slide against El Tri, after four past draws between the sides.
Santiago Gimenez tracked down packaged home following 13 minutes, after Francis Uzoho had made a fine save, to give the Mexicans the lead. UEFA Europa Conference League top scorer Cyriel Dessers denoted his return from the worldwide wild by controlling a header for the balancer, however Nigeria substitute chief William Troost-Ekong stabbed in an own objective promptly after Dessers' objective to hand the triumph to Mexico.
Peseiro went into the game hamstrung. His arrangement was just affirmed after the crew list for the game had been assembled, so the Portuguese needed to manage the shortfall of the main part of the group's starters.
Lead striker Victor Osimhen requested to be pardoned and was not even named at every turn. And afterward a spate of sickness, wounds, and visa inconveniences precluded any semblance of captain Ahmed Musa, goalkeeper Maduka Okoye, protectors Zaidu Sanusi and Abdullahi Shehu, midfielders Oghenekaro Etebo, Azubuike Okechukwu, Alhassan Yusuf and Samson Tijani, and advances Samuel Chukwueze and Sadiq Umar.
Peseiro was left settling for the worse of the worst as looked to leave his imprint early, his whole seat made out of altogether players from the Nigeria homegrown association. Also, with just two instructional meetings under the new mentor, the Super Eagles were left playing get up to speed every step of the way.
Drained and jetlagged, they endured an early, high squeezing storm from their hosts, who were supported by the vocal urgings of by far most of a 52 000-in number group at the AT&T Stadium.
Nigeria have not dominated a match since their last gathering match of the Africa Cup of Nations recently, and they closely resembled a side shorn of certainty all through the main half.
Incoherent, unfit to put in excess of a small bunch of passes together, and unfit to manage the sharp development and perplexing passing of the Mexicans, the Super Eagles looked a long ways from super.
Peseiro was sufficiently straightforward to just let it out, telling ESPN?: "We can't conceal it, we played an extremely terrible first half. We had five players in protection, and they had two players playing forward and the two players controlled the five. They were squeezing and we didn't settle it. We can't have that."
That control generated the mistake that prompted the main objective. A cross into the case got the Nigeria protection static, permitting Gimenez not exclusively to raise a ruckus around town, however to stretch out to the bounce back beyond Peseiro's back five.
It was one more blunder that prompted the second, an own objective. The safeguard was out of control when the cross came in, driving an unequal Troost-Ekong to shin astoundingly past his own goalkeeper.
These blunders are turning into a natural string with all due respect, going as far as possible back to Gernot Rohr's residency. A misunderstanding between Troost-Ekong and Leon Balogun permitted the Central African Republic to score and guarantee a broadly memorable triumph in Lagos. That was the outcome that basically fixed Rohr's destiny as Nigeria mentor.
Tunisia scored at the AFCON from a stack up of guarded cerebrum freezes, and Ghana did likewise in Abuja, both under Augustine Eguavoen, additionally prompting his terminating, and Nigeria's inability to fit the bill for the World Cup.If Peseiro is to see out essentially the primary period of his agreement, those protective disasters should be settled. In any case, the mentor stood up against ideas that he ought to make staff changes.
He said: "On the off chance that a player commits an error, I can't simply drop him, since it harms his certainty. All things considered, as a mentor, I assume liability since I chose him."
In any case, he gave an admonition: "Yet on the off chance that the mix-up keeps on occurring, we need to see."
Given the outcome was more decent than the 4-0 pounding the Nigerians required last year, Peseiro was to some degree encouraged by the responsibility he saw from most of his group.
"You must be down to earth and face the difficulties when they come your direction," Peseiro said. "We would have wanted to have everybody here and perceive how well they have put the World Cup miss behind them and fashioned on.
"In any case, what we have is what we have. I have decided to be positive and I have made plans to endeavor to utilize the assets accessible to make Nigeria extraordinary once more.
"I'm cheerful we have such an incredible pool of players who are committed and prepared to give their all like clockwork. This present circumstance was not something they made; challenges truly do turn up like that.
"We have various players who have been told to ascend to the event. Each player who has the opportunity to wear the Nigeria pullover ought to be pleased with that open door and give their all."Little will switch as far as the line-around as Eagles head for New Jersey, however the guarded association should be significantly better, as the group's exhibition did in the final part, where they matched Mexico, heaped their own portion of strain, and tracked down remuneration in Dessers' strong header.
Peseiro was left empowered: "What I was blissful about the most was the person, the presentation in the final part. We controlled the game and we scored."
That change was helped to a limited extent by Peseiro accomplishing something that Rohr had been reprimanded for not doing what's needed of towards the finish of his residency: An eagerness to make in-game strategic changes.
With his back three not working, he changed to a back four: "That's what we concluded on the off chance that the two was controlling the three, we need to make it a four and have more control in midfield.
"Furthermore, it assisted us with assuming command over the game on the grounds that as a mentor, my way of thinking is that I like control, to control the game."
Much more delighting for Peseiro would have been the extraordinary exhibitions of a portion of his starters. Calvin Bassey was the undisputed superstar, mystical at left wing back and left back, from where he gave a whirlwind of very much coordinated peevish, including the one covered by Dessers.
Alex Iwobi was a humming imaginative flash, particularly subsequent to dropping further and permitting another champion, Joseph Aribo, to push front and center in the last part. Dessers' development, situating, and objective, would have given the mentor a lot to bite on, and Osimhen the inspiration to move forward his game when he returns.
In any case, the unheralded superstar on the Nigerian side would need to be Uzoho, who came in on the rear of making the goalkeeping blunder that saw them leave World Cup conflict. He continued to make no less than three awesome recoveries to deny Mexico.
There is a lot of work for Peseiro to do as he readies his wards for the second well disposed against Ecuador, and afterward the two AFCON qualifying duels with Sierra Leone and Mauritius in Abuja and St. Pierre on June 9 and June 13 separately.
How he tackles these common issues will decide his future at work.
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