Tremendous Eagles’ coach, Eric Sekou Chelle has hinted that he’ll come out with a brand new technique to curtail what he believes shall be a troublesome ‘tactical philosophy’ from Tunisia in his workforce’s subsequent recreation on the 2025 Africa Cup of Nations.
Sports247 stories that the Eagles’ gaffer stopped wanting revealing particulars of his plan for Saturday’s match towards the North Africans however promised to give you a successful method for his facet.
Chelle admitted his gamers weren’t at their finest throughout Tuesday’s opening group recreation however promised to work on the free areas earlier than the conflict with Tunisia, who defeated Nigeria within the AFCON 2021 spherical of 16.
The Franco-Malian tactician acknowledged, “We now have to analyse this recreation as our first match within the group stage. It’s only the start, however we should be taught from it.
“We created possibilities to attain, and we had many efforts to get objectives within the first half. After that, within the second half, we allowed Tanzania to return again at us.
“We made two errors, they usually scored from one. That’s a serious factor we now have to work on on this competitors.”
He then turned consideration on Saturday’s fixture towards Group C leaders, Tunisia, who defeated Uganda 3-1 additionally on Tuesday, and Chelle admitted that his workforce has to enhance their efficiency, as a result of it is going to be a more durable recreation.
Chelle famous, “Crucial factor in AFCON is to enhance in each recreation. We now have a giant recreation towards Tunisia, and we now have to enhance how we are going to play them.
“We now have to enhance defensively and, in fact, in how we block them after we don’t have the ball. Clearly, these are issues I’ve to work on with my gamers from our subsequent coaching session.”
He continued with a solemn cost to the Eagles to step up their efforts, then urged them to belief his judgement in making the correct decisions to start out every recreation and when the time comes for him to resolve who needs to be substituted.
Chelle retorted, “I congratulate my gamers for the victory, and I thank them for his or her need. We now have 26 gamers to select from, they usually all wish to play.
“We now have many huge gamers on this workforce, they usually don’t wish to exit when they’re enjoying, however solely 11 can play at a time.
“I’ve to provide the possibility to each participant, however they can’t all play directly. So, it’s my obligation to decide on who will come into the pitch and who will exit at every time.
“I’ve my imaginative and prescient, I’ve my selections, and I’ll take duty for that. I’ve my decisions … some are good, some weren’t good, nevertheless it’s what I’ve to do.”
The previous coach of Mali’s nationwide workforce and MC Oran FC of Algeria concluded with an assurance that he’ll placed on his pondering cap and are available out with the correct method for Saturday’s doubtlessly decisive conflict with Tunisia.
“I’ve to analyse this recreation and put together for the subsequent one. The primary recreation is an important one, however the second recreation is about tactical decisions.
“Tunisia have an excellent workforce, they usually have their very own philosophy to observe. My job is to search out how we are able to deal with them and see how we are going to play to win the subsequent recreation,” Chelle averred.
