Former Tremendous Eagles’ striker, Yakubu Aiyegbeni has come out with a down-to-earth verdict that the absence of a inventive midfielder is affecting the output of attackers within the Nigerian nationwide group, Sports247 studies.
‘The Yak,’ who made prime marks with a lot of targets off his boots within the English Premier League – whereas taking part in for Portsmouth, Leicester Metropolis and Blackburn Rovers – opined additional that the absence of a playmaker is the largest downside in Nigeria’s present squad.
The product of Okomu Oil FC of Benin Metropolis reasoned, “The midfield is an important place to fret about now. We don’t have a inventive midfielder who can go the ball to our strikers.
“Have a look at the best way they rating targets within the nationwide group now, and also you word that it was fairly totally different in our days. We had gamers like (Sunday) Oliseh, Jay Jay (Okocha), Finidi (George), and different good passers; however now they don’t have them.”
‘Yak Assault’ additionally identified that the present Eagles’ squad is saturated with defensive minded gamers and famous that even he would have struggled to attain within the current set-up, for the reason that group lacks gamers who can present their forwards with killer passes.
“We now have too many defensive midfielders, and we’re actually in need of somebody who can actually go the ball to the strikers. That’s why you see present strikers within the nationwide group of Nigeria struggling to attain targets.
“Hopefully, we’ll quickly see how they are going to begin passing the ball to our strikers to attain. Even when I play with this era now, I’ll discover it troublesome to attain targets,” Yakubu admitted hypothetically.
He concluded by wanting particularly at Fulham of England dazzler, Alex Iwobi, who he rated excessive by way of work fee however low close to the standard of his passes.
“We don’t have a inventive midfielder who can go the ball. We solely have Alex Iwobi, who can run for 120 minutes.
“He might help the group defensively, and he does an ideal job there … however he’s not a inventive midfielder who can go the ball successfully to the strikers to attain,” Yakubu affirmed.
