Super Eagles Manager, Gernot Rohr, is sure his team will qualify for the Qatar 2022 World Cup even if Nigeria is matched against Algeria and Senegal in the last qualifying round of FIFA’s most important competition.
Nigeria is currently in the same Group C of the first qualifying round as Cape Verde, Central Africa Republic, and Liberia. These teams, according to Rohr, are not capable of stopping the Eagles from advancing to the last qualifying round, which will see Africa’s best sides divided into five groups of four teams each. Only the top five teams from the groups will make the 2022 World Cup.
Fielding questions from FIFA.com on Tuesday, Rohr said his team has developed so much that he no longer worries about what the opposition would bring to battle, adding that they are also more experienced than they were before the 2018 World Cup in Russia.
“We have three opponents in the first qualifying group and we have to respect all of them. Liberia is a team that can’t be underestimated as we saw when we beat them in a friendly. As for Cape Verde, they have players of Portuguese and Brazilian origin, and they can beat any team. Central African Republic is an unknown quantity for us, which makes it more difficult. I think the group is tough, but we believe in our capabilities.
“Given that we qualified from the group of death for Russia 2018, we’re confident we can make it this time as well,” he said. (Guardian)
