Former Super Eagles great, Taribo West has
blasted the defensive pair of Kenneth Omeruo and
Godfrey Oboabona, labelling their efforts in the
ongoing Nations Cup qualifiers as amateurish.
The former Derby County defender, once considered
world class by his peers, clearly has a low opinion
on the Eagles' current back line after pushing the
national team's caretaker coach Shaibu Amodu to
look for replacements for both centre-back and left-
back positions.West, who won a gold medal in the
96' Olympic Games, claimed Nigeria had themselves
to blame for their disappointing position and
Omerou and Oboabona should take the majority of
the blame.
- The Eagles impressed me [during their 3-1 win
over Sudan] but our defence was suspect and
Omeruo and [Godfrey] Oboabona played like
amateur defenders, Taribo told hereisthecity.com
- They are good defenders but they were too relaxed
and made the same mistakes over and over again.
We have conceded goals in the same way in the
qualifiers.- Sudan's goal in Nigeria's 3-1 win was
similar to the one against us in the first leg in
Kartoum.
- They only did well against South Africa, though
they made some mistakes. South Africa had the
opportunity to execute one-on-one moves and score
goals but Vincent Enyeama saved us. The two
defenders didn't play like champions or professionals
in other games.- I think they need competition. We
need to scout for new central defenders. I would
have suggested that they should be dropped but we
don't have better replacements for them now. But we
should work on improving their weaknesses.
This is not the first time West will rail at young
defenders, as he labelled Joseph Yobo and the other
new faces in the Super Eagles team to the 2002
World Cup in Korea Japan as 'junk players'
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