Golden Eaglets of Nigeria coach, Manu Garba has reiterated his
commitment to employing the attacking option in the ongoing FIFA
U-17 World Cup in the United Arab Emirates stating that the
Eaglets will attack all the way to the finals.
The coach, who was speaking ahead of the team's match
against Uruguay tomorrow, said with continuous and sustained
attack the Eaglets are close to making history with a record
fourth U-17 World Cup title. Eaglets thrashed Iran 4-1 at the
Khalifa Bin Zayed Stadium in Al Ain on Tuesday. Three goals in the
first half by Samuel Okon, Kelechi Iheanacho and Captain Musa
Muhammed and another by Musa Yahaya in the second half
advanced Nigeria to the quarter final against Uruguay in Sharjah
tomorrow.
"I said earlier that my attack is blistering and I still maintained that
it would be difficult for any team to stop us from scoring
because our team loves scoring goals, "said Manu.
Manu's boys have so far netted 18 goals in four matches having
an average of 4.5 goals per match and Manu said the goals feast
are not over. "We don't pretend we are an attacking team
though there are still few errors but we are going to correct
them as we go further we progress."
Manu promised not to change his winning formula which is
attacking football adding that the best form of defence is to
attack. "I always want my team to attack and I would always
improvise because this is a team where anybody can score."
He said eighty per cent of his players have been schooled in the
art of scoring in a competition this magnitude especially at the
knockout stage.