Super Eagles head coach, Jose Peseiro, has said the standard for anyone representing the Nigerian men’s senior national team must always be the highest.

Peseiro said this on Tuesday in his reaction to the Super Eagles’ performance after the team rounded off their October international break with a win over ten-man Mozambique.

The Super Eagles on Monday secured their first victory in friendly matches since the year 2019 with a very unimpressive 3-2 win against the East African nation of Mozambique.

“After another period of training and matches, with the team and staff united, we have reinforced various aspects and identified mistakes to be corrected,” Peseiro said.

“The standard for anyone representing the Super Eagles must always be the highest. The players’ effort was excellent and as a consequence we achieved the victory in a friendly game for the first time in almost 5 years.”

Nigeria did not show much improvement as they came back from a goal down to beat Mozambique. Faisal Abdul Bangal put Mozambique 1-0 up on seven minutes with Francis Uzoho slow to react.

Terem Moffi did well to net the equalising goal for the Super Eagles in the 18th minute with a rebound. Frank Onyeka got his first international goal with a powerful shot in the 30th minute.

Moses Simon thereafter put the West African nation into two-goal lead with a penalty in the 45th minute. Mozambique whose player had received a red card in the 37th minute, however, started the second half quite well.

It eventually paid off for the Southern Africans who reduced the tally to 3-2 through Geny Catamo on 55 minutes. Peseiro on Tuesday took to social media to react to the game.

Meanwhile, Peseiro had earlier admitted on Monday that he was not satisfied with his team’s 3-2 victory over Mozambique as he felt they should have scored up to eight goals.

“My players were thinking it was going to be easy because Mozambique had a red card,” Peseiro said after the game.

“Last time, I told them that conceding two goals against any team is bad, but today, we did the same. We created many chances, almost 13 shots, one-on-one situations, but we didn’t utilise them.

“We had many opportunities, and for that, I am not happy because we did not put as much concentration as we did against Saudi Arabia. We should have scored up to eight goals. We couldn’t cross well, we didn’t capitalise on our corners. For this, I am sad.”
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