Flying Eagles To Embark On One-Week Break - Official

Flying Eagles To Embark On One-Week Break - Official

By Niyi Busari

Flying Eagles Head Coach, Aliyu Zubairu has said that the team will go on a week break after their return from Ivory Coast, BSNSports.com.ng reports.

The five times African champions on Wednesday defeated the hosts 2-0 in the first leg of the friendlies.

Reacting after the game, the El-Kanemi Warriors Coach said, "we are expecting a lot of players particularly those players who took their careers abroad that are eligible. We are expecting reasonable number of them to join us as soon as we go back to Nigeria. We are planning to go on a week break and from there we regroup again and start inviting the foreign based players to join the team.

He spoke about the approach to the second leg game versus Ivory Coast, "we are still going to approach Friday's match with utmost seriousness because we adopted a tactics that we see if it's going to work during the AFCON finals and on Friday we are going to adopt a different tactic. So that we will have plan A and B just in case Plan A fail us a team, then we shift to plan B. We want to test run the tactical approach of Plan B and see how it's going to work. The second leg of the friendlies versus Ivory Coast will hold on Friday.