With the senior national team falling to 35th in the world in the latest FIFA rankings only shows the download slop the Nigerian football is heading generally in the year 2020.
From a top 3 spot on the continent, the Super Eagles are now 4th in Africa after not only dropping points in the rankings but dropping points in the 2021 AFCON qualifiers in the doubleheader tie against the Leone Stars of Sierra Leone.
The 4 goals lead thrown away by the team against the Leone Stars at the Samuel Ogbemudia Stadium in Benin will haunt the players and technical crew more as the effects of the 4-4 draw is being suffered in the rankings.
Prior to the draws against Sierra Leone, the Super Eagles had forced Tunisia to a 1-1 draw in an international friendly match just after losing to the Desert Foxes of Algeria in a friendly match as well.
All of this put together are responsible for the drop in the recent rankings released. The above results also mean that the Nigerian senior national team are without a win in the year 2020.
Despite resolving contractual issues with the Super Eagles tactician, Gernot Rohr earlier this year, the technical adviser has been under lots of pressure from fans and officials of the Nigerian Football Federation to produce results and make the Eagles soar again.
Rohr seems to be cracking under pressure as his previous years of not working under pressure were more fruitful than now.
Taking the team to a top 3 ranking in Africa and top 30 rankings in the world, finishing third in the 2019 AFCON despite missing out in two previous editions and defeating arch-rivals such as Cameroon, Tunisia, South Africa and Algeria to qualify for the 2018 World Cup in Russia, the Franco-German certainly knows his onions if left to do his job.
With a good run in the 2021 AFCON qualifiers suddenly gone sour and more pressures piled on the 66year old Super Eagles head coach, the national team might experience a more downward slope.
The downward slope might be as a result of what Super Eagles’ fans have tagged archaic methods of approach to games by Rohr or the unstable administration of the NFF led by Amaju Pinnick, the Super Eagles definitely need to go back to the drawing board to get something out of 2021 with lots at stake in the coming year.
According to the recent FIFA rankings, the Super Eagles are 35 in the world and 4th best in Africa behind Senegal, Algeria and Tunisia.
