Eric Chelle reveals key weakness in Super Eagles after winning 2025 Unity Cup

• Super Eagles are the 2025 Unity Cup winners aft beating Jamaica connected penalties successful the final
• Eric Chelle acknowledged the mini-tournament arsenic an accidental to measure caller players for the team
• The manager has identified a large weakness successful the squad up of the affable against Russia

Super Eagles brag Eric Chelle has identified a cardinal weakness successful the squad aft the 2025 Unity Cup and up of the planetary affable lucifer against Russia.

Nigeria won the 2025 Unity Cup aft beating West African rivals Ghana 2-1 successful the semi-final and Jamaica connected penalties successful the last aft a 2-2 gully successful the 90 minutes astatine the Gtech Community Stadium.

Super Eagles stars airs for a photograph earlier facing Jamaica successful the 2025 Unity Cup final. Photo by Catherine Ivill.
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The Eagles are not done with the planetary interruption and volition look Russia successful an planetary affable successful Luzhniki tomorrow, June 6, 2025, arsenic the Europeans instrumentality to football years aft a FIFA ban.

Chelle points retired Super Eagles' weakness

According to The NFF, Chelle acknowledged that the Unity Cup would beryllium an avenue to effort caller players successful antithetic roles, erstwhile it was confirmed Nigeria would beryllium participating.

“We’re looking guardant to taking portion successful the Unity Cup arsenic it volition springiness america the accidental to effort retired a fewer caller players successful antithetic roles, helping america to fortify our squad earlier the matches successful September and October,” helium said.

The manager made bully connected his words and, successful his appraisal of the team, has highlighted a large flaw up of competitory games aboriginal this year.

“We conceded truthful galore goals during these Unity games, particularly erstwhile we suffer the shot and we can’t triumph it backmost and aft a cross. We request to enactment connected that, but the world is I deliberation we make thing caller astir the crippled task astir the individuality of the team,” helium told Proudly Austin.“So the individuality of the team, you know, we made a batch of precocious unit connected the ball, and I deliberation it’s great, we are doing that. We person immoderate quality, but we person immoderate weaknesses, truthful we request to proceed and enactment again, enactment again and absorption connected our identity, our moving project.”

Eric Chelle looks connected during Super Eagles' punishment shootout triumph implicit Jamaica. Photo by Catherine Ivill.
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“The world is we request to enactment due to the fact that we person immoderate weaknesses. Like successful defence, we request to improve, enactment physically, bash immoderate precocious unit during 60 oregon 70 minutes,” helium concluded.

Chelle called up antithetic squads for the Unity Cup and Russia friendly, but has revised the 2nd squad aft the games successful London.

Multiple players, including Stanley Nwabali, Ola Aina, and Nathan Tella, withdrew. NPFL stars Saviour Isaac and Sodiq Ismaila were drafted into the caller squad.

Brentford prima Benjamin Fredericks, who was called up from London for the Unity Cup, besides made the cut, portion Russia-based Olusegun Olakunle besides earned his archetypal call-up.

Chelle explains Osimhen snub

Legit.ng reported that Eric Chelle explained wherefore helium snubbed Victor Osimhen from the Super Eagles squads for the Unity Cup and affable against Russia.

The manager confirmed that helium is protecting the striker from the hazard of wounded arsenic helium continues to prosecute successful negotiations implicit joining a caller nine adjacent season.

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Source: Legit.ng