The head coach of Swaziland’s King’s Shield, Harris Bulungu has praised the Super Eagles technical crew after they beat them 2-0 in the return leg of the Russia 2018 World Cup qualifier in Port Harcourt’s Adokie Amiesimaka Stadium yesterday. Bulungu disclosed during the post match press conference that the tactics deployed by the Eagles’ coaches which was different from the one they used during the first leg unsettled his team and it was difficult for them to get their bearing.
He said he expected the Eagles to start with John Mikel Obi and Uwa Echiejile, who were very slow in the first leg in Lobamba and that he planned his strategy to explore the players’ weaknesses to nail the Eagles but he was surprised Oliseh and his technical crew changed them for better players. Bulungu stressed that the addition of Paul Onobi in the defensive midfield and Shehu Abdullahi and Chima Akas in defence made the Eagles to be more effective and very fast unlike the first leg when they were very slow. The Swaziland coach added that he missed four of his key players who played the first leg and that whose impact would have changed the course of the result if they had played in Port Harcourt. “I believe the Eagles played a better game today then the first leg.They had very fast midfielders and were very exceptional today.

They changed their tactics too by changing some players we thought they would use again just like the initial leg in Lobamba. We had planned our strategy to explore the Eagles weaknesses in the midfield and the defence because of the way they were very slow in the first leg but the Eagles’ coaches changed that and this unsettled us,” Bulungu told journalists.

Bulungu, however, tipped the Eagles to pick one of the five African tickets to the World Cup in Russia based on the way they approached the second leg game.

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