The goal scoring run of Victor Osimhen and his international teammate Ademola Lookman in the English Premier League has made the coach of the Nigerian team Jose Peseiro to rejig the playing style of the team.
Osimhen has 14 goals in the Italian Serie A this season for table toppers Napoli. He is also the competition leading goal scorer and second to him is Lookman who has 12 goals for Atalanta, this team he joined in the summer from German side RB Leipzig.
Their form was part of the question posed to coach of the senior national team of Nigeria Peseiro ahead of the next international round of games in March, where Nigeria will take on Guinea Bissau in back to back Africa Cup of Nations qualifiers game.
The coach said, it’s only normal for the team to find a way of playing that will make the duo replicate their fine form at club level in the senior national team of Nigeria. He said it’s why he is going for a change of style when they play in the AFCON qualifiers.
“We played against Mexico, against Portugal, against Algeria away, to check the possibility to play offensive football, high pressure, because that’s our way. I think we have the capacity and the players for that, but we need to check our development and the way we play”, he said.
