2024 CHAN: Home-Based Eagles Not Good Enough - Brown Ideye

2024 CHAN: Home-Based Eagles Not Good Enough - Brown Ideye

Precious Oham

Super Eagles striker, Brown Ideye, has declared that the Home-Based Eagles lack what it takes to compete on he big stage following their abysmal performance against Sudan, BSNSports.com.ng reports.

Nigeria crashed out of the 8th African Nations Championship on Tuesday after an abject performance by a team that failed to put a foot right against Sudan in 90 minutes of football in Zanzibar.

The defeat on the Indian Ocean Island, following the one-goal defeat by Cup-holders Senegal a week earlier, meant the Eagles B will pack their bags and exit the competition, no matter the result of their final Group D encounter against Congo in Dar es Salaam on Tuesday next week.

The humiliation was a joint-record defeat for Nigeria in the 26-year-old competition – a similar scoreline to their defeat by hosts Morocco in the Final of the 2018 championship.

According to Ideye, "Let’s keep lying to ourselves and keep blaming someone else every time we fail. We’re not good enough that’s the bitter truth.

"It’s what you have, the coach will work with, period. We don’t have what it takes to compete on the bigger stage and we keep lying to ourselves."