We‘ll beat South Korea, Falcons coach, Dennerby assures Nigerian football fans

Harry Awurumibe in

Super Falcons Head Coach Thomas Dennerby is optimistic that Nigeria will get a favorable result against South Korea when both countries meet in a make or burst match in Grenoble on June 12.

Dennerby who disclosed this to PromptNews in France today said that his optimism stems from the seriousness shown by the players in their first training session today in Grenoble ahead of Sunday’s crucial match between Nigeria and South Korea.

In a chat immediately after his team’s first training session in Grenoble, Dennerby revealed that he can feel the heartbeat of his players and can now believe that they are eager to start winning games in the on-going 8^th FIFA Women’s World Cup final in France.

“To be honest with you, the players are hungry to start winning football matches in France and you can see the fire in their eyes. Hey know that they made huge mistakes in the game against Norway but now they are proving in the training that they want to beat South Korea”, Dennerby said.

The Swedish tactician and his assistants had taken the players through their paces and then went into tactical play to see how well they have received the tutorials given to them after two unpardonable mistakes helped Norway to defeat Nigeria 3-0 in their first match in Reims.

All the players save for the injured right back, Faith Ikhidi-Michael who had a collision with her own goalkeeper, Tochukwu Oluehi during the match against Norway trained on Monday with some of them like skipper, Desire Oparanozie; FC Barcelona forward Asisat Oshoala and younger attackers-Chinwendu Ihezuo and Uchenna Kanu looking clinical in front of the goalpost.

Goalkeepers, Oluehi, Chiamaka Nnadozie and Alaba Jonathan kept busy in all the routine but the coaches later gave more time to Nnadozie and Jonathan in goal to be drilled by the attackers even as Kanu was further singled out to for a special training on accurate shooting and nodding.

The team will train again tomorrow but this time the training session will be inside the match stadium in Grenoble.