COACH Samson Siasia has warned Nigerians not to expect too much from his B team as he takes his charges into the WAFU Cup competition starting this Thursday.

Siasia will have only one and a half days of training with his squad before the defending champions go studs down in the opening game of the tournament, and the coach says defending the trophy will be a big ask.

Siasia

“These boys have been on break for weeks now, without playing any football because the league is on break and we have only two days or less to get them ready to play a football match.

“That is not right. We should have been told on time so we could have had more time to prepare these boys.
“I don’t know what their conditioning is right now, and you can’t knock somebody who has not been playing into shape in two days. But we’ll have to do our best.”

Last time, the team, under Daniel Amokachi, had been playing in the African Nations Championship qualifiers, and came to the tournament stinging from being eliminated by Niger.

Siasia admits that the playing time helped. “Of course it helped them. The boys had been playing together for a while, so they were in shape. But this time it’s different.

“There’s nothing we can do about it, we just have to go out there and put in our best, and try to make sure the boys are focused on the important game, which is our Nations Cup qualifier against Ethiopia in June.”