Siasia focuses on Colombia

The national Under-23 team coach  Samson Siasia  says his team will continue to take it one game at a time at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games.

Answering questions at the post match  conference after the 1-0 victory over Sweden, Siasia said  his team would focus on their  last group game against Colombia  on Wednesday.

“I think for me and the boys all we are doing now is taking it a game at a time, we are not bothered about the team we will be playing in the quarterfinals, let’s play Colombia first and from there we will think of our opponents at that stage,” the former Super Eagles striker was quoted by thenff.com as saying on Monday.

“The issue of the team I will prefer to play in the quarter final stage doesn’t arise now; what is uppermost in my mind is getting my boys focused for every game.”

The Tunisis ’94 Africa Cup of Nations winner added, “As you all can see, today my defence didn’t concede any goal. We  worked very hard to correct all the lapses we noticed in our first game (against Japan)  and I am happy my boys stood their ground and kept a clean sheet today. All I can say for now is that it’s work in progress.”

On his part, captain Mikel Obi expressed his  delight that the team improved on their performance in the first game.

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