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'You Are Spectators' In an apparent bid to wave of the attack from critics and prove to everyone that he is in charge of the team, national team coach Christian Chukwu, has advised sports journalists not to be too sentimental in their criticism of his tactics because majority of them are more of spectators than the profession they claim to represent. Coach Chukwu, at the post match interview last Saturday after his team's scrappy win over the Desert Warriors of Algeria, said he is satisfy with team selection and substitutions which barely manage to record a lone goal win over the North African side. According to him, "most of you (journalists) should be confined to reporting what has happened because you're not tactically efficient enough to tell the coaching crew on what to do to make things work for the country. "I think most of the journalists are spectators and should be active within their limitations in as much as I do not want to say I am a perfect technocrat. "I will not join the chorus of castigating players when things are not working well for the team because people must appreciate the fact that they are professionals and adults too. "I know what am doing, the substitution and the timing as far as I am concerned are okay by me and the most important thing is that we have the three points at stake and back to the top of the group," he reflected. The coach was responding to the timing of the substitution of injured Ifeanyi Udeze, whom many believed had being limping in the early minutes of the second half but was substituted late in the match with little of no contribution before then and many critics also felt that Yakubu Aiyegbeni should have been substituted instead of Obafemi Martins. there was also the belief that Julius Aghahowa and Osaze Odinwege ought to have been introduced long before they were eventually allowed to taste action. "You're all watching as spectators and we as technical men know the psychology of the players and when to make changes to the best of my knowledge, Udeze was fit until the time he was replaced and for the strikers, I don't want to castigate any of them because I always have confidence in all of them," Chukwu explained. Who Are We ? | About THISDAYOnLine.com | THISDAY People | Contact Us © Copyright 2000 Leaders & Company Limited

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