Nigeria Mutiu Adepoju tips Super Eagles to success despite poor results from 5 friendlies

I don't think this is a good idea or a good way of encouraging teams ahead of the World Cup. The world is a competition where the best team emerge as winner, a single mistake can send a country back home from the tournament.
The Super eagles have performed very low beyond expectations in warm up matches. Nigeria have lost three friendlies, draw one and win one, if these results were for a group stage match definitely we are out of the tournament.
Nigeria ex midfielder Mutiu Adepoju in a press interview on his view about the Nigeria squad for the 2018 Fifa World Cup
“There is no cause for alarm, we all know the essence of friendly games is to know how prepared a team is going into a tournament,” Adepoju who represented Nigeria at three World Cups (USA 1994, France 1998 and Korea/Japan 2002) told CSN moments after the match.
“So far, they have played against quality opposition who I believe would have given the coach an idea of where his team needs to improve on.
“When we were preparing for the USA 1994 World Cup, we lost some friendly games. Even during preparations for France 1998, we lost most of our friendlies.
“I believe we will see a different team when the World Cup proper starts, I am confident of that.”
I ask myself if many times do we have to lose in order to get it right? After the lost to England, the Super eagles admit that they made errors and have learnt their lessons, promising to improve but all we got was still a lost. Anyway as said by the ex Nigeria midfielder, there are chances of making things right. I hope the team as a whole can conquer their errors and paint the World green at the World cup 2018 in Russia.