A former Technical Adviser to the Nigeria Football Association , Tunde Disu OFR, has said that the senior national team , Super Eagles deserves a better goalkeeper to keep up with football’ s current standard .

Disu made his stance known in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria on Tuesday while commenting on the lapses of the first-choice goalkeeper , for the Super Eagles, Daniel Akpeyi .

Disu , a former Assistant Coach to Otto Gloria , the 1980 African Cup of Nation winning coach , said that the Eagles needed a more tactically experienced safe hand.

“ We seriously need another goalkeeper for now, and if I may ask, what is the duty of the goalkeeper trainers and technical crew that we have in camp?

“ The technical crew should now go round to look for goalkeepers and we should not be lazy about it, we should not be comfortable with what we have now , we should look towards the local players .

“ There were times when we have good goalkeepers in the country; we have produced the likes of Emmanuel Okala , Peter Rufai, Alloy Agu and recently Vincent Enyeama.

“ My own take is that we still have good goalkeepers around that can do better than what we have right now , we should look for them either in the local league or foreign clubs,” he said.

Disu said the performance of the Eagles first-choice goalkeeper , Daniel Akpeyi , was not up to standard but added that the goalkeeper could be improved upon.

“ The performance of Akpeyi was not up to standard and I wonder what other goalkeepers are doing on the bench if they are not good enough which means that they are not as good as him.

“ Another point is that, how will a coach take three goalkeepers that he cannot use to a big competition of this magnitude ? The fact is that Akpeyi cannot cope with pressure.

“ When the pressure is too much on the goalkeeper ; he losses concentration , an example of how he conceded the last goal against Algeria , Akpeyi organised a wall and stood behind the wall .

“ I watched the clip over and over and I can see his deficiency. He cannot have a clear vision of the ball the way he stood behind the wall he created, ” he said.

Disu said that he expected Akpeyi to have stood out of the wall so he could have a clear vision of the ball.

“ I think that even if he wants to gamble or predict Mahrez , being a left – footer he should have known that he would shoot to his left preferably.

“ If the goalkeeper wants to gamble , he should have targeted exactly where the player would love to play since he is a left -footer .

“ Akpeyi should have stood away from the wall apart, but his position during the free- kick was unprofessional ,” he said.

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