English sports journalist Sam Lee, was in Moscow for the FIFA World Cup draws and here shares his thoughts on the chances of Nigeria at the World Cup with Completesportsnigeria.com’s KAYODE OGUNDARE in Moscow…
Sam, how do you feel now with the draw finally conducted?
I’m not too excited about the draw, honestly. It didn’t really get too many big matches in the first round. I’m sure there will be good games but there are not too many traditionally big teams facing each other in the first round. Spain against Portugal is big but how many of that are we going to see? Okay, there’s Belgium against England which I suppose is all about big names, not necessarily good teams tactically or technically.
But if that means the knockout stages will be good because all of the big teams would have avoided each other at the group stages then no problem. In Brazil, the group stages were good with many big teams facing each other but the knockout stages were not too great. Hopefully, we will see a reversal of that in Russia.
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