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Gernot Rohr wonders if Super Eagles are not jinxed in Austria

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BY KUNLE SOLAJA

When the Super Eagles take on Cameroon on Tuesday in the second of their friendly matches, it will be the fifth time that the Super Eagles will be playing friendly matches in that country.

Sadly for the team, it did not win any of the preceding four matches.

That possibly made the coach, Gernot Rohr to assume that the team was probably not lucky each time they played in country that is situated in north east of Germany.

On 27 May 2008, the Super Eagles forced a 1-1 draw against Austria at the UPC Arena in Graz.

Last October, the team played two matches against Algeria and Tunisia, losing the former 1-0 and drawing the latter 1-1.

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But generally, Sports Village Square observed that the Super Eagles have not been in top shape in most friendly matches played.

In their last 13 friendly matches dating back to November 2017, the Super Eagles won only three against Argentina (4-2 in Krasnodar, Russia), Egypt (1-0 in Asaba) and  Poland (1-0 in Stadion Miejski, Wrocław).

They lost four of the friendly matches and drew the remaining six.

Kunle Solaja is the author of landmark books on sports and journalism as well as being a multiple award-winning journalist and editor of long standing. He is easily Nigeria’s foremost soccer diarist and Africa's most capped FIFA World Cup journalist, having attended all FIFA World Cup finals from Italia ’90 to Qatar 2022. He was honoured at the Qatar 2022 World Cup by FIFA and AIPS.

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