Falcons poor against Aussies’

Former Super Falcons coach, Rolandson Odeh has said the side were off duty and wholly put every foot wrong against the Matildas of Australia.

Falcons suffered a 0-2 defeat to the Aussies in match day 2 clash in Winnipeg on Friday at the ongoing Fifa Women's World Cup in Canada.

A brace by striker, Kyah Simon handed the Australians their first vital three points of the tournament with a game against the Scandinavian side, Sweden to spare.

Odeh said the changes and tactics in the encounter proved inadequate and ineffective to hurt the Australians.

"Everything went wrong in the encounter against Australia even the changes were questionable and tactless.

"The decision of the coach to pull out a defender, Osinachi Ohale for another defender, Ugo Njoku when you are down beats my imagination.

"Australians seemed to have done a thorough study of our danger players, Asisat Oshoala, Desire Oparanozie and Francisca Ordega by practically disconnecting the cord as well as frustrating the trio.

"I said after the 3-3 draw against Sweden that our greatest undoing will be to underrate the Australians.

"I think Falcons took the opponents for granted and appeared to have celebrated the three points victory even before kickoff.

"I saw the defeat coming for Australia to have left their Oceania zone to pick qualification in the Asian stronghold means they have something in the offing to anybody who toys with them.

"It was actually a bad day for Falcons as nothing seemed to work in the clash and the result said it all," said the Bayelsa Queens coach to supersport.com.

Odeh however said Falcons can still qualify with a stunning result in the last match against two-time champions, USA.

"Of course, hope is still alive, it's not yet a hopeless situation rather time for the team to quickly push behind them the loss to Australia and focus wholly on the game against USA.

"In football anything can still happen, there won't be any need for blame game right now but for the team to keep their heads, cool off and prepare for USA.

"If Australia could pull one goal back in the 1-3 loss to USA we could do better than that by going all the way to shock the Americans.

"However, the coaches must quickly sit down to watch the clips of the encounter between Sweden and USA to come out with a potent formula to undo USA," said the former Rivers Angels coach.

The African champions will play their last group match on Tuesday in Vancouver against the USA with a point still in the kitty after two matches.