Sunday Oliseh, former Super Eagles midfielder and head coach, has described the team’s performance against Lesotho as a “national embarrassment”.
The 49-year-old spoke in a tweet on his official X account on Friday.
Nigeria had to crawl from a goal down to secure a 1-1 draw against Lesotho at the Godswill Akpabio stadium in Uyo on Thursday.
The Eagles were spared a disastrous home loss by a header from Oluwasemilogo Ajayi in the 67th minute in Nigeria’s opening game of their 2026 World Cup qualification campaign.
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The result earned Lesotho its first-ever point against the Eagles.
Speaking on the match, Oliseh described the result as a “shocker” and claimed Nigeria’s home-based players would beat the Lesotho side.
He added that there should be consequences for such performance.
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“This nightmare go ever end? Woke up to this shocker this morning,” the tweet reads.
“Our homebased suppose dey beat Lesotho na! Dem even first us score!!!! The painful part be say, no consequences for these national embarrassments, sef!”
Oliseh was the coach of the Eagles for eight months between 2015 and 2016 before he resigned due to contract violations, lack of support, unpaid wages and benefits to his players and assistant coaches.
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