He said this during a post-match briefing at the Ahmadu Bello Stadium, following his team’s 1-1 draw with the Pharaohs. The return leg match of the 2017 Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) Qualifying Group G fixture holds in Alexandria on Tuesday.
Etebo Oghenekaro's 60th minute opener was cancelled by Mohamed Salah who beat the offside trap to equalise for the Pharaohs in the 90th minute. Siasia said the team’s technical crew would correct the lapses noticed in the match in Kaduna before the reverse fixture in Alexandria on Tuesday. He said the Eagles played well but the technical crew needed to make some corrections before their next match in Egypt.
Siasia said: “We will try to see what went wrong and do a proper check before playing our next match so that we can win in Egypt.
“The players did well but I don’t know what went wrong in the last three minutes when the Egyptians equalised. That is football for you.
“A game can end up in a draw or loss even when you play well. However, we should have been marking in the last three minutes, but it turned out the other way. With the outcome of the match, we will try our best to win in Egypt, because in football everything is possible," he continued.
“We cannot move backwards but forward. We are going to pull ourselves together and see how we are going to win the match," he continued.
He praised his players for their effort and pointed out that his players were tactically better than the Egyptians in the game for the greater part of the game.
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