Gernot Rohr finally Gets Opportunity to Introduce Players....
In the next month, Nigeria's Coach Gernot Rohr will have his first opportunity to introduce new players to the national team after seven months on the job. Those months had been spent playing competitive World Cup qualifiers, for the most part, which forced him to rely on the players who had debuted under previous coaches. Table 1 shows that Rohr used 20 players in the three games that he managed and the average appearance record of his players before their first game under him is 19.5. However, that is skewed by seven of the players who had at least 20 appearances each. Without those seven players, this is a young team with an average of just 6.23 appearances before their first game under Rohr. Notably, none of the players debuted under Rohr although one of them (Anderson Esiti) played just a game for Nigeria before appearing under Rohr. Importantly, Rohr achieved 100% efficiency and a 3-0-0 record with the team and steadily improved the team's Africa and...