Our striking and defense is just pathetic what happened to blackberry and bob mugalia,stars in the local league but in the big international games hakuna kitu...Origi's expression after the third goal said it all,defence bure kabisa.

@vinii weekend tuli guess anyway hope we get some few pointers from this thez always a lesson to be learnt.

@Maka, fully agree, the defense was a shame...actually after conceding that second goal...nilijua we were not getting back into the game

In case you didn't notice, Harambee Stars played ten men throughout the game. Their captain was literally walking on the pitch. He could not bother to get to a pass not made to his feet. Whenever he lost possession, he never bothered to track back. Kweli professionals are made of this!

And they have the goalkeeper Origi to thank.The score could have been easily 5 or 6.With that kind of defence,it doesn't matter how good the keeper is!

The positive thing is to walk away with the lesson. We now know that defense is a sham and the mid field need more fire in the belly. 9ja was a reality check coz saturday the soccer gods were just on our side!

Everybody on this thread is talking about our defence. It must be realised that if the midfield is poor, then the defence will always get exposed. Thats why whenever a midfield player concedes possession, its always mandatory to track back and ease pressure on the defence.

Its every soccer coach's nightmare to have a situation where three strikers are attacking his three defenders.

There is a reason why good coaches will always have defensive midfielders whose duty is to assist the defenders. One of the nigerians' goals came straight from a kenyan corner kick at the other end of the pitch. That speaks volumes about team tactics..

Tactics were missing and our mid field didn't hold but close analysis at some point after the introduction of Collins okoth the team tried and came back but their was just no stopping the Nigerians.
One thing we must all agree is that our national team does not do well minus the fans supporting them.
For me it was a plus to have played the friendly and lost because lessons were learnt and hope they rectify on that before the next qualifier against Angola.

@reddevil..........Looks like we watched the same match.

This should not be a suprise because Kenya do not have football talents just like Nigeria that do not have athletic (especially long distance) talents.

In addition the game was an away match, that is played in Nigerian soil, so what miracle did you guys expect from kenyans ? Factor that it is hotter here Nigeria than Kenya . At kick off by 4pm Nigerian time (6 pm Kenyan time) the temperature was 35 degrees centigrade, that is a very hot weather for a Kenyan !!!

I did not watch the match because I knew it will be an emphatic win against Kenya.

From Nigeria point of view we were rather disappointed because we were expecting at least a 5-0 win. For me the Kenyan lads tried their best.