Nigeria disorganizing pattern of football makes teams like ours suffer - Mascherano

Argentina defender, Javier Mascherano, has said that Nigeria is capable of destabilizing them when they meet at the 2018 World Cup.

Mascherano stated this in an interview with the UK Guardian while assessing their Group D opponents.

Argentina is in Group D with Nigeria, Croatia, and Iceland.

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This will be the third time Mascherano will be facing the Super Eagles at the World Cup. The defender-cum-midfielder was in the Argentina squad that beat the Super Eagles at South Africa 2010 (1-0) and Brazil 2014 (3-2) World Cups.

“Iceland is a new team in the sense that they maybe don’t have a long football tradition but they’re a generation of players that have made history recently, with spectacular success at Euro 16, and qualifying ahead of Croatia.

“Croatia is a first-class side with top players, especially in the midfield, such as Modric, Brozovic, Kovacic, Rakitic … Perisic; a team to watch out, quality squad.



“And Nigeria is quite well known to us, we’ve always met in the last World Cups. They’re tough, not just because of their physical power, but because their disorganization has the effect of disorganizing you as a rival. And that’s when teams like ours suffer the most – in disorder,” he said.