The Super Eagles on Tuesday were unlucky as they lost 0-2 to Serbia in London.
It was a pre-World Cup international friendly match which saw Aleksandar Mitrovic scored brace for Serbia at the Hive Stadium in England.
After the 90 minutes the look on the players showed that the result was not their expectation for the match.
The Serbians nearly took the lead when Mitrovic was played through on goal but Bryan Idowu made a fantastic last minute block to deny him an opportunity to score.
The Serbians thought they had scored when the troublesome Mitrovic out-muscled Awaziem to head past Uzoho but the young keeper reacted quickly to retrieve the ball which looked like it had crossed the line but the referee waved play on.
Moments later Nigeria’s showed inexperience when he mistimed a cross but the Eagles escaped as the Serbians failed to capitalize. The last action of the first half saw Musa brought down by Ivanovic but nothing came off the freekick.
Odion Ighalo replaced Victor Moses at the start of the second half and the China based midfield immediately made his impact felt.
The former Watford striker came close to scoring for the Eagles but saw his shot pushed out for a corner. Serbian eventually went in front as dangerman, Mitrovic sent a left foot shot past Uzoho after Ebuehi failed to clear.
Ighalo tried to get the Eagles back in the game but his shot was blocked inside the penalty area. Simon Moses replaced Onazi as the Eagles chased the game.
But it went from bad to worse as Aleksandar Mitrovic completed his brace with a simple finished past Uzoho to make it 2-0.
The frustration got to some of the Eagles players as substitute John Ogu got involved in a heated argument with Tadic after the Serbian claimed he elbowed him, other players joined in but calm soon returned with the referee showing yellow cards to Ogu and Mitrovic who too handy during the melee.
Junior Ajayi came on for his Super Eagles debut but couldn’t make any meaningful impact within the three minutes he was on the pitch as Serbia ran out 2-0 winners.
In all the Super Eagles won one and lost one out of the two international friendlies played in the last four four days.
Recall that last Friday the three-time African Champions proved their mantle on a good day as they defeated the sixth ranked Poland 1-0 in front of their bedeviled home crowd.
