Ighalo suggests playing for Super Eagles led to his loss of form for Watford
– Odion Ighalo says playing for Nigeria might be be reason for his poor form
– The striker is yet to score in the past four games for club side Watford
– Ighalo believes the stress of travelling for national team games is telling on him
Super Eagles forward Odion Ighalo has blaming his poor form in 2016 on his frequents travels to represent Nigeria.
Odion Ighalo
After scoring 13 goals in the Premier League in 2015, Ighalo hit a snag and has just three goals in 2016 so far.
The 25-year-old scored against Arsenal in the FA Cup just days before Nigeria’s Africa Cup of Nations qualifying match against Egypt in March.
The Nigerian is yet to score in four games in a row now since he last scored against Arsene Wenger’s team.
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“The international week is tiring,” Ighalo told From The Rookery End Podcast.
“After you play at the weekend you have to fly to and play with the national team. You then play twice in six or seven days after a long flight. I remember that [in March] I flew from here to Nigeria. It was seven hours. Then we flew to Egypt, back again to Nigeria and then back to England,” he continued.
The striker also said that the travelling is really telling on him as well as his teammates.
“It was really difficult and telling on me. We are humans, not robots. So it’s really tiring. But what can you do? It’s your national team. We are all working to represent the national team,” he said further.
Ighalo has been named in the Nigerian squad that will play against Mali and Luxembourg in April in what will be low key friendly games.
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