Super Falcons striker, Asisat Oshoala, has claimed she had “one of those days at the office” after squandering a good number of goalscoring chances against Zambia on Wednesday.
The Dalian Quanjian forward was not at her clinical best and is yet to register her name on the scoresheet at the African Women Cup of Nations (AWCON) currently going on in Ghana.
“This is football, all of these things happen every day,” she told Busy Buddies on Friday.
“You have big players around the world just missed goals like that, even crying chances, so it’s one of those things attackers face one of those days at the office.”
“At some point I just felt like I wasn’t going to score yesterday I knew it, I saw it coming because I don’t struggle to score goals like that so if it happens like this is just I have to find a way around it to give passes and all of that and that was what I was actually doing at some point in the game yesterday.
The former Arsenal Ladies of England player said her profligacy would have been a problem “if we had not won the game” but that the four goals nil victory was “very good for the attacking team it shows the strikers were working”.
“For me, I’m not bothered about that that’s not my aim.
“it’s not my primary objective here in Ghana, my objective is to qualify for the World Cup and retain the trophy actually. So if my teammates [are] scoring, we are winning getting three points everything is fine everyone smiles that’s the most important thing. It’s about the nation it’s not about me.”
The victory against Zambia put the Falcons back on track for a semi-final spot after a disappointing loss to South Africa in their opening game.
Next up is the final group game against the Nzalang Nacional of Equatorial Guinea and Oshoala says the Falcons “have no other option” than to “go all out” to get the victory.
