Can Eric Chelle Improve The Super Eagles Beyond Bronze Medal Afcon Achievement?

It is no flattery to say that the Super Eagles have improved massively under the tutelage of Eric Chelle.

I cannot remember the first or last time the Super Eagles navigated an entire Afcon campaign undefeated in regulation time.

I cannot even remember the first or last time the Super Eagles kept a clean sheet throughout the regulation time of the knockout stage of any Afcon.

But for the cold hands of penalties and the unambitious brand of football Morocco played for most of the 90 minutes of the semi finals, Nigeria would have been playing in today's final.

Does Eric Chelle have areas to improve on? Does Pep Guadiola have areas to improve on? Mikel Arteta: is he flawless?

For 40 days and 40 nights, the Super Eagles' brand of football was breathtaking - when it worked, when oppositions failed to close down our dangermen quickly, ferociously and emphatically.

When we did come across "aggressive markers" in Congo, Morocco and Egypt, our well of goals dried up like Sahara desert.

But that is football, we couldn't score, these oppositions couldn't score too, thanks to the sturdiness and resilience of our fullbacks, centre backs.and goalkeeper: the Super Eagles under Chelle operated under one mantra - Stop us from scoring and we will do to you likewise.

"We will build on this experience, and it will be the foundation for the next phase of work," said Chelle to a parley of journalists.

Yes, he needs to fabricate a foundation on being able to score goals against opponents hellbent on breaking the cord of supplies to the centre forwards.

"We tried different ideas, tested multiple approaches, and learned from every situation. Some things worked, others did not," lamented Chelle.

Ideas implemented to keep clean sheets eventually worked. Approaches implemented to overcome penalty jitters eventually worked. The situation of having an unreliable goalkeeper was effectively addressed.

But there's more, way more to be done. That's life, that's football! Never resting, always improving.