John Obi Mikel & Kelechi Iheanacho emerge as Gernot Rohr's difference makers...

The new Super Eagles boss got off to a winning start in Uyo, and would do well to build the national team around his captain and Manchester City's precocious hotshot

The larger significance of Gernot Rohr ’s first game in charge lay not in what transpired within it, but in what appeared to be churning underneath-the sense of underlying mechanics. It was a luxury not afforded to either of Sunday Oliseh or Samson Siasia, both of whom were thrust into the deep end straightaway. Neither negotiated the choppy waters of qualifying particularly artfully.

Their inefficiencies may have rendered this game a dead rubber, but within a wider context, the visit of Tanzania was pregnant with meaning.

World Cup qualifying begins in October with a visit to Zambia who, like the Super Eagles, have floundered somewhat since an unlikely victory at the Africa Cup of Nations a few years ago.