What Kind of Striker is Odion Ighalo?

Question: What Kind of striker is Odion Ighalo?

I think we should ask Gernot Rohr, Nigeria national team head coach, who has so much confidence in him as his first choice striker.

Maybe, we do not understand his conviction and we felt a striker has a more define role on the pitch - to score goals!

 Ighalo just managed to score a penalty in a match that was almost a walk over, against minnows Seychelles.

Before that match, he  hasn't scored in any competitive game for the Super Eagles, not in the qualifiers or at the world cup proper, yet Rohr has most times selected him ahead of Kelechi Iheanacho, who even score intermittently, and hasn't given much chance to options like Simon Nwankwo, Henry Onyekuru, Kayode olapakun or home boy, Junior Lokosa.

It may seems more like past glory now, but we have seen how potent Ighalo use to be at Watford, not anymore! He hasn't been able to replicate such potency for his club in China or for the national team. As we all know, football form doesn't last forever.

Maybe, Rohr still see those potency and Ighalo has been unlucky in front of goal post or it's a matter of Rohr's choice of formation, which plays only one man up front, may be inhibiting the performance of Ighalo. Or is Rohr using him more as a decoy striker to set up other attackers in the team to score.

No matter what it is, I personally think and I may be wrong, Rohr should critically look into the striking role of Super Eagles team formation. Ighalo is struggling when it comes to scoring goals.