I perform very well playing alongside Emenike - Brown Ideye

Nigerian striker Brown Ideye has said that he has a good understanding with strike partner Emmanuel Emenike whenever they both start in the Super Eagles team.

Ideye was hung out to dry and he was singled out for criticisms after wasting a lot of goalscoring opportunities at the 2013 Confederations Cup in Brazil,where Nigeria failed to advance past the group stages.

Emenike missed out through an injury and Ideye led the lines for Nigeria in that tournament.

The Dynamo Kiev player said that he was under immense pressure to perform particularly because he wasn't playing alongside Emenike.

"Maybe if Emenike had played at the 2013 Confederations Cup, I would not have faced as quite as much pressure as I did. Since Emenike was not there, the other person people looked upon to perform was me,” Ideye told supersport.com.

He added that the “pressure to perform” got to him and he failed to score a single goal in the tournament.

“When a lot of people put pressure on you to deliver and you don’t, you feel like you are the worst footballer on earth,’ he said.

Stephen Keshi who was angry with the missed opportunities,rued the absence of Emenike from the tournament adding that he wouldn't have missed chances the forwards missed at the Confederations Cup.

“He (Keshi) is right because Emenike has proved that he can do a lot in the national team. Maybe, if Emenike was in Brazil, I would not have been under too much pressure,” Ideye added.