Mr Mac-10:
Patriotism tells me that France will beat us with a slim margin,but realism tells me that France will knack naija 4-1

Mr Mac-10:
Patriotism tells me that France will beat us with a slim margin,but realism tells me that France will knack naija 4-1

Adamskuty: hehehe! oga fulaman how was the holiday nau?

bboiabb:

though you have a point..it's like asking a generator to power a whole city. However, i feel like once Obabonna is fully fit, we'll be much stronger to Face the French.


My question is..do we go with Yobo? (If it ain't broke, don't fix it?) OR go with Obabonna (great ability but just recovering from injury)?

emiye:

France played against 10 men in two out of their three group games.

Against Honduras, they only started scoring when honduras was down to 10 men in the first half,also against ecuador who played with 10 men for over 40 minutes, france could not find the back of the net.

France is a more favourable opponent for Nigeria than switzerland, not because switzerland is a better team than france, but beause France system of play will give us more space to operate and play our game than switzerland will give us.

safarigirl: oga fula, so you dey here? I don dey find you since. Wey your Ghanaian friends? I would think after your failed predictions of Nigeria crashing out and Ghana going to the next round, you would stay off our threads for a while. Now you don come again. I hope you're not wishing the team well, we qualify when you predict we won't

Fulaman198:

All I am saying is that France should not be underestimated, they are a tough opponent. Argentina really isn't all that great, I actually think France is better than them. I hope Nigeria can win and play even better than we did against Argentina and come up on top.

emiye: NO signs of underestimation by the SE, but equally there should be no doling out of excess respect to the french team like we did for the argentines. France is about to get its first real test, and trust me France will struggle against the supposed weak argentine team.

Fulaman198:

I'm glad that Nigeria made it out, my predictions were based on their woeful performances in friendly matches against teams like the United States and Scotland. I would have wished the Ghanaians made it out as well but they had bad luck. They played extremely well as expected against arguably the strongest team in the World Cup (Germany), and Ivory Coast was also under the flag of bad luck after having a bigoted referee. Ivory Coast case is the most painful, they deserved to advance. I am an African, simple as that. I wish success for my African brothers no matter what.

In case you didn't know, Nairaland has been down for a while so of course my Ghanaian brothers and sisters are not around.

safarigirl: only Ivory Coast's exit was terrible. That wasn't a penalty, the Greek guy was the one who hit the Ivorian guy. Really sad

Fulaman198:

It really depends, Yobo has more experience, but he is slower. Nigeria is one of the slower teams in the World Cup, so I don't know. He seems to have good synergy though with his passes despite being older. It really is hard to say, Obabonna is quicker than Yobo, but his passes aren't as crisp.

safarigirl: only Ivory Coast's exit was terrible. That wasn't a penalty, the Greek guy was the one who hit the Ivorian guy. Really sad

mikeansy:

It was a penalty

A Ivory Coast needed to do was play the ball into the corner flank and protect there till the final whistle but instead they went on a fruitless attack and could not protect their advantage for 2 minutes more

Nigeria almost made the same mistake against Bosnia. If we played for the clock down the corner flank Dzeko may not have had that chance to almost equalise

Fulaman198:

The point is, that it should have never been a penalty. I have seen far worse incidents that were not penalties. Africans need to start protesting and stop being such weaklings and passive people.

mikeansy:

It was a clear penalty

The rules are the rules


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XnxO-rtj25E

mikeansy:

It was a clear penalty

The rules are the rules


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XnxO-rtj25E

Fulaman198:

That was not a clear penalty that's bullcrap

mikeansy:

Lol

You are not very serious!

Wilfred Bony and Yaya Toure should have been able to take the ball to the corner flank and play out the last 5 minutes there.

I hope Nigeria learn from that Ivory Coast mistake

Fulaman198:

The defence was porous during the very last minutes, however I stand by what I said that was pure bullcrap. That was by no means a penalty, I have seen far worse aka the Iran vs. Argentina game and nothing was called.

bboiabb:

Different refs make different calls. If the nature of the game is rough, the ref will make less calls. If it's a clean game the ref will make a call on the slightest contace

ololo12: @Fulaman..... Is it true that FIFA is under strict instruction not to allow any African team win the World Cup?? I heard somebody say it, on one of the threads.

ololo12: @Fulaman..... Is it true that FIFA is under strict instruction not to allow any African team win the World Cup?? I heard somebody say it, on one of the threads.

Mr Mac-10:
Patriotism tells me that France will beat us with a slim margin,but realism tells me that France will knack naija 4-1

seydam21: Guys i am playing FIFA Pro 2014 where do i press so that Suarez can bite

seydam21: Guys i am playing FIFA Pro 2014 where do i press so that Suarez can bite