Mujtahida:

But you made it look like all that you said that day was a joke naw. Abi Icon4s was right when he said that you really meant all that you said and that the joke thing was an afterthought to do damage control after your received so much flak for your melt down.

ChrisKels:


I never criticized any player neither did I criticise the team rather I criticised the coach. The boys didn't fail me, the coach did with his stupid formation.

For this reason, I am not going no where because my team was not defeated by their opponent, they were rather defeated by their coach.

Finito

ChrisKels:


I never criticized any player neither did I criticise the team rather I criticised the coach. The boys didn't fail me, the coach did with his stupid formation.

For this reason, I am not going no where because my team was not defeated by their opponent, they were rather defeated by their coach.

Finito

gloryon:
Have being a silent reader of this great thread. I know the optimist , pessimist and the opportunists of this thread. At this juncture though,if nigeria fails to qualify from the group, I will stop supporting them because I don't know what else to be done to make the eagles fly. This time around everything was done for them and the boys refuse to fly. Am heartbroken

Mickael2:



who said they didn't do anything? If you were busy preparing for a serious mathematics exam and you are served primary school mathematics won't you just drop your calculator and start solving manually? :They didn't need to get out of first gear because what we were playing wasn't even close to their own gear1 so why exert energy too much when your next match is against Argentina? For the record the only shot on goal we had was Ighalo's tame header, if we had brought our A game they would have played a lot better than they did. watch their performance against Senegal, an African team that actually came to play football

Mickael2:



That's not what matters now but how the team will move forward, they are representing Nigeria anyways. But there are some issues here

First of all Mikel was poor, very very poor. There was only one reasonable chance that Mikel created, the one he gave to Nacho which Nacho should have dropped back for him because Mikel was in a better position yet he choose to shoot, looking for the glory for himself. Mikel dispossessed Modric by the corner flag and he just passed the ball to Subasic, is that a chance created? Mikel was supposed to do a 1-2 with Moses but passed the ball far ahead of Moses and there was no way Moses was going to get that ball so he dived, is that a chance created? Modric was easily the best player on the pitch followed by Rakitic why? Whenever Modric had the ball no Nigerian player bothered to press him, and that was supposed to be the work of Mikel and since nobody was pressuring him he had enough time to pick his passes precisely. In fact from the 52-78 minutes Modric was not dispossessed even once because nobody dared to mark him. Even when Rakitic also dropped into Modrics role towards the end of the game nobody was marking him either. Mikel was bad, let us not hide that fact but to me he remains our best bet in the AMF role, there is no assurance that Iwobi would have done better.


All the blames on Shehu are all pointless. Two seasons ago at Barca, Alba was very very poor because he was playing on the same wing with Neymar but last season he was a totally different beast. When you play on the same wing with a player who likes to dribble so much, you as a fullback will be reluctant to attack knowing fully well that any mistake and you would be out of position badly and that was what clearly restricted Shehu. There were times when Moses had better options yet he choose to beat his man, after seeing that will you still want to attack knowing fully well that the person you are living behind is Perisic, a quick winger? Also, the lack of press on Modric by Mikel was easily the reason why Perisic kept on receiving accurate long balls but instead of blaming Mikel we blame Shehu? The young guy contained Perisic which nobody can really guarantee that Ebuehi could have done especially since we were a goal down and the onus would have been on Ebuehi to attack leaving gaps for Perisic. Cut Shehu some slack, he was not bad today. not outstanding but absolutely solid.


we really need to tell our GK that there is a difference between winning and losing. even when we were losing it took him hours to get the ball back in play allowing the Croatians to regroup and easily counter our long balls.


this one is going to create serious controversy but I wasn't overly impressed with Etebo. too many back passes, just too many. too much ball hogging, just too much. he pressed well, won the ball back well but did absolutely nothing with it except the driving runs that he made once or twice which all happened in the middle of the pitch which really didn't matter. Now peeps want him to play as the 10 after that performance against Algeria and SA in that role? that should not happen any time soon. Ndidi was anonymous in this match, he was not the deepest midfielder so I would have guessed that it was his work to carry the ball forward which he absolutely did not do all game long.

COOL10:
. Funny enough I said that with a light heart. C'mon it's a Sunday morning. I even liked that your post. Not everyone is out to attack you my brother.

TheSuperNerd:


Alright, now I knew you were never gonna leave... When I saw that comment of yours, I had a reply in mind to save you putting yourself in such position but I decided to keep mute.... But now... Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha.... Mehn that lawyer GF of yours have truly taught you some tricks from the law book abi... I hail ooooo... Looooolllll...

eph12:

Of course we will. We just need to win our next two matches. Easy!

TheSuperNerd:
But he did create chances yesterday did he not?

He did press high up the pitch did he not?

He did match and even bested Modric at times did he not?

He did fall back a couple of times to even help bring out the ball from defence and build from the back did he not?

Mikel is still our creative hub alongside Iwobi... That is a fact.

The best option I expect anyone to tell me is to move Mikel to CM while Iwobi plays AM and we can have a true discussion because I am also (as an option) for a Ndidi-Mikel-Iwobi midfield against Iceland with Iheanacho and Moses up top.

We need to break down that Icelandic Juggernaut wall.

ChrisKels:


I made this post on the 6th of june and some empty brains were waging war against me but today all them eyes dun clear Lol

You're just an unrepentant hypocrite! But you came out to deny that you weren't serious with the statement you made above! Claiming it was just a joke. But because of what happened yesterday, you had to remind us about this in order to boost your ego?

I'm not in anyway happy with the coach's tactical approach and also in no way defending his inability to transform our game for the better, but you flickering like an unstable bulb is outta place.

And if we win our last two matches, you will be one of the people that would first hail the coach. Your inconsistence is really appalling.

You get me pissed with the comment above.

LieDetector:
Remember how I was reserved and expressed my vote of no confidence when a hint of our starting line up yesterday was flashed. Rohr is so clueless for crying out loud. I pulled a statistics for you guys with the 3 5 2 where we average 1.3goals every 45mins and concede zero goal. But the white onigbinde doesn't know zilch. He played 4-3-3. Iwobi out wide. Shehu offered absolutely nothing going forward. Watch that game again and you notice the primary cause of the goals we conceded is shehu. Perisic had a field day. I pray Rohr doesn't play ebuehi in this tournament again. I really wish for him to be a world star but Rohr doesn't just fancy him. He should wait for for Holland call up.


We're back to our calculator days. Oh how I miss that. Let's solve some little algebra

If Croatia beats Argentina and we beat Iceland, it will be

Croatia - 6
Nigeria - 3
Argentina - 1
Iceland - 1

If Croatia draws Argentina and we beat Iceland, then

Croatia - 4
Nigeria - 3
Argentina - 2
Iceland - 1

If Croatia loses to Argentina and we beat Iceland, then

Argentina - 4
Nigeria - 3
Croatia - 3
Iceland - 1


Our qualification solely rests upon our shoulders. Beat Iceland then we have chance.


YES WE CAN


Rohr should get his tactics right. 3 5 2 with the right players is the way to go

TheGoodJoe:


The opportunity came because of Nacho's movement. If we had more movement upfront, Mikel would have created more. You can not blame him for our conservative style.

Geofavor:


The problem is in the set of players we always take to the world cup. They don't have enough energy to compete on a world level. They can only do well against fellow 'heavy' africans.
Our players get tired quickly. They can't RUN and CHARGE their opponents for 90 minutes like the south americans and europeans do.

If we are to go reasonably far in the next world cup, we need to do what Ghana did in 2010: use young players ( under 23) that have all played together for a while, probably a team of players from the youth team all promoted to the super eagles. This is the only way we will do well on a world stage.

fabyom:
With the statement white onigbinde made to the press he is not ready to change nothing. However, I believe we will beat Iceland and draw Argentina to qualify. I read we were fouled a lot abit technically? but the ref did not blow for the fouls only to award Croatia a penalty.

Mickael2:



That's not what matters now but how the team will move forward, they are representing Nigeria anyways. But there are some issues here

First of all Mikel was poor, very very poor. There was only one reasonable chance that Mikel created, the one he gave to Nacho which Nacho should have dropped back for him because Mikel was in a better position yet he choose to shoot, looking for the glory for himself. Mikel dispossessed Modric by the corner flag and he just passed the ball to Subasic, is that a chance created? Mikel was supposed to do a 1-2 with Moses but passed the ball far ahead of Moses and there was no way Moses was going to get that ball so he dived, is that a chance created? Modric was easily the best player on the pitch followed by Rakitic why? Whenever Modric had the ball no Nigerian player bothered to press him, and that was supposed to be the work of Mikel and since nobody was pressuring him he had enough time to pick his passes precisely. In fact from the 52-78 minutes Modric was not dispossessed even once because nobody dared to mark him. Even when Rakitic also dropped into Modrics role towards the end of the game nobody was marking him either. Mikel was bad, let us not hide that fact but to me he remains our best bet in the AMF role, there is no assurance that Iwobi would have done better.


All the blames on Shehu are all pointless. Two seasons ago at Barca, Alba was very very poor because he was playing on the same wing with Neymar but last season he was a totally different beast. When you play on the same wing with a player who likes to dribble so much, you as a fullback will be reluctant to attack knowing fully well that any mistake and you would be out of position badly and that was what clearly restricted Shehu. There were times when Moses had better options yet he choose to beat his man, after seeing that will you still want to attack knowing fully well that the person you are living behind is Perisic, a quick winger? Also, the lack of press on Modric by Mikel was easily the reason why Perisic kept on receiving accurate long balls but instead of blaming Mikel we blame Shehu? The young guy contained Perisic which nobody can really guarantee that Ebuehi could have done especially since we were a goal down and the onus would have been on Ebuehi to attack leaving gaps for Perisic. Cut Shehu some slack, he was not bad today. not outstanding but absolutely solid.


we really need to tell our GK that there is a difference between winning and losing. even when we were losing it took him hours to get the ball back in play allowing the Croatians to regroup and easily counter our long balls.


this one is going to create serious controversy but I wasn't overly impressed with Etebo. too many back passes, just too many. too much ball hogging, just too much. he pressed well, won the ball back well but did absolutely nothing with it except the driving runs that he made once or twice which all happened in the middle of the pitch which really didn't matter. Now peeps want him to play as the 10 after that performance against Algeria and SA in that role? that should not happen any time soon. Ndidi was anonymous in this match, he was not the deepest midfielder so I would have guessed that it was his work to carry the ball forward which he absolutely did not do all game long.

Mickael2:



the opportunity actually came because of Mikel's movement. Nacho was standing on the same position that Ighalo was standing all game long but in that sequence Mikel actually decided to attack through Moses' wing instead of going through the other side as he was doing all game long. No offence but Ighalo would have dropped the ball back for Mikel to shoot which was the better option at that point too

BascoVanVeli:



The problem is that Etebo was great at CMF.

Mujtahida:

He's having a field day instead of keeping to his word. I remember when another moniker (Eleniyan15 I guess) made the vow, ChrisKels was the only person on this thread who yabbed the guy and told him to keep to his word.

Now you too should do same . even your man elyte89 don call you out to keep to your vow

I don't want you to leave the thread but don't talk again like a man who keeps to his words because you didn't keep to your vow.

klexycole:


You're just an unrepentant hypocrite! But you came out to deny that you weren't serious with the statement you made above! Claiming it was just a joke. But because of what happened yesterday, you had to remind us about this in order to boost your ego?

I'm not in anyway happy with the coach's tactical approach and also in no way defending his inability to transform our game for the better, but you flickering like an unstable bulb is outta place.

And if we win our last two matches, you will be one of the people that would first hail the coach. Your inconsistence is really appalling.

You get me pissed with the comment above.

raumdeuter:
We no sabi play jare

TheGoodJoe:


Oh common. Shehu should not be blamed because Moses dribbles. Really? If Ebuehi was there he would keep the Croatians under pressure with his constant runs, with or without Moses.

Oasis007:


GOtv is showing the Replay now. I really can't dare to watch it sha.

Oasis007:


GOtv is showing the Replay now. I really can't dare to watch it sha.

ChrisKels:


Read my reply to the post u quoted

TheGoodJoe:



Watch the first shot Nacho had and watch his movement to the ball. As long as you have an attacker with movement, the midfield has chances. Ighalo did not offer that all game. Also, Ighalo was too lazy to press all game, causing Mikel to aid in the pressing.

I hammered on this before. If Mikel has to do the pressing, you have a problem. Mikel was all over the pitch working hard and that can not be a description of poor performance. Simple we were not mobile enough and that was basically what nullified us.

So why were we not mobile.

Simple.

Shehu and Ighalo.

TheSuperNerd:
So great in fact. Etebo picked himself up from that first error and gave us an individual performance we will not forget in a hurry.

He merits a start, no doubt, in our next game if not I am also open to consider a Ndidi-Mikel-Iwobi combo for our midfield in a 3-5-2. Truth is Etebo at CMF or Mikel don't ng his thing with Iwobi... I just wanna see us win.

fabyom:
Your info is incorrect. The core of that team are highly experience players not under 23 please. Gyan, Muntari, Asamaoh, Panstail, Mensah, Prince Boateng etc

Mickael2:



wait oh, so Ighalo was supposed to press the entire back four alone? So Mikel does not have to press even though he is the second most advanced player as per Messi or something? I think it was in the beginning of the second half when we actually created a chance for Ighalo did you not see his brilliant movement to get onto the wrong side of his marker? if not for that brilliant block he would have scored. There was a time Ighalo had the ball on the byline but Iwobi was too slow to get into the box, that summed up what was happening. Ighalo played upfront alone because Moses was busy showing off his skills in a wide area