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Re: AFCON: Why Nigeria Lost To Algeria – Rohr by tayebest(m): 11:16am On Jul 16, 2019
SmartyPants:


Extra time not penalties. The Algerians played 120 minutes just a few days before and the Super Eagles had had one extra day of rest. At that moment in the game it was the right tactical move.


That's what cost us indeed. That tactical move was wrong, though the Algerians were more hungry but delaying it to extra time was definitely out of it. You remember how Argentina raped us too after we likely want to settle for draw during the 2018 worldcup?
Re: AFCON: Why Nigeria Lost To Algeria – Rohr by TOPCRUISE(m): 11:20am On Jul 16, 2019
Our players played very well. Well said by the coach
Re: AFCON: Why Nigeria Lost To Algeria – Rohr by lexy2014: 11:22am On Jul 16, 2019
tayebest:
The mentality of going to extra time or playing penalty raped us. Right from the first half, the super Eagles play with fear and with no winning passion. They've thought delaying the ball to penalty will help but which keeper have we got? that basket? undecided

If d keeper was that bad, a basket u called him, I don't he would have conceded just two. It should have been more. D buck stops at d table of d coach. He hasn't lifted our football in anyway. A coach usually transfers his mentally unto his players & that's what u always c on d field of play
Re: AFCON: Why Nigeria Lost To Algeria – Rohr by SmartyPants(m): 11:25am On Jul 16, 2019
tayebest:



That's what cost us indeed. That tactical move was wrong, though the Algerians were more hungry but delaying it to extra time was definitely out of it. You remember how Argentina raped us too after we likely want to settle for draw during the 2018 worldcup?

Lol...bro the whole match did Super Eagles look likely to score from open play?Algeria was better all-round...so going to extra time with tired Algerians was a smart move, just that the defending needed to be better.
Re: AFCON: Why Nigeria Lost To Algeria – Rohr by Niceiroko: 11:25am On Jul 16, 2019
the ball e bi like them trow am put oo, i mean stony free kick

robosky02:


Where was he the first time
Re: AFCON: Why Nigeria Lost To Algeria – Rohr by prinsam30: 11:25am On Jul 16, 2019
robosky02:
Why Nigeria Lost

My observation

You can add yours

1 Gernot Rohr lacks technical dept to coach super eagle

2 in three year Nigerias football does not have a clear cut playing pattern

3 two years ago Algeria was ranged africa no1 Nigeria finish them 3-1 in uyo thanks to victor moses and co. They could not stand us. two years on we couldn't stand them even cameroon it took personal brilliance and determine for us to win. Simply put our team has retrogress no improvement

4. Three years on we are still crying for the lose of Enyeama. The coach has not been able to give us a keeper. With all due respect akpeyi enzenwa and uzoho are not our best
How do you take a keeper to world cup and now he is 3rd choice. Akpeyi is so shaky he doesn't inspire confidence. How did he became no1 when he is 2nd keeper in his club in fact last season he only played just 6 game for his club.
What happen to fine keepers like afolokai here in nigeria

5 Gernot Rohr is killing Nigerias football do you mean no single home base player is good enough. Clement westerhof and keshi won afcon with local players. In 2013 sunday mba an unknown local player score the winner. Under Rohhr he may never even make the reserve list

6 algeria and senegal are in the finals with local coach. they and senegal used local coaches to beat foreingn nigeria and tunisia coaches. Its no longer oyibo coach era. Its about competence.
Look at the resumee of siasia and amunike compare to rohr what has he achieve before coming to nigeria

7. You can expect to win champoions league or EPL with a mid table mentality coach like David Moyes. So nigeria can't win world cup with Gernot Rohr. Nigeria is too BIG for him. Imagine him celebrating semi finals.calling our team inexperience. A team we beat Algeria juat 2 years ago. Are we improving or retrogressing.

Infact Rohr lack tacticks do youi know algeria scouted us with 7 coaches and nutrilize all our key player. Chukweze had 2 men standby on him. Didn't you wonder with his man of the match performance in the prevous game, he could not make a single cross. Ighalo was cut out from any form of ball supply. He only manage to score penalt)

And yet Rohr could couild only look like PE master. Knowing nothing to change


Abeg excus us the reasons why algeria won

Egypt didn't wait for grammer they did the needfull we should follow suit

Look inwards our league and also our best coaches

Lalasticlala mynd44



1001% agree, uve just said it all
Re: AFCON: Why Nigeria Lost To Algeria – Rohr by Aderoba129: 11:26am On Jul 16, 2019
Senegal is winning the Afcon : and Nigeria is coming to Third smiley

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Re: AFCON: Why Nigeria Lost To Algeria – Rohr by lanocfoods: 11:31am On Jul 16, 2019
We'll still lose to tunisia
Re: AFCON: Why Nigeria Lost To Algeria – Rohr by gatecrash123: 11:38am On Jul 16, 2019
ablelin:
Algerians played better, they looked like they wanted to win, couldn't see the hunger in our own players, probably we were expecting luck as usual. I would have preferred local coach and local players. Local players play with hunger, wanting to prove and show themselves to the world so club can come for them. But these one are satisfied already, so no hunger. Also, I see better players everyday on Nigerian streets, I mean boys way Sabi, if properly trained and given opportunities, will bring trophies and fame home, but we have seen it all, Nigeria doesn't work that way....
was that the same hunger they used at CHAN sad sad
Re: AFCON: Why Nigeria Lost To Algeria – Rohr by gatecrash123: 11:51am On Jul 16, 2019
robosky02:
Why Nigeria Lost

My observation

You can add yours

1 Gernot Rohr lacks technical dept to coach super eagle

2 in three year Nigerias football does not have a clear cut playing pattern

3 two years ago Algeria was ranged africa no1 Nigeria finish them 3-1 in uyo thanks to victor moses and co. They could not stand us. two years on we couldn't stand them even cameroon it took personal brilliance and determine for us to win. Simply put our team has retrogress no improvement

4. Three years on we are still crying for the lose of Enyeama. The coach has not been able to give us a keeper. With all due respect akpeyi enzenwa and uzoho are not our best
How do you take a keeper to world cup and now he is 3rd choice. Akpeyi is so shaky he doesn't inspire confidence. How did he became no1 when he is 2nd keeper in his club in fact last season he only played just 6 game for his club.
What happen to fine keepers like afolokai here in nigeria

5 Gernot Rohr is killing Nigerias football do you mean no single home base player is good enough. Clement westerhof and keshi won afcon with local players. In 2013 sunday mba an unknown local player score the winner. Under Rohhr he may never even make the reserve list

6 algeria and senegal are in the finals with local coach. they and senegal used local coaches to beat foreingn nigeria and tunisia coaches. Its no longer oyibo coach era. Its about competence.
Look at the resumee of siasia and amunike compare to rohr what has he achieve before coming to nigeria

7. You can expect to win champoions league or EPL with a mid table mentality coach like David Moyes. So nigeria can't win world cup with Gernot Rohr. Nigeria is too BIG for him. Imagine him celebrating semi finals.calling our team inexperience. A team we beat Algeria juat 2 years ago. Are we improving or retrogressing.

Infact Rohr lack tacticks do youi know algeria scouted us with 7 coaches and nutrilize all our key player. Chukweze had 2 men standby on him. Didn't you wonder with his man of the match performance in the prevous game, he could not make a single cross. Ighalo was cut out from any form of ball supply. He only manage to score penalt)

And yet Rohr could couild only look like PE master. Knowing nothing to change


Abeg excus us the reasons why algeria won

Egypt didn't wait for grammer they did the needfull we should follow suit

Look inwards our league and also our best coaches

Lalasticlala mynd44
i am 30% not in support with that number 5. majority of the best home based player are moving abroad eg sunday mba, the league as no good structure, lack of good stadiums to play good football,and also bad management..... and you expect the league to strive?
Re: AFCON: Why Nigeria Lost To Algeria – Rohr by wink2015(m): 11:55am On Jul 16, 2019
robosky02:
AFCON: Why Nigeria lost to Algeria – Rohr

uper Eagles Coach Gernot Rohr has admitted that his team lost to a better side in the semifinals of the 2019 Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) in Egypt on Sunday.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that a Riyad Mahrez’s goal from a free-kick at the edge of the box, with seconds left to play, condemned Nigeria to a 2-1 defeat and steered Algeria to their first AFCON Final match in 29 years.

Rohr told journalists during a post-match interview that it was a game of two halves, adding however that Algeria were the better side at the end of the day.
“Until the last minute, Algeria had a better first half than us, but we came back a much better team in the second half.

“Unfortunately, we conceded a goal in the last minute. I think the players wanted to go to extra-time believing that perhaps Algeria will get tired and we could win the match in extra time.

“It was a wonderful game. We lost it, so we are not happy. Congrats to the winners. They were the better team in the first half.

“We scored an own goal. We were unlucky but we came back like we have always done all the time in this tournament.

“When we found ourselves in a difficult situation, we always reacted and we did that also today coming back through a penalty and playing a better second half.

“But a wonderful free-kick from a football genius made the difference.
“In our last game, we won in the last minute against South Africa and today we lost. That’s football,” he said.


Coach Djamel Belmadi of Algeria on his part said his side had a tough game against a tough opponent, adding that it had to take the quality of Mahrez to decide the result of the match.

“We knew that it would be a tough game because of the quality of our opponents and the tough game we had against Cote d’Ivoire on Thursday.
“My boys had an amazing first half. So, we deserved at that time to score a goal and I think we could have scored even more goals.

“Then in the second half, we had a difficult moment for about 15 minutes, we were under pressure.
“I think we played too deep and didn’t apply enough pressure on our opponents due to fatigue on my players and the quality of course of our opponents.
“Then came the penalty which I think my players showed great character and mental strength to come back and fought until the end to score the decisive goal.

“We however had some situations in the second half, maybe not clear cut chances where I think we could have scored another goal with a little more accuracy.
“Then the free-kick arrived and of course with the quality of players like Riyad Mahrez, it’s a massive chance at goal and thank God we made it count,” he said.

Nigeria will now take on 2004 champions Tunisia in the third place match at the Al Salam Stadium on Wednesday, while Algeria take on Senegal in Friday’s final at the Cairo International Stadium. (NAN)

https://www.premiumtimesng.com/sports/football/340904-afcon-why-nigeria-lost-to-algeria-rohr.html

AHMED MUSA IS A WRITE OFF !

THE NATIONAL TEAM SHOULD BE DISBANDED AND WE SHOULD GO BACK TO THE DRAWING BOARD.
Re: AFCON: Why Nigeria Lost To Algeria – Rohr by alibiguy: 11:58am On Jul 16, 2019
robosky02:
Why Nigeria Lost

My observation

You can add yours

1 Gernot Rohr lacks technical dept to coach super eagle

2 in three year Nigerias football does not have a clear cut playing pattern

3 two years ago Algeria was ranged africa no1 Nigeria finish them 3-1 in uyo thanks to victor moses and co. They could not stand us. two years on we couldn't stand them even cameroon it took personal brilliance and determine for us to win. Simply put our team has retrogress no improvement

4. Three years on we are still crying for the lose of Enyeama. The coach has not been able to give us a keeper. With all due respect akpeyi enzenwa and uzoho are not our best
How do you take a keeper to world cup and now he is 3rd choice. Akpeyi is so shaky he doesn't inspire confidence. How did he became no1 when he is 2nd keeper in his club in fact last season he only played just 6 game for his club.
What happen to fine keepers like afolokai here in nigeria

5 Gernot Rohr is killing Nigerias football do you mean no single home base player is good enough. Clement westerhof and keshi won afcon with local players. In 2013 sunday mba an unknown local player score the winner. Under Rohhr he may never even make the reserve list

6 algeria and senegal are in the finals with local coach. they and senegal used local coaches to beat foreingn nigeria and tunisia coaches. Its no longer oyibo coach era. Its about competence.
Look at the resumee of siasia and amunike compare to rohr what has he achieve before coming to nigeria

7. You can expect to win champoions league or EPL with a mid table mentality coach like David Moyes. So nigeria can't win world cup with Gernot Rohr. Nigeria is too BIG for him. Imagine him celebrating semi finals.calling our team inexperience. A team we beat Algeria juat 2 years ago. Are we improving or retrogressing.

Infact Rohr lack tacticks do youi know algeria scouted us with 7 coaches and nutrilize all our key player. Chukweze had 2 men standby on him. Didn't you wonder with his man of the match performance in the prevous game, he could not make a single cross. Ighalo was cut out from any form of ball supply. He only manage to score penalt)

And yet Rohr could couild only look like PE master. Knowing nothing to change


Abeg excus us the reasons why algeria won


Egypt didn't wait for grammer they did the needfull we should follow suit

Look inwards our league and also our best coaches

Lalasticlala mynd44

Aptly captured.
Re: AFCON: Why Nigeria Lost To Algeria – Rohr by Bluntemperor: 12:00pm On Jul 16, 2019
mba-o Mr Rhor,pls help us step aside.Gone are the days of Mathematical Odegbami,JJ Okocha that you can't beat Nigeria in Mid-field,wingers and attacks,yet now giving us Bleep!!
NFF una see yourself!!.you guys prefer sharing $dollars,instead of bringing joy to over 200millions Nigeria.This un-serious attitude is defitist in all ramifications.we thought bringing this Nations Cup home will help us unite us further.We need a TEAM that is technically sound and flexible in approach not some folks that would score own goal at crucial moment.That error is unfortunate anyway.
Re: AFCON: Why Nigeria Lost To Algeria – Rohr by Femeto: 12:12pm On Jul 16, 2019
Same last minute free kick was given to Algeria against CIV but they couldn't score.
Re: AFCON: Why Nigeria Lost To Algeria – Rohr by luvinhubby(m): 12:12pm On Jul 16, 2019
Any national team coach not willing to explore the depth of players in our local league is not be to hired as one.
Rohr was never a coach

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Re: AFCON: Why Nigeria Lost To Algeria – Rohr by ubcandid(m): 12:18pm On Jul 16, 2019
robosky02:
Why Nigeria Lost

My observation

You can add yours

1 Gernot Rohr lacks technical dept to coach super eagle

2 in three year Nigerias football does not have a clear cut playing pattern

3 two years ago Algeria was ranged africa no1 Nigeria finish them 3-1 in uyo thanks to victor moses and co. They could not stand us. two years on we couldn't stand them even cameroon it took personal brilliance and determine for us to win. Simply put our team has retrogress no improvement

4. Three years on we are still crying for the lose of Enyeama. The coach has not been able to give us a keeper. With all due respect akpeyi enzenwa and uzoho are not our best
How do you take a keeper to world cup and now he is 3rd choice. Akpeyi is so shaky he doesn't inspire confidence. How did he became no1 when he is 2nd keeper in his club in fact last season he only played just 6 game for his club.
What happen to fine keepers like afolokai here in nigeria

5 Gernot Rohr is killing Nigerias football do you mean no single home base player is good enough. Clement westerhof and keshi won afcon with local players. In 2013 sunday mba an unknown local player score the winner. Under Rohhr he may never even make the reserve list

6 algeria and senegal are in the finals with local coach. they and senegal used local coaches to beat foreingn nigeria and tunisia coaches. Its no longer oyibo coach era. Its about competence.
Look at the resumee of siasia and amunike compare to rohr what has he achieve before coming to nigeria

7. You can expect to win champoions league or EPL with a mid table mentality coach like David Moyes. So nigeria can't win world cup with Gernot Rohr. Nigeria is too BIG for him. Imagine him celebrating semi finals.calling our team inexperience. A team we beat Algeria juat 2 years ago. Are we improving or retrogressing.

Infact Rohr lack tacticks do youi know algeria scouted us with 7 coaches and nutrilize all our key player. Chukweze had 2 men standby on him. Didn't you wonder with his man of the match performance in the prevous game, he could not make a single cross. Ighalo was cut out from any form of ball supply. He only manage to score penalt)

And yet Rohr could couild only look like PE master. Knowing nothing to change


Abeg excus us the reasons why algeria won

Egypt didn't wait for grammer they did the needfull we should follow suit

Look inwards our league and also our best coaches

Lalasticlala mynd44

You failed to add the most important. ROHR HAS COACHED THR EAGLES FOR CLOSE TO 5 YEAR'S, THE COACH HE LOST TO WAS APPOINTED LAST YEAR.

Under a year, the Algerian coach was able to build a team with good flair, rhythmic movement and cohesive force - dropping the likes of Ghoulam(Napoli), Ghezzal(Leicester city), Bentalab(schakle 04), Belfodil(Hoffenheim); big name players in the country doing well abroad. But our own Rohr keeps displaying indecisiveness, poor tactical reading, sloppiness in decision making and giving out predictable outcomes. If after 5 years or more he can't even grow a local based keeper in the likes of femi Thomas or ologunleke who are our best home based keepers or even develop a game pattern for the team, then definitely he should step down. Enyeama was picked from our home front. Rohr is an expensive shit we need to flush.

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Re: AFCON: Why Nigeria Lost To Algeria – Rohr by robosky02(m): 12:20pm On Jul 16, 2019
Smooyis:


Thanks Bros. We think alike. I hope the NFF will do the needful and save us from constant embarrassment and fear of watching super Eagles play.
omo I dey vex wella

Look if we keep him further our league NPFL will die
Cos why play here when you can't make national team from here. So all our player want to go abroad even if its malta or arzabajan or division 3 in england dundee unted

In keshi era local player play well cos you can walk straight to national team base on your performance

Ezenwa only sin is that he plays here if not. He is far better than akpeyi.
Enyeama went to japan/korea world cup and played against england straight from enyimba

Rohr see our league as a feeder team kai

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Re: AFCON: Why Nigeria Lost To Algeria – Rohr by sonofElElyon: 12:23pm On Jul 16, 2019
Rohr is not competent and doesn't learn from experience. Same thing happened against Argentina at the world cup. Wondering also why he went to sit at the time mahrez was about to take the free kick.. He should have told our players how to defend at that critical stage. I remember telling my nephew who was with me at the time that one of our players ought to have stayed on the goal line

robosky02:
AFCON: Why Nigeria lost to Algeria – Rohr

uper Eagles Coach Gernot Rohr has admitted that his team lost to a better side in the semifinals of the 2019 Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) in Egypt on Sunday.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that a Riyad Mahrez’s goal from a free-kick at the edge of the box, with seconds left to play, condemned Nigeria to a 2-1 defeat and steered Algeria to their first AFCON Final match in 29 years.

Rohr told journalists during a post-match interview that it was a game of two halves, adding however that Algeria were the better side at the end of the day.
“Until the last minute, Algeria had a better first half than us, but we came back a much better team in the second half.

“Unfortunately, we conceded a goal in the last minute. I think the players wanted to go to extra-time believing that perhaps Algeria will get tired and we could win the match in extra time.

“It was a wonderful game. We lost it, so we are not happy. Congrats to the winners. They were the better team in the first half.

“We scored an own goal. We were unlucky but we came back like we have always done all the time in this tournament.

“When we found ourselves in a difficult situation, we always reacted and we did that also today coming back through a penalty and playing a better second half.

“But a wonderful free-kick from a football genius made the difference.
“In our last game, we won in the last minute against South Africa and today we lost. That’s football,” he said.


Coach Djamel Belmadi of Algeria on his part said his side had a tough game against a tough opponent, adding that it had to take the quality of Mahrez to decide the result of the match.

“We knew that it would be a tough game because of the quality of our opponents and the tough game we had against Cote d’Ivoire on Thursday.
“My boys had an amazing first half. So, we deserved at that time to score a goal and I think we could have scored even more goals.

“Then in the second half, we had a difficult moment for about 15 minutes, we were under pressure.
“I think we played too deep and didn’t apply enough pressure on our opponents due to fatigue on my players and the quality of course of our opponents.
“Then came the penalty which I think my players showed great character and mental strength to come back and fought until the end to score the decisive goal.

“We however had some situations in the second half, maybe not clear cut chances where I think we could have scored another goal with a little more accuracy.
“Then the free-kick arrived and of course with the quality of players like Riyad Mahrez, it’s a massive chance at goal and thank God we made it count,” he said.

Nigeria will now take on 2004 champions Tunisia in the third place match at the Al Salam Stadium on Wednesday, while Algeria take on Senegal in Friday’s final at the Cairo International Stadium. (NAN)

https://www.premiumtimesng.com/sports/football/340904-afcon-why-nigeria-lost-to-algeria-rohr.html
Re: AFCON: Why Nigeria Lost To Algeria – Rohr by cosef: 12:24pm On Jul 16, 2019
Until we scout for attackers with proper flair and do away with stiff waist Ighalo, we are just wasting our time.
Re: AFCON: Why Nigeria Lost To Algeria – Rohr by Kylekent59: 12:30pm On Jul 16, 2019
lathrowinger:
My Prediction. Senegal will win the cup, Algerian Second while Tunisia third. Naija Ruga

Just because they defeated Nigeria made you chose senegal?

Speak the fact and drop sentiments, Algeria to win.


Nigeria won't even win third place. The blood of those that were killed would still make us lose.

No peace in the land of the wicked.
Re: AFCON: Why Nigeria Lost To Algeria – Rohr by robosky02(m): 12:41pm On Jul 16, 2019
ubcandid:


You failed to add the most important. ROHR HAS COACHED THR EAGLES FOR CLOSE TO 5 YEAR'S, THE COACH HE LOST TO WAS APPOINTED LAST YEAR.

Under a year, the Algerian coach was able to build a team with good flair, rhythmic movement and cohesive force - dropping the likes of Ghoulam(Napoli), Ghezzal(Leicester city), Bentalab(schakle 04), Belfodil(Hoffenheim); big name players in the country doing well abroad. But our own Rohr keeps displaying indecisiveness, poor tactical reading, sloppiness in decision making and giving out predictable outcomes. If after 5 years or more he can't even grow a local based keeper in the likes of femi Thomas or ologunleke who are our best home based keepers or even develop a game pattern for the team, then definitely he should step down. Enyeama was picked from our home front. Rohr is an expensive shit we need to flush.
Rohr will tell you he is rebuilding any time you question

But he is actually retogrssing
Somebody is fronting him to eat nigerias money

If you really want a forengn coach (thou I don't believe in forieng coach again) go for the best the world knows

Even cameroon went for seedof not colour again
Re: AFCON: Why Nigeria Lost To Algeria – Rohr by geezyk(m): 12:51pm On Jul 16, 2019
Nigeria lost the match due to bad tactics by the coach, you win with a formation in the previous match doesn't mean you'll win the next match with same thing.

He started the match with 4-3-3, as an experienced coach seeing that in the first 10-15mins we were bamboozled off the ball in the midfield, the wingers had no supply of the ball and they were totally marked out, next thing said to change the formation to a suitable one, change the formation to 4-4-2 or 3-5-2 let's battle it out in the midfield.

Only Soufiane Feghouli, controlled our midfield, Rohr is down tactically, He doesn't know how to read he game, and instead of bringing in Moses Simon to shore up the midfield, he brought in Onyekuru who was nowhere to be found.

In all honesty we need a foreign coach, our home based coaches don't command respect from the players cos of bribe here and there.


But Gernot Rohr is dead tactically, make we find better coach.

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Re: AFCON: Why Nigeria Lost To Algeria – Rohr by sharpwriter(m): 12:59pm On Jul 16, 2019
Aderoba129:
Senegal is winning the Afcon : and Nigeria is coming to Third smiley

Bro, e fit no easy like that o ... becos na own goal Senegal use win Tunisia sef. Tunisia be like Algeria Twins. Feghouli and Kasri even look alike grin

Dem dey play too wella... I don't trust Super Eagles can beat those guys cos they too are very Impressive and tactical
Re: AFCON: Why Nigeria Lost To Algeria – Rohr by Moikiitos: 1:01pm On Jul 16, 2019
robosky02:
AFCON: Why Nigeria lost to Algeria – Rohr

uper Eagles Coach Gernot Rohr has admitted that his team lost to a better side in the semifinals of the 2019 Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) in Egypt on Sunday.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that a Riyad Mahrez’s goal from a free-kick at the edge of the box, with seconds left to play, condemned Nigeria to a 2-1 defeat and steered Algeria to their first AFCON Final match in 29 years.

Rohr told journalists during a post-match interview that it was a game of two halves, adding however that Algeria were the better side at the end of the day.
“Until the last minute, Algeria had a better first half than us, but we came back a much better team in the second half.

“Unfortunately, we conceded a goal in the last minute. I think the players wanted to go to extra-time believing that perhaps Algeria will get tired and we could win the match in extra time.

“It was a wonderful game. We lost it, so we are not happy. Congrats to the winners. They were the better team in the first half.

“We scored an own goal. We were unlucky but we came back like we have always done all the time in this tournament.

“When we found ourselves in a difficult situation, we always reacted and we did that also today coming back through a penalty and playing a better second half.

“But a wonderful free-kick from a football genius made the difference.
“In our last game, we won in the last minute against South Africa and today we lost. That’s football,” he said.


Coach Djamel Belmadi of Algeria on his part said his side had a tough game against a tough opponent, adding that it had to take the quality of Mahrez to decide the result of the match.

“We knew that it would be a tough game because of the quality of our opponents and the tough game we had against Cote d’Ivoire on Thursday.
“My boys had an amazing first half. So, we deserved at that time to score a goal and I think we could have scored even more goals.

“Then in the second half, we had a difficult moment for about 15 minutes, we were under pressure.
“I think we played too deep and didn’t apply enough pressure on our opponents due to fatigue on my players and the quality of course of our opponents.
“Then came the penalty which I think my players showed great character and mental strength to come back and fought until the end to score the decisive goal.

“We however had some situations in the second half, maybe not clear cut chances where I think we could have scored another goal with a little more accuracy.
“Then the free-kick arrived and of course with the quality of players like Riyad Mahrez, it’s a massive chance at goal and thank God we made it count,” he said.

Nigeria will now take on 2004 champions Tunisia in the third place match at the Al Salam Stadium on Wednesday, while Algeria take on Senegal in Friday’s final at the Cairo International Stadium. (NAN)

https://www.premiumtimesng.com/sports/football/340904-afcon-why-nigeria-lost-to-algeria-rohr.html

Why do Africans, especially Nigeria keep celebrating average white coaches that can not even secure a first tier coaching job in their own respective countries and ended up to take coaching high coaching job of national team like the super Eagles.

When, you ask Mr. Rohr, he says the team is still developing...when is it ever going to be ready cry
Re: AFCON: Why Nigeria Lost To Algeria – Rohr by robosky02(m): 1:05pm On Jul 16, 2019
The stadium quality may not be the ultimate

But I assure you we are far better now
Akwa united plays a uyo intl stadium one of nigerias best stadium
MFM plays at classic agage stedium
Look at asaba stadium
Look at what enyimba just luinched at aba
Rangers cathedrial is amazing

Back in the days were was enyeama playing poor aba stadium
Sunday mba etc

Look the issue is NFF development plan is poor in the 2nd sense
If not we have the row material
Imagine the few days we were on TV a local player was picked as the best goal on CNN
gatecrash123:
i am 30% not in support with that number 5. majority of the best home based player are moving abroad eg sunday mba, the league as no good structure, lack of good stadiums to play good football,and also bad management..... and you expect the league to strive?
Re: AFCON: Why Nigeria Lost To Algeria – Rohr by ubcandid(m): 1:15pm On Jul 16, 2019
robosky02:
The stadium quality may not be the ultimate

But I assure you we are far better now
Akwa united plays a uyo intl stadium one of nigerias best stadium
MFM plays at classic agage stedium
Look at asaba stadium
Look at what enyimba just luinched at aba
Rangers cathedrial is amazing

Back in the days were was enyeama playing poor aba stadium
Sunday mba etc

Look the issue is NFF development plan is poor in the 2nd sense
If not we have the row material
Imagine the few days we were on TV a local player was picked as the best goal on CNN
Agege classic me?
Re: AFCON: Why Nigeria Lost To Algeria – Rohr by ubcandid(m): 1:16pm On Jul 16, 2019
robosky02:
The stadium quality may not be the ultimate

But I assure you we are far better now
Akwa united plays a uyo intl stadium one of nigerias best stadium
MFM plays at classic agage stedium
Look at asaba stadium
Look at what enyimba just luinched at aba
Rangers cathedrial is amazing

Back in the days were was enyeama playing poor aba stadium
Sunday mba etc

Look the issue is NFF development plan is poor in the 2nd sense
If not we have the row material
Imagine the few days we were on TV a local player was picked as the best goal on CNN
Agege classic ke?
Re: AFCON: Why Nigeria Lost To Algeria – Rohr by Nobody: 1:19pm On Jul 16, 2019
Oga Rohr, na beg we day beg, just quit after this Afcon.
If to say na civil servant you be, you for Don finish your 35 years of service.

For over 3 years, you can't build a formidable team for us. A coach with low self esteem, poor tactics, poor interpretation of games etc.

A coach whose target was semi finals. How many semi finals have we played since 1990?. A coach who made tactical blunders in the world cup Against Argentina, same against Algeria. A coach not open to changes and new ideas.

I blame Amaju Pinnick joor.
When there are younger foreign coaches who can come cheaper and do a better job than him.

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Re: AFCON: Why Nigeria Lost To Algeria – Rohr by Chukalemon(m): 1:41pm On Jul 16, 2019
robosky02:
Why Nigeria Lost

My observation

You can add yours

1 Gernot Rohr lacks technical dept to coach super eagle

2 in three year Nigerias football does not have a clear cut playing pattern

3 two years ago Algeria was ranged africa no1 Nigeria finish them 3-1 in uyo thanks to victor moses and co. They could not stand us. two years on we couldn't stand them even cameroon it took personal brilliance and determine for us to win. Simply put our team has retrogress no improvement

4. Three years on we are still crying for the lose of Enyeama. The coach has not been able to give us a keeper. With all due respect akpeyi enzenwa and uzoho are not our best
How do you take a keeper to world cup and now he is 3rd choice. Akpeyi is so shaky he doesn't inspire confidence. How did he became no1 when he is 2nd keeper in his club in fact last season he only played just 6 game for his club.
What happen to fine keepers like afolokai here in nigeria

5 Gernot Rohr is killing Nigerias football do you mean no single home base player is good enough. Clement westerhof and keshi won afcon with local players. In 2013 sunday mba an unknown local player score the winner. Under Rohhr he may never even make the reserve list

6 algeria and senegal are in the finals with local coach. they and senegal used local coaches to beat foreingn nigeria and tunisia coaches. Its no longer oyibo coach era. Its about competence.
Look at the resumee of siasia and amunike compare to rohr what has he achieve before coming to nigeria

7. You can expect to win champoions league or EPL with a mid table mentality coach like David Moyes. So nigeria can't win world cup with Gernot Rohr. Nigeria is too BIG for him. Imagine him celebrating semi finals.calling our team inexperience. A team we beat Algeria juat 2 years ago. Are we improving or retrogressing.

Infact Rohr lack tacticks do youi know algeria scouted us with 7 coaches and nutrilize all our key player. Chukweze had 2 men standby on him. Didn't you wonder with his man of the match performance in the prevous game, he could not make a single cross. Ighalo was cut out from any form of ball supply. He only manage to score penalt)

And yet Rohr could couild only look like PE master. Knowing nothing to change


Abeg excus us the reasons why algeria won

Egypt didn't wait for grammer they did the needfull we should follow suit

Look inwards our league and also our best coaches

Lalasticlala mynd44
. I don't know what is wrong with you nigerians.does coaches play football and must we be blaming coaches on every lose
Re: AFCON: Why Nigeria Lost To Algeria – Rohr by Chukalemon(m): 1:45pm On Jul 16, 2019
We supposed to be blaming segun odegbami and not rohr.that stupid and mediocre man is really the cause of our loss to algeria.now everyone is quiet and I guess the storm is over now

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