Subzero047:


Wait so we are going to pursue another Afcon with Ighalo, we are not serious

he can't play the two of them at the same time, that is what am saying

Englandboy:
he can't play the two of them at the same time, that is what am saying

That is worse, imagine Ighalo hobbling behind Osimhen I rather we play Iheanacho with Osimhen in a 2- man strike partnership and nobody else

Am waiting to see that dribbling skills
from ejuke today and with an assist to oshimen

Subzero047:


That is worse, imagine Ighalo hobbling behind Osimhen I rather we play Iheanacho with Osimhen in a 2- man strike partnership and nobody else

It's time we dead the two man strike partnership abeg... It's making our midfield lean.... If at all we are to play two strikers up front, it should be in a 3-5-2 not 4-4-2 ..

Truidstar:
Make una no worry..e go prove all of una doubters wrong.

He is not proving me wrong by qualifying for the World Cup

Thank you

Danielnino00:


Normally,our best lineup will be 4-3-3


Okoye

Aina
Akpogunma
Balogun
Zaidu


Ndidi
Onyeka/Aribo
Iwobi

Ejuke
Osimhen
Chukwueze n

I think this is our best lineup but I am not sure rohr will give us this

Subzero047:
Wait, what if Osimhen gets injured before Afcon?

5 naira post!

andrewbaba44:


He is not proving me wrong by qualifying for the World Cup

Thank you

Am not talking of the world cup.

we are winning this match 6 nil

Today, I predict 1 : 4

Modified

Meliforme:


0 : 2.
Even though i expect more.

That will be a new national record in so many years.

Samueltemi337:
we are winning this match 6 nil

Meliforme:
Venue for the match

Very soon all West African countries will be playing home games away from home. God forbid sha.

Samueltemi337:
we are winning this match 6 nil

I know the game will end by a high margin but we might just miss too much. But being ambitious, I predict 7

Englandboy:
Am waiting to see that dribbling skills
from ejuke today and with an assist to oshimen

Yes and not just the dribblings, you will also get to see good passes of the ball.

Oasis001:





...... we are damn funny on this Thread walahi. We do rate our Players beyond Imaginations. We ain't in the 90s and Fans here should try to understand. This is no Era of Okocha, even Ronaldinho won't be able to play for a top Team in this present Epoch.

Football is no longer built on individual brilliance, its now rather built on Teamwork. Adama Traore, a fine Dribbler, yet playing for Wolves. Tactically, it'll be difficult at AFCON to rely on individual brilliance to win Matches.

Africans are rugged, and Defenders are ready to end your Career for you, if you try to mesmerise around them.

This is why not too long ago Rohr to rightly so said Victor O. is too light weight and preferred Ighalo.

Well for all the abuse he gets he was very CORRECT Ighalo comes away from AFCON as highest goal scorer.

Now things have changed he is not so lightweight but then can aggressive play overcome physicality in THE AFCON.

Time will tell.

kellycute:
5 naira post!

I don’t sell 5 naira check the next store

Joebie:
See if you can find a clip of Nigeria vs Bulgaria in USA '94 I watched on Youtube just last week. I remember the commentator quoting Westerhof in that encounter.

Modified
the only team Westerhof believed could cause us problems was Brazil (the eventual winners). He believed we could beat any team.
Going forward we should only employ coaches who have a pretty good track record and can see a huge potential in Nigeria.

Big difference the players we had then were top players and top players in their respective leagues and clubs.

Consider

Olise
Jjay
Finidi
Yekini
Amokachi
Ikpeba
Amunike
Sia Sia
Ekoku
Adepoju

None of our current strikers are better than Yekini, Ikpeba , Amokachi
None of our wingers are better than Finidi
Nobody pass Jjay and Olise or Sia Sia
Okechukwu the defender no get mate for the current Eagles

Westerhof had very good reason to tbe very confident.

I am sorry but Rohr is just being real.

Ebuehi was really not invited for this match

fabyom:
Even if we draw tomorrow and against Cape Verde, we will qualify cos Cape Verde cannot beat CAR 3 nil!

We are winning the AFCON! In the last edition with 2 of our star players injured, we still got to the semi-final!

Player for a player, no team in Africa is better than us when all our players are available!

I watched the whole qualifiers, only Algeria's attack scares me a bit! Bennacer, Brehama, Islamini, Ounas, and Mahrez! Real quality!
Others are average!

Stop having delusions of grandeur. If we meet Mali with our full team right now, I doubt if we can come out with a draw. We don’t even have up to five players in UCL, teams like Morocco, Senegal and co. with actual world class players are not even making mouth like this.

The good thing we have is decent squad depth, and hat is mostly in attack. Midfield is lean, defense has plenty names but mostly poor players really. The only promising players in defense are Zaidu, Awaziem, and possibly Zainab/Bassey. The rest have reached their ceilings.

joelsteron:
We might see Musa on the left n Simon on the right then ighalo in attack.

You cannot teach an old cat new tricks. Rohr is the old cat, sticking to his old tricks

Onyeka’s game has really improved. Why don’t we try Aribo further forward like he does at Rangers (definitely not as a RW where Gerard usually plays him, maybe as an Iwobi replacement at AM)?

JohnBullMySon:
Very soon all West African countries will be playing home games away from home. God forbid sha.

Shocking �

Meanwhile will this AFCON still take place in Cameroon, who are fighting a bloody existential threat with Ambazonia separatists.

Also take into consideration the Boko Haram insurgency in the North.

And in in addition the long standing despotic ruler Paul Biya fighting any political opponents and murdering human rights.


Is it safe to go to Cameroon, I wonder

With Rohr, we will never get the free flowing attacking football our players are capable of. He is just too conservative. It is not his fault though, but if we want to move forward, we need a Belmadi-esque coach that can play organized, disciplined, free-flowing attacking football.

komekn:


This is why not too long ago Rohr to rightly so said Victor O. is too light weight and preferred Ighalo.

Well for all the abuse he gets he was very CORRECT Ighalo comes away from AFCON as highest goal scorer.

Now things have changed he is not so lightweight but then can aggressive play overcome physicality in THE AFCON.

Time will tell.

5 kobo post...

Joebie:
See if you can find a clip of Nigeria vs Bulgaria in USA '94 I watched on Youtube just last week. I remember the commentator quoting Westerhof in that encounter.

Modified
the only team Westerhof believed could cause us problems was Brazil (the eventual winners). He believed we could beat any team.
Going forward we should only employ coaches who have a pretty good track record and can see a huge potential in Nigeria.

Westerhof was a warrior. His team was a weapon he brandished against the best without fear.

drDoom3:


Stop having delusions of grandeur. If we meet Mali with our full team right now, I doubt if we can come out with a draw. We don’t even have up to five players in UCL, teams like Morocco, Senegal and co. with actual world class players are not even making mouth like this
The good thing we have is decent squad depth, and hat is mostly in attack. Midfield is lean, defense has plenty names but mostly poor players really. The only promising players in defense are Zaidu, Awaziem, and possibly Zainab/Bassey. The rest have reached their ceilings.

@bolded.. How do you know?
Do you speak French or Arabic ?

I suggest you visit the official AFCON Facebook page... you will see which countries are making more mouth there...

Real Madrid's link to Ndidi doesn't necessarily mean he is going to Spain. It just means the other clubs interested in him will now step up.

This is his last season with Leicester.

drDoom3:


Stop having delusions of grandeur. If we meet Mali with our full team right now, I doubt if we can come out with a draw. We don’t even have up to five players in UCL, teams like Morocco, Senegal and co. with actual world class players are not even making mouth like this.

The good thing we have is decent squad depth, and hat is mostly in attack. Midfield is lean, defense has plenty names but mostly poor players really. The only promising players in defense are Zaidu, Awaziem, and possibly Zainab/Bassey. The rest have reached their ceilings.

Awaziem is not a quality players by any stretch of the imagination, Zaidu is fast but average .

What happened to Aina , not much talk about him here. Despite getting relegated with Fulham ,he did very well in the EPL.

Our defence is not very good. Ekong has been OK at Watford but not outstanding , Balogun has done above average at Rangers ( but then it's the Scottish League) not very competitive. Omeruah has been " just there" nothing to report that's outstanding. What is Jamui and Shehu doing there

drDoom3:


Stop having delusions of grandeur. If we meet Mali with our full team right now, I doubt if we can come out with a draw. We don’t even have up to five players in UCL, teams like Morocco, Senegal and co. with actual world class players are not even making mouth like this.

The good thing we have is decent squad depth, and hat is mostly in attack. Midfield is lean, defense has plenty names but mostly poor players really. The only promising players in defense are Zaidu, Awaziem, and possibly Zainab/Bassey. The rest have reached their ceilings.

There is nothing even promising about the naija players you mentioned

Please name Morocco world class players and the 5 of them

The Morocco I know have only one player that can be regarded as world class but let me hear from you

komekn:


Big difference the players we had then were top players and top players in their respective leagues and clubs.

Consider

Olise
Jjay
Finidi
Yekini
Amokachi
Ikpeba
Amunike
Sia Sia
Ekoku
Adepoju

None of our current strikers are better than Yekini, Ikpeba , Amokachi
None of our wingers are better than Finidi
Nobody pass Jjay and Olise or Sia Sia
Okechukwu the defender no get mate for the current Eagles

Westerhof had very good reason to tbe very confident.

I am sorry but Rohr is just being real.

No difference whatsoever. Any nation will most likely say the players of the past are better than their present crop of players. Brazil will say so, France will say so, Netherlands will say so, Spain will say so. It's no excuse for the coach to keep seeing his team as losers. You work with what you have.

Westerhof did not have the best players in Algiers 90 but he got to the final. Later He promised to deliver 94 and he did. It is all about his mentality. And then all those players you mentioned, apart from Amokachi, Finidi, and Yekini the others were not regulars for their clubs as at Westerhof's Era. Jay was usually a sub in Eintrach Frankfurt, Sia was not frequent for Nantes, Oliseh in Belgium was just picking up.

How come Keshi won Afcon 2013 with carpenters and farmers at least compared to this current crop of players? Faith and Belief. Rohr has no belief.

drDoom3:


Stop having delusions of grandeur. If we meet Mali with our full team right now, I doubt if we can come out with a draw. We don’t even have up to five players in UCL, teams like Morocco, Senegal and co. with actual world class players are not even making mouth like this.

The good thing we have is decent squad depth, and hat is mostly in attack. Midfield is lean, defense has plenty names but mostly poor players really. The only promising players in defense are Zaidu, Awaziem, and possibly Zainab/Bassey. The rest have reached their ceilings.

This is on paper. 2013 we beat a star studded Cote d' Ivorian team. Just last month CAR came to Nigeria and stung as star studded (yes in comparison to CAR) Nigerian team.