benji93:
He actually changed it, yet someone here said he should have stuck to the 4 2 4 formation. It's easy to say that after the fact. Very wonderful suggestion

leathalbeast:
u need a good formation and good tactics to win a game, the nigerian team hasnt changed at all from their match against tunisia at afcon, u saw how we were shooting outside the box ? Expect more of that in abuja.

charlesemeka85:
iheanacho na waste pipe I swear

ABIODUN105:
Shooting outside the box with no goal to show for it

benji93:
You too don come ooo. Nwakali? You know say that young man don play for us before? Are we talking about the same Etebo?

Joezinho:


Eguavoen is an extension of Rohr. He needs to play to our strength, formation wise.

Sticking to this 424/442 doesn't work for our players and is easy to figure out...

safarigirl:
Genuine question please, was Rohr a better coach than Keshi?

benji93:
No, if you like passing philosophy, that is you. Don't impose that on us.

13large:


I hope you realize that all it takes to defeat us in a 424 formation is to crowd your midfield and hope for a Fortuitous chance. Tunisia and CAR has already shown the blue print

Meliforme:


When concerns are on the game of passing, Nwakali and Etebo are the best that we have now.

Joebie:
Even Eguavoen is better than Rohr. At least he makes subs in a timely manner.

safarigirl:
Semid4lyfe, where you dey? People don dey run mad for this thread, bring rope come tie them abeg, before dem enter market.

kingphilip:

And Simon that missed a chance for his assist is what?

semid4lyfe:


I've dealt with the disturbances.

Just returning from EaglesTracker live on IG.

charlesemeka85:
go and get the cd and keep on rewatching it na

kingphilip:

Or make him meet your guy Basco

benji93:
Great, unfortunately, they are average. So their passing would still suck. Philosophies are nice and indicate you know what you are doing, but they are useless anyway. Your philosophy is only as good as your players.

Joebie:
You people should stop talking about draw in Abuja.. We will win there.. There is no way our forwards will have no answers over two legs. Tufiakwa, with Amuneke in the coaching crew?

TheGoodJoe:


It is not about my likes but the direction football is doing. The possessive style is the most successful in recent years. It is successful because of how effective it is.

Meliforme:


Take it or leave it we might lose, i saw that in this game, but this is not what i want. Football is a game of tactics. It is understanding your weaknesses and the opponent's weakness.

I have been talking so much about our poor decision making and poor composition of play. Eguavoen's system made it worse The Ghanaian coach probably knew this and used high pressing to force us into errors. For instance, how can Ekong deliver his long balls when he is under pressure. But i tell you this, this Ghanaian squad are poor tools for high pressing.
A sound coach will deal with them.

13large:


It’s not even about being world class but football basics. The guy a clinical finisher and can occasionally assist. But, his football basics is atrocious

benji93:
You this man, Guardiola don full your head. Beautiful. if you want us to institute your philosophy beg Guardiola to borrow us his players. If you can do that i would be fully behind you. I love the passing Philosophy too, i was so much in awe of that 2009-2012 team Barcelona under Guardiola(the first time you succeed at something is usually the most memorable) even though I am not a Barcelona fan. It would be incredible if you can establish it. For instance, Bielsa tries to do it too, but his team keeps leaking goals from one game to another, and Bielsa is even more faithful to that Philosophy than Guardiola. Even if they are 6 goals down, he would not relent.

elunico:
AE's subs at a point started looking amateurish.

elunico:
AE's subs at a point started looking amateurish.

TheGoodJoe:


Actually, what a good passing philosophy does is to improve the movement of players and improve their decision making with the ball which makes them play better.

So it is more than just having the right players for it.

benji93:
There's only so much you can do to improve movement, if the players themselves are not constantly required to make such movements at their clubs where they play regularly, it would be impractical to think it would work when you call them to play for their national teams. And ofcourse you could say, i told you so, our players are not so technical, which i will admit into evidence for this one. . It won't be instinctual, and they would very likely fail in their attempt to do it. In your assumption that it improves movement, you are forgetting the fact that, for places where this has been successful, the players have always been very technical, and they can make such movements with no problems. They could try it, and it may work for a few passes but then they get stuck, without that high technical ability, you crawl back into the hit-and-run shell.