Jarus: Man of the match: Tight one between Alain Traore and Pitroipa. Settled for Traore.

Now, over to business:

Enyeama: Not tried so much, but solid in the few times he was tried. Nothing he could have done about the goals.6

Yobo: Made grave errors in the first half that could have cost Nigeria. Tried to make amends later. But still not up to par 4


Oboabona: Average performance up till the final minutes. He was a culprit in the goal SE conceded 4


Ambrose: Though his red card was questionable, wasn't so impressive before being off. Nigeria hasn't got a right back yet[b]4[/b]

chingyjant: Guy see ur yeye mouth when you take dey analyse our boys.Where you dey when your mate dey play principal cup when you dey secondary school?Na people like una dey rub powder they chase after small girls when never fit wash their pant then

TheViper: Yobo, Musa, Ambrose, Nosa and Ogunde had a terrible game. Musa and Nosa need to work on their final balls, while Ogunde and Ambrose should stop playing dirty. Yobo was not confident at all. I think we'll manage through the group stage if we play Zambia and Ethiopia with the right attitude. Up the super eagles!!!

mr.born2fuck:
What happpened to moses?

Opoki:
Hamstring/armstring

mr.born2fuck:
What happpened to moses?

apocalypso: It's only Yobo. Other guys play well.

coogar: jarus, mikel deserves 8 or 9.
he gave a masterclass performance today. if the strikers had an extra bit of premier league quality, nigeria would have scored more. those long passes were priceless but the attackers wasted nearly all of them.

Afam4eva:
God punish premier league quality. The needed the skills of the La Liga to beat those Burkina defenders and score. The only player who came close to doing that actually plays in the La Liga and his name is Ike Uche.

coogar:

which idiotic la liga?
did the ball drop from heaven or someone from the premier league blessed with a good range of passes delivered it(ball to feet). stephen keshi is a troglodyte. a premier league deep-lying midfielder needs a premier league striker to feed off those delivery. la liga is about tiki-taka. they romance the ball before knowing where the net is.

uche played like a zombie...
he had one good chance when he cut in but wanted the glory himself. a premier league striker would have passed the ball to a teammate the moment he got into the box. martins, odemwingie and moses should have led the line today......

Afam4eva:
God punish premier league quality. The needed the skills of the La Liga to beat those Burkina defenders and score. The only player who came close to doing that actually plays in the La Liga and his name is Ike Uche.

Afam4eva:
A premier league striker couldn't have done what Ike uche did to those defenders. It just wasn't his day. On a good day he would have buried those balls after cutting those defender with a two edged sword.

TheViper:
Uche was wasteful today. Premier league, Laliga or whatever league do not matter. I think they played based on the coach instructions.

coogar:

and what came out of his idiotic move of touching the ball more than 20 times? this is how we do it in the premier league....

Afam4eva:
He was wasteful quite alright but he got the chances that other strikers couldn't get. It's just that he misfired.

Afam4eva:
Just see the kind of idiotic goals that they score in the premiership. See how porous the defence line is. Why won't they score. We were not lucky to get that kind of space from the burkina defence. They're not father Christmas.

coogar:

any player who goes on a mazy run trying to dribble everyone by himself is bereft of football brain. football has gone past that - only messi and ronaldo are allowed to do such - not misfits like uche. where does he think he is? owerri or langtang? i like how the other striker berated him for wasting that chance. just pass the ball and let someone more better placed put the ball into the net. football is 80% common sense and 20% skills!



that's a smart counterattack.....
that was the kind of ball mikel was delivering all day and there was no odemwingie or moses to latch on to them and finish aplomb! the game was crying for a premier league striker and not a la liga misfit. we don't have a xavi/iniesta look alike in the team so why play uche?

coogar:
that's a smart counterattack.....
that was the kind of ball mikel was delivering all day and there was no odemwingie or moses to latch on to them and finish aplomb! the game was crying for a premier league striker and not a la liga misfit. we don't have a xavi/iniesta look alike in the team so why play uche?

Afam4eva:
We only consider a player selfish if he misses the goal. If he had passed that ball and whoever he passed it to kicked it over the net, you guys would have been saying "why didn't he play it himself?". The truth is that he was well placed to take the shot. Unfortunately, he mis-kicked. That football for you.

Afam4eva:
You don't throw that kind of pass for a defence line that was not bulging. The Burninabes stood a better chance of using that tactics because they caught the Nigerian defense unawares on several occasions.