bennyraz: I thank God for this forum..

1. I'm very angry with the centre referee. I think he was bias and he favored Burkinafaso more. The fouls our boys committed were similar to fouls the faso boys committed yet we got yellow cards for ours while they got nothing..

2. I blame joseph yobo because he's not a fighter. When he saw what the referee was doing, he was meant to protest! I think they should emulate Barcelona players in this.. When next they bring any player down, the whole team should surround the referee to complain! That i didn't see. Yobo was so lose with the ball, he did not lift the spirit of the team when they needed gingering rather he was poor

3. I blame ike uche cuz he's not a clinical striker! Two clear chances and the only thing he could think was to send the ball to the sky. If Emenike had those chances, he would have taking it.

4. I blame stephen keshi, cuz he kept quite at the sidelines.. He has low technical capabilities! He couldn't make the right changes. I expected Emenike to play all through. And again, he did not pass instruction to his team to hold on to the ball for the remaining few minutes.


Nairalander's, who do you blame?

jofech: Nobody mentions the fact that this is the same way that the Super Eagles allowed Guinea to score a similar late goal in the last Nations Cup qualifiers. I wonder how many more times our Eagles (they are not Super anymore) will subject us all to this anguish very late in matches. First, the team lacks tactical discipline and organization. Leading 1-0 with a couple of minutes to go only means one thing to an organized team:simply hold the ball, pass it around, go to the corner flag and hold the ball there for as long as you can. Eagles failed to do this. Why not start Ike uche and emenike same time? They will be dynamite. Yobo's captaincy should be reviewed because he is too docile. Keshi should communicate more to his players during matches.we still can qualify.

jofech: Nobody mentions the fact that this is the same way that the Super Eagles allowed Guinea to score a similar late goal in the last Nations Cup qualifiers. I wonder how many more times our Eagles (they are not Super anymore) will subject us all to this anguish very late in matches. First, the team lacks tactical discipline and organization. Leading 1-0 with a couple of minutes to go only means one thing to an organized team:simply hold the ball, pass it around, go to the corner flag and hold the ball there for as long as you can. Eagles failed to do this. Why not start Ike uche and emenike same time? They will be dynamite. Yobo's captaincy should be reviewed because he is too docile. Keshi should communicate more to his players during matches.we still can qualify.

elampiro: The mistake was that Nigeria players had the ball in the opponents corner flag area with 15 seconds to final whistle (93.45), why did they attempt to go and score? It was two Eagles against one Burkinababe in the corner area, they could have kept possession there for one minute the least. Instead they went to try and go into their 18 yard box, it a bit of inexperience and lots of carelessness.

Having said the above, Nigeria did well considering we are rebuilding. Westerhof lost his first to Algeria 5-1 in 1990, though he went on to play the final of the tournament. I saw a fast attacking Eagles today, the fist time in 15 years or more. We can build on this.

ROSSIKE: LOOK, THE MINUTE YOU HAVE A CLEARLY BIASED REFERREE, THAT'S AGAINST YOUR SIDE, IT PUTS ALL SORTS OF UNWARRANTED PRESSURE ON YOUR TEAM. FROM THE 4 DUBIOUS YELLOW CARDS TO THE RED CARD, (and not one card for 'perfectly clean' Burkina Faso diving cheats) YOU KNOW YOU HAVE A BATTLE ON YOUR HANDS. OUR OFFICIALS, PLATYERS, AMD COSACHES NEED TO LEARN TO REACT AGAINST BIASED REFS. THIS 'GENTLEMAN' NONSENSE MUST STOP. ONLY WHEN WE MEET FOREIGNERS WE TURN TO GENTLE LAMBS. SO 'UNDERSTANDING'. CAN YOU IMAGINE IF THIS WAS A LOCAL DERBY NETWEEN 3SC AND RANGERS and one team got 4 yellows and a red to the other sides' nothing? THE VICTIMIZED TEAM'S FANS BS WOULD BE UP IN ARMS SHOUTING BLUE MURDER.

BUT the minute it's Nigeria and some foreign tema, WITH SOME DIRTY ARAB TERRORIST REFEREE IN CHARGE, we all turn gentle. Some even PRETENDING NOT TO NOTICE WE WERE BEING CHEATED.

What accounts for this?

funkylarryjones: my dear it's hamstrings o! and they are found in the legs!

shymexx:


Bro, you can't blame the referee for the stupidity of your rubbish team...

Your players had possession of the ball with 15 secs to go - why didn't they keep possession of the ball at corner flag?? Nah, the washed up plonkers with zero footballing technique wanted to score another goal with one man down - who does that?

kundul: I blaame dis yeye frog

bennyraz: blame nff for sacking siasia and bringing in keshi, maybe after this tourney, oliseh will take over but me wants Shuaibu Amodu

ROSSIKE:
USE YOUR RUBBISH BRAIN. If our players were not carded and sent off for no reason, we would NOT have been in that position in the first place.

CHEATING RUINS THE GAME. UNTIL YOU PEOPLE HAVE THE GUTS TO STAND UP TO CHEATING REFS, DON'T BLAME THE PLAYERS FOR ANYTHING. THEY WERE PUT UNDER UNWARRANTED PRESSURE BY A BIASED, CHEATING REFEREE, AND I WILL SAY IT 1,00000000 TIMES.

WE'RE VERY QUICK TO TURN AGAINST OUR OWN, THEN TURN INTO MEEK LAMBS AND SHEEP WHEN FACED WITH BARE FACED FOREIGN CHEATING.

talktimi: naa, I can't really blame the nff in this case, they actually hesitated to fire Siasia but oversabi Nigerians and sports journalists stampeded them into sacking the man and bringing in Keshi which brought us back to square one.
On paper Oliseh would have been a better/best option since he's the only coach with a uefa license but we haven't really seen him in action, he should try managing a clubside especially in a sane climate like south africa then we can assess him holistically.
Amodu ? At least he got the job done even though the football wasn't pretty.

bennyraz: getting the job done is the most important thing even if the play isn't good. Amodu did just that.The only problem we had was, Amodu in his style, sits quitely on the coach's bench and start to chew kolanut.. He would sit all through the match and We never wanted this. In fact, i expected Amokachi to pass out instruction yesterday but he kept mute.. Atleast we know Amokachi is a football pundit or didn't he see what his boys were playing? Or was the syndrome of easy to talk hard to do working against him?