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From today, let me hear anyone that will talk badly of Rohr on this site, na insults I go use finish that person

As for iheanacho, if coaches cannot play him as a Top 9, let him be benched. Coaches trying fit iheanacho on the team has resulted in us having an imbalanced squad. Iheanacho you’re now competing for a position with Osimehn. You’re not a midfilder

COOL10:
He has a point oo. He has A VERY BIG POINT.
It's up to you to decide if you want to see it or not.

Rohr was not a bad coach. Yes his football was drab and uninspiring but in the grand scheme of things he got us results. He was no where near a failure.

How many Nigerians expected us to qualify the way we did against Cameroon, Algeria and Zambia?

How many Nigerians expected us to do well at the 2019 AFCON considering our absence from the previous editions? He still took us to third place

At the World Cup,we lost 2:0 to a Croatia who ended up being World Cup finalists and 2:1 to an Argentina who needed a World Class French team to eliminate them. France also made it to the final.

Some had issues with how he always downplayed his players' capabilities. They called it a defeatist mindset. Shebi we've seen the one with Lion and Wolf mindset. Where did we end up? Round of 16

If you try to make a case for Eguavoen using Maduka's error, a case could also be made for Rohr using Akpeyi's error in the dying minutes.

I was in support of Rohr's sack but I wanted us to wait till after the AFCON. You don't sack a coach few weeks to a major tournament. The results would most likely be damning. We just experienced it.

We can placate ourselves all we want but that's the harsh truth. We should have waited till after the AFCON to sack him. I would have even preferred us to sack him after that 2018 World Cup but we didn't.

Wohh, I'm so emotionally distraught right now. I'm off to the gym. I need somewhere to pour out all this anger in me. Una goodnight.

Don’t mind them o I just wish that our eye doesn't clear enough in March

Mujtahida:
It's ridiculous that some couldn't see that we were declining with every game we played under Rohr. Right after we qualified for Russia, I sensed a shift and from then on, I knew Rohr wasn't good for us. Let Eguavoen fail a thousand times, I'd still support Rohr's sack

Rohr already beat Egypt 1-0 in a friendly with salah playing what are you guys insinuating

TheGoodJoe:
“When you don’t have the players in fantastic clubs, playing the semi-finals or quarter-finals of the Champions League all the time, you cannot pretend to be better than Algeria or Egypt...Rohr

But he defeated a much stronger Tunisia, cameroun and South Africa team last term to reach 3rd place. Our eye never clear well yet

mostob:
you have no point man...you have no point.
All I see here na ranting.
Talk better thing abeg

You simply don’t sack a coach for meeting his target. Na the koko be dat

safarigirl:
Rohr no for win Egypt, na group stage we for comot

Make we no come here dey talk like say the guy na Guardiola understudy. He for still chop elimination against this Tunisian team, this is assuming he even progressed from group stage

No dey whine us with Rohr for here. He fell off for a reason

The same coach that already defeated cameroun, Tunisia, and South Africa to reach 3rd place. Nigerians problem is our boastful attitude

The boys individually played well but as usual, the formation ruined it. 424 in modern day football is unacceptable

I told you guys on how you disrespected and called Rohr all manners of name. Now, una eye don clear small. Maybe By March, everyone eye go clear well…

When it comes to derby games, maybe current form doesn’t matter

I will take off awoniyi and bring in another midfielder I.e Nwakali, iwobi or onyeka and push Aribo as a 10 while iheanacho as the 9. The only reason that I’m keeping iheanacho is simply because of his “finishing acumen” you want your best finisher on the pitch

2 man midfield is absolutely unacceptable in modern day football

Personally, I think Nigeria real competition will commence in the Semi final vs Senegal. It’s when I will judge Eguavoen coaching ability. For now, our squad is much much stronger than all these teams that we have played against

What website are we watching the game

jihday:
Errrmmm….. but…. Never mind

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Enough is enough moderators shouldn’t tolerate such unverified accusations because the effect can be long lasting and irredeemable. This is how, Nigerians single handedly destroyed uzoho career trajectory with age falsification accusations. Enough is enough!

Icon4s:
My own conclusion about this Nwakili case is that he has performed above expectations so far.

I had always known the boy had it in him but I kept wondering y his development had been slow. Appears he is not pushing himself well enough.

Well, this AFCON has really helped his career.i hope he can improve as the tournament continues.

This last 2 games was the first time that I have watched him meticulously since the u17 cup and I have impressed. His short/long passes, intelligence, technique and most importantly set piece acumen is a joy to behold and frankly there’s no one similar to him on our team for now. If we can convince eze, ejaria or olise to switch Nationality, nwakali position will become replaceable

andrewbaba44:
Nwakali hasn’t done badly

I will only rate Nwakali when he joins a decent club

I once rated Billings ahead of onyeka ,but reverse is the case now

Nwakali is the luckiest naija player at the afcon

It’s just a normal performance.

Nwakali style of play will only be appreciated by teams that needs those type of players. He is a cerebral player of African descent and you think a European team will accept such

Regardless of what happens at Afcon, Eguavoen surely has to be retained except he declines coaching the team further

Kelechi nwakali impressive performance has given me the believe on why I shouldn’t only judge our players by their “club”. A cerebral African player like nwakali with such intelligence, technique and short passing range but horrible work ethic might never be accepted by an European club. In their eyes, any midfielder of African descent has to be a Hardworker/DM/Agidi type of Player and they might not accept cerebral midfielders like nwakali. This is where Nigeria come in play. We know his ability, Capabilities weakness and alternative and understand his importance. Nwakali based on his last 2 games is here to stay simply because our squad doesn’t have another kind of player like him.

safarigirl:
In case some people are not on the Space....

One of the journalists in Cameroon, says there is high competition in camp for a shirt. Under Rohr, people just used to show up for training without worry, because everyone knew who will start and who will play, but the same thing is not being seen under Eguaveon

He believes Nigeria has been a victim of two poor coaches in Rohr and Oliseh, and that is why fans believe the team has overpeaked

Rohr wasn’t a poor coach for Nigeria and until Eguavoen surpass him, we cannot talk shiit

andrewbaba44:
He don’t consider ighalo ? That’s his opinion and there is nothing like discrimination there

Same way I won’t consider balogun as part of the team anymore after the World Cup

EOD .

True! Everyone is entitled to voice their opinion respectfully

TheSuperNerd:
Is Sadiq in my top 3 mentions for the CF role? So why make an irrelevant point comparing Ighalo and Sadiq.

Osimhen, Awo and Onuachu are the top 3. Is Sadiq there?


Look Man, Don't start. Rest with this Ighalo talk. Keep it away from my Mentions aiit. I speak the reality.

Bro, for now ighalo is a better option than onuachu and awoniyi. In awoniyi case, it’s very arguable but based on experience, ighalo nicks it. I have been impressed with awoniyi tho

TheSuperNerd:
Naaah, I don't consider Ighalo as part of the central attacking picture anymore (and he even scored yesterday sef ). Was only explaining the place of Onuachu Pre-Afcon with Ighalo in the picture then.

Post-Afcon it's gonna be Osimhen as number 1. Awo as number 2 based on expected continued Solid showing in Cameroun. And I expect Awo to bag one or two vs Tunisia and keep bagging till we get to the final. This is not overconfidence. I just know the lads will take things a notch higher than they did against Egypt.

And then a returning Onuachu will be looking to push Awo for that #2 spot.



The others outside these 3 above like Umar, Moffi, Dennis, Okereke, etc will have to bide their time.

Why the discrimination on ighalo? For example, the top scorer at this tournament is Aboubakar and he plays at the same league as ighalo and ighalo is the top scorer. My friend, in the absence of osimehn, I’m more confident with ighalo than sadiq

JohnBullMySon:
Simon Osimhen. Lookman

This should scare any World Cup opposition in March.

Dennis over lookman

Provalker:
The Super Eagles of Nigeria have exceeded all expectations in this tournament. They have proved many naysayers wrong and are placed as favourites to win this tournament.
At this point it is not out of place to predict the super eagles reaching the finals.
Asides the Super Eagles, the Ivorians are another team with bright prospects.

Football isn’t a mathematical equation and the only strong team that we have defeated thus far is Egypt. Kudos to Eguavoen tho

PurpleHouse:
Nigerian vs Tunisia is 50/50.

Both team have a history of rivalry.

The better side who is more hungry will win.

And I hope that's Nigeria.

50/50 on a team that has already lost 2 games. There’s history and there’s current team

oloriooko:
Chukwueze needs to learn from Pepe how to play from the right wing
The best thing that can happen to Chuks is to leave Villa for a better club and coach

Every time our players start regressing, the first suggestion that people will request is to switch clubs. Chukwueze needs to work on himself in order to grow. He should improve on his productivity assist, goals etc

Astrid4:
Nwakali has a good game though
But as regards to set piece we have nothing much to lose, Simon Moses is a very good setpiece take, I think he gave to corner assist last season, one to omerou and another to ekong against Tunisia.
Nwakali is just so lucky to playing around hardworkers like ndidi and ajayi, cos ajayi pushed forward, the duo was able to cover up for his poor workrate, just like kante/kovavic cover up for jorgihno, and just in case we are playing against an high pressing team, make any coach no just try play nwakali or else that one go dey catastrophic, but as regards to orchestrating, conducting of the midfield he is good I will never rate him highly in passes, his passes were low for an acclaimed 'elite midfielder' though he has the highest passes but I was looking forward to a Thiago alcantra or jorgihno kind of play but work rate wise and off the ball movement were just so poor. I rate 6/10. My candid opinion though

The likes of xavi and sergio B weren’t the fastest players in the world, but they controlled the tempo of games and even defeated players that Bigger, faster an stronger. Intelligence over physicality my guy

How can someone watch yesterday’s game and conclude that nwakali was bad? A player that created 3 clear cut chances at the first half? For the first time in a while, our set piece became useful and threatening. We must understand that, every midfielder isn’t an agidi type of midfielder and some thrive on finesses, technique, passing range rather than hustle/bussle. Let’s just appreciate that we have various kind of midfielders at our disposal

komekn:
I have been impressed with Eguavon team strategy making us find our true identity once again. He has GIVEN us a strategic vision to buy into.

However, his team selection apart from two players has been very good. However, his substitutions have not been timely and lack vision.

One of the things I know about football , you don't need hours just minutes to know who your star performers are.

Within the few minutes that Olayinka, Onyekuru and Onyeka came on there was a CLEAR and OBVIOUS change in INTENSITY and QUALITY in those few paltry minutes given to them to impress.

The CONUNDRUM is why were Sadiq and Nwakali getting game time over and above far better players , WHY ❓

Sadiq was an embarrassment to the nation yet he was given time and Nwakali was just a passenger .

I know Eguavon knows his football and I know he is aware of how poor they are but why ❓❓

Yesterday game, onyeka cameo wasn’t better than nwakali first half performance. I don’t know what nwakali did to you, but accept your inaccurate predictions regarding him because so far, he has played well in his last 2 games

[quote author=safarigirl post=109541478][/quote]Do you realize that nwakali created 3 clear cut chances yesterday? Oga na wa o

TheSuperNerd:
Well said, My Man.

Key words here are "Not at the expense of Aribo". He is the one player that I have insisted even before the tournament began that must not be dropped from the first XI even though he is no bonafide Playmaker. What he brings with his mix of energy and high technicality and box to box workrate is something unique to him and him alone.

This is why my proposed Ndidi-Nwakali-Aribo MF trio as CDM, CM and AM respectively will work. It is tactically balanced enough to control a game, enable us apply our high intensity press and also hurt the opposition big time thereby sharing the attacking threat and creative threat burden with our wingers who have been our major source of attacking creativity.

Yesterday we saw our team attack from different routes. Through the middle, from the wings and from set pieces. We need such overload of options in order to increase our chances of hurting the opposition especially in the KO rounds where one game decides it all.

Nwakali will bring his creative nous from deep & passing range to compliment Aribo's box to box workrate & high energy alongside Ndidi's World Class CDM Masterclass. A MF that will be game over for the rest of the African continent but be reminded this would mean sacrificing one of Nacho (looking quite undroppable so far) and Big Aw.


In the end, it falls at Eguavoen’s table. I trust he is pondering over this and will make the smarter choice based on the opposition.


I just like this lad below has given the coaches a tactical option to consider thereby expanding our tactical varieties. We need to keep the opposition guessing and JiBaller BallerJi AdeBaller ensured that with his showings yesterday.

Where is Papi85? I hope you enjoyed the show my good man You were the most eager to see this lad start

I absolutely agree and we have the likes of Onyeka, etebo and ejaria on the sideline as substitute. Also, iheanacho doesn’t have to be sacrificed instead one of the wingers can be sacrificed. (Chukwueze) we can play
3 midfielders, 1 LW, a SS and ST. One of our fullbacks can compensate for the lack of a RW. I’m only speaking in reference to games vs World class opponents. For now against African teams, let’s continue with the 424