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zicky:
Dennis is an average player, the way he's hyped here as the best thing to happen to the SE as if he has been brilliant for at least 3 seasons. There is nothing Dennis is doing in the EPL that the likes of Ighalo, iheanacho, Osaze and yakubu have not done.

If Dennis is an average player, it means that all super eagles player are average because Dennis has been our best player this season

Icon4s:
The only Nigerian striker I rate highly is Victor Osimhen. All the others including likes of Dennis and Onuachu are average strikers. I don't even want to mention Awoniyi and Sadiq because they only profited from the absence of Osimhen, Onuachu and Dennis

Don’t disrespect Dennis that way because this season, he has been our best all round player

Subzero47:
Anguissa and Politano were added to the team and they obviously played better, try and dey watch the team the criticism doesn't come out of thin air

Yea it does and frankly such behavior is ridiculously irritating, False and childish

Great game today by osimehn and his teammates. You guys didn’t mention any accusations of selfishness by his team mate because he scored 2 goals? This is a lesson to most people here to stop behaving childish

JohnBullMySon:
Hian. So if they field poor players then our chances reduce?

I'm not afraid of losing because this is a two legged game. Any mistake will be corrected in the next game. Besides we're playing at home.

This is almost the lowest point of Ghana football in their history and if we cannot qualify against such demotivated team, our coach and players must be flogged

Windscribe:
Emmanuel Dennis has been exceptional this season, he has a hand in 52% of goals Watford scored this season, that's amazing.

And also we can't ignore the fact that man came to the epl after bad ordeal with club brugge and Cologne.

But I would rate Taiwo Awoniyi above him.

Taiwo doesn’t even have any league assist this season while Dennis has 9 goals and 5 assist. Based on this season performance, dennis wins

Windscribe:
Yesterday Taiwo Awoniyi who is BY FAR our best player in Europe top 5 league scored his 11th league goal of the season.

Only one moniker acknowledged this goal on this thread yesterday.

Imagine if it was their flop in Napoli, we would've have seen at least 40 monikers singing the praises of this naples flop, some go even comment with their alternative monikers.
Nah that time we go dey see Ojuelegba Peter Drury.

I think Dennis is so far this season. You have to compare the league and individual overall performance.

TheLoneCitizen:
Chukwueze completed 9 dribbles today.

How many end product? I’m tired of our wingers because dribbles without end product is nonsense and it’s time that our coaches focus on our productive Forwards and forget that wing nonsense. We can attack with the full backs

Akpoguma was good today vs Bayern and in the upcoming future, I will like to see a CB pairing of akpoguma and bassey. That should be experimented after the Ghana game

Windscribe:
That said.

Jonathan David has scored 13 league goals this season.

While Osimhen has scored just 7.

Big difference.

Quality precede quantity sha because scoring at the farmers league is much difficult than scoring at Seria. Nonetheless, it’s unprofessional to laugh at other people downfall if you have someone in similar predicament

do4luv14:
Guyz what happen to the guy that replaced Victor at Lille, abi blow fowl yensh Don Open?

When you throw stone at the glass house, don’t be surprised if it hits your love one. You’re laughing at the guy that replaced victor lack of goals but forgot that Victor is currently on a 5 game goal drought and hasn’t even justified his 80 million fee

safarigirl:
I hope the Ghanaian FA is okay

Lol surprise strategy Omo I love my continent. Anytime that Nigeria is involved in Africa, teams will become charged up

COOL10:
I've said it here before that there are different kinds of Centre Forwards. There are different kinds of Strikers. Gone are the days, you would have a 6ft 5 behemoth waiting in the box and bullying all the defenders. Football has evolved beyond that.

I'd pick a 5 ft 7 Jermain Defoe over a 6ft 1 Diego Costa any day any time. But that's my personal preference.

We need to change with the times else we'll be left behind.

In their mind, if you don’t know how to press or hold the ball, you’re not a striker because whoever started the insinuation that iheanacho with his exquisite clinical finishing ability is not a striker is a football novice. It’s just imbalanced that we have many available strikers and few midfielders

semid4lyfe:
Most times, he fails to control the ball with that one touch and is quickly crowded out or dispossessed.

Also his pressing, closing space, work rate, ball playing ability, link/hold-up play, speed, physicality & strength etc leaves much to be desired.

His strengths - shooting & clinical finishing.

He's presents a conundrum of sort as he's not the best for the role of an attacking midfielder, support striker or a 9.

Good enough to be a squad player and making substitute appearances but shouldn't be starting games for the Super Eagles as his minuses outweighs what he brings to the team.

I believe that, because his best quality is finishing, he will make a good top 9 and consequently, if chances are created, he will score. Eguavoen should never play this man anywhere in the midfield because he isn’t a midfielder

joelsteron:
Whichever formation the eagles are just too predictable to play with. Just few technical players in the team

Honestly, we’re just lacking intelligent players like Kanu, Finidi or mikel

drDoom3:
Salah cannot lead a line, despite his strength, speed, and excellent finishing. Have you ever asked why?

Mertens who is much smaller led Napoli's attack for years. Have you also ever asked why?

Iheanacho is getting better though, especially with his hold-up play and pressing.

What you should say is that his pressing and hold up play isn’t the best for a 9 but that doesn’t disqualify him from playing that position because he is a clinical finisher. Drogba pressing wasn’t the best but he is still regarded as Chelsea Goat

Odunayow:
He also cannot lead the line alone. Dilemma

Yes, he can and that’s probably his best position. If filmirho can do it, kelechi can also do it. How can someone with such exquisite finishing not be able to play as a 9? Isi odigi mma? Go and watch kelechi first season in Manchester and return back to me

drDoom3:
Eguavoen's 4-2-4 is still the best way to accomodate Nacho. My problem is he should know when to switch it to a 4-3-3 when it becomes too predictable.

No, it’s not

PDPGuy:
He’s best as a SS

Yes, he can. There are various types of striker and when your best quality is finishing, you have to be in the box

drDoom3:
Iheanacho is so dangerous from the right edge of the 18 yard box. Most of his goals this and last season have been from there. Bottom corner, top corner, left, right, he just needs one touch to control and before you know it the ball is in the back of the net.

He is our most clinical striker and has no business playing in the midfield

PurpleHouse:
Nacho has had an average career because of Rodgers when he could have been great somewhere else.

You can’t blame Rodgers for nacho unambitious attitude because if nacho was ambitious, he would had left

It would had even be better to include a young talent on our standby list than players like onazi

drDoom3:
Dennis is competing with everybody left, right and center. And I mean this literally.

On current form, he is a starter for me. I like purposeful players on my team

[quote author=Icon79 post=110837171]Nope. I totally disagree. Emmanuel Dennis is a center forward. His direct competition in Super Eagles are:
Victor Osihmen
Odion Ighalo
Kelechi Iheanacho
Plus the likes of Onuachu, Umar, Awoniyi, etc

He’s definitely not in competition with Moses Simon or Samuel Chukwueze.

He is a forward/wing forward and can play all 3 positions upfront

Windscribe:
Bukayo Saka has scored 8 epl goals this season.

Emile Smith Rowe is on the 9th Epl goals this season.

Yet our Nairaland Residence Gary Neville still thinks Victor Osimhen sitting number 30th on Serie A goal scoring chart is the second best young player in europe top 5 league after Dusan Vlahovic.

Emmanuel dennis has 9 Epl goals why don’t you guys hype him

Papi85:
Napoli na very useless team to watch

Can’t wait for osimehn to leave the club. No good service to him at all

If they’re useless, osimehn is also useless just remember that. You guys childish attitude must stop

TheLoneCitizen:
Osimhen. You can't just hate his passion.

I love him for that attitude

BascoVanVeli:
The very last play of that half is what me and many others have been talking about. Even the drunkest fellow in a beer parlor will know that ball should have gone to Osimhen.

Abeg you people should stop these conspiracy theory because it’s senseless. Why would they be biased against the same player that, they assist few times?

elyte89:
I will keep saying it DT musa is only getting invite not because of football reason but simply because he's d captain...its dt simple...u can't invite a whole team of 23 wout d captain when he's not injured or something

Then you’re not ready to win. Go and see how many Madrid legends that was kicked out the bernabau when they lost form. If you’re trying to become a serial winner, you have to emulate Serial Winners but if you’re trying to become losers, you should emulate losers. The choice is your my brother

Nwakaeme scored again 10 goals 9 assist from the left wing and musa gets invited ahead of Him with 2 goals in the same league. At this point, let whoever qualify for the World Cup since we’re bent on impressing people than invite our best players.

elunico:
Chi chumchin

Madrid is a brutal club they even booed Ronaldo one time despite his records. They have no patience for out of form strikers and can destroy a player confidence if they’re underperforming. Personally, he should stay at Napoli for a whole season and score like 20/25 goals before thinking of leaving. He is still a young striker.

Philosopher1979:
Alhassan Yusuf does not have a long way to go. He is doing very well for Royal Antwerp and has 2 man of the match awards. The Belgian league is rated higher than the Scottish league and yet you rate players in rangers such as Calvin basset above him.
I repeat Alhassan Yusuf deserves to be in our midfield. In 2020 he was rated as one of the best ball distributors under the age of 21.
It's ridiculous he is not in the team

The Belgium league isn’t rated higher than the Scottish league