Dedebanky85:
Braw people don't contribute based on a players ability but rather based on the clubs they play for or would I say sit on the bench for. We got it wrong. I put my list out prior to the game. I never anticipated Awaziem in the defence. He didn't play badly but he didn't rwact smartly to a non existence DM i front of him. Ekong tried his best. He was a DF and a DM in this game. We don't need to sugar coat it, some still judge sone players based on U17 perofrmance. Mikel did not get his experience playingwith Taiwo and Obasi at the same tine without no guidance. He got the d experience overtime playing with some stalwarts andsubsequently got the experience

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Talking about Mikel. This is just an eye opener of life without Mikel. Oliseh tried it and he failed. We saw it again last night.

That team was grossly lacking in experience. Look at the forwards for instance: Iheanacho, Simon, Iwobi, Etebo. None with up to 10 caps and no senior tournament experience.

That attack was evidently lacking a leader. Mikel would have been better placed to move the balls from the midfield to the attackers. Plus the cutting edge provided by V. Moses was not there. Simon was just floating useless balls expecting a miracle to happen. And Iwobi was no mobile enough plus he played too wide.

I saw an U20-like display from that team yesterday. There level of experience showed.

Dedebanky85:
Gosh!!! I can't take this sentimental analysis no more. There are some people that would defend certain players even if they show 2 owngoals in a game. Omeruo just proved to me today that he's internationally better than Awaziem. Guys international footy is not moimoi ooooo. Awaziem started getting jittery when we were faced with counters. Omeruo would never. Nobody cam ever convince me that cos Azuibike plays in Turkey he's not good. Taaaa! That boy is a MF Comptroller General. Depending on Aina's switch, Shehu should go to LB. Boy's a damn good player. He's just not been lucky to move to a good club. Against CMR, I don't wanna hear Iwobi and 1st 11 in d same statement. MF would be Ndidi Etebo and Mikel. Attack would be V.Moses, Aluko and Ideye. I'm not discarding Iheanacho but if we keep goimg to play 3 attack, Ideye is a beast in it. They way he plays, his take-ons, his football intelligence is well suited for a 3 man attack.

This match exposed Rohr's preference for only one formation. Makijg like for loke subs when you're down.
On another note I have never seen a country thatdiscards it's older players due to the emergence of new talents. I know of Naija fans were French fans, they'd tell Koscienly to go and die, tell Giroud to go represent the Village team. On top yeye talent and newspaper derived imaginary transfers that never materialize, we go de front.
We play this nonsense against CMR, I'd happily wager on a CMR double victory and even make more money by betting that we ain't gonna score CMR. We hype average talents too much. It has gotta stop.

Dedebanky85:
Gosh!!! I can't take this sentimental analysis no more. There are some people that would defend certain players even if they show 2 owngoals in a game. Omeruo just proved to me today that he's internationally better than Awaziem. Guys international footy is not moimoi ooooo. Awaziem started getting jittery when we were faced with counters. Omeruo would never. Nobody cam ever convince me that cos Azuibike plays in Turkey he's not good. Taaaa! That boy is a MF Comptroller General. Depending on Aina's switch, Shehu should go to LB. Boy's a damn good player. He's just not been lucky to move to a good club. Against CMR, I don't wanna hear Iwobi and 1st 11 in d same statement. MF would be Ndidi Etebo and Mikel. Attack would be V.Moses, Aluko and Ideye. I'm not discarding Iheanacho but if we keep goimg to play 3 attack, Ideye is a beast in it. They way he plays, his take-ons, his football intelligence is well suited for a 3 man attack.

This match exposed Rohr's preference for only one formation. Makijg like for loke subs when you're down.
On another note I have never seen a country thatdiscards it's older players due to the emergence of new talents. I know of Naija fans were French fans, they'd tell Koscienly to go and die, tell Giroud to go represent the Village team. On top yeye talent and newspaper derived imaginary transfers that never materialize, we go de front.
We play this nonsense against CMR, I'd happily wager on a CMR double victory and even make more money by betting that we ain't gonna score CMR. We hype average talents too much. It has gotta stop.

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Talking about Mikel. This is just an eye opener of life without Mikel. Oliseh tried it and he failed. We saw it again last night.

That team was grossly lacking in experience. Look at the forwards for instance: Iheanacho, Simon, Iwobi, Etebo. None with up to 10 caps and no senior tournament experience.

That attack was evidently lacking a leader. Mikel would have been better placed to move the balls from the midfield to the attackers. Plus the cutting edge provided by V. Moses was not there. Simon was just floating useless balls expecting a miracle to happen. And Iwobi was no mobile enough plus he played too wide.

I saw an U20-like display from that team yesterday. There level of experience showed.

Icon4s:


Talking about Mikel. This is just an eye opener of life without Mikel. Oliseh tried it and he failed. We saw it again last night.

That team was grossly lacking in experience. Look at the forwards for instance: Iheanacho, Simon, Iwobi, Etebo. None with up to 10 caps and no senior tournament experience.

That attack was evidently lacking a leader. Mikel would have been better placed to move the balls from the midfield to the attackers. Plus the cutting edge provided by V. Moses was not there. Simon was just floating useless balls expecting a miracle to happen. And Iwobi was no mobile enough plus he played too wide.

I saw an U20-like display from that team yesterday. There level of experience showed.

kingphilip:
I think it's best we revert back to two men upfront.. Nigeria rode on that formation to get the AFCON in 2013 and i think twas the lack of that same formation that cost us most of the time during the confederation cup

I've noticed Ideye does more in that position not of scoring though but of linking up with his partner upfront as we saw in Zambia where he gave Iheanacho that assist.

I'm not clamoring for his recall but I think we should just make an attempt on the position too to see how far it can lead us

Since we've got three strikers yesterday in the team I was expecting us to rejig to that position especially as we were chasing a goal

kingphilip:
I think it's best we revert back to two men upfront.. Nigeria rode on that formation to get the AFCON in 2013 and i think twas the lack of that same formation that cost us most of the time during the confederation cup

I've noticed Ideye does more in that position not of scoring though but of linking up with his partner upfront as we saw in Zambia where he gave Iheanacho that assist.

I'm not clamoring for his recall but I think we should just make an attempt on the position too to see how far it can lead us

Since we've got three strikers yesterday in the team I was expecting us to rejig to that position especially as we were chasing a goal

kingphilip:
I think it's best we revert back to two men upfront.. Nigeria rode on that formation to get the AFCON in 2013 and i think twas the lack of that same formation that cost us most of the time during the confederation cup

I've noticed Ideye does more in that position not of scoring though but of linking up with his partner upfront as we saw in Zambia where he gave Iheanacho that assist.

I'm not clamoring for his recall but I think we should just make an attempt on the position too to see how far it can lead us

Since we've got three strikers yesterday in the team I was expecting us to rejig to that position especially as we were chasing a goal

forgiveness:



We have plenty natural attacking midfielders but some people no wan make dem play for Nigeria.


Ajagun dey dere, Aluko dey dere, Onomah dey dere and Raheem Lawal dey dere. Though Iwobi also dey dere.

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Wonderful contribution especially the sentimental aspect. So very shocking.

Rohr should explain to Nigerians why he picked Awaziem ahead of Omeruo in a game like this.
That first goal was the turning point in the game.

How can a CB jump to head without knowing the position of the player he was supposed to mark.
Rantie anticipated Awaziem may miss which he did. And someone here is shouting all night that 'the ball was close to Akpeyi so he should save it'.

TheGoodJoe:


It looks so but if Onazi just sits deep, he would not do so much running. He gets praises for leaving gaps and running to cover it. I praise his efforts but his discipline is a big problem to us.

You can see tackles of Onazi, running and fouls. How many times do you see tidy interceptions from him. That is due to him mostly tracking back. He should most times be behind the ball, not in front of it and tracking back.

cromz:
if person clamour for the invitation of ajagun or aluko naw dem go talk say na sentiments. our midfield needs a big man like ogu or esiti to play the deep role

TheGoodJoe:


The bolded highlights my point. During counters, Echiejile, Onazi and Ndidi were not in position. So it gave the South Africans room to operate. You can not blame the central defenders in such position. They can just try.

At least if you listen to commentaries, you here things like four to beat three, four to beat two. It means four attackers to beat two defenders, four attackers to beat three defenders etc.

We created such scenarios repeatedly yesterday and we were very lucky we walked away with conceding two.

Many times Echiejile was not in position, you will see Awaziem going to stop the ball on the wings. He won the balls repeatedly on such occasions but with time we were going to suffer.

Ekong and Awaziem had a tough time on that field because of indiscipline play from our other defensive players.

BascoVanVeli:


This is almost shameful. U guys act like Onazi is not a Nigerian, why are u making up these things against him? When did u see Onazi leaving gaps? Even for the second goal he was the only one close to do anything about it.

BascoVanVeli:


What is the joke about here? Awaziem could not even trap the ball yesterday and he kept miskicking it.

Icon4s:


See rating you gave Simon and Iwobi. Simon that was just playing balls across aimlessly and just playing to the gallery all night. And you gave Iwobi 2/10? Kai na wa.

TheGoodJoe:


Miskicked once to the best of my knowledge and the ball went to the throwing line and did not cause a direct threat. If you calculate the amount of interceptions and ball won by the young man, you will appreciate his efforts despite being in a disorganized defensive set up.

BascoVanVeli:


Try no less than 5 miskicks. The boy was atrocious and everyone here knows how I hate bashing my players but that is pure fact. Rohr should have subbed him at HT.

TheGoodJoe:


I have pointed out repeatedly that people are obsessed with Onazi's work rate but forget that most of his tackles comes from him tracking back. We need him in front of the ball, not behind.

There was even an argument that Onazi's role was a CMF. That was enough to show that he neglected his deep role to "DO MORE". It is appealing watching Onazi work his socks off and put in tackles.

Under a counter, you will notice him behind play, not in front of it.

I appreciate his hard work but positionally, he is a liability. As for the second goal, that was his work rate showing again. The guy carries a water tanker on his back but we should not be in such scenario if we got our positioning right.

We lacked a defensive shield yesterday and that was Onazi's role. Harsh but true.

TheGoodJoe:


Which kind of five? Habaaaaaaaa.

If Shehu had the kind of nightmare Echiejile had, Ekong would have suffered. Awaziem was the most exposed. The problem came from midfield lack of balance.

BascoVanVeli:


I never noticed any of these things because they never happened. I don't get how u can come and make up facts like supersports won't show this match till we all die.

TheGoodJoe:


I will also agree on a 4-4-2 direct formation. With Iheanacho and Kayode/Osimhen upfront. The team is shaping up that way.

Mikel and Ndidi in the center. Onyekuru and Victor Moses.

___________________Ikeme
__________Ekong____________Balogun
Shehu__________________________________Echiejile
__________________Ndidi
____________________________Mikel
V. Moses______________________________Onyekuru
_______________Nacho
__________________________Kayode/Osimhen

BascoVanVeli:


This is almost shameful. U guys act like Onazi is not a Nigerian, why are u making up these things against him? When did u see Onazi leaving gaps? Even for the second goal he was the only one close to do anything about it.

goldfish80:


Atleast he tried to do something all night though it didn't work. What did Iwobi do exactly? What was Iwobi's highlight last night?

Humility017:


what really happened yesterday... was that there was no link between the midfield and the attack
I expect rohr to have played iwobi in that position and not on the flanks....etebo should have played iwobi role