Nostradamus1:
I love this statement .

The biggest question is why Aribo and Ndidi never gel?
I thought I was the only one that noticed we were dominating the midfield but Aribo was caged. I think it is not really Rohr fault.
These players have a role in their respective club teams and rohr spending less than a week with them won't make much difference

Very true. I agree with you

If you want to enjoy the Match in HD, watch it on FIFA TV..... on YouTube.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZchBuvUmJkM

JohnBullMySon:
Are you really watching this game?

I seriously doubt because Iheanacho's two goals were from passes from Iwobi. Besides the midfield has delivered a couple of splitting through passes.

I tell u even Aribo almost had a goal blocked by the liberian defender

1. The Nigeria vs Liberia pitch

2. Mauritania vs Zambia pitch

I'll go first: the rain was heavy.

BascoVanVeli:


Seems like I misspelled Iheanacho

Na so you take leave Osimhen

The remaining three goals na Osimhen go Score am

Philosopher1979:


Stuff like that can be decided in a friend ly. Rohr should have used his friendlies to work on the weaknesses of the team and see which player can improve the team

The last friendly was bleeped up by NFF who used carpenters.
Azeez has been invited before when he was in hot form but inviting him now will be bias considering that other players are better and getting game time.

Na for here we go roast Rohr if he tries it( Not forgetting that the number of new players he will have to invite will be low because u don't cause much changes to ur NT

Goke7:


why your blood dey hot like this, have we ever been moving forward?

I came out expecting to see a good game of football after a long time without watching a competitive game of the SE.

Go back to Russia 2018 qualifiers and you would always enjoy rewatching all our home games. This one na just to manage make we get result and move on.

It is really a shame we have to descend this low.
We better move our remaining home games to a better pitch.

Football is meant to be enjoyed and not endured.

lloydtruth:
Aribo should not be wearing the no 10 jersey ahead of Iwobi, I am not understanding that guys game.

I have been saying this


Iwobi na be our number 10

chrisooblog:
Decent 1 half not a vintage performance but it will do for now. Need to be sharper in the 2 half and absolutely bash the Liberians.

Nice one Senior man hope he gets a deserved hattrick.

Go Super Eagles

Our coordination was very good. The only problem I'm having is the sloppiness in ball handling, which I blame on the pitch for now.

JohnBullMySon:
Are you really watching this game?

I seriously doubt because Iheanacho's two goals were from passes from Iwobi. Besides the midfield has delivered a couple of splitting through passes.

I'm watching the midfield and what I'm seeing is Iheanacho not dropping to add the extra man to retain the possession in midfield, He may have scored but this team doesn't impress me at all

JohnBullMySon:
Are you really watching this game?

I seriously doubt because Iheanacho's two goals were from passes from Iwobi. Besides the midfield has delivered a couple of splitting through passes.

Iwobi isn't playing his position in this game

TheLoneCitizen:
1. The Nigeria vs Liberia pitch

2. Mauritania vs Zambia pitch

I'll go first: the rain was heavy.

The Mauritania own is clearly synthetic from the look of things

humility33:

This politicians keep stealing and inflating figures imagine the other potato pitch in ibadan that gulped over 5B naira tomorrow Makinde will start lobby the super eagles to come play in his potato farm
I hate Nigeria politicians, they're so useless

This has nothing to do with Nigerian politicians but it has everything to do with Yoruba politicians.

Learn to stop calling all people in Nigeria Nigerians because Nigeria consists of ethnic nations.

What is built in the SW is determined by Yoruba politicians not Benin politicians not Igbo politicians not hausa politicians and certainly not any of the over 200 ethnic nations politicians.

It's a Yoruba thing and not a Nigerian thing.

TheLoneCitizen:
1. The Nigeria vs Liberia pitch

2. Mauritania vs Zambia pitch

I'll go first: the rain was heavy.

No. 1 - natural Grass.

No. 2 - synthetic Grass.

The Pitch is not as poor as some of you are portraying it here. Perhaps because you're watching it on NTA.

Not the best half of football I have seen. I'm certain this same selection is capable of doing more. I put the lack of cohesion down to the pitch and the short period of training together. This is why our teams always look better in competitions proper rather than qualifiers.

On an individual level. Few observations;
1. Aribo seems to not have the finesse to make up for his lack of physicality when up against rugged African opposition particularly in games played on the continent.
2. Moses Simon is more industrious than his competition on the wings but his end product is just as bad. He should learn to mix it up a bit and be less predictable.
3. Ola Aina doesn't look too comfortable today. Not sure if we are doing him any favours playing him on the right.
4. The manager should know when to instruct the team to play 'keep ball' for a few minutes. No need to initiate attacks in that phase except there is a glaring opening...it's called game management.

Bring on the second half.

lloydtruth:
Aribo should not be wearing the no 10 jersey ahead of Iwobi, I am not understanding that guys game.

Coach's instructions are for him to play a more defensive game, covering for our attackers. Playing Iheanacho in a two man frontline with two active wingers is basically a 4-2-4, so those 2 midfielders have to sacrifice to cover for the extra man forward.

jihday:
can’t believe people who made excuses for Ivory Coast are here complaining about super Eagles comfortably beating Liberia

We really need someone like Oliseh to teach us how much domination we have over the Liberians now.


Although I am expecting the intensity to drop towards the end(typical of this team) but this first half was great football on a hopeless pitch

humility33:


Hope Mazi IDENNA gets to see this

Mazi idenna left the group chat and blocked the admin

drDoom3:


Coach's instructions are for him to play a more defensive game, covering for our attackers. Playing Iheanacho in a two man frontline with two active wingers is basically a 4-2-4, so those 2 midfielders have to sacrifice to cover for the extra man forward.

Aribo is moving towards the left, Ndidi is the only one in our midfield

TheLoneCitizen:
1. The Nigeria vs Liberia pitch

2. Mauritania vs Zambia pitch

I'll go first: the rain was heavy.

The second looks like Astroturf. Sincerely I don't care much about how a pitch looks than how it feels. Both might be bad.

Algeria literally won 8-0 on this pitch. I'm not using pitch as an excuse pls

Olulong:
Algeria literally won 8-0 on this pitch. I'm not using pitch as an excuse pls

They played Djibouti

Osimhen dey fall my hand for this match ooh. What's wrong!

Subzero047:


I'm watching the midfield and what I'm seeing is Iheanacho not dropping to add the extra man to retain the possession in midfield, He may have scored but this team doesn't impress me at all

Iheanacho is not playing upfront. He is clearly playing SS which is his best position. SS is not the same as dropping to midfield entirely.

Olulong:
Algeria literally won 8-0 on this pitch. I'm not using pitch as an excuse pls

Pitches are judged by how smooth a ball moves on it. Our pitch looks bad and ball movement is equally bad in it. I can bet it with you that the Algerian pitch doesn't make the ball bubbly when moving on it.

Icon4s:


I came out expecting to see a good game of football after a long time without watching a competitive game of the SE.

Go back to Russia 2018 qualifiers and you would always enjoy rewatching all our home games. This one na just to manage make we get result and move on.

It is really a shame we have to descend this low.
We better move our remaining home games to a better pitch.

Football is meant to be enjoyed and not endured .

if you want to enjoy football stay off naija football for your own mental health.

M Simon has nothing to offer

JohnBullMySon:
Iheanacho is not playing upfront. He is clearly playing SS which is his best position. SS is not the same as dropping to midfield entirely.

I know he is playing SS

When are we going to blame Rohr for Osihmen struggle

andrew444:


Mazi idenna left the group chat and blocked the admin

His hatred for iwobi and Ndidi can boil cocoyam

JohnBullMySon:
The second looks like Astroturf. Sincerely I don't care much about how a pitch looks than how it feels. Both might be bad.

Learning this for the first time. Wasn't actually criticising the pitch. The rains here in Lagos, has been very torrential, good thing the pith ain't waterlogged.

Nostradamus1:
When are we going to blame Rohr for Osihmen struggle

Blame the pitch bro

Blame the damn pitch,nff and sport ministry just leave the state governor we all know nigeria politicians to be thieves