Marjoribanks:
They did not shake any thing! Only their goalkeeper shook the world! They had to defend for their lives against one of the worst Spanish team ever with their goalkeeper making incredible safe after safe! They got a lucky header against Portugal and defended with their lives. They were grilled to defend and counter, which can be done by any team with a good goal keeper as theirs.
They became vulnerable against teams like Egypt, South Africa and Peru who defended and counter against them.
With a goalkeeper like theirs we would have won the AFCON and qualified for the world cup.
Equaveon also had 2weeks and gave us the best group stage AFCON performance in decades. So?

TheSuperNerd:
Chukwueze just missed a very big chance. Although Pino was already offside so the chance won't be counted. But shaa what a big miss. Chuks gotta get his scoring acts together.

Curtisaxel10:


That one really shocked me. The brother virtually had the post at his mercy and he decided to blast wide. Reminds me of his miss against Sierra Leone. This is the same guy that burst onto the big stage with a reputation for stone-cold accurate R2 shots.

What in hell happened to Chukwueze?

Kwashiman:
Cc: TheSuperNerd

Considering our plethora of attacking options, do you think it's time to get creative and dynamic by using some of our wingers attacking Mids? I can see players like Gift Orban, Chukwueze, Tella and even Akpom etc excelling as creative forwards? we need to relieve Iwobi of the creative burdens and just allow him the luxury of orchestrating play as a libero type of midfielder?

Marjoribanks:
Presently! And what has Brazil won in the last decade? Only Spain played that way in the last decade. Why? cos they had Iniesta, Fabregas and Xavi who play in the same team. Any team with those players or City type of players will definitely play that way! So rest all this impossible philosophy!

TheSuperNerd:
Chelsea has sacked Graham Potter oooo.

zuchyblink:
Rodgers sack good news for Nacho

BascoVanVeli:



Yea I saw it but no word from either Dakkada or Karvina.

chrisooblog:
Milan dealing with Osimhen less Napoli

Danielnino00:


I want to wait until fulltime before I decide to call out that guy that always say Osimhen couldn't function without Kvara...

elyte89:



This is just a pointer to those walking over ac Milan ….champions league spirit is different

zuchyblink:
Rodgers sack good news for Nacho

Ppogbae:
No Osimhen...no party

ersonleads:
Napoli nor dey put body for the match cos it's a game plan.una nor dey see wetin I dey see

chuks404:
not really. Milan is playing fantastically well with the loading of more players in the midfield. What napoli needs is a player like osimhen to stress the defence so that they pull back while the midfielders exchange strings of passes. This is where kvara functions effectively. Simeone is trying but he is not stressing the defence enough to attract the defensive midfielders to help in that case creating space in the midfield for napoli.

TheSuperNerd:
Chelsea has sacked Graham Potter oooo.

ersonleads:
Napoli nor dey put body for the match cos it's a game plan.una nor dey see wetin I dey see

Danielnino00:


Napoli beat Milan earlier this season at the San Siro

Danielnino00:


That is two geniuses sacked in a day

TheSuperNerd:
We have a World Class Striker in Osimhen and Bad-ass Options who can step in whenever he is unavailable in Moffi, Orban, etc.

We have good enough Attacking Wingers. Inverted Wingers who can play on the inside or on the outside in Chukwueze, Lookman, Tella (potentially) etc.

We have a ball carrier and creative outlet who can get forward in Iwobi.

We have ball winning midfielders, few of whom can ball play and really help keep our transition from the first phase to the 2nd phase of build ups smooth.

What we lack is a midfield metronome. A temp setter and controller. This is where I see Kelechi Nwakali doing the job for us.
He is the guy who when paired with the right personnels in their role in a 433 or 4231... Will connect them all and we would see Chukwueze and his corresponding Winger on the left side receive the ball in a much different transition scenario than how they receive it now and will thus enable them be utilised to the best of their inverted abilities.


We need a tempo controller. And he alone doesn't work except with a ball playing ball winner/holding midfielder.

TheGoodJoe:
I was able to watch Kelechi Nwakali played today, especially in the second half.

They were these two long diagonal passes he gave, from defense to close to the right-side corner flag.

One got to its target and the other missed. However, the winger failed with his ball handling. In the first half, he gave another glorious pass to the striker which was wonderful.

I could imagine the likes of Osimhen, Lookman, Moffi, Chukwueze, and others receiving those kinds of passes. The young man really has a gift with his passes.