timbros:


AFCON 2000 final against Cameroun, who completed the comeback to take the game to penalties?

Who you don hate, you don hate am, but at least if you dey analyse Okocha, try dey talk everything as e be.

I know that you will somehow twist that match and blame Okocha for the loss. But it's fine.

raumdeuter:
I am starting to see some arrogance from fans towards the Angola game. I hope it doesn't get to the players and coaches too

Abeg o. I don see this kain movie before. Angola game will surely be tougher than Cameroun.

I hope our players don't buy into the hype and lose tactical discipline. We play better with this lineup, sit back and counter with speed while exploiting mistakes.

Don't let Angola lure us into playing one yeye attacking football

We shouldn't get carried away Angola is a better team than Cameroun

afrodoc2:


Finished is not just about age. Injuries dealt with Oliseh. He was not the same guy again by that time. Finidi was very finished by that time.

I remember that time Troussier with his French accent saying, "Garba Lawal plays according to instruction". Fans go dey vex!

Although i think later on Lawal was playing there partly to protect Pastor Taribo as well.

Ibime:


Who is the reason we were overrun in the first place

There is a reason Oliseh, Finidi and Kanu played for tier 1 clubs while Okocha was in backwater

No serious club will entertain a circus clown in their midfield that leaves so many holes around his partner, doesn't press his side etc. It is only Nigeria with Etim Essien ay ay ay culture that will accommodate such a player

Okocha was played behind the striker at Fener and on the left wing at Bolton. He was a CM liability. Amokachi used to function as a midfielder to alleviate him, when Amokachi got injured against Italy in 1994, we fell apart

raumdeuter:


Tactically Okocha made us vulnerable against Cameroun and the loss was partly on him

We played flat 442
Mutiu Furo Taribo Celestine
Finidi Oliseh Okpara Okocha
------Kanu Chukwu

Looking at that set up you see Okocha was supposed to be the left winger but because of his Tactical indiscipline he left that side and was playing a free role

Seeing the weakness Okocha caused, Pierre Lechantre the Cameroun coach put Geremi and Lauren on the right wing and double tagged Celestine to introduce us to live ganggbang of Babayaro in Surulere National stadium

That was where we lost the tactical battle. Of course the hero ball goal is what most will remember but we won't remember the vulnerability and weakness he introduced to the team

Yesterday sub out Okocha in for Iwobi and you will see us being Overrun while he will entertain us with double legover, rabona, spitting after losing ball and we will be here lamenting how we lost to this Cameroun wey no fit dribble

Do you see Okocha losing ball and sprintng back 30yards to win it back? No he will leave those dirty work for Oliseh dem

timbros:


Airmark have agreed with me that attack is not our major problem but we need to balance the team for us to see that needed improvement.

Case closed.

Ibime:


Okocha is the reason the midfield was overrun against Cameroun. Oliseh was working alone. All Okocha did in that game was score free kick. He was directly responsible for Camerouns midfield dominance

Go and check how we dominated the semifinal against South Africa when Okocha was suspended and we had real midfielders rather than an "entertainer" in the middle. SA was a major team back then having won 1996 and made the final in 1998. We played them off the park showing some actual midfield functionality for the first time in that tournament, but no, they had to bring Okocha back in the final to dabaru everything.

Then go and tell me how Okocha got red card in the quarter final against Senegal and we were on the brink of elimination till Oliseh had to come off the bench with malaria to bail us out with long pass to Aghahowa to turn round the tie from losing 1-0 in the dying minutes to 2-1


I will keep saying it, Super Eagles always played better without that circus footballer. USA 1994, his only start was against Italy. We were doing well till they gave him shirt. Olympics he was useless, Oruma was always the one coming on to change the game

Be honest, can you let Okocha run midfield for your club in a 4-4-2 era? Your DM better have 5 lungs to cover him

timbros:


@bolded.... This is exactly how 442 of the 90s work. Then, no one expect a number 10 to fall back and do defensive works. That job is for the number 4 (what many call number 6 today).

And no, Okocha was not the left winger in that match. Okocha was the number 10.

I don't know what you guys problem is with Okocha in those two matches against Cameroun where he scored. In 2000, the game ended in PK shootout. In 2004, we won 2-1.

Cc Ibime

timbros:


@bolded.... This is exactly how 442 of the 90s work. Then, no one expect a number 10 to fall back and do defensive works. That job is for the number 4 (what many call number 6 today).

And no, Okocha was not the left winger in that match. Okocha was the number 10.

I don't know what you guys problem is with Okocha in those two matches against Cameroun where he scored. In 2000, the game ended in PK shootout. In 2004, we won 2-1.

Cc Ibime

Joezinho:


Egbon, a playmaker looks good when his team mates finish what he creates, but with a goal-shy front line of Kanu and Chukwu (if not for aghahowa that saved us) at the afcon 2000, jayjay was forced to try to be the source of goals himself. And he did his best. Imagine he was also the joint top scorer at afcon 2004!! As good as Oliseh was he was not better than Mikel Obi who is constantly being disrespected by fans..

You talked about the quarter finals but didn’t mention his impact in the group stages where he serially raped mustapha hadji and khale with the later running away from the game before the end after the constant knacking from okocha.

We miss the flare and creativity in the AM, Okocha’s game goes way over dribbles, the intelligence is just mesmerizing to watch. We simply don’t have a player with such skill. Iwobi is poor mans Okocha.

And of course sir, like most other playmakers, he can only really be effective operating behind a front two..

airmark:


Clown, you want us to buy more defenders when we have like 9 defenders and had to ship Maatsen away.

Thank God your profession is not near any stadium.

Joezinho:

You talked about the quarter finals but didn’t mention his impact in the group stages where he serially raped mustapha hadji and khale with the later running away from the game before the end after the constant knacking from okocha.

raumdeuter:


Towards France 98 dem interview Okocha and he said he has one dribble to present to fans at France 98 that he is practicing. He named the dribble Makossa style. I think it was the double legover. That was what he spent the tournament trying to perfect while we dey collect from everyone. Towards USA was when he introduced the Rabona to us

Vs Denmark I remember one move wey Okocha lose ball, Finidi and Oliseh were running like armed robbers to retrieve the ball back. By the time they got it back, worked the ball to Okocha he controlled and he to a standstill already surrounded by 2 Danish players then Okocha come start his Makosa dribble one Danish player chopped grass into the sidelines but others recovered the ball and Okocha just gave the other teammates a smile

Omo the kain head dribble wey Ebbe Sand give Taribo for the 3rd goal led him straight into Pastor work cos he saw heaven that day

Players like Okocha, St Maximin, Lualua Tresor Lomana, even Wilfred Zaha you better push then to wing or second striker. If you put them in midfield na suffer get them

How many DM failed for Naija that time Oliha Olofinjana Ikpe Ekong, Godwin Okpara(that was hailed for stopping R9 in a UEFA cup game before R9 destroyed him in the return leg). Na only Oliseh wey fit shout on Okocha fit control am small

raumdeuter:


Oliseh was better as a DM than Mikel

What do you think is the reason big teams no reason Okocha type football but Fenernahce Bolton type clubs

When we win its mostly to park Okocha to a peripheral role, when we make him the cornerstone we lose or get embarrassed by not qualifying for 2006 world cup

pkasso:
Guy, you get elephant memory for someone so young oh. We beat Zimbabwe 5-1 for Abuja, i think only for Fabrice Akwa to send Angola through with that goal. Na the same guy kill us that year. 2006 WC qualification was wild. Egypt, Cameroon, Nigeria all failed to qualify. Ivory Coast, Angola, Ghana and Togo, under Stephen Keshi made it to their first World Cup.

Ibime:


Calm down. Morocco were nobodies in African football. Yeah they went to World Cup and did one or two but exited at group stages. From 1990 to 2004, I'm sure you can't name one AFCON where Morocco have made an impact. Even till today, they are still nobodies in AFCON.

Unlimited22:


I pay attention to things and people I love.


I love love love football. I live it, breathe it, ay it, analyse it.

The fifth team was shaa Tunisia.

pkasso:
Hahaha. Your passion for the game is undeniable. Sometimes, you remind me of a younger Me, and I no too old like that.

raumdeuter:



There is a part I never wan touch yet cos it affects Kanu too. That's the part they did a palace coup for the other old guards in 2002. Oliseh, Finidi got kicked out of NT. And Okocha became captain

Joezinho:


Egbon, a playmaker looks good when his team mates finish what he creates, but with a goal-shy front line of Kanu and Chukwu (if not for aghahowa that saved us) at the afcon 2000, jayjay was forced to try to be the source of goals himself. And he did his best. Imagine he was also the joint top scorer at afcon 2004!! As good as Oliseh was he was not better than Mikel Obi who is constantly being disrespected by fans..

You talked about the quarter finals but didn’t mention his impact in the group stages where he serially raped mustapha hadji and khale with the later running away from the game before the end after the constant knacking from okocha.

We miss the flare and creativity in the AM, Okocha’s game goes way over dribbles, the intelligence is just mesmerizing to watch. We simply don’t have a player with such skill. Iwobi is poor mans Okocha.

And of course sir, like most other playmakers, he can only really be effective operating behind a front two..

Unlimited22:
Listen to people talk, and you'll know who watches games with their nostrils and not their eyes.

Na so one person on Twitter was screaming for us to be starting Iheanacho in place of Iwobi.

We dey play 343 with 2 box to box CMs since Alhassan Yusuf got injured. You wán carry Iheanacho play B2B in a 343?

This Okocha-Oliseh dynamic go be child's play.

The only other person we have who can slot into that role in this current system is Raphael Onyedika and I don't think even he has the lungs for a full 90 in that role.

Frank Onyeka will cough his lungs out after 45 minutes.

Joezinho:


A South African team without Benni McCarthy. A team with old Lucas Radebe, and you think they stood a chance against Nigeria?

The team was already fading away after the 1998 AFC finals. What impact did they have on the African stage after the 2000 Nations Cup?

raumdeuter:


Onyeka will die of work if dem bring Iheanacho for midfield

Pray Iwobi never gets injured. Cos we are light in midfielders who have lungs to run it. After Iwobi then na Aribo.

I have never watched Onyedika before though

Izzou can your twin brother Onuachu play as keeper?

raumdeuter:


Onyeka will die of work if dem bring Iheanacho for midfield

Pray Iwobi never gets injured. Cos we are light in midfielders who have lungs to run it. After Iwobi then na Aribo.

I have never watched Onyedika before though

Izzou can your twin brother Onuachu play as keeper?

NinjaMetahuman:
This has to be the funniest thing I have seen today.

Uzoho don show Nigerians shege.


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