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Lucque:
Has history not proven to us DAT African teams and their physical way of playing is only good wen playing other African opponents?... Weneva African teams go against d tactically clever European, or south american teams they quickly realise DAT football is all abt brain, skill and just a little physicality... Let's look towards building a team DAT can play good football and not just a pack of muscle heads Dats only know how to out muscle opponents....unless world dominance is not in our plans for our team...

hey, don't get me wrong, I'm not saying we should discard this group of players(check my last statement).

When Africans square up against each other the rules and ball games are different. Even the man in the middle(ref) knows this. It's a paradigm!

CLT123:
No we don't. See how we struggled vs. SA....
Mikel is good, but Iheanacho is better than him in that role. Mikel should be played a little deeper as a CM, and be Nigeria's midfield maestro.

I was initially an advocate for Kelechi to lead the line, but have changed my mind.
He has no goals from the run of play for Nigeria when played as a CF.

Thank you!

The thing is, Iheanacho is more lethal behind a CF.
I'll also love to see Mikel play the CMF role. We need him there more than up front. He can tread those passes too from there while bringing stability to the mid-field..

Humility017:
please....sir let's analyse these scientifically.
the problem wit iwobi perfomance in the colors of SE...is because of him being deployed a winger....the dude has no strength for that....he will play better if played a midfielder(10)
and for ebuehi......I just believe his time will come...the penalty he caused wasn't intentional...the ball mistakenly touched his hand....so don't think...that mistakes..happened to be limiting his chances playing for the SE

I can count the numbers of time Iwobi has been played out of position in SEs. He is amazing whenever he plays... But there is still this african football that is missing in his game. Don't you wonder why he is easily dispossesed? The culture is missing.

On Ebuehi, why hasn't rohr handed him an official debut?

Finally I see these (foreign guys) 'atohunrinwa' to be more useful against non african opponents.

Humility017:
please...let me answer this question...
CAPITAL....YES
we Nigerians are just too scared...
do cameroonains eat bottles...?
you are looking down on a player who was privileged to school in one of the best defensive minded team...in the UK..
played and trained with some of the world best defenders....David luiz, Terry, etc....

yes you are right.
But have also seen so many players who grew up in ranks in the best football system in Europe through worldclass academies, trained by worldclass experts with worldclass facilities and are still finding it hard to stamp their foot in africa football.

Every continents has it's unique football culture. In africa it's all about stating on the street. Any player who miss these developmental stage 'may' find it hard on the biggest continental stage and same goes for South Americans etc.

Final note, I am not the coach. The coach has the final say on his team and he alone will bare most of the consequences. But for me I won't thread that path.

tbaba1234:
So what? Okocha made his debut against then African Champions, Ivory Coast in Abidjan in a world cup qualifier.

His second game was another competitive game against Algeria in another world cup qualifier in Lagos.

If a player is good enough, he is good enough.

... No doubt this is TheGoodJoe's school of thought.

Jay Jay was a local boy.

Iwobi who has been doing fine in Arsenal colours is still finding it hard to replicate same for us. Despite some share numbers of cap under his belt. You now want us to start one boy for WCQ cos he is a starter for one club for england. Ebuehi who started in a friendly sef commited error and we conceded a penalty and that alone has affected his chances of staking claim in the first team-despite playing week in week out for his club.

Joebie:
I hope the 3 lions keep looking away so that dey go "Dominic Lorfa" very soon.

I don't fancy our chances with these Anglo Nigerians. Most, if not all prefer serving the Queen-so no dedication to us even if we later cap them and they most time drag the green white green in muddy waters before accepting our offers after it's down on them that they don't have future/chance with the 3 Lions.

So I say we give call to the interested ones-but let them show it first!

skillful01:
formely a Deist/pantheist now a Christain(13days now)...Jesus The Christ saved me from death.

GLAD and Happy for you.

Welcome to the fold of Believers... You now know the truth, stand and hold on to it... And don't forget to keep an eye out for the dogs and mutilators of the flesh.

Becareful of the so called 'Church' you join(if you haven't), I'll advice you remain in the body of 'CHRIST'.

The Grace of God be with you and other brethren.
SHALOM!

tbaba1234:
Absolutely, Aina is class. There are cases where you can make exceptions. He will not be phased by the occasion. Shehu is a good player but Aina will be top class.

sure No doubt about his class. But these boys need gradual introduction/integration into the first team.

I prefer them starting in friendlies or coming in as sub. They can get overwhelmed if rushed which can mar their international career and don't forget it is WCQ against Cameroon not some Seychelles in 'Africa'...

Joebie:
Liverpool 3 Athletic Bilbao 1 : Solanke Scores & Bags Assist, New Paul Pogba Stars, Firmino Spot On Again

Published: August 05, 2017
Liverpool 3 Athletic Bilbao 1 : Solanke Scores & Bags Assist, New Paul Pogba Stars, Firmino Spot On AgainLiverpool rounded off their preparations for the 2017-2018 season with an impressive 3-1 win over Athletic Bilbao at the Aviva Stadium (Dublin) on Saturday evening.

England U20 World Cup-winning duo Ovie Ejaria and Dominic Solanke came off the bench for the Anfield side at half-time.

Brazilian striker Roberto Firmino scored his second goal in as many games from the penalty spot after 21 minutes, only for Iñaki Williams to restore parity for the Spanish club on the half-hour mark.

Woodburn restored the Reds one-goal advantage in the 59th minute after he was fed by Dominic Solanke.

Solanke doubled Liverpool's lead with a glorious header in the 80th minute, his third goal in pre-season.

The Golden Ball winner at the 2017 Fifa U20 World Cup was also on target against Crystal Palace and Hertha BSC.

http://www.allnigeriasoccer.com/read_news.php?nid=24087

Sir Forgiveness your boy don de ball o. 1goal 1assist as a sub... Goodone from him. Hope the 3-Lions looks his way.

tbaba1234:
Capital Yes, without a shadow of a doubt.

you mean you'll hand him his debut(even as a starter) in such a crunch encounter in a strange environment...

Never equate Club football to International games. They are far different. What is acceptable in club football may not work out in international football

tbaba1234:
Ola Aina had a very solid game for Hull and played an important part in the goal. I think our right back issues are over.

Now we need a left back.

Sir, will you start Aina ahead of shehu if he is cleared to play for us againstCMR?

kennysville:
Haba, my friend. No wahala. You see all the world class, highly tactical coach we dey hear so, it must translate to trophies. Or else? Hmm ok I dey wait na.
What other lesson does a striker need than to put the ball into the net? See me o! Aguero that will get injured and still come to score hat tricks is the one developing under guardiola abi? Haba ... no kwament!

Countdown to the first match has begun. The one wey we enter so, Guadiola and all guadiolans will all be charged with fraud and malicious intent for this nairaland. All this development must sha translate to champions league trophy. No one should come make excuses if it doesnt happen. Me i dey wait.

Sir. Kennysville take am easy with Pep. He is on three year contract that can be extended this season if he can make the cityzens inviscible-which am sure he is working on. I'm just a bit skeptical about his philosophical football which I think might not just work in the EPL.

Well, I only wish he diss his philosophy and embrace true football and if he doesn't he will soon be shown the exit door. But am sure PSG will be calling then. There he can go and win everything he likes if possible the WorldCup with the french CLUB.

bigblangston:
Lol..i don leave am but truth to be told, I will miss Goodjoe talks about drills on KI. His drills talk always make me laugh every weekend, it got to a time I always look forward to every weekend to hear about DRILLS

*laughing...* don't tell me you mean what you typed up there.

BascoVanVeli:
CHAN Eagles coast to 3-1 win against Kano Pillars feeders team


By admin -
August 4, 2017

CHAN Eagles coasted to an easy 3-1 victory over Kano Pillars Feeders team in their first test match preparatory to a final playoff against Benin later this month.

MFM FC forward Sikiru Olatunbosun and goal scorer Samuel Matthias from Gombe United shone for the home-based Eagles.

CHAN Eagles shot in front through midfielder Samuel Matthias after nine minutes.

Junior Pillars drew level in the 27th minute through captain Awalu Ali aka Mallam after he cashed in on a mix-up in the Eagles defence.

Alhassan Ibrahim ‘Muazzam’ restored the Eagles lead in the 42nd minute courtesy of a superb assist by Kingsley Eduwo, before the Akwa United forward got his brace a minute to the interval.

In the second half the Eagles made several changes bringing in players like goalkeeper Theophilus Afelokhai, Raphael Anyangbe, Nasiru Sani, Prince Aggreh and Ezekiel Golbe.

But even against a tired feeders team, they failed to add to the tally.

CHAN Eagles start XI: Ikechukwu Ezenwa – Osas Okoro, Chima Akas, Ariwachukwu, Stephen Eze – Afeez Aremu, Samuel Matthias – Alhassan Ibrahim, Sikiru Olatunbosun, Kingsley Eduwo – Mfon Udoh

Coach: Salisu Yusuf

http://scorenigeria.com.ng/2017/08/04/chan-eagles-coast-to-3-1-win-against-kano-pillars-feeders-team/

Good Development.

But how I wish the CHAN Eagles comprises of Non League players who are strictly between 17-22yrs bearing the fact that we don't have any age grade team. This could have been another opportunity to unearth and harness new potentials for the future. CHAN and WAFU would have been the best platform.

NFF could have stated it clearly to the coaches laying emphasis on talent hunting and team building for the future rather than what we are having... It'll even take a Miracle to have 3 new CHAN boys to join the Super EAGLES cos na their mate de there now. But instant grat no go gree...

Anyway I wish them luck.

bossto:
Hilarious!!

Sir, Don't mind me jare, I never wan talk but e be like say i de too happy se keleboy don leave that oilfield.

Humility017:
what lessons....?
sitting on the bench I guess.....
and being soaked in drills.

No, it goes beyond that. The boy has been taught how to properly lace his boots, when to sleep to pose a fine performance on the pitch and probably some morals... You know pep has a great personality and he is infallible...

FINALLY!!!

*NO MORE DRILLS BUT GAME TIME*

Sir Icon4s and Sir TheGoodJoe always at loggerheads. Experience vs Talent/Drills

kennysville:
We seem to be occupied with goal keeping department when there are other areas to really focus on. What happened to playing total football, where ur opponents sre forced to chase after balls? A brand of football where we determine it's pace and possession. We should be more concerned with harmonising communication btw the defence, midfield and the attack. We should focus more on gelling as a team as against fielding supposed best legs. Best legs dont win a match, a team does! I make bold to say that with no goalkeeper in between the posts, we can still beat any opposition if we have a team and i mean this both realistically and sarcastically too. (Delete whichever is inapplicable)

What Bafana capitalized on is the lack of gel in our team. Their coach said it and it was exactly what happened. We didnt gel as a team. A cursory look at the friendlies leading to the match shows that Rohr experimented too much instead of fielding his starting 11 for the game ahead. The game against togo had him fooled. The result is there for all to see. Check our passes in the game, our ball possession. How quickly we lost it. If the match had been an away match, I think we would have fared better because the pressure will obviously now be on Bafana. We played a team that lacked cohesion and thus were under a lot of pressure. Goal keeper wasnt at his best because of this same issue. Our supposed midfield couldnt string 3 to 4 straight passes without it being intercepted. Not to mention that our coach too goofed big time in tactics, positioning and substitutions of his players. So the less we talk about goalkeeper the beta. We dont need a good goalkeeper to win. We need good strikers , midfielders and defenders that know their job. Thats what wins a match. For all i care we might as well not field any goal keeper so long as you put the right players in the right positions and they are a team.we have watched matches wherein goal keepers were largely on holiday all thru.( only called upon to take goal kicks)

Cameroon that we talk about are only big but not skilfull. Or at least not as skilful as our team. If we play intelligently, we can cash in on their reckless tackles. 2 red cards and that is it. We are in control. Hence bottomline is we need to decide what is important and stick to it.

BRILLIANT!

Our national teams and problems are like 5&6. There will always be weak link(s) in the team. Sometime ago d team forwards was finding it hard to score goals, later it was d mid-field then the defence became the talk of the day. Now it's our goal keeping department not excluding the administrative palava...

What will be better for us now is that we should focus more on our strengths than our weaknesses.

My fear is that most of our boys will still be lacking some good crunch o game time in their various clubs as the most leagues will just be resuming from the summer break.

EEGA:
The mistake we made in our france camping was inviting only three Gks.I think they should have invited six(4 Foreign and 2 home-based)keepers since that area needed urgent attention.But the victory against algeria made them overlook that.But Emma Daniels is still better than Akpeyi.Taking a look at the Senegal game u will realize that Mousa Sow's goal should have been saved by Akpeyi but that was not the case.The absence of Leon exposed fully Akpeyi's weakness.Just like the absence of Mikel in the Midfield just told us that Onazi is not yet a leader in the middle.

I think our mistake was experimenting too much.

The coaching crew were carried away by the task of finding fresh legs to strengthen d team thereby neglectin team coherence which was lacking in our game against SA... Funniest part was that Akpeyi was not even in france for those drills...

tbaba1234:
Super Eagles now have a new 'oyibo' Gk trainer. Hopefully, selections improve.

Sir, name and profile of the new appointee?

Icon4s:
So which keeper should start in the absence of Leon Balogun?

*laughing* big question!

I was wandering too. Perhaps it's a mistake or I'm not getting his message.

Hello Everybody,
hope you're all enjoying your weekends?

Any latest transfer news relating to our boys?

do4luv14:
tuale Baba JOS d EPH, ah gbadun for you,

ekaaboo Baba ooo

i no understand this man... Se na you or your keyboard? Cos am sure se na Joseph you wan type see as im come arrange d name...

Icon4s:
I have read countless articles on how Iheanacho should be played as an AM/SS. So who is that player that deserves to start as the CF of this team?

we've got Ideye, Kayode, and Adi(if invited) and any of the three can start.

TheSuperNerd:
Who plays RW?? You are focusing on just Bassogog?? If Moses plays LW, who plays RW?


Also.. who plays no.9 if Nacho, according to your deductions, is to play 10 behind the striker?

The reason why I chose V. Moses for the LW is to make good use of his right foot-his right foot has more power than his left.

We need a natural 9 and not a false one. Ideye, Kayode or Adi will have my nod for now.

Etebo is good on his right foot and so starts on the right as a crosser going forward.

I was opportuned to watch CMR play today. Though it was barely for 20mins or so.

*MY DEDUCTIONS*
I'll be highlighting few things i discovered from my short stint infront of the Tv set.

*STRENGTH*
the camerounians strength lies much in their
Pace,
ruggedness,
with strength and play a sort of compact of football.

The team possesses fast and pacy wingers in Bassogog and Moukandjo which presently, I don't see any of our fullbacks matching up against them strength for strength and if care is not taking they can wreck havoc from both sides of the wings...

Another major concern for any attack is the compactness in which their defence is organized...

*HOW TO NEUTRALIZE THEM*
-we need to deploy a 4-2-3-1 that can easily switch to 4-4-2 formation tactics cos playing wide against them will be futile.

-Iheanacho should either play as an AMF/SS else his service won't be needed in the 9 role.

-Iwobi should not start this encounter.

-A Sharp and fit Victor Moses will be needed on the LW-his solo runs and dribbles will be needed to unlock their defence and providing cover for Echiejile.

-Mikel should play the CMF role with Onazi/Ndidi
playing the DMF.

-Our DMF should be concern more with shielding the defence and allow the CMF to do the attacking job-this is very important as our full backs is our weekest link

- Finally, No one should be played out of position.

Take time and read this piece by Carlo Garganese. You'll enjoy it.

http://www.goal.com/story/messi-ronaldo-children-of-football/index.html

*over to the experience crew

Mickael2:
Oga arrogance is not the way to go. I remember before we met SA it was 5-0, going into the second half of that game we started saying 2-0, by 70 mins we were singing ' he is a miracle working God '

*laughing

Humility017:
please stop these permutations..

I don't expect any Nigerian to do these mathematics during these WCQ
mind you...we're beating the Cameroonians in Nigeria and also beat them away...
you can report me to FIFA
the loss against RSA...will spur the eagles to surprise every Nigerian
just watch out....

Only if we get our Selection, tactics and strategy right.

But I'm expecting Rohr to glue his eye to his tv set alongside his video analyst. No room for mistake.

enomakos:
we still need Kenneth in the team even Joseph yobo with his calamity display sometimes when on to have over 99+ caps

aside Omuero, Do you have any other defenders we can draft in?

krattoss:
mehn who is following this confederations cup... football is now perfect. no more mistakes again

Sir, that VAR thing is pissing. I don't like the way it's interfering with the flow of the game-the time lapse between the ref's decisions is much.

After watching Pepe's disallowed goal canceled, I smell trouble... This tech will cause a lot of hullabaloo... Cos it will come back to bite those who made d rule.