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Damn!
The knives and machetes are truly out for Randy Waldrum. One wrong choice in his selection against South Africa and he is being pulverized.

Even though he was spot on regarding the media and their romance with negativity, he ought to have been coached by Amaku about how to string them along with the BS they love to hear.
Nigerians hate being told the truth anyway, so he should just play along. He knows what the objective is for him and the ladies, so…

Three aged women (Chikwelu, Ebi and Ohale) vs. the speedy #10 from Botswana.
This should be interesting...

semid4lyfe:
Did Waldrum do a review of the game and players performance?

If he did, how on earth did he select Chikwelu in the starting lineup again?

I give up.

Not sure I get the 'Buster Douglas' analogy, even though he was the first to really beat up on Mike Tyson
That was funny

BascoVanVeli:
But our Buster Douglas of a coach refused to even give her a look in.

Bravo!
You are spot on and confirmed you actually played and understand the subtle nuances of the game, and most especially, the art of defending.
Thanks for your analysis, particularly the emboldened.

...and perhaps, a particular gentleman on this forum could learn a thing or two from you.

labas370:
I can't fault Alozie for the second goal. I was in my uni female team. Played lot of female tournaments both regional, national, continental and club tournaments. The type of situation Alozie found herself always occur often in female football. And in that situation, the defender can only do one thing and success of the defender's action solely depends on the opponent's decision.

Either the defend tries to block the route for a through pass inorder to allow the ball carrier to proceed ahead hoping for her teammates to come for defensive rescue, or the defender tries to directly mark her opponent that is with the ball. If you observe, this usually happen when the opponent team is on counter attack.

Alozie did what any defender would have done that is trying to block that pass. The main culprit for that goal is Ohale. She was no where to be found but again, it's not her fault. IT'S THE COACH'S FAULT.

First goal, plumptre was noticably tired and over stressed. The first goal is the coach's fault. Rita was -1 as an AM, -1 as CM and -1 as DF. Her in that pitch affected all the players in defense, midfield and striking department.
Ayinde was to sit back and protect the defense, Ajibade was to play the box2box while Rita as AM. Ajibade, Onomonu and Payne were doing Rita's work as AM. Ayinde was doing Ajibade's work as CM while plumptre/Alozie even Ohale were doing Ayinde's work as DM. That's what caused both the first and the second goal.

That coach is very mad and stupid. Imagine this useless coach coaching Brazil or Spanish female team and his only tactics is long ball. They will sack him. They wouldn't even hire a coach like that because his ideology is different from their samba football and tiki taka.
Same should be for Nigeria. We only need to get coaches that have same or similar football ideology like ours. I noticed from our game against Portugal that once those girls threw away that his stupid tactics and started playing more on the ground, they were able to control that game and squeezed out a draw. Same against second match against Canada and even against USA. Same shit yesterday.

Compare this coach with the present super eagles coach, i will say, this current super eagles coach has a poor CV but one of the keys to his success will be him having same football ideology with Nigerian which is more of keeping the ball on the ground than those useless long balls.

This stupid coach haven't done anything impactful for our SF instead, they have depreciated a lot. Imagine getting scared of Botswana, South Africa etc.
Next will be him giving stupid media press like rohr and glorifying small small African countries like football giants.

That other mad man at NFF should do and go away. The most useless NFF president.

Sad! We wish Asisat a speedy recovery. Its been a very tough year for her, injury wise. Inspite of this, she has worked hard and still crowned herself in glory.

For me, this just reinforces my belief that Nigeria will make it to the finals. And if we happen to meet the South Africans again, we WILL beat them black and blue. And after watching the match again yesterday night, I am even more convinced of this.

Deltamani:
Four-time African Player of the Year winner Asisat Oshoala sustained a Grade 2 medial collateral ligament strain in the game against South Africa on Monday.

She is set to return to Spain on Thursday.


#AWCONwithMOLAT #WAFCON2022

Perhaps if you had focused on the salient aspects of the game, you would have realized Kgatlana had been flagged for offside before the 'foul', thereby rendering it a non event.
But of course, making sure Alozie was 'responsible' for the second goal takes precedence...

TheSuperNerd:
Meanwhile how Oluehi escaped a card or being sent off for "that foul" on Kgatlana must be some lenient gift from the referee.

Amazing how I can say that I had little to no complaints about the ref from yesterday's game.

Oluehi is a very decent goalkeeper but I just personally feel much more assured with Chiamaka Nnadozie in goal. Thanks goodness she returns for the next game.

No worries.
I accept your concession spiel, as a face saver for you
Cherrio!

TheSuperNerd:
Told you to save all these blabs stemming from sentiments. I have the game videos and different videos for that scenario so no need for your irrelevant frames coz even they prove my point.

She was momentarily off for that goal and it's okay coz she indeed had a good game overall. She cannot be exempted. I certainly know you would never exempt Ogbonna for this. So rest mister man.

I provided you with evidence of the sequence leading to the goal...

Frame 1: see how Ohale was way off to the left side of defense, when she should have (as RCB) been much closer to Alozie and closed up that gap? Ohale is 'red arrowed' in this frame.
Also, the player on the ball had 2 options or pathways to advancing the ball (see blue arrows).

Frame 2: Alozie tried to cut off the passing lane but narrowing the angle, but was beaten by a brilliant pass. See how far behind the ball Ohale was? Alozie unfortunately had two people on her (meaning somebody went to sleep). As evidenced in the both frames, that somebody was RCB Ohale.

Opted not to respond to your other comments.

TheSuperNerd:
Imagine how quick you are to come to her aid with elaborate explanations exonerating her from any fault at all. The fact still remains that goal came from her wing so she definitely has a part in our conceeding. She didn't underlap at the right moment. Had she done that, the angle would have been narrower to enable the choice she made work out.

That is the Truth.

She had two players in her zone with no cover - the one coming at her who laid the pass, and the one who scored. So, in your humble opinion, who should she have marked?

If you ever played as a defender, you would know that she made the right or plausible choice and that is to block the passing lane.
Unfortunately for her, that was a brilliant defense splitting pass.
Absolutely no fault on her part.

TheSuperNerd:
Yeah. Which was to stretch and just look beautiful on the grass.

Truth is she got her positioning all wrong in the buildup to that goal. She didn't underlap enough. That was her wing.

Ohale went to sleep for the second goal, leaving Alozie exposed and having to mark 2 SA players and leading to the splitting pass.
Quite disappointed in her play and decision making today.

arsenal96:
And people suggesting Ebi should retire, if not for her today, we will concede nothing less than 4 goals. She was our best defender by mile, even had assist for Ajibade's goal. Alozie and Plumpetre did very well too. Ohale disappointed today, as I rated her than what she showed today. Bad midfield didn't allow us to see what T.Payne and Anumonu are capable of doing in attack. If this coach qualify us to world cup and don't improve the team, we will be disgraced.

Yes, they did well losing to Ivory Coast which cost us the Olympics, right.
Puhlease!

arsenal96:
I cannot even remember when last Oshoala perform in Nigeria colour, she has been plain poor. And I don't know what the coach has been doing with the team for more than a year now. The same team u played friendly against not too long, they dominated you in that match, today they still did the same, even with a full squad Nigeria paraded.I think we should go back to our local coaches. They did well handling this team, then we have pattern and proper build up.

Dumb ass midfield set up by Randy cost us this game.
Hopefully, this should be the END of Chikwelu starting for the SE.
Need to play younger and more energetic players in the midfield.

Truth is, we sucked big time in this opener.

Ajibade, not Ebi.

BascoVanVeli:
Nice one by the ageless Onome Ebi.

Waldrum got the set up wrong.
Chikwelu should never have started - she was pretty much a nonentity in this game.
Ucheibe could have offered a ton more and Ajibade should have played as AM from the start, not Chikwelu.

This loss is ALL on Randy!

Oshoala should come off - her knee is done.
Bring in Kanu.

Will be surprised if they do.
They are completely FLAT

justicechichex:
Funny enough i don't see falcons scoring a goal in this game...

Zero midfield play.
GET CHIKWELU OUT!!!

I beg to differ.

Schemerkhiz:
Halftime:
Nigeria 0-0 South Africa

Poor first half by our standard. Falcons are playing like a team without any pattern.

Midfield is almost non existent

They really need to improve if they are to win this game.


Okobi will definitely solve the attacking Midfield problem... Why will Coach Randy play Chikwelu at first, then even move her higher in the pitch? Remove Chikwelu, leave Ayinde in DM for more time and bring in Ucheibe later.. Bring in Okobi and move Ajibade to central Midfield things will get better..

Okobi is worse, she is a ball-hog.
She will be no different from Chikwelu

olapluto:
Chikwelu was never going to make any impact against a top team. She's not a DM, she's not helping the attack too.
A goal to SA will expose us so bad. Just remove Chikwelu and put Okobi to force issues.

Blame him for what exactly?
Not letting Oshoala play at her optimal?
This is on Oshoala, not the coach.

isan:
Blame the coach not oshoala

She needs to be more assertive - don't think she is pulling her weight.
She is making Onumonu do more work that she ought to.

The two below average players so far are Chikwelu and then Oshoala.

isan:
What do you want her to do ?

Looks like she has settled in
Good performance.

justicechichex:
Maybe the best SF in this half..

Bullshit call by the ref. Absolute BS.
Alozie played all ball

Alozie is really playing Kgatlana well.
Thats how you render her ineffective.

Chikwelu needs to go. Really has done nothing all game long.

Alozie seems out of sorts - not picking up her marker and constantly making wrong passes.
She needs to settle down

Looks more like a 3-5-2, with Alozie and Payne being the wingbacks.
My concern is the lack of pace in the center, with Chikwelu and Ayinde not being pacy - especially Chikwelu.
Only change I would make is Ucheibe for Chikwelu, which may happen in the 2nd half.
Altogether, not a bad lineup.

lakesidepapa:
5-3-2?

Watching the replay of the Morocco build up to the freekick leading to the goal, the pass given to the Moroccan that was allegedly fouled should have been flagged for offside, as she was at least a foot offside.
The Burkinabes were CLEARLY robbed!

As expected, the BS has started.
Why was there a need to replay the freekick? The initial freekick, which was located closer to the goal, resulted in a save by the keeper.
The VAR check was not a penalty and was confirmed.
So, why didn't the ref just continue with play? Why the need to replay the freekick?
The burkinabes were just robbed, big time!

So why on earth is she on the list, at the expense of someone fitter?
The girl has been on a decline and has not been active for quite sometime.
This makes no sense whatsoever...unless she is an 'alternate' to the list of 23, in which case, she has zero chance of making the final 23, since the tournament has pretty much started.

Schemerkhiz:
Chidinma Okeke was no.25, but can't play due to injury...

You're right.
Rumblings had been in the works for Semanya for quite a while, prior to the Olympics. It was only a matter of time.
Same thing happened to the Equitorial Guinea women's team at one time, with Bilguisa and Salimata Simpore going through similar accusations, forcing them to withdraw from the team.
These things never end well and Zambia should have anticipated this kind of uproar.

lovewins:
Not necessarily. Semanya has been in the spotlite for this matter for quite some time now. Also worth nothing is the fact that most of the individuals in this situation that get the most attention usually engage in an individual sport. Recently, the swimming and cycling world federation have had to made similar pronouncements cause of this.

A team sport like football probably shielded Banda, but with increasing attention, Banda was bound to go through this sooner or later.

FIFA does not control the Olympics. The IOC does.
Even they also are cracking down, the case of SA 800m runner Caster Semanya come to mind.

This is about leveling the playing field for women. It’s unfair to have individuals with abnormal levels of testosterone competing as/with women, when they should be competing with men, from a medical standpoint. FairPlay is FairPlay.

GeneralDae:
If FIFA had no problem with her playing the Olympics, then why should CAF?