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spyder880:
Sorry, who's Izu Ojukwu?

a film director and producer... he is the one that produced.. he is the one that produced '76' .. type izu ojukwu and 76 in google

komekn:
When you come on is a very very pertinent.

Coming on in the first half of asha80 perfomance by all and in the second half with totally different team tactics makes huge DIFFERENCE.

On total how many minutes did Aina play And in what circumstance.

Aina is clearly better than Echiejile but is dropped why.

Icon79:
Again, you got it all wrong buddy. It doesn't matter how well you can perform in your football club, if you can't replicate that form in the green and white then you don't belong in the Super Eagles. It's as simple as that.

Secondly, based on my little experience in coaching, I know that a good coach has to consider several things in selecting his team: including experience and balance. The current Super Eagles team is a very young team. How many of them have played in the World Cup before? So why would a serious coach sacrifice experienced players and leaders like: Onazi, Echiejile, and/or Musa, just so he can put in the greenhorns (Aina and Agu) who are not even marginally better?

Trust me, only armchair critics and armchair coaches like y'all would do that.


O pari

this is what happened to leroy sane

Mujtahida:
Counter attack is negative football. I feel cheated when I hear or read this team being described as a counter attacking team. Counter attack means you are attacked first and you wait to hit back. If I'm a coach I will never play this kind of game. If you pass me, you pass me but I go attack oo, I will attack. Once you have a good midfield and defence why wait to be attacked before you attack?

hehehe watch Romania and Croatia of USA 94 and France 98 respectively or Valencia of 1999/2000 season to know about teams that can kill you with counter attacks.. literally beating you with 2 to 3 goal margins.. note they also had good midfielders

mktinsight:
Not just the leadership. The igbo business culture needs to evolve to embrace teamwork and complex organization. Igbos founded Nollywood but you cannot name a single Igbo studio or production house. They are still making 3,000 low budget films. Meanwhile it is people like Afolayan and Mo Abudu blazing trails in bigger budget well marketed films.

Companies like Innoson should have minority 30% shareholding by state government s. Then they are invested in his success and he should be producing the vehicles they use of similar quality to what foreign imports.

on films izu ojukwu

OMANBALA1:
How can a gigantic looking guy piss on his trousers because dey put am for plane....sh*t is funny as f....

Dennis bergkamp does not fly.. his phobia started after USA 94..

MetalJigsaw:
Glasgow

I know of course

Icon79:
Haha!! Trouble maker

O pari

na the first way enter my mind be that

BascoVanVeli:
Rangers are close to completing a season-long loan deal for Liverpool midfielder Ovie Ejaria. (Source: SkySports)

BascoVanVeli:
Rangers are close to completing a season-long loan deal for Liverpool midfielder Ovie Ejaria. (Source: SkySports)

enugu rangers?

Martz101:
if na naija we will hear NFA and Rohr were biased

from some comments I have seen on Twitter it seems he has been awful for the national team and doesn't seem to fit into their( low) system quite well

mazimee:
Isn't Germany's Sane the case study here?

you wrote 10 caps for England instead of Germany

mazimee:
Okay, Sane's omission made me go around Facebook and I came to understand/see reasons why Coach's decisions should be respected.

Sane has played 10 or more matches for England with no goal to show for it even when a lot of chance was
created for it.

He plays selfishly like he is a Messi some of the time, makes unnessary dribbles and lose the ball. The German philosphy is team work.

Joachim the coach has players more experienced than him who contribute more in the German team than he does. Club form is different from National team form.

in conclusions, he doesn't fit to Joachim's team at the moment, he can only function in a Pep Guardiola's team.
These coaches know what they want most of the time, respect their decisions and only blame when it is ineficient.

for Germany though not England in your second paragraph z

TheSuperNerd:
It is not just about stats. It is about game plays... it is about what we saw on TV or live at the stadium. This was an England team running rings all around us in the first half. We made a tactical switch at half time and began bossing possession and we bossed possession till the end of the game. We sprayed more passes and had more forays forward than the English. We were simply better. The English, even having the home advantage, only adjusted and matched our dominance by applying an approach to limit our dominance from translating into further goals after our first, and eventually, only goal went in. They simply applied a subtle form of damage limitation.
They were not having the upper hand; we were.

All they were doing was doing their damn best to restrict us. They even started waiting to catch us on the counter. They played deep and packed the bus at some points in that second half. We dominated possession... we created more chances than them. We made more forays forward than them. We saw Mikel and Iwobi school these guys in midfield plays for most of the second half... Etebo completed most of his passes. The team was so organised and in control all half in that midfield. That is the game most of us here watched. They brought on Loftus cheek later on because they couldn't take it anymore. He did try to wrestle away control but we still had it in our grasps. The international media (most of them) affirms to this.. and you want me to sell the notion that we did not own the second half. Not happening. Like I said, it is surprising we are discussing this because by both stats and what we saw, Nigeria was clearly the side in control in that half. We were on the ascendancy, England was playing catch up and evasive restrictions. Simple.

In conclusion shaa... different angles of looking at a game exist. But I am certain I speak based on most major angles (if not all) looked at in that second half alone.

hehehe this stats of a thing is important but does not tell a whole story.. same way I saw someone on Twitter saying now that sane's starts at club level this season is better than reus (which is true) and so sane is better qualified than reus to be in this German team

safarigirl:
is the noise from actual Germans or just Manchester City and EPL fanboys?

to be honest most man city and epl fan boys

andrew444:
German drop sane we no go hear much noise,Naija drop aina people no go let us hear word,aina be like Jordi alba for their eyes

haha o boy go Twitter.. noise dey o about dropping of sane

Sainty92:
Germany leaves out Leroy Sane from final 23man squad..... Na wa oo. U sure say Joachim Low no smoke weed?

once told someone no way Germany will leave out a Marco reus if fit and inform even if it means dropping Leroy sane

BascoVanVeli:
The last part caught my attention.
Onazi: some people cannot be running for the team while some people are just standing looking.

is he firing shots at mikel? Hope no crises in camp oo

Icon4s:
Where was the game played?

an field.. Liverpool

Icon79:
Cool. Croatians are playing much better than they did against Peru and Mexico. It looks like their team has vastly improved, unlike the Super Eagles


O pari

yeah they are playing much better one still gets the feeling that their central defense is quite slow

Mujtahida:
Are we too European in our style of play?

valid question however these days not too much difference in styles of play because of globalization of football

komekn:
Sitting in Anfield watching Brazil give Croatia a football lesson. Up close and personal.

From what I can see WE HAVE NOTHING TO FEAR from Croatia they have no pace.

Our weapon of destruction will be PACE.

Getting in behind them will not be problematic.

We just have to playing game with focus pace skill and good finishing

coordinating our attacks or counter attacks is the issue.. we have the pace to break them

it seems Croatians like closing down opponents quickly

Icon79:
And by the way, Opposition Watch:

Brazil versus Croatia is on right now on Bein sports USA. Check your local channel, if you live outside the US. This game would give us a better assessment of this fully loaded Croatia team. Are they really a team or just a collection of good players?


O pari

Brazil vs Croatia is in SS3N

Icon79:
And by the way, Opposition Watch:

Brazil versus Croatia is on right now on Bein sports USA. Check your local channel, if you live outside the US. This game would give us a better assessment of this fully loaded Croatia team. Are they really a team or just a collection of good players?


O pari

Brazil vs Croatia is in SS3

charlesemeka85:
i disagree with your first point. playing such high calibre friendly in a magnificent stadium as wembley will boast the morale of the less exposed players in the team.

i will not say it boosts their morale per say but it gives those players a chance to know what it is like playing front of a large(sometimes hostile crowd) that is obtainable in a competition like world cup

ChrisKels:
Mr holiness you are you ilks made mockery of that Nwangele born genius (Uzoho) and you want me to spare you now that ur beloved is not measuring up?

Ogbeni Park well

wonder why you edited your former response to this one

Afobear:
Weed In action .....on a codeine diet beer palour analyst

lmao

Martz101:
oh damn, so you dont know when alonso was playing in defense for Bayern??

are you talking about alonso or javi martinez?

Oasis007:


Are you wondering why Nigerian Fans at Wembley were booing Dele Alli?!

though the boos were more of bants to me but we shouldn't be hounding that guy for choosing England

princfred:
That white small boy (Thyrod or something) should replace Ebuehi. Are you guys not seeing how good he is? The boy ran Ashley Young down.

it seems you really do not know super eagles and do not follow them for you not to know Tyrone is the same person as ebuehi... no wonder you said siasia should replace rohr

simeon nwankwo is the only player that gate crashed into the final 23 man list in a conservative rohr squad.. it shows that there is probably something about him

Khaytunechi:
Simy and more especially Iheanacho deserves an extended run leading that attack.. I'm just certain their output would outweigh Clapghalo's own..

hehe you funny but yeah ighalo like clapping no be small