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jpmoriarti:
Not always effective. That was part of the reason we lost control in most part of the Napoli game.

You need to know when to show patience, control the ball more and then choose your moments carefully. Fermin Lopez lost alot of balls because he wanted to shoot at sight.

We don't have effective ball winners. Care must be taken to protect an advantage through more control. We have to defend with the ball more. This is why a prime Pedri is highly rated for his intelligence and highly valuable to any coach.

Not always effective. Yes I agree. But needed sometimes to change dynamics and disrupt opponents defence plans, especially those low block teams.

Fermin is still young and learning, despite playing limited minutes; his shoot at sight has got him 5 goals already. Imagine if he starts and plays more game. And grows to perfect his shooting skills.
Afterall, the aim of every match is goals.

Pedri is a masterclass player. We all know that. And we love him for that. Intelligent and valuable, Yes o 100%.
But you cannot always have his type every day.

Moreover, I'm not comparing them, just acknowledging Fermin's skills.

andrewbaba44:
I like the fact that nobody knows him and he is underrated

He is not that technical as our other midfielders ,he is only interested in scoring goals

Give me the ball and bullet shots ,man isn’t interested in passing to anyone ,Lmao

He has 5 goals this season already despite being a squad player

Fermin Lopez appreciation post

I love that guy's technique. No over dribbling or turning around like Arthur Melo.

Once he gets the ball, the opponents goalkeeper better be ready because na fire straight. He shoots once he sees the net. We need him to change the dynamics sometimes.

valentineuwakwe:
All this drama and shenanigans is happening because of the wide coverage Peter Obi gave the party in the last General elections.....
I stil find it hard to believe that labour leaders cannot put there house in order til now.
Supposing Peter Obi decamps back to the PDP, will labour party still exist?

The 100 billion dollar Question ? What happens?

Kilishihunter:
Bro make we no underestimate anybody ooh especially as we are in the quarters after a long time, dembele and barcola fit no score much but they'll bring dribbling, playmaking, speed plus they have a much better depth in attack than us, them kolo muani, Ramos, asensio, Kang in lee and you know how we dey usually suffer against teams with pace and transition on the counter, just the way they play, they are also ten points clear in Ligue 1 meaning they can afford to rest players
IMO I see us as slight underdogs just because of mbappe, I feel the limit to which our defence can stop him with causing total havoc and ter stegen putting in a world class effort unlike last time out will go a long way for us, but most of all we need a tactical masterclass from xavi especially as we're facing Enrique who last led us to the UCL
Second leg dem go come Spain so it's about as much damage limitation in France

My points exactly. Nothing to add. We have won one game convincingly now (Napoli), we feel we have arrived.

No team should be underrated. Every game should be taken as a final, unless we are satisfied with where we are and never thought we could do it in the first place. Just a few more wins and we'll be in the finals.

andrewbaba44:
Aside mbappe there is nothing scaring about psg

I am suppose to be scared of barcola or dembele

Should we talk about their midfield ? Lol

Beware of Dembele o. He will want to show that he still has it in him o, especially now that his injury problems are behind him.

I married into a one room like this in Lagos. Mine is not even nice like this one. Today, I am my own landlord, having tenants soon.

oliverano:
Yeah, With everyone fit, Pedri should not start important games. Fitness should be the goal

A midfield 3 of Fdj, Xtensen and Gundo is okay., Fermin on that left position, where Felix plays and Yamal on the right.

Pedri can always come in to add more control. His goal right now should be his fitness. I wasn't really counting on him but just had to mention him.

Fermin on the left? Where are you playing Raph?

He did very well yesterday.

Islie:
https://saharareporters.com/2024/03/08/nigeria-set-join-russia-china-brics-may-start-trading-crude-oil-naira

If this is true. The United States will not be happy about it. This announcement is not too good and too early.

Things like this ought to be done abruptly to prevent any body or parties from sabotaging it. And to also punish those oil trading saboteurs hoarding the dollars to punish us.

olatade:
Frustrated 🤡

Oh no bro. I'm not frustrated, neither am I abusing you.

I'm just responding to your point that "she should do her work well". So, to be sure you are right and know what you are talking about; I asked you what you think or know her work is?

No insults intended.

olatade:
G😀😀GLE

Your answer shows your ignorance.

olatade:
Congratulations madam, but abeg oooh make you make sure say you do your work

Please what exactly is her work?

Please Xavi should use Fermin more to cover up for Pedri's absence in midfield. Hopefully nothing should happen to Gundogan o.

This is when Pablo Torre would have come in handy.

Let's see the midfield combo of Gundogan / Fermin & Christensen.

OhBritannia:
Right now we are going through some financial challenges and we need money to compete at the highest level.
Since mbappe is most likely going to end up in Madrid, more pressure is now on Barcelona so we need to make a move that will hit back at them financially and in terms of the media clout.
The best way to rise up again is to sell as many players available including LEWANDOWSKI, Ralhinha, etc and sign halland.
Signing haaland will likely make more money for Barcelona than what mpabbe will make for Madrid.
In fact it will triple than what mpabbe will make for Madrid and then next two seasons with so much money and with camp nou ready, we can now fully compete in the market and signing Messi again for just one season so we can give him a proper fairwell will break bank for Barcelona.

All that i have said can be possible if laporta make the right phone call and i know Guadiola can help make it possible.

Will haaland leave Manchester city to Barcelona? 100% yes.
Due to the balloon d'or factor and that thrill to compete with mbappe.

Truth be told, we don't even need to buy much next season, just a good coach and halland is okay.
Defense is solid, midfield is solid, all we need are goal scoring machines.

Guy. Wetin be dis? I was just laughing all through your write up. It seems you are dreaming. Sign Haaland? From Man. City? With how much ?
Barca that doesn't have money? Have you forgotten that FFP.still dey?

Dead that thinking abeg. We can and should sell Lewa, Yes ! But our immediate signing now should be a tactically good coach and a solid DM.

andrewbaba44:
Player go get injury fans go Dey go back to last 3 seasons when Spain and Barca overuse am

It’s the club cannot take care of youngsters but when people like FDJ raphina get injury na normal thing but once it’s the kids it’s because they where overused

Hold the medical staffs responsible abeg ,we have had 22 injuries this season baba and FDJ top that list after pedri

One of pedri issue is Barca rushing him back because of how good he is ,that dude should sit out for the rest of the season abeg ,he should come back next season when he will be stronger ,I hope he doesn’t go to the euros also

So Pedri has become Barca's new Dembele.
It's surprising why players like Roberto don't get injured often.

jpmoriarti:
I don't think anyone was going to take away his achievements or titles won. Only story I heard was he was being removed from the club's hall of fame legends. I hear they have put up his pictures in the legend lists.

Rest assured that his 43 or so trophies he won across a glittering footballing career, remains his. No one can take those away from him.

Exactly.

jpmoriarti:
I really hope you are not justifying s*xual abuse and rape, just because your favorite player was involved?

Being a good player is only one part of life, you also need to be a good human being. When a man forcefully takes advantage of a woman because he thinks he can, then he is not being a good human being.

We weren't there when any of these happened. However, he has been found guilty of the offence by a competent court. It is not in our place to denigrate the lady in question, so we can preserve our 'legend'.

Alves will serve his terms and learn from this experience. Of course, let's hope he will be remembered more by his achievements on the pitch than his misdemeanors off it.

I'm not in support of rape in any way. Alves did wrong. He has been judged guilty. He will serve the term. That should be his punishment. Like every other person that rapes.

However my beef is the talk about stripping him of his achievements and trophies. I don't think that is right.

If he was not a footballer, the judgement would be the same but nobody would go after his achievements and past records.

Kilishihunter:
He fúcked up I don't deny but which one is removing him from list of Legends, Nigga is the best RB of his generation, 2nd most trophy hauls after Messi, dfkm, Off field and on field issues are clearly different, you can just cut ties by association but removing him from what he earned through blood and sweat on the pitch? Well removing it or not won't erase his contributions from our hearts or the ones of future culers yet unborn, sometimes I don't understand this club, that's how we were promoting LGBTQ memorabillia on the club's buildings

I am with you on this. The rape thing has nothing to do with his contracts and contributions on the field of play. You can remove his name from your whatever list but don't touch his achievements o.

So because of one olosho pussy his whole world should be turned upside down.

Still down in Calabar

jpmoriarti:
I wonder why he was the one marking Osimehn at that point. Araujo had pocketed him all game. I wonder how Araujo left him for Inigo Martinez to go and be falling like a park of card.

Osimhen wey dem pocket for Afcon.

jpmoriarti:
I'm sure Napoli are shitting there pants after watching us labour through another drab performance.

Napoli is not doing well in their league also. I'm not excusing our team's awful performance in this match though

But I thought Shuaibu recently said Obaseki is solidly behind him in his bid to be the next Edo Governor?

andrewbaba44:
Hansi flick is likely to be our new coach

Not bad at all

Style of play will totally change o. No more tikitaka or sticking to one game plan. He's been at the top. Knows what it takes to be among the big boys.

I hope it works to our good in Barca.

Now that Xavi has indicated that he is leaving, something drastic has to be done if we want to stay in the top four.

The season is still long and Atletico & Bilbao are breathing down our neck. Any slip up from us and next season champions league is gone.

We better gear up and win most of our upcoming matches or else

Afcon no even allow people comment about our disastrous outing yesterday against the second worst team in la liga.

Granada ran riot against us yesterday and would have won but thanks to Lamine Yamal, who saved our blushes.

israelmao:
This is better than using public funds to sponsor mass wedding.

Kudos to the Governor of Kebbi State for both the Tuition and the Mass wedding. At least he did something for his people.

What can you point to concerning your State Governor, what has he done to impact lifes of people in his state? I hope you can pinpoint something sha. Because in Ogun state, there is nothing to write about o. Money just dey disappear with nothing to show or say for it.

Emma1Oj:
Oga, i beg no use grammer scatter our brain early this monday morning. Me wey no go schl, how I want tak understand dis your plenty grammars

You are a very funny person.

I still find it difficult to believe that a landlady who knows how much it takes to repair or replace the doors and windows of her own house will deliberately destroy them just to spite the tenant.

If she truly did that. It shows that she has exhausted all peaceful means of ejecting this tenant and is ready to use extreme ways to remove him.

He must have been a serial problematic tenant to the landlady ab initio

Lavoca:
E say "nEveR sAy DiE" lol

Chai ! See as Xavi burst my bubble.

jpmoriarti:
Great game so far. Hope we can keep up the energy in the 2nd half.

We started by conceding in the first minute but the team reacted well and Lamine Yamal scored a wonder goal.

What a goal that was!

I really like this new 'never-say-die' attitude. I hope this positive mentality helps us go far in UCL.

ManirBK:
I bought these onions today in Birnin kebbi Kara Market at the rate of 100 Naira.

Guy, how do u get to Birnin Kebbi from Minna without endangering one's life in the hands of bandits and kidnappers?

God1000:
This is serious

Why arresting her, I guess because she opened the Pandora box

Na wa o

Debroslink:
See as here dry despite our on-going match.

Na so we see am o