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Expert17:
The same Nagelsmann some guys want as OLE replacement

No-looking pass.

Wetin dey do this referee self? Na we talk say make these canada babes no chop well?

. But the team is playing well in this half. I like their sharp play. Outhussle the Canadians. Leave them let them pass around.

yinkeys:
We lead again
Nigeria 2 - 1 Canada

Please bury this game girls

Like Super Eagles like Super Falcons.

This Oyinbo girl dey learn to play physical. Nice.

Nice Shot.

Are you sure you don't want me to remind you that some of those goals Ronaldo scored were tap-ins? You don't have a monopoly on useless thoughts. I don't know when the number of assists stopped being a major metric.

Leyqute:
Are you sure you don’t want me to add dribbles and number matches supervised?

Is this supposed to be a revelation? Ofcourse we are all jealous of the people that have achieved greater things in life. We wish we had their careers.

TrebleChamp:
Maybe Rooney is truly jealous of Ronaldo. After all they were both in the team when Ronaldo won Ballon D'or, and became the first and only player ever to win Fifa World Footballer of the Year in England.

I think say na only chelsea fans dey do this kain thing. You got the number of goals wrong. YOu got the number of game wrong, you also refused to mention assists. If you wan praise your player, praise your player, but no remove data.

Leyqute:
In the beginning they said Messi couldn’t score in Ligue 1 because the defenders were very “toff”.

But look at Ben Yedder and Goodlucj Jonathan bossing those same defenders na.

3 league goals in 30 games SMH

Common, Messi no be your player any more /yet.

andrewbaba44:
He will be a Ligue 1 champion

While your egunfe won’t even smell a stainless cup

. Stop it.

Expert17:
Rooney is truly jealous of Ronaldo the SAME way Ronaldo is jealous of Messi.

Good point.

TFLASHOGEE:
so you want me to believe in does scenerio he did a bicycle kick that his the only option available and every other players in the world would have done Same what a joke of a statement he tried the first one it didn't work out try another thing next time that what ipkeba was pointing out and in Ronaldo's case he tried bicycle kick twice in that match one was blocked by a defender and the other one went in, bale did it once in the final of same season and it was a goal
Osimehn have been in Same situation at his club side severally tell me how many bicycle kicks have he attempted at Napoli not to talk of doing it more than once in a match when it wasn't even going on target, osimehn at Napoli would have done something different and might result to penalty that why he has the highest penalty won in the top 5 leagues

I am sorry, but what is the job of a pundit? No be to criticize? Before the fact ooo, after the fact ooo. As long as dem no insult your mama, papa or mock your disability. Besides this is coming from someone who has seen it all.

Besides people today no really understand when to use some of these words. Person wey dem know well well for bicycle kick dey tell you say, dem no dey do bicycle kick, you still get mouth dey talk. Shame no even dey catch you to talk say, en i go continue dey do am. How many bicycle kicks you don score? I no blame am sha. Na Oshoala be the real Agbaiya. Na she cause am.

If world-class is a journey of 10 years, Osimhen still dey him sixth year, and i am being very generous here.

For the most part, what separates world-class players from the rest is decision-making. No be training ground you dey. If you are unable to repress your desire for a better play then you are still learning. Na discipline dem dey call am. If you want to subject yourself to instinct you better be sure you are great at your actions as a result of it. Besides, i do not believe that was instinctive. Person jump do bicycle kick you call am instinct, as as how?

But i would like to tread carefully here though. If that had gone in, we would call it spectacular. But one thing is certain, if you opt to make better decisions, you will have those spectacular moments. The plan is not to be spectacular. The plan is to make better decisions(even split-second decisions).

5inchdick:
He acted instinctively, I really don't understand why it's an issue.

You too invent philosophy take negate 'park bus' philosophy. The ultimate goal is to win.

LostMyZeal:
This Simeone deserves to have his coaching badge seized

UCL Q/Final ought to be entertaining at least nau. WTF is this rubbish style of play.

This is dubious and opportunistic.

If every team begin park bus. Omo dis beautiful game go ruin oh

I dey wonder when this guy go enter this thread again.

BikeMan:
Please remind me what Bruno did against this Atletico again. KDB will forever be better than that penalty merchant.

Wait ooo, he deleted the tweet?

Roland17:
Ajala has always been a mental midget but guess what Ajala, deleting the tweet does not mean the internet forgets..

The Lakers are 17 games under 500 in a weaker conference.

The Lakers do not have a 1st round pick until 2027, 5 years from this season.

The Lakers miss the freaking play-in.

2021-2022- Miss the playoffs
2020-2021- First Round Exit
2019-2020- Championship
2018-2019- Missed the playoffs

You need to stop this bullshit man. I am quite disappointed that with all your noise for here on football, it doesn't occur to you that the careers of African-born goalkeepers is usually crooked no matter how good they are. Besides Okoye was languishing in the fourth division once upon a time, he got a call-up, then straight to the Netherlands. Besides, there's a lot you don't seem to get for someone who seems to be well-invested in this sport called football. Your form at the club level is only good enough to get you in. As one of our people here suggested If you mess up any player with a similar role whose overall contribution and commitment is better should take your place, even if na Enyimba him dey play. Besides, it's not just one game. Maduka has never ever been convincing for Nigeria. He's seldom tested, so it's difficult to notice that he's a basket. On a normal day, any good test is a goal. He's been nothing more than a ball boy for the super eagles. . If you know your football a simple eye test can tell you that the guy no just balance for the super eagles. Perhaps this also means that na baskets full Netherlands, so adding another basket into the mix doesn't change the dynamics.
I do not understand how anybody who knows his football thinks comparing the careers of outfield players to goalkeepers is any enlightening.

komekn:
You can drop as many contrived stats as you like.

One game doesn't define a player.

If Uzoho was so good he would not be in the backwaters of Europe going nowhere.

On the other hand Okoye is on an upward trajectory.

You cannot exclude cup football and league for player assesment. The only reason Victor O is in the SE is his club and league form. His first game in the SE at AFCON 2019 was absolutely woeful.

But he is essentially the first choice striker even pushing out the top scorer in the AFCON 2019 Ighalo.

You are putting forward a double standard.

I have told you, what is good for you is to just eat fufu and light soup. At least Kudus is a perennial bench warmer at a good club, Ajax. How about Kofi Okyere? Remind me, where is he playing football again?

leathalbeast:
with that dead midfield of yours ? Hahahahaha who will handle kudus mohammed ? Daniel kofi kyere will also start

Well here comes one of them. A frustrated man utd fan. No surprises at all. . We will never know, will we?

charlesemeka85:
over hyped 94 team. When eguavoen Dey talk tactics for one video wey dem post here making reference to how they played during westahof’s era na wey I knw say he is outdated as a coach

No serious minded team plus 442 anymore when in this current time and age teams are even playing false nines just to shook the midfield

I bet you guys that if aribo played as a 10 with Onyeka as b2b midfielder while etebo or bonke screens the back 4 we would have gotten a goal against Ghana in Kumasi

. Now, a spiritual problem needs a spiritual solution. For that one, no amount of typing will help.
Instead of telling us he should invite natural midfielders, just tell us the players you want him to invite. Tell us.

Philosopher1979:
I bet you Austin will repeat his mistakes on Tuesday. We have a coaching problem.
He should try and invite natural midfieldets to the team but after this qualifiers he won't. Maybe it is a spiritual problem. Our coaches love ignoring out midfield

You obviously know what I meant by winning. Is there any local coach that hasn't won any games? If you give a coach more than 1 year, of course, he will accumulate some wins. And the third place he's won, our local coaches have sampled it, even the worst of them. . Do you know how many third and second-place finishes we have had? 12. Even there was a time we placed third back to back to back. So i am not sure we can consider that a standard for winning.

But i want to ask you one question though. What do you think of Uzoho? Any confident? I did not say anything oooo.

safarigirl:
Rohr won games sha.

No trophies, but he won games, and on that basis, there is an argument he is better than Keshi. Funny stuff still

Stick to your standard of passing. According to your standard of passing they didn't, because the passing didn't continue for long before they lost it. Not good. I am not sure I can follow a fruitless possessive play. Besides, they outnumbered us in the midfield through the first half, so it wasn't unexpected that they did better to keep the ball in the midfield. Besides our players actually were better and more confident with their passing through the midfield and then to the flanks when Eguaveon changed the midfield shape. So on be say we too no dey pass. Unfortunately, your expectations are rather too high.

You say they should teach them the basics of this philosophy? How often does this team meet? They mostly play for their respective clubs which have their own philosophies. So that for these philosophies their reaction becomes instinctual. It won't be easy ramming a different philosophy into them in a week. You may practice within this new philosophy, in fact, you may even do well in training, as far as that philosophy is concerned, but if you are not constantly exposed to that philosophy over a long period of time, you would almost certainly get stuck in your practice of that philosophy. You pass pass pass, then an opposing strategy you probably have faced sets in, and you just crawl back, as in oh wait 'Out training did not cover this one.

It's easy to implement on paper, but incredibly hard in practice. But you know what, I know the passing philosophy to you is the most valuable and it's ok.

But I agree with that part though. We do make excuses. Then maybe you can accept that your expectations may be too high sometimes. . Can we agree on that?

TheGoodJoe:

The Ghanaian team was more versed in the possessive play, especially in the first half and Addo spent days with them. This is not rocket science, or you must have David Silva or Bernardo Silva in your team.

You train the team in the basics of the philosophy. Then keep building in the understanding of it. We have seen teams like Swansea and some other small teams in England adopt it.

We have teams all over the world adopting it.

Even the Ghanaian team played it to an okay level.

We should stop the excuses and start developing our ideas in the passing game and make just philosophical adjustments.

Ofcourse we are anywhere bele face analysts. You have mentioned that here several times, haven't you? The first thing that should go into the greatness of a coach is winning. Tactics, whether crude, modern, amateurish, archaic are secondary, and we are all usually divided over such. We may never agree on philosophy. I like this philosophy, you like that. One thing that's definitive is winning. So if a man wins and someone says a winless coach is greater, that person you cannot help.

safarigirl:
Please, dem say Rohr better pass am

Is there anything a local coach does that's not amateurish? Can they ever do anything right? Even Keshi was amateurish too, even though he actually won. I am still waiting for a coach that would do better than that man.

There's only so much you can do to improve movement, if the players themselves are not constantly required to make such movements at their clubs where they play regularly, it would be impractical to think it would work when you call them to play for their national teams. And ofcourse you could say, i told you so, our players are not so technical, which i will admit into evidence for this one. . It won't be instinctual, and they would very likely fail in their attempt to do it. In your assumption that it improves movement, you are forgetting the fact that, for places where this has been successful, the players have always been very technical, and they can make such movements with no problems. They could try it, and it may work for a few passes but then they get stuck, without that high technical ability, you crawl back into the hit-and-run shell.

TheGoodJoe:


Actually, what a good passing philosophy does is to improve the movement of players and improve their decision making with the ball which makes them play better.

So it is more than just having the right players for it.

You this man, Guardiola don full your head. Beautiful. if you want us to institute your philosophy beg Guardiola to borrow us his players. If you can do that i would be fully behind you. I love the passing Philosophy too, i was so much in awe of that 2009-2012 team Barcelona under Guardiola(the first time you succeed at something is usually the most memorable) even though I am not a Barcelona fan. It would be incredible if you can establish it. For instance, Bielsa tries to do it too, but his team keeps leaking goals from one game to another, and Bielsa is even more faithful to that Philosophy than Guardiola. Even if they are 6 goals down, he would not relent.

TheGoodJoe:


It is not about my likes but the direction football is doing. The possessive style is the most successful in recent years. It is successful because of how effective it is.

Great, unfortunately, they are average. So their passing would still suck. Philosophies are nice and indicate you know what you are doing, but they are useless anyway. Your philosophy is only as good as your players.

Meliforme:
When concerns are on the game of passing, Nwakali and Etebo are the best that we have now.

You think firing Eguaveon and replacing him with Amuneke and Samson Siasia, less than a week before the return leg would be the best decision for us? Please think again.

Eleyi ga gan.

Icon79:
Here’s what I just posted on Twitter:

Quick question for @thenff and @PinnickAmaju: can Eguaveon be taken off this team before the return leg on Tuesday? Hand the team over to Amuneke and Samson Siasia to complete the job.

That’ll be the best decision for us, if we really want to win on Tuesday.


O pari

You too don come ooo. Nwakali? You know say that young man don play for us before? Are we talking about the same Etebo?
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We all become prime analysts after the game. You didn't know this? He brings in Lookman, who no play anything, 'Oh no he should have started Lookman Ahead of Moses Simon'. Some said, oh don't play 4 2 4, he started with it, changes it to a more balanced midfield, someone says, 'Oh no he should have continued with 4 2 4. Believe me if he starts Lookman in place of Moses Simon, and he doesn't perform, believe me, some of us will say, 'Oh, why would any serious coach start him, he's not used to the physicality of African football'. Lookman was quite lost for the most part, which i understand, hopefully he learns. Anywhere Bele face analysts. Meanwhile The same Rohr dey use Simon and Chukwueze constantly. But never mind, you and i agree he's at best average.

Another senior analyst is telling us to adopt a passing philosophy. Are you kidding me? Where is the personnel? Even for the club football we are all watching no be every great coach they adopt am. I understand him though, he's a Guardiola faithful. . Ofcourse stringing some passes is good. I mean how can you build up without it? Their passing today was actually ok, excluding the first 25/30 minutes. Horrible.

No mind me abeg i like to cause trouble sometimes.

All in all Eguaveon better not fail us in Abuja. Whatever he go do to win that match he better do.

Gammfreak:
Most of you here are complaining about chukwueze.....okay when lookman and Dennis came what did they do. How about moses simon who lost most of the balls, but at least chukwueze gave a good pass to aribo and a good cross to oshimen....
U guys def.