₦airaland Forum

iamoyindamola:
saka is going and inexperienced
Martinelli had shown he's more mature than them

You are right

Elnino4ladies:
Wetin we gain was released before motivation...

This is what tooxclusive has to say about it

Jodera:
Yeah, both are mates, but I think martinelli is more influential than saka. He's more fearless, have more eye for goal, more work rate than saka. That's how I see martinelli sha o. Lol.
Also Mate pass mate

Well if u had said this, I wouldn't argue with u. Not just the age factor. Cos I was going to start listing so many 18 year Olds that got their big break and never looked back.

iamoyindamola:
martinelli has shown he's way ahead of our young players, he's fearless and very direct.
He doesn't think twice before making his decision

That's not the crux of the matter here. He stated it clearly he's taking saka out of that formation cos he's young and shouldn't be thinking first team football and that's why I needed him to explain why that same criteria does not apply to his age mate whom he deems fit to be in the team

Unlimited22:
Lmaooooooooooo
You obviously either don't live in Nigeria or don't listen to mainstream Nigerian music.

He blew from Motivation ko, he explode from motivation ni
Wetin we gain no be song na, na drama.

Motivation actually came before Wetin we gain. It was motivation that made him known, but he got Wetin we gain was his hit single.

It's similar to brymo's case. Brymo was introduced to the world by oleku which belongs to ice prince. It was only later(I think the following year) Brymo recorded ara.

Jodera:
In as much as 4-4-2 is sweet on paper, in reality, it really demands all round hard workers across the pitch and transition from defence to attack suppose to be fast. From the squad above, most of them just didn't fit in the formation. Firstly, the 2 forwards ought to be different but complementary. While auba and laca are different, they're not in any way complementary to each other. No one can beat defence with dribbling or pace, nor good with ball at the feet. So it'll be difficult to implement.
Going to the midfield, like I opined, they need to be hard workers. Pepe hardly help in defence (tho he can be taught), and saka is just too young and raw to be thinking of first team. Also that midfield base is dead on arrival with Xhaka there. No destructive 4, which a 442 really needs. Guen also will need to be fast in his play, like I said, we need quick transition. Back 4 sorts itself out.
But if he wanna insist on using it(like you suggested), I'll go for
Leno
Bellerin Luiz holding Tierney

Pepe Toreira ceballos (guen) martinelli

Auba laca

I believe with proper discipline, Toreira and ceballos can hold their own and both have long and short pass accuracy to launch and attack. Pepe can be worked on and given instructions to help defence, and martinelli I feel is an upgrade to saka sha.
As for the front two, heaven help us. Lol.

In all honesty tho, I think we don't really have the personnel for such formation

Or we can use

Leno
Bellerin. Luiz holding Tierney

Ceballos. Toreira guen. Martinelli

Pepe Auba

But Martineli and Saka are age mates na. So taking out saka cos he's young should apply to Martineli too na. Abi how u see am?

odizeey:

The thing is that you can use his lyrics to preach and your pastor will not know it's eriga you are quoting. The guy dey try.

Just hear dis Genesis freestyle. 60 seconds everywhere burst


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PiSvl-ZxxK4

odizeey:
I no fit talk again o. Listen to erriga well.
Another thing is that he drops some heart touching proverbs. He does not just sing nonsense. I believe the day he start saying baseless things is when the "blow" you ppl are looking for will show

Some media people be like pastor wife wey love blue film/
They love Erriga but dem dey scared to associate with him/


My guy if you no know God, no insult devil/

Celebrate paperboy now no be when he Don leggo/



The way I take like the guy song ehn

Spy360:
I chose Xhaka just because he is available not the desirable. In a middle two, Xhaka should be the anchor not the destroyer. His primary duty would be to spread the ball and release runners. This I believe he can handle, he does same for country. What is important is the formation. Personnel can be acquired on needs basis.

You are only focusing on the attack part of the game. We definitely won't attack for 90 minutes. I'm in no doubt of the attack side of his game( even though of recent he only stays at a point and tries to spray pass to the end of Siberia, but I know this can be worked on to make him better attack wise).

Xhaka defending in the middle is not something I look forward to as a fan. He just can't help himself. His fouls mostly are counter productive. He's just not a natural tackler. Even though players like Fabinho and Fernandinho commit fouls to shield the back 4, u will always relate with their fouls as being vital and goal-scoring-opportunity saving tackles.

If we want to adopt 4-4-2, then we must get a better player defensively and attacking wise. If not we will still have the same old story

Spy360:
He can be trained. I have seen Xhaka perform for country. He can be made to look good. Same goes to Guen. Others like Torriera, Willock, even AMN can then begin to fight to displace any of them. But the key thing is that there is an established pattern the club has decided to follow and every player should seek to adapt to it.

Xhaka cannot play the defensive midfield role (the viera kind) in the EPL.
Maybe he plays well for his country, but he doesn't have that instinct to play it well for arsenal in the EPL.

Just look at Ndidi, Kante, McTonmay, Fabinho, Fernadinho(when he plays in the middle) and see how they play that role. (I don't know how to explain it). Now tell me in all honesty if u think Xhaka can learn how to move like those guys do, if he can shield the back 4 like they do and can he do all these without committing unnecessary fouls?

Spy360:
Please Freddie, let's get back to basics. Let's go back to 4-4-2. I believe you have gathered the tricks and experience required to play the formation.

............ Auba ....... Laca .............
Pepe ... Xhaka ... Guen ... Saka
Tierney . Luiz .... Cham . Bellerin
..................... Leno .....................

This is a good formation sincerely. If only Xhaka would just be a defensive midfielder who will tackle to win the ball and not just be committing unnecessary fouls in delicate areas.

Hmmmm.

I think this is where Nigerians problem originated from.

Imagine a whole 100 professors that are fake. These are the professors who rig election for politicians and yet fail students for cheating in exams.

Our leaders have a way of making hardworking Nigerians pay for their inefficiencies

Whatever reason they are giving for this new development is gibberish. The only reason they are coming up with this now is because of the fraud that was recently uncovered at the toll gate. Some of the staff were arrested and handed over to the police after the company discovered the staff had found way around the system helping themselves to part of the largesse.

You know when the staff can't just bear the huge money made there daily going to the government and the Godfather at the top, they just helped themselves to part of it.

Now instead of the government finding ways to manage this, they will compel all road users to pay the toll plus 50 naira atm charges. Additional extra cost on the people. Smh

JOHNSONSOLAFUNMI:
Late night / Early morning food

Noddles coocked with chicken stock, herbs and fish

Yummy

Instead of morpheus to kidnap me, na hunger dey cstch me

1) Nodles
2) fish
3)chicken stock
4) grounded debino, coconut, date and bitterkola

Bitterkola inside noodles

Mitland-Niles play 4 ?

Una no just like this team. Mitland-Niles is just not a typical EPL player. I've watched him for two years now and anybody who spots talent/potential when he sees one will know he's just not one. Any team that wants to qualify for top finish and possibly win a domestic cup will not field a player in the mould of Niles in its first 11 be it on the wings, in the middle or at the back.

Niles despite being young and seemingly pacy lacks awareness on and off the ball, he gets easily railroaded and lacks the intelligence that would've replaced his other deficiencies. His crosses are Abysmal and most times he just seem like he's occupying space not being used.

I'm sure any Arsenal coach(both the current interim and the future permanent manager) would not gamble and use him in the middle, it will end in tears.

iamoyindamola:
On a good side
Stats favour us

Well, let's hope they learnt their lessons from this match and build on it going forward

That Guendouzi-Saka sub no make sense at all.

We could've gotten more out of the game if Martineli had been the one that came on for Guen

If chambers still plays RB after January, then I will know we have rubbish people at the helm of affairs at Arsenal.

Just imagine the rubbish chambers played all tru d match

Which kind yeye sub be dis na?

The old mustafi would've fouled pukki there and it would've ended in tears.

Good thing he's had more sense Than before

Xhaka should go by January abeg! I can't stand his reckless play again.

Goal!

Auba makes it 2-2

iamoyindamola:
it's not about the problem, we need a new face in that midfield abeg.
Na only that boy they arsenal

Honestly thus far he's justified his inclusion in the starting line up today. There's nothing different Torreira would've done to change the scoreline.

Chambers has been ineffective on the right wing. He's been finding it hard delivering crosses to the players in the box. Willock has been losing the ball anyhow.

I don't see Guendouzi's fault in any of those. I am not a fan of the boy but he's playing well in dis game

iamoyindamola:
Remove this mumu Jerry curl put torreira
Don't be unfortunate lyunberg

Guendouzi is actually playing well. He's not the problem at all. In fact, he's been like the only one trying to push attack from the back.

It's willock that needs to get off the pitch