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Kbs468:
Arsenal suffer injury blow ahead of Liverpool game as defender carried off on international duty


When I first saw the headline, My heart jumped out of my mouth until I read it that it was Saed kolasinac that was a stretched out for Bosnia and Herzegovina V's Finland which they Lost as well

Normally God supposed punish all these journalists with their yeye sensational headlines. How can they say "Arsenal suffer injury blow ahead of loserpool clash " when almost everybody knows whether Kola dies or live doesn't change whatever outcome will come out of that clash? Dem just wan raise our BP over nothing.

This one enter

lilvicky68:
If person see large food make him chop abeg..

If Sapa come excess calories go burn by force..

Word on marble

As funny as this comment is, it resonates well with me. Most people talking about portion control, controlling calories intake, etc are only doing so from a privileged position. They don't understand how the struggle is for some people to even see good food to eat occasionally.

This is the reason u will see some junior/clerical staff at company's end of year party serving themselves Chinese rice, salad, chicken, sweet and sour sauce, moin moin, samosa, spring roll and still eat Pounded yam before leaving. The mid-level and senior staff may find it amusing or confusing that people eat like this, but person wey dey chop am know say if e no chop now maybe na till next year he fit come across such goodness again.

The truth be say Na when person dey relatively comfortable he dey reason say whether he dey eat well or not.

timbros:
All this Henry talk isn't necessary. I don't think anyone here is comparing Drogba to Henry (maybe only Donstan18 who went to the extreme in some of his comments on Drogba). Don't make it look like there is Henry vs Drogba debate here.

Look at the Jodera post you quoted earlier. It was a Salah vs Drogba comment. He just added that last line about Henry from nowhere and you just capitalise on that.

For someone that didn't follow the conversation few pages back, he will feel its a Henry vs Drogba talk. The next thing will be, Chelsea fans are comparing Drogba to Henry.

Calm down with all those stats. No one is comparing Drogba to Henry.

Well, I didn't just bump into the conversation midway ; I took my time read about 9 to 10 pages I missed and I saw how the conversation started. I saw nonsense talks about "clutch", " impact" etc. I saw the debate about Drogba vs Sallah but I was not going to get involved particularly when one of the two players is retired and the other is still playing and still has time to play at the top level and make the argument unnecessary in the nearest future.

Then I saw how Igwe was stylishly being added to the conversation with Drogba being compared to him still talking about who has had more "impact" and that football is not always about stats, goal scoring, blah blah....

I saw how Ibime wasn't going to waste his time refreshing these yoingings' memories about who Igwe was....I saw how some fans feel he was down playing Drogba's greatness by talking about the greatness of Henry.

I needed to remind those who had forgotten that Henry is a god amongst men in his hey days. He had the trophies to show for this, the stats as well and this is acknowledged by those who saw him play. Like ibime said, even Drogba's son that wasn't born when Henry was busy cementing his legendary status in the EPL couldn't help but acknowledge his greatness. You may not need the reminder but those typing long epistle Drogba in the same sentence with Henry need it. Let them read and Do whatever they wish with the information.

izzou:
[color=royalblue]You no even let the topic linger small for argument.

You just end am sharparly

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I don't like what I hate bro . How person go dey compare player wey Don help him team win world cup ; currently one of the Ballon d'or nominees to player wey we never know maybe He go turn Freddy Adu or Bojan Krkic?

viktor88:
During Drogba days in EPL. Arsenal, Liverpool never won the league. Chelsea main contender for the league was always Manchester united.
Drogba record against man u was very poor. Vidic always pocket him and drogba don't have the skills to handle Vidic.
So his big match performance in EPL was against title pretenders like Liverpool and Arsenal not against the Real contender.

Drogba na better striker on his days; u can't take that away from him. He's a nightmare to defenders and he's a Chelsea legend no doubt. It doesn't matter who the opponent is, he scores when the team needs him no doubt.

But pitching him against his superior like Henry and trying to rewrite history is what will never fly. Anybody that watched Henry hitting 24 goals and 20 assists in 2002/2003 season and further leading the invincibles to the golden trophy in 2003/2004 with 30 league goals haul will not be spewing thrash about "impact", "clutch" and other nonsense they are bringing up to put Drogba in this EPL legend conversation.

teeshet:
Guys, between ansu fati and mbappe who will go far?

Who will go far as how ?

Mbappe is 22 years of age today and he’s already won Ligue 1 four times, holds a world cup medal ; a world cup he was his team's joint top scorer, and voted the best young player in the tournament. He's been in a UEFA champions league final..... He's just 22.

Make Ansu Fati achieve half of those aforementioned feats and then we will come back and discuss who will go farther than that.

Kbs468:
Thanks.

No not unionism issues but Exam malpractice. I was caught writing a Carry over course for my friend, room and course mate.

Na me Bleep up. How could someone in second class upper in civil engineering be writing Carry over? That was how one of the lecturers traced me out when he came close to me.

I later graduated in 2015 after writing another jamb in 2010 in a state university with the same grade in Mathematics Education

Wow! Bro this is the plight of most bright students in the Nigerian university. You have friends who are doing poor academically but there’s no way u can help them other than to sit for them in carry over courses.

I was almost caught up in stuff like that , just that the fear of getting expelled and having my p-man’s relative talk about how they knew I will never turn out well stopped me most times. The most I did was writing a carryover Law zest for a close friend at the faculty of law. As exam drew closer I forced the guy to read and read. Still still he scored 26 over 30 in CA I wrote for him and the weyrey scored 15 over 70 in exams he took himself despite using expo sef.

Anyways I monetized this skill later by writing exams in external campus( for part time students ) in my final year to cushion the effects of project works spending and I still use part of the proceeds buy phone sha .

Thank God u stayed strong all through that period and I were able to get a degree at the end of the day . Naija can frustrate someone

Kbs468:
HENRY THIERRY

Since Henry's record breaking season, the average number of goals scored by a player with 15+ assist in a season is 7

In 2002/2003, THIERRY HENRY hit 20 assist as well as 24 league goals.

He is the only player in the history of the competition to achieve 20+ in both tallies in the same campaign

The greatest player ever. No need for any debate

There’s a reason we call him Igwe. Henry Na king any day any time.

Looking at how people are rooting for Lewandoski to win the Ballon d’or on account of his goals in recent past, one can’t still but wonder how unfortunate Henry was not to have won the award once or twice during his time especially that Invincible season.

Kbs468:
I didn't watch the game that day because I was on campus running around to see if I would be recalled after being suspended for 3 years since 2004 when I was in 400 level going to 500

Wow! Sorry about that. Did u get involved in student union/activism on campus? .... Hope u later had things sorted out ?

Jodera:
Salah is better than drogba in EPL. That's facts.

In just 169 games, he has 107 goals 41 assist

Drogba 254 games, 103 goals, 55 assist.

From their ratio you should know who is better.

Drogba won league wen Chelsea haven't won it, same can be accorded to salah
Drogba won cl league wen Chelsea needed it most, same can be accorded to salah

So I don't know the clutch or impact you and hensben want to brandish around here when even salah is more impactful than drogba

Another thing be say Henry pass drogba for England.

Point of correction, Henry no just pass Drogba for England , he pass am everywhere and in everything! Anybody arguing otherwise is probably too young during Henry’s playing days , has chosen not to believe the things he read about Henry’s illustrious career and has sworn against acquiring football knowledge .

These people need to do better with this unconvincing lies please.

So Frank Mba is saying fake police officers applied for a search warrant with fake information before a high court judge, the fake officers then took fake journalists and fake soldiers to invade the house of a supreme court judge?

Frank Mba, which kind lie be this? Do u have intention of taking lai mohammed's job?

I can never forget this very incident in the 2007 carling cup final versus Chelsea ; Diaby kicked Terry in the chin while trying to clear the ball in a goal mouth scramble.

Omo! I feared Terry had died at that very moment o, only for him to come back to lift the trophy after we lost

Jodera:
performances is always the criterion, but you don't use 3 months of good performance to judge a player(at least not me). At least 6 months probably.

Tyrone Mings is still riding on his performances of last season (coupled with england not having good CBs), so I'll give White from now till end of season (since there's no Intl break after this), if he still performs this great, then he'll be in my WC squad.

I don't see the need rushing players into national teams after 1-3months of good performances

As for Gabriel, he was due for call up a very long time

This is the reason England has hundreds of capped players everywhere with absolutely no major trophy to show for it. They just keep capping every player that enjoys short run of good performances every year. Make dem allow those ones wey go euro blend for a long term fess.....Na why teams like France wey lose euro final fit go win world cup two years after.

Silentgroper:
Blueraydick. Would u stop writing liverpool as looserpool. Please, it pisses me off. Let international break finish fess, then we'd knw who d real loser is.

No vess my guy, old habits die hard. As at 2009 when I joined nairaland YNWA meant You Never Win Anything .....That time calling the Merseyside reds "Loserpool" was a generally acceptable term.

Despite the resurrection Klopp pulled off with that team, my autocorect keeps changing it to "loserpool" even when I type otherwise.

In the words of Josh2funny " neighbor u no go vess"

iamoyindamola:
Never knew this
Too hell with them and their ugly ass sef, those old fvckers ain't beautiful sef

My guy Don vex.

You know with the advent of technology all these gadgets can be used to detonate explosives, so as security precautions they definitely won't allow outsiders coming into the villa to carry around their gadgets especially if those guests will be meeting VVIPs like the president and the VP in the course of their visit. Dem no wan hear monkey shoot bird him mama fly.

raumdeuter:
If govt now invite representatives of the youth to table their grievance and they dont go. Who loses?

The government actually don't need to invite anybody to know the grievances of the youth. They have eyes and ears on the social media, they have people monitoring newspaper articles, publications and FB posts that appears to be overly critical of the government; sometimes they do react to some of these criticism sources.

Osinbajo actually needed those guys' presence for political reasons; all those okoto about inviting representatives of the youth to table their grievances is capping jare.

It's like saying Tinubu/Sanwoolu don't hear what people have been saying about alpha-beta,how management of state of Lagos finances has been shrouded in secrecy, etc ......only for them to say they are inviting the youth to come and talk about their grievances.

I guess we all learn everyday. Following yesterday's Saka goal that was ruled offside, I just couldn't help but do my own research to really understand why that goal was ruled offside. Well, it seems the VAR wasn't wrong afterall.

So it is established that for a player not be offside, there must be at least two opponents behind when a pass is being played to him. In fact, it used to be 3 opposing players that were required in the past before it was reviewed to 2 ( the goalkeepr inclusive)

The rationale behind this is that ; Without the offside rule, long balls could be kicked directly towards team-mates placed in the opposition goal area and would prove to be too effective, thereby reducing the element of skill and strategy in football games.

I decided to share for educational purposes.

Links : https://olympics.com/en/featured-news/offside-rule-football-history-referee-var

https://www.theukrules.co.uk/rules/sport/football/offside-rule.html

Akinbahm:
I am not bias to that extent haba, all in all we all argue for the better of the club.

Let’s enjoy the beautiful moment it’s been awhile. Arteta sha wan proof say he fit carry Arsenal load, I dey wait for him in June.

Issorait

iamoyindamola:
No people were angry not because they went to see the VP
It was taaooma that was confessing like mother confessor, that's when people start talking did we send you message, did mr macaroni follow you guys, why did you go in the first place

Actually people are angry because they went to see the VP, they didn't deem it necessary to mention this to their "fans" until gistlover broke the news and then it was assumed they definitely went for an ignoble purpose; hence why they failed to own it up till gistlover did its thing.

Gistlover is a major factor the whole thing turned out the way it is; gistlover's opinion about the whole visit shaped most commenters' opinion . Some of them explained their phones were taken from as part of security measures before they could meet the VP, that's why they couldn't post pictures before the VP handlers did.

In my own personal opinion, I think most of those guys were shallow minded and didn't consider widely how their honoring the VP's invitation would hurt their craft, if they did I'm sure they would trade places with Debo macaroni typing glowingly of how they turned down his invite and how they will never sit down with our oppressors...blah ...blah. I think they were used either by the VP for whatever publicity he needed them for, but they made it possible by getting too excited without thinking too deeply about possible consequences of such visit.

I don't think the curses and abusive words being hurled at these guys are necessary, some of these probably felt honored to be invited by the Vice President of their country.

These ones collect whopping sum of $20,000 each as far back as 1996 for boycotting a tounament in solidarity with Abacha "the tyrant". I hope these ones are not part of the people that call Abacha a thief because dem self follow chop our yam o no matter how u take look am.

donstan18:
You’re even going far, it’ll take one post from Gistlover to influence people reporting their accounts and getting their accounts permanently disabled.

E no dey hard Instagram celebrities/influencers to go down. That’s why they don’t hesitate to apologize when they offend their followers.

Exactly ! Most of the Instagram celebrities/influencer nearly had high blood pressure when whatsapp, FB and Instagram were down recently. That shows how much they depend on the app for their daily bread and will do anything to retain accounts.

Emmynator:
Some of these instragam comedians went to visit the vice president Yemi Osinbajo and to my greatest surprise they were criticized by their "fans" for it and to my even greater surprise they started apologizing.
It was just funny to me.
What are they apologizing for?
I think it's an insult to the vice presidency.

I also find it funny but then I understand why they needed to apologize; these guys practically feed off the number of followers that follow, view, like and comment on their craft. If these "fans" u see criticizing their move decide to boycott their contents most of those skit makers will go back to being just some random Nigerian youth with talent struggling to make ends meet.

As regards the people criticizing their move, I think those ones feel betrayed cos they believe there is a generally shared dislike for the ruling class by the youth (particularly against the APC government at the central); they feel anybody that sits and dine with them is an enemy of the Nigerian youth.

As regards what you refer to as "insult to the vice presidency" ....... I will not lie to u, nobody respects the office of the vice presidency, not even the presidency itself. The vice president that doesn't get handed over to when the president goes on his globe trotting, the vice president whose aides were sacked by the presidency without recourse to him, the vice president that most people have come to see as condolence minister. I'm sure the vice president must have been used to getting insulted by now. The fact that he's still the vice president today suggests that.

Akinbahm:
Wait, is it because of the trolling u want me to acknowledge the Defence, Let’s play Looserpool first.

Well, whatever the outcome of the match vs Loserpool is, this team has done well for itself up till this moment and the the majority of players responsible for that good run of games are the defenders u choose not to reckon with.

Even if we win league sef and our defenders make EPL team of the year I know say u no go still acknowledge them.

Akinbahm:
Since you want me to go through that chain of midfield over defense bla bla I will troll with you.

Bro, the defense are now composed and or stable but to me (not convinced yet so, I reserved my comment on the entire defense till after Liverpool game).

Leicester match, we pressed them really high for the first 20minutes and got 2goals without sentiment the defense tried that day particularly Ramsdale, Gabriel, Tomiyasu and Partey for their comportment at the back. Imagine that Maddison free kick land inside net nah that day kokane, sod and some go come for Arteta head fully because the energy wey Leicester go pose on our head that day kasala go burst open fowl Yansh.

Crystal palace match, immediately our midfield and attack went blunt Palace took advantage and went 2 goals ahead of us without the likes of Zaha and Eze despite scoring before them but immediately we introduced Lacazette there was change upfront and we started to push for an equalizer. The power of a deadly midfield and attack will have shut Palace hope. The player started stop playing because they cannot go toe to toe in attack so as not to be weary off and be penalized later.

Aston Villa match is another good example of good midfield and attack, they continue pressing hard and got 3 solid goals which destabilized Aston Villa attack and gave us more stability and or confidence.

Tottenham match, lemme fem cause everyone stood out so, no much comment.

All in all, kudos to them all cause they all played like a team which I wish Pepe can also learn and stop his useless individual football as if e b one Messi and the defense department for keeping us in the game despite our attackers being worn out in some matches.

All u are have posted is just whataboutism and nothing else..... Let me ask u, why do u like to major in the minor?

Here u are doing everything possible not to give the defence full credit they deserve by asking what if Zaha and eze had played against Palace? What if Maddison's freekick had not been saved by Ramsdale etc. Why not just focus on th3 events that happened from the beginning of the season to this point?

You and kokane actually made it a point of duty to troll Ur own club each match day in Ur bid to say " I told u so". The same energy u used to do that "defence wins u league" campaign, can't u just use it to acknowledge the defence u so much down played it's importance?

Can u just use that same energy u used in typing the posts below acknowledge the defence as well?

Akinbahm:
My brother you see ehn, we needed to extend Kola and Xhaka contract and add 2 proven defenders.

Our transitioning from the back is a top notch and I hope you are seeing the front 4 of Auba, Saka, Smith and Ode(hunter) wey dey disturb man city defence.

We are in it with this corporate coach. I dey look between Xhaka and Arteta who go get the letter fess.

Akinbahm:
No my brother, that defence needs serious attention in fact, I wouldn't mind he sign one more centre back since we are aiming for the Epl title .

Akinbahm:
My brother, chei we don sign that back up keeper and Biko tell Arteta we still need like two more CBs.

Akinbahm:
Baba, when we dey talk say the midfield need overhaul you think say we dey troll?

Midfield is the heart of every team why do you think Pep splash 100 for grealish and not defender? When midfield is shocked tell me how opposition wan break it.

Van dirk wasn't that spectacular the way media portrayed him am not beefing his success bro those trio for Liverpool really covered for him big time and he does his job diligently by organizing the defenders to position well in case the opposition find means to break through the middle or through flank.

iamoyindamola:
That right especially when the Gabriel couldn't break in to start when we paraded the clowns

I don't know if it's lapse of time or u just chose to forget delibartely, but let me refresh Ur memory a little bit. Gabriel joined arsenal in spetember 2020, he won Arsenal's player of the month of September 2020, October 2020 and december 2020.

This right here has rendered Ur agenda null and void. At this point I feel u just have a personal agenda against him.

I know if arsenal miraculously win the league and Gabriel is awarded POTY u will still find a way to pin his individual achievement to how Smith-Rowe, Partey and Odegaard step up their game to deliver the award to him

iamoyindamola:
Lmao
When was Gabriel bought, when did we start the midfield argument

I believe this is a rhetorical question. Gabriel was signed the same period with Partey. Yet u believe the club prioritised defence to the detriment of midfield when both signings happened.

iamoyindamola:
Then they tagged them clowns, all we said is bring back saliba and Dino
Sell them mustafi and co, leave the manageable ones like holding,chambers and Mari
I'm tired abeg

Well, the club management in their wisdom has sold the clowns and left the manageable ones like Holding, Chambers, and mari. We've seen how those brought in to replace the clowns have played thus far compared to those clowns.

Instead make u acknowledge the stability our change in guard at the back has brought us, u are struggling to acknowledge a midfield u once ( no not once, twice or thrice) acknowledged to be neglected and not given priority. I'm sure u were waiting for us to be on some losing streak and then u will come up with the trolling mantra "defence wins u league" that u + Akin and kokane have adopted as Ur motto on this thread.

As of today our most important players are Ramsdale, Gabriel, Tomiyasu, White, Smith-Rowe, White, Tavres, Partey and Saka ( in no particular order) yet none of these players is a midfielder that was brought in after your midfield agenda started.

I hear say na bàbà Wenger give the boys inspiration for this celebration

Akinbahm:
Blueraydick, all our midfielders stepped up their game and despite stepping up we still see some errors in them even the so called Partey was once criticized here this season.

I wish we are in Europe make fatigue set in, this squad being worn out to face a fresh legs of Leicester and Watford if we gonna still have this convo.

Now, to support my midfield agenda which I didn’t even pushed for, Lacazette was to midfield and we all notice this in our matches he started with the way he presses high, now imagine the likes of bloody Xhaka, inexperienced ESR, new comer Odegaard on & off willock any where belle face Nketia brought their useless form of last season to this season you no go dey over hype this defense by the time opposition wan kill them with mad pressing.

This is just whataboutism and nothing more. We are talking of what is currently happening here and u are talking of " imagine"....Like seriously?

Arsenal is number 5 on the log due their good runs of games in the month of spetember and October. Their best player in the month of September is a defender, the best player for the month of October is a goalkeeper. But we should give the midfield full kudos for our turn in fortune this season..

Na wa ó, the kind level agenda dey push people to these days.

Akinbahm:
It pains me a lot when this argument pop up am battling with a big boil on my forehead which is giving me a serious headache I will have love to put mouth.

These boys are enjoying their days let them enjoy. I was even surprised none mention about not playing in Europe which added to this squad prowess, Arteta having time to implement his last year failed tactics.

No matter the points the both parties pen out we won’t still agree with each other because of the hidden agenda.

Truly the defense have done a good job but I will give it those clowns we let go because it’s not easy to switch from one pattern to another pattern after reaching one peak or almost at one peak that’s why I keep respecting Luiz, Leno, Auba and Laca that’s why I don’t abuse them much it’s not easy to be sincere.

You people talking defense improved why won’t they, imagine playing from the back style pattern introduced right from Emery’s regime till Arteta regime without improving is a failure on the players and not the coach Leno got it wrong because he was not so comfortable starting a play from the back and or he dropped form.

Kudos to the defense but neglecting the midfield is a total hypocrisy.

In one breath u agree the defence in doing a good job and then u end us saying u give to the clowns we let go....how?

It's like most of u people here forget things too quickly and then u assume others do too. This is not the first season we are playing from the back. When we beat man city in Arteta's first meeting with Pep, played from the back in the build-up to our goal. We did same against Liverpool too.

What u need to know is that those matches had to force the coach play 3 CB's because judging by the quality of players we had in our books playing the CB's would've been disastrous. Now that the coach is confident in the players he had at the back he's using 2 CB's who have proven to be reliable thereby leaving the midfield and attack ro do their thing.

Abeg just appreciate the defence for their recent good showings and move on.

iamoyindamola:
Here we go again
I was only attending to jodera post
I didn't even know I shouldn't have talk about it today

As u come don talk am nko bayi? Na to finish wetin u start o