BascoVanVeli:


Exactly Shehu clearly showed he deserved the nod but yet I am still waiting for someone to tell me what part of the match that he put a foot wrong.

TheSuperNerd:
Who can name the five players missing from this group photoshoot at the Essentuki arena in Russia; venue of the Super Eagles' training base?



You may not notice it but there are only 18 members of the official 23-man list here in this photo in that dressing room at the Essentuki training arena.

So who nails it first? Lol


Note: I have my answers already.

komekn:


You really are chewing and digesting fake news

SerVik:
I feel the problem with this team has always been the lack of a mobile box to box midfielder to link-up the defense with attack. Playing mikel - a slow player as AM means that a mobile midfielder has to literally take the ball to his feet due to his poor tracking back.

In reality, we have failed in this aspect. In the qualifiers, we made Ndidi sit while onazi roamed. Onazi is another immobile midfielder, so instead of moving with the ball, we resorted to long balls, some of which ended up outside the stadium.

Fast forward to our friendlies, we tried Joel in this role and it simply didn't work. We seem to think that we do not need a midfielder that can move with the ball, that we can result to passing the ball right from defensive midfield to attacking midfield. The irony of this is that, we have played against teams that play with compact midfield, that intercept those passes before getting to their targets, that is why we've been complaining that the team seem incapable of stringing 2-3 passes, because the moment they attempt a forward pass, it is almost always intercepted. What the team needs is a midfielder that collects the ball from the DM, moves the ball, creates space with his movements before releasing the ball.

Rohr saw this too that is why he deployed iwobi to this role. It was nice of him to pick up on this but the personnel deployment was wrong.
Yes iwobi moves the ball well, yes he beats his marker, yes he releases the ball when due but he doesn't have the gas to play such energy sapping role. Playing him there also denies the team of his valuable creativity upfront.

My humble deduction; Etebo should play that role, he was born for the role. Before you come for my head, I know about his supposed inconsistencies but those have come in matches where he was play in a restricted AM role. Etebo normally likes running. In the AM role, he doesn't run enough and so doesn't even use up half of his energy reserve. This excess energy that he doesn't let out makes him implode. Etebo has the trickery to evade his markers and he has the ability to release the ball when required. A midfield trio of ndidi-etebo-mikel should have been tried out instead of the Ndidi-iwobi-mikel. The good thing about that midfield is that during the course of the match, Etebo can also drift to the LW, forcing iwobi to move centrally just in front of mikel.

I believe that midfield combination is very flexible and can easily be tweaked as the game progresses. In Ndidi and Etebo we have a combination that have the energy to put pressure on opposition midfield and relieve the defense of unnecessary pressure.

Eleniyan15:




Mikel is better as a Dm with Ndidi both of them got long passes that can connect with iwobi!

MetalJigsaw:
Yes, Iwobi actually played behind Mikel... This is not the Rohr I used to know. He seems lost

signz:


I guess Rohr is over - respecting Mikel.

Mikel wants to play a more attacking role in the squad.

Mujtahida:

Iwobi is more creative than Mikel? Abajo.

From the wings to the center to the very place where Mikel was enthroned. Is it time to crown Alexander? Is it time for him to wear the royal robe?

Oya oo Martz101 come, let me hear your views.

Martz101:


you guys don't know know iwob, he can't stay in that number static...he pass and move, he roam..from side to center.

playing a 4-2-3-1 is not bad with him on the right side of 3 behind the striker but he will do that better with a fast Right back like Ebuehi

playing him inthe 3-5-2 won't be bad too, but don't expect him to be static, iwobi will always pass and move to space and when hos starve of the ball he will come looking for it, that's why you see him behind mikel sometimes

Chamberlane:
D scholarship is real I was privileged to meet an african charity scholar yesterday and to my surprise it was sm1 I knew off cos we wrote agbami 2geda in Port Harcourt and he got both d agbami and d African charity scholarship , so next time don't b quick to.judge on what you don't know

Androidking:


Can I have ur contact...am in OWERRI too.

We fight do bone bone

Androidking:

How far u Don get the game

jaz:
What is the site

omotolsy:
like seriously? Repacked?