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forgiveness:
Warming bench were? At Liverpool? It is understandable.

At Bournemouth, he never warm bench.

As a youth player, because England has too many good players that even their U21 team can easily make the staring 11 of our national team. Gbam!

Really? How many matches did he play this past season and how many did he start? Bhuhahahaha

forgiveness:
The English has still produced better than than Nigeria has ever produced in her history even till date, they have better players than us.

But Solanke aint one of those better players

forgiveness:
You, What do you know?

Do you know how many English players that are languishing in the academy or lower leagues despite being English?

The English has still produced better than than Nigeria has ever produced in her history even till date, they have better players than us.

So, be humble.

Chai was that why Solanke is still a bench warmer/youth team player till morrow, while Origi already is a gold medalist? Bhuhahahaha

forgiveness:
Solanke sent Origi on loan. Fact


Divock Origi vs. Dominic Solanke – Forwards going head-to-head to remain at Liverpool this summer


Matt Ladson
21 June 2018

[b]A year ago, Dominic Solanke won the battle in pre-season against Divock Origi, it’s a situation the two find themselves in again this [/b]year.

When Jurgen Klopp lines up his side for their opening pre-season friendly at Chester in just over a fortnight he’ll have some strong options in defence and midfield.


The early domestic friendlies will see two XIs each playing 45 minutes, and we’ll get the likes of Andy Robertson, Alberto Moreno, Nathaniel Clyne, Virgil van Dijk, Joe Gomez, Ragnar Klavan and Joel Matip in defence.

In midfield, there will be new signings Fabinho and Naby Keita, plus James Milner, Gini Wijnaldum and Adam Lallana.

Youngsters Harry Wilson and Ben Woodburn will feature prominently, looking to do enough to remain in the first-team picture in the new season.

But with the front three of Sadio Mane, Roberto Firmino and Mohamed Salah all at the World Cup, it’s in attack that there will be the biggest opportunity for players to shine.

Most notably, it presents a straight head-to-head between two players who found themselves in a similar position a year ago; Dominic Solanke and Divock Origi.


Last summer’s pre-season saw Solanke move ahead of Origi in Klopp’s thoughts, scoring in friendlies against Crystal Palace, Hertha Berlin and Athletic Bilbao.

Origi, three years Solanke’s senior, needed to be playing regularly and sought assurances from Klopp which he couldn’t be given and the Belgian headed out on loan while Solanke became the main back-up to Firmino.


Origi’s loan at Wolfsburg was pretty unsuccessful; scoring seven goals in 36 appearances for the German side.

It must be noted though that a change of manager mid-season, plus tactics that frequently switched and didn’t get the best from the player, didn’t work in Origi’s failure.

That tally of seven goals was disappointing, especially given that he’d scored double figures despite a peripheral role in his two seasons previous at Anfield.


That, though, perhaps shows that had Origi remained at Liverpool, he’d have scored close to double figures again – which would be more than Solanke managed.

It’s very difficult to imagine that had Origi not gone out on loan that he’d have scored more than one goal all season.

This is, after all, a player who showed great promise in the early months under Klopp and scored home and away against Borussia Dortmund in the Europa League.

When Solanke arrived last summer from Chelsea, initial reports claimed he would actually be joining the Under-23s squad initially.

But clearly an ambitious player, he forced his way into Klopp’s plans and ahead of Origi in pre-season. He was then the primary back-up to Firmino, even if most appearances arrived as late cameos from the bench.

A full league debut at Stoke in November pointed at an increased involvement as we headed into winter, but that never materialised and he started just twice more until the heavily rotated side that lined up at Everton in April.


In the meantime, he somehow fell behind Danny Ings in Klopp’s thoughts, with the injury-hit Englishman starting against West Brom instead of Solanke. Only to then be back ahead of Ings for the final game of the season, starting and scoring his first goal for the club against Brighton.

It was a confusing season then for the Londoner and he now finds himself in a very similar position to a year ago.



Opportunity knocks


We’re very likely to see Origi and Solanke play 45 minutes each as the centre-forward in these early friendlies; with the likes of Wilson, Ings, Woodburn, Kent and Ojo as the wider forwards.

Origi, who missed out on Belgium’s squad for the World Cup, has been doing personal training over in America while on vacation in Los Angeles; clearly he knows the importance of taking the opportunity this summer where he failed to last year.

With Firmino’s Brazil likely to progress far in the World Cup, the Reds’ No.9 won’t be involved in pre-season until the sixth friendly – against Man City in New Jersey – at the very earliest. Even then, he won’t be playing full 90 minutes. There’s a huge opportunity for Solanke and Origi to impress.

Rhian Brewster‘s injury will keep him out until late August so despite being fast-tracked to the first-team he won’t be involved early on.


What’s likely is that Klopp will go with Firmino, Salah, one of Origi or Solanke, plus Brewster as his central options.

It’s a head-to-head between the two and pre-season will decide who wins the chance to remain at Anfield in 2018/19.

Says the English media, the same people that said Solanke was the best thing since slized bread just bkus of his usual youth soccer exploits that never amount to nothing. Bhuhahahaha

forgiveness:
Factually speaking.

Even after the plenty of matches u just showed us he played? Bhuhahahaha

andrew444:
Thats shows his maturity , brahimi is a striker right?

The guy from qatar league is always starting ahead of him

Brahimi plays mainly as a LWF, so it is the guy(Belaili) from Esperance of Tunisia that is playing ahead of him. Interestingly, he isnt even the first name off the bench whenever Belaili or Bounejah is subbed off

andrew444:
Egypt vs Ghana, did they play in the final in the 2008 afcon?

2010 rather

andrew444:
Surprised , only 1 game in this afcon so far

Funny enough, my man isnt complaining ooo. He is even acting as though he was there as a playercoach. He is solidly behind his team and the decision of Djamel(their coach). This is rare, considering his status

forgiveness:
Origi lacked game time yet he played 43 matches for Liverpool before he was loaned out to Wolfsburg?

How can you claim Origi lacked game time without putting this stats into consideration but you quickly gave us Solanke's stats to support your argument that he had game time?

If Origi played 43 matches and had 2081 minutes of game time, what game time did Solanke get with 726 minutes despite the 27 games he played?

How does Origi getting 2,081 minutes tantamount to lack of game time?

Origi had enough game time but was loaned out because Liverpool agreement with Solanke before he signed for was that he must get game time forced that move.

Besides, Solanke was the MVP of the U20 world cup that year and still went ahead to perform in Liverpool's preseason that year.

7 goals with 1 assists for a18 years old Solanke in his first professional career is very impressive.

You can't even compare it with Sadiq Umar who had already played in Seria A for two seasons before coming to the Eredivise.

Honestly, you are bias and subjective in analyzing your point.

In essence, Solanke chased Origi out of Liverpool bhuhahahaha

Anybody know why Yacine Brahimi hasn't been playing?

Danielnino00:
What will u now say about Saint Kitts and Nevis? Saint Vincent and the Grenadines . Cook Island.. Marshall island ?

Reunion and vanuatu nko

Danielnino00:
Solanke chased Origi out of Liverpool" lol
I remember a certain moniker here that supported the argument (I'm sure u can guess who )
He most likely made that statement out of hatred for Osimhen.. Origi lack of game time at Liverpool back then was due to the fact that Klopp doesn't play with a true 9. He prefers Firmino as a false9 ..Origi time and time again had proved to be a very reliable back up striker... He just wanted more game time so he could play at the world cup.... Solanke played 27 games and got just one goal!!
To tell u how overrated Solanke is,he scored just 7 goals in 25 games in the Dutch league...a league which ironically Sadiq Umar, another player Southgate has continually belittle on this thread scored 5 goals (and 3 assists) in 12 games...

To me, Komekn's opinions in here, most of the time, are as useless as a cow dung

Jarus:
I'm not sure Ghanaians will support Nigeria.

I have seen them support an European opposition against NIgeria in a WC match.

If Nigeria wins this, we will match their 4 AFCON trophy record - their main bragging point . I'm sure most will not like that. So don't rule out Ghanaians supporting Algeria against Nigeria.

It is normal where there is rivalry. No one wants to be upstaged. Ghanaians will root for Algeria just as Egypt will root for Nigeria. It is hard to wish a rival good.


Egypt versus Ghana finals in 2010, there was a wild jubilation where I saw the match, somewhere in Abia State. I particularly was so happy when Gedo scored that goal

andrew444:
Na wa o

Football no be all about jam body nah

Even Iwobi Na soft player ,also awaziem but they are doing well

Awaziem a soft player? Dont be deceived by his physique, boy is damne rugged. Did u not see him against bassogog, Njie, mothiba et al?

drDoom3:
Confirmed! We are wearing the dark green away jersey, the one we wore against Madagascar. Algeria will be wearing their All-White home jersey

Wow this is great, I showed it to my newest babe, she was so happy that she promised to come over by the weekend. Thanks for sharing

TheSuperNerd:
Yet the lad remain grounded, focused, hungry for glories and humble in his rise.
Look at another side to his class as he approached a Bafana Bafana player (Zungu, the mouth maker) to pat him some consolation. Such magnanimity shown....

Yes buh tell him and Iwobi to go shave of this dirty hair. Awaziem's looks better bkus he's got beards to complement his

See Nerdy we have always known this guy and his lies in here. Like I always say, those hailing his stupidity in here are the low lives who cant tell their right from their left.

I dont really see Algeria as a threat, especially now that Atal is out.

Place Chucks on the right side to force Bansebaini to retreat, and leave Belaili alone with Awaziem.

Place Musa on the left to born out whoever will be stepping in for Atal, to cut out the support Mahrez always enjoys from their RB

Play Ighalo upfront to make himself a nuisance to disorganise Benlamri and Mandi

Lock up the midfield with Ndidi and Etebo and allow Iwobi to roam.

Please play Balo ahead of Ekong. Ekong is too shaky and too prone to errors(misplaced passes). We really need need to avoid mistakes.

darkelf:
I am a Bonafide Nigerian and I love the Super Eagles

In the beginning, I had doubts about this team but they are gradually winning me over with their attitude on the field of play

But I know one fact; everybody cannot say positive things about the Super Eagles all the time. We are created different and we think differently.

Hence, it only makes sense to respect the opinions of others no matter how silly they may sound.

Granted, we give each other a hard time here by yabbing and making jokes about our wrong predictions and what nots but this should never degenerate to insults.

Some of us here have a hard time swallowing the opinions of others and cannot make intelligent arguments without insulting the other party. Times without number, I have called out some of these people. While some apologize and retract their statements, others remain adamant and choose not to admit their wrongs.

I want to believe we all possess a level of intelligence to converse on this thread and what differentiates the mature minds from kids is the ability to question opposing arguments with facts and without rude remarks.

I am calling on us especially those of us who are elders to act accordingly:

You don't have to reply every rude remark.

You are not in control of the other persons thoughts and opinions; positive and negative

I also want to believe that you (the agggressor) don't feed the aggressee neither do you clothe or pay his house rent . So the person can oppose you when he wants albeit intelligently.

ccSuperNerd, Chriskels, Icon4s, elyte89, Odunayaw, Earthquake3, Joebie, andrew444, Chrisoblog, safarigirl, Kog45, Mujtahida, Charlesemeka, Komekn, Forgiveness, Jarus, Mikael2, DrLikita, soetanoreoluwa, sontoly and those whose names I cant remember.

Stay blessed and Stay happy y'all

Up Super Eagles, Go for glory

Bro, u just melted my heart with this write up. U truly are a good man

andrew444:
Shut up little man

Person wey predict Madagascar final and naija to comot I go call the person mumu ,abi shey Na you ?

Abegi

Sorry bro, but u act like u are mentally unstable some times. Really sorry to say this, I mean u no insult.

andrew444:
And some people think Madagascar will win Tunisia just because they won Nigeria ? Very mumu people ,because one country beat your team you think they will beat others team

Even one other guy said they will make final ? I have been waiting for today

I predict dr Congo to knock them out but they scaled through with a penalty

End of the road for Madagascar

4 of the best African teams in semi final

2 North Africa teams and 2 west Africa

So bkus they made a simple and harmless prediction, dey automatically became mumu to u? So what do u call urself that predicted a win for DR CONGO and missed? A dunce?

The way u talk sometimes ehh smh

andrew444:
Mahrez is still good

yes but not as good as he once was

elyte89:
I disagree, he didn't render salah useless

Salah created two clear cut chances for trezeguet to bury d game, and he missed those chances,salah was crowded most times by d SA players

They knew d game plan, mark out salah and render d whole team useless,even @ dt he was able to create chances

okay

charlesemeka85:
Finally my boss Don Sabi watch Ball let me come and go before him go slap me

so I no sabi watch ball before?

I go send u enter semid list oo

darkelf:
Thanks mahrez shehu faced isn't the Man city mahrez.

I'm banking on Rohr to make adequate prep against them but I doubt awaziem would be enough. My opinion please. No insults

Shehu faced a better mahrez. the EPL player of the year. today's mahrez is a shadow of his old self. forget the club he now plays for(mainly as a bench warmer,though)

charlesemeka85:
And I'm glad that the kid have proved me wrong but Rohr has his own reasons for his decisions as I stated in my previous post.

If you notice last night chukwueze tracked back alot to help out in defence which is a good addition in his you g blossoming career. Rohr dropping him after the first match and added to the instruction in training so far is working out for good. He will never learn or improve if he is not disciplined and cautioned

Agreed bro.

one thing I noticed yesterday;

Chucks had no specific role yesterday, hence ,didn't help awaziem that much, yet awaziem was totally inexpugnable. one minute Chucks was there as a RW, next he was a SS, next he was orchestrating attacks in the MF

charlesemeka85:
When we get to that bridge we will cross it. Shehu hv faced Mahrez so I see no reason why awaziem can't handle him. If Salah can be shut out by the southies then same can happen to Mahrez n Co u mentioned

At the bolded, did u know that, that same SA left back that single-handedly rendered Salah useless was pants before Chucks

charlesemeka85:
ABIA!

coming from same guy who was against giving Chucks a Chance. u even went as low as making bogus claims that simon had created more chances than Chuks.

bro u are too sacred of taking risks or trying new means. fear-fear man no dey grow oo. be inventive and daring. u are being a pessimist here

darkelf:
About this.....Awaziem was solid yesterday. Same as Collins but to be honest, I'm eager to see what they can pull against Zaha, Ounas, Mahrez et al.

Understand that I'm not rubishing their efforts ooo. Far from it but they haven't exactly faced wingers with the quality of the players I just listed

But some misguided fellows didn't think through this line when they said pvssy Tau was gonna have him for lunch in the absence of Simon. To them, prior that match, taofeek, sorry tau was even an upgrade on zaha, mahrez and ounas

one thing I love about awaziem is his ruggedness, u can never bully him no matter ur size and physicality. I saw him against the trickiest winger in the world last two seasons (neymar), hence ,I ain't losing sleep over taofeek'ed, mahrez, zaha and ounas

darkelf:
I expected scouts to have jostled for his signature after his season in Stoke but his performance in this tourney should give premiership teams something to think about

So far in this afcon, dude has played with swagger similar to Nice's Jean Seri

He is leaving stoke for a better club this Summer

TheSuperNerd:
Liverpool ex-player, Don Hutchinson on Chukwueze via twitter


“What a player mate. English clubs won’t have the balls to go for him. I’ve told loads of scouts/coaches Etc about him! Going right to the top.”


An English man said that. A bonafide English man... Komekn won't like this.

I have always told u guys to stop taking that wannabe seriously

Icant believe Iam saying this, but etebo has been my best midfielder and most consistent player in this tournament. Yes I labelled him a Carpenter, buh boy is killing it .

someone should plz find Mikel a super glue on that bench