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Rockyrascal:
we just need this two players early enough in the second half. Am not even sure Bryan idowu knows his role as a LWB.

The only reasonable post came from a none regular. Our fake members were busy destroying the team

Oasis007:
We wailed Mikel offered little as an AM, but both Ndidi and Etebo are offering nothing as CMs in this Match.

Yeah.... the Coach seems overrated by many of us. Almost retracted calling him white Onigbinde, obviously he's an average Coach.

When the Midfield ain't tickling, what do you expect from other Positions?! No penetration, no cohesion, harmless crosses and so on.

Not surprised, he already is well known here.

eterisan:
How do we score with no shot.... Iceland looks like the team that would score.

@Oasis007... When I said ndidi is just a good tackler nothing more, I was criticised on this thread. Some were even saying he's better than Kante.

For me Etebo should come off for iwobi and nacho off for ighalo or simi.... More creativity in midfield and presence in attack.

Dont u ever dine with dis kinda men, dey ditch u when things seem bad and smile wt u when uv got little bucks to through around.

I call dem fake friends. Plastic fans

Joebie:
Na luck we dey wait for now o. Because so far Iceland deserve to win. But I’d rather be patriotic and be hopeful.

Dem hypocrites always pretending dey are with us

elyte89:
I told ppu DT ndidi Neva play ball since d competition started....d guy is a mess

U r my manest man but u are Sighted

goldfish80:
It's not true. Some believed the hogwash that he(Ndidi) was Liverpool bound. Lol

Sighted. The hypocrites

komekn:
Match is dead no DESIRE, SELF-BELIEF, PASSION, PENETRATION is zero

We are getting bullied all over the pitch.

In my opinion this selection is the worst that we could have presented against Iceland.

Chris the bubbles burster has landed.

Here are the hypocrites

forgiveness:
Abeg make Onazi and Iwobi enter abeg.

Are u for real?

Oasis007:
Ndidi is offering nothing in this Match! We've overrated him sef. He's simply a good Tackler, nothing more!

Are u for real?

TheSuperNerd:
You still dey ask?! Don't worry nwokem, by the time I locate thee via my telepathy powers and land one plank-blow on thy precious head, thine hippocampus will recall the reason for why thy head receives the stroke of an unusual force... Hehehehehehe....

Lol with dis ur agbada?

It's so baffling that the first time we tried out the 352 formation, iwobi and ebuehi were our stand out players, yet they are getting benched today we wanna play it?

#sidondeylook

Bolowolowo:
Our cherished formation...

When I said the best way to get something from Moses is by taking him to the wing back or have him sit, people wanted my head saying he was our best attacking out let

Trust me, what a man sees sitting down, a kid will never see it even if he climbs an iroko tree.


My formation remains; Moses to the LWB and ebuehi RWB while Iwobi partners Iheanacho

I am so happy Coutinho has been their hero so far, not those arrogant boys(Neymar, Jesus and their "put call" crew)

KevinDein:
Is it me or is Neymar such an unlikable player.

Even when he was playing for my darling Barcelona, I never liked him. He and his fellow show boys are the reason I hate the Brazilian team with passion. Coutinho, Miranda, fernadinho et al are my darlings

TheSuperNerd:
Yes... Yes indeed Nwanna. You were right. I go still plank you though. Can't wait for Isaac Success to get it going next season abeg. That young Beast's light must shine.

What did I do to deserve a planking kwanu?

TheSuperNerd:
It was never posted shaa. Na Oga Chriskels just mention am for comment. Him sef no post am. No worry, I go find that guy house knack am your plank.

Can u c he doesn't look that overweight anymore?

TheGoodJoe:
Just passing.....

TheSuperNerd say hi to your pops for me.

Lol big head come back here. Come and take ur undrilled keeper . U no drill am well

TheSuperNerd:
Post a pic naa... Make we see am.

I am so sure if you were so eager to see it, u would find it ASAP. Honestly after seeing some footages of his workouts so far, I was impressed. Atleast he looks fit and the fat seemed to have burnt out.

I pray it turns out a great season for him in the EPL

Nice to see Isaac Success working really hard to get ready for preseason. Seems he's finally changed his lifestyle for good.

That's looking great.

TheSuperNerd:
I already saw this question coming...


Answer will be found out by June 26 even after we win on June 22. But note that the only times we lost our first games and failed to qualify was only against Argentina. Selah.

Thanks for the clarification bro. I didn't know, so I had to ask.

TheSuperNerd:
All I see now are some folks gauging their hearts against "in case we fail".... But if we win, they will pick up their belief again and put it on. As if belief is a cap you can just take off and on at anytime. Omo, if you believe in this team, you believe. If you don't, then sorry, you just don't. One cannot be on the fence on this one.

And someone (Elyte I think) said in 2002, we saw two European teams qualify and it is likely yk happen again. Well I got some additional info for you fella since tlyou wanna use the tool of history....

In 2002, we faced Argentina in our first game and we lost and crashed out.
In 2010, we faced Argentina in our first game, we lost again and we crashed out even when all we needed was a win against Korea but it was not to be sadly. Even Yakubu missed a chance Mbappe buried today.

We have never advanced to the next round after playing Argentina first in a WC edition.

Now look at the next pattern...

In 1994, we played Argentina second and we qualified.
In 2014, we played Argentina third and we still qualified.

We have always qualified from a group having Argentina when we don't play them first. It is funny that the only years we have never advanced from the group stage have been when we feel to Argentina in our first game (2002 and 2010).


Now I know History can be funny some times and sometimes, patterns remain and are sometimes changed but this is the pattern right now.



In 2018, I have a feeling that this will be the year we break this Jinx of never beating a South American team at a World cup ONLY IF WE CAN RISE, SHOW FORTH THE TRUE POWER OF NAIJA AND BEAT ICELAND TOMORROW. Before, it used to the jinx of never beating a south American team at senior level but we broke that jinx properly just last year with that 4-2 win although we did same in 2011 in a 4-1 win over Argentina but that result was never looked upon with the respect it deserves because we played a BC-Class Argentine team then.


The game against Iceland will determine it all. It is indeed the game of our lives and possibly will be the most interesting in Group D yet.

#SoarSuperEagles #IBelieve

Argentina or no Argentina, have we ever lost our first match and still qualified?

Seems no one wanna talk about an experienced Caballero

TheSuperNerd:
Then Sampaoli is what?

Look let Rohr actually fail before you can tag him that because as it stands, He has not failed yet.

Rohr's team is better disciplined than this Argentine wack show of a team we just witnessed. What happens to calling a spade a spade eh?

Argentina is WAAACCCCK!!! And they can be raped by Nigeria as it was in November last year.


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Lol Nerdy our coach says otherwise, to him, Argentina is the best in the world hence should beat us because they have bigger names and they are in top 10 while our team is a young one(project 2022) and in top 50.

Icon4s:
Eh thank you. He is "our" coach and not your coach also.

Ok our national team coach.

Icon4s:
Oga Comot here jare!!!

Your coach is a coward and he believes his team isn't ready for the world cup. He already down played ur win against Argentina saying Messi wasn't there. The latest now is telling us we are in top 50 while our opponents have better ratings, hence we should lose without shame.

That Rohr guy is a big failure, dont expect anything positive from him. If we scaled through, na miracle and all praises should go to the players and fans for proving the negative coach wrong.

gamaliel9:
Our destiny is in our hands but not so for Argentina

Not when u have a coward so inept as a coach. A man full of excuses that he would pass for an excuse of a man and a mistake of a coach.

#RohrOut

forgiveness:
Rohr : Mikel & Moses Are The Star Players In Super Eagles, Others Stars Of The Future

Published: June 21, 2018

Rohr : Mikel & Moses Are The Star Players In Super Eagles, Others Stars Of The Future
Manager Gernot Rohr has explained why there are only a few star players in the Nigeria squad despite the fact that the population of the country is 500 times the population of Iceland.

The German has named former Chelsea midfielder John Obi Mikel and the current Nigerian Player of the Year Victor Moses as the two players that can be classed as stars in the Super Eagles team, and has predicted that the likes of Wilfred Ndidi, Alex Iwobi and Tyronne Ebuehi will be stars of the future.

''Why we don't have star players? It's because we are the youngest team of the World Cup,'' Rohr said at Thursday afternoon's pre-match conference before the start of training.

''We have Obi Mikel, who is a very good player, you can tell that he is a star, we have Victor Moses who is well known everywhere but we have so many young players, they will be stars, I hope so, tomorrow.

''What we have is a team for 2022, because when you are so young, with the goalkeeper and all the other people, they will be better and better. ''

Rohr has reiterated that the Super Eagles are the underdogs in Group D, pointing out that their three rivals Argentina, Croatia and Iceland are ranked higher than his team in the FIFA ranking.

''We are in the top 50 in the world, Iceland is in the top 20 (22), Croatia is in the top 12 (20) and Argentina in the top eight.

''When I see that the matches are so difficult and the scores are so close, we have to learn also, it is not finished after this World Cup for us.

''We want to improve, we want to learn. When you are the youngest, it is not possible, perhaps, to be the best already,'' he added.

Rohr, who penned a two-year contract extension earlier this year, refused to comment on his future with the Nigeria National Team in the event that they lose to Iceland on Friday.

Ifeanyi Emmanuel

http://www.allnigeriasoccer.com/read_news.php?nid=28238

I have never seen a man so timid and hopeless. where did we bring this coward from? I just hope someone is already preparing his sack letter. We cant have such inept coward as a coach and still believe we will improve.

kennysville:
Do we still need evidence that this man is sabotaging all his works and trying to get himself sacked? Well if that list is the team to play, with no creative midfielder, hmmm na long balls be that O! Another useless tactics!

Lol we wanna play dwarves against giants

#sidondeylook

Na sidon dey look I dey now, anything wey Rohr wan do, make him do, all we need na results. If him want, make him bench all his best players, its his call but make him remember say person like me nogo spare him if the result is negative.

forgiveness:
You mean Kouyate doesnt play in Ndidi's position!? Bhuuuhahaha!

You can lie ooooooo.

Wetin be dis?

U see as you rush bring out this stat now, but other stats wey I dey beg u to show, u no gree because e no favour u Lol. Kouyate plays more as a CM and he plays it better than Etebo.

Remember u told me keita Balde will displace Iheanacho neglecting the fact that Iheanacho doesnt play in same position as Balde now Kouyate can no longer bench Etebo just because he is recorded as a DM even though he plays more as a CM

Keep twisting

fabyom:
I checked the world cup team of the week but Kouyate is missing however I can see Etebo on the list. Am I missing something.

Do you know how this argument started? What u just said isn't in line with our discussion. Go through the root or better yet be a spectator to enjoy the show like many others. Thanks

andrew444:
Kouyate plays defensive Midfield central midfield and central back,he has played all this position for westham

Yea but we all know his primary position. No Sane coach will pick Etebo ahead of Kouyate bro.