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Ejuke is a better dribbler who destabilizes opposition defenses while Dennis has so far shown he has better end product in terms of goals and assists.

forgiveness:
Dennis is more of a striker than a winger and that is where he thrives most.

Why do you think both are better than Lookman?

Sorry sir but the bold is debatable. Ademola is talented quite alright but he hasn't blown me away the times I've watched him.

Ejuke on the other hand has been very instrumental for CSKA this season. More importantly for Nigeria Ejuke's impact has been very noticeable with better end product he could become unplayable in the GWG.

Dennis and Moses can play the LW. Even Iwobi too so we are not short changed on the left side infact we are over blessed in terms of players available in that position.

forgiveness:
What if Dennis and Ejuke starts as a CF and LW respectively and we needed to substitute Ejuke due to football reasoning, who replaces him?

We need to use make shift players if you have a equally better player in a position.

Is Lookman better than Ejuke? Of course.

Is Emmmuel better than Lookman? It’s up for debate.

Dennis is more of a winger who can also operate in the forward position. He can play LW and RW.

Ejuke has also shown he can play the LW role fairly well for club and country.

Adding Lookman is an overkill for me, especially considering there are other areas where we need reinforcement.

forgiveness:
Why was he included in the provisional list if it has not been completed?

Besides, let us critically analyze the forward list into-to.

10 forwards were listed and if we add Ejuke, we have 11 forwards.

Now, where can these players function along the front line?

We have CF, SS, AMF, LW and RW.

As far as I am concern, we have a total 4 natural CFs in the team because I am not sure of Osimhen’s fitness.

CF
1. Odion Ighalo
2. Taiwo Awoniyi
3. Emmmuel Dennis
4. Umar Sadiq

SS
5. Iheanacho Kelechi

AMF
6. Alex Iwobi

RW
7. Samuel Chuks
8. Chidera Ejuke

LW
9. Simon Moses
10. Ahmed Musa

*Osimhen (Fitness not confirmed)

The weakest position is the LW. This is where Ademola Lookman comes in.

Is Simon or Musa better than Lookman on that LW?

Apparently, Lookman is better than most of the wingers on the list.

Musa na government pikin na

Not sure Lookman is an upgrade on Simon. Yes Moses has been annoying in the GWG lately but he has tournament experience and to be fair has performed better club wise in comparison to Ademola.

Philosopher1979:
Ademola Lukman should replace either of Moses Simon or Ahmed Musa in the wings or attack.
Simon lacks motivation for laying for us while Musa is living on past glory

We already have enough decent wingers, rather we add Calvin Bassey

forgiveness:
Ademola Lookman should replace him.

zuchyblink:
Friendly match:Coton sports vs Super Eagles

still need a proper test against any national team. Hopefully they can quickly arrange one against one of the countries camping in Cameroon when they arrive.

darkelf:
Lol

Very funny take
I said the same thing last season

If Komekn had said this about Tammy Abraham now, y'all will be crying foul

He was bang average last season and has not shown rogers why he should deserve a starting spot

KC Nacho is just all hype, no substance

No worry, this AFCON go clear una eye

All hype and no substance won FA cup playing a major role plus was named epl player-of-the-month and finished is Leicester City's highest goal scorer for the season. Please help us list Tammy Abrahams achievements apart from local government local champion

charlesemeka85:
18 games so far in the Spanish 2nd tier no goal and assist

His last official assist and goal was from last season

hmm anyway AFCON is just around the corner let's see how it goes one agenda must surely die sha

don't trust Nwakali and his workrate. Decent attacking lineup

ChrisKels:
I would want two or three scrimmages before the actual tournament, with Ndidi, Nwakali and Aribo as the midfield three in the fashion below;


..............................Osimhen.................................
.............Dennis..................................SamChuks.....

.....................................Aribo.................................

.......................Ndidi....................Nwakali................

Final

safarigirl:
Is this the final list? Or will they drop some players after camp?

Too early to say but this will probably be my starting XI against Egypt


Uzoho

Aina, Balogun, Awaziem, Zaidu

Ndidi, Aribo

Chukwueze, Iwobi, Ejuke

Dennis

If Osimhen is fully fit Dennis replaces Chukwueze and Victor goes on top.

Young, dynamic and offensive line up

The only little consolation I have is that the AFCON is a tournament you can get away with shitty selection. Try this at the WC and you will surely get found out.

Something Zidane could do blindfolded.

Even that Under 17 player Abdullahi I think used to pull that of frequently

TheGoodJoe:

They have the skills but space is harder now. A treat from Bolasie.

https://thumbs.gfycat.com/InformalLavishGermanwirehairedpointer-max-1mb.gif

The players of then also didn't have the protection the modern ones have now. When defenders will be tackling you anyhow from the back, side and front. Maradona that suffered a leg break and still recovered to lead Argentina to WC glory. If anyone should as much as breath on Messi he will be sent off.

There isn't any current player that has wowed me with any piece of skill that I haven't seen before. Was watching Van Basten at the 88 Euros on youtube the other day. Men forget the man was a confirmed baller but alas injuries.

TheGoodJoe:

You can not say the skill rate of the players of the past are miles ahead of the current set because they did not deal with the kind of intensity we are seeing in football today. Now almost all teams are serious with nutrition, fitness, tactics etc. It is more difficult now.

So those guys could be sublime then but it will not be that easy today.

Honestly! His spot could have easily been assured in place of Noble, Shehu but hey what do I know?

Utonwanne:
No Calvin Bassey

This is where I've constantly disagreed with Goodjoe. You can interrogate the work rate of players like Zidane, Maradona, Ronaldo el fenomeno, Socrates in comparison to today's generation but for their skill, football intelligence and technical ability is still miles ahead of this current bunch for me.

Mujtahida:
He says people like El phenomeno will find it hard to break down defences. I would have agreed if we currently do not have attackers posting double digits goals in a season.

Why 4 goalkeepers? Why Ndah? Shehu has the nudes of all NFF members not just former coach Rohr.

No Akpoguma or Ebuehi?

Attack is about the strongest we have at the moment no issues.

Midfield still threadbare but decent. Personally don't support Nwakili's inclusion but we don't have any clear good options. So his inclusion is more of a throw of the dice/inshallah gamble for me.

Now on in team has my full backing

Go Super Eagles

Legendarytotow:
Super Eagles AFCON LIST

Merry Christmas Everyone

yeah I meant the new one.

Eizzy003:
Not the Ikom bridge, there is another bridge that has been built at the border linking Ikom and Cameroon

NFF already announced Air Peace will airlift the SE to their base in Cameroon

humility33:
Is that we can't afford plane fees to take this players to Cameroon Or the Peace airline deal is no longer existent I don't understand why risk the lives of the players or make them travel for hours to Cameroon via road ?

I told u the Pinnick apologists cooked up the story to put the Dare led sport ministry in bad light as the reason why the NFF want them in awka Ibom instead of abuja... there is no such plans by the NFF to take them to Cameroon via road

Yeah the Ikom bridge but I'm not sure how good the roads are in Cameroon.

do4luv14:
have y OK u been following recent developments

a Bridge had been built directly into Cameroon, or don't you knew of it yet

Done

Danielnino00:
kindly quote the original post to make it easier to count the nomination..
I might miss your nominations and void it...

I nominate Andrewbaba, Goodjoe and 12large

Danielnino00:
Good afternoon ladies and gentlemen.
Sequel to my post yesterday where I expressed my intention to take over the responsibility of organising the annual Nairaland Nigeria Football award as requested by Icon4s this year, I'm glad to announce that the award would go ahead as planned, and I'll be coordinating it with Drklever.

Three people from this thread will join the nomination committee alongside me and Drklever, with icon4s being a honorary member.

On this note, members of the thread are to nominate 3 monikers they wish to be part of the committee. Unlike how it was previously done where we would nominate only one moniker, I suggest we nominate 3 each so as to make it more flexible and have more people nominated.
Here's how the nomination selection will be sorted;
3 points would be awarded to the first name nominated, 2 points to the second and 1 point to the last.
Example: I nominate Danielnino00, Drklever and icon4s. in this case, Danielnino00 will have 3 nomination point, Drklever will have 2 and icon4s will have 1.
At the close of the nomination process, the 3 monikers with the most points will be added to the committee. Any moniker that's selected to the committee but doesn't wish to participate for any reason whatsoever will be replaced by the another one from below the top 4.
Nomination starts now and close on Monday, December 27th 2021.

Thank you.

I nominate Andrewbaba, Goodjoe and 12large

Na I disagree Osimhen is stubborn yes but he's also a professional. Anything he says his club will absolutely be in the know.

Notice he only made the declaration soon after his protective masked arrived.

For me it's not a do or die matter for him to play at this AFCON. His health and wellbeing always comes first, however it's not a strange thing to play with a mask. Just last season Rudiger wore a mask. Many years back after Cech suffered that horrendous head injury that we thought he would be out for the season he showed up barely few months later wearing a protective head covering so it's not unusual.

I'm cool waiting for what the Napoli and SE doctors say reqarding Osimhen's participation at the afcon.

komekn:
I actually do not know Osimhen or have ever met him.

But looking at the little we can see of his personality, he is singularly ambitious and stubborn that requires a good degree of not taking advice.

Napoli will have to be insist, otherwise he will even play without mask if the decision was entirely his. His declaration will have come from himself not the doctors.

What's the VISION? What's the PLAN? How do they see the Nigerian national team 10-20 years from now.

In terms of scouting and identifying talented youngsters we still rely on mushroom academies here and there when in truth it's the clubs who ought to be doing bulk of the work.

In times past clubs like Rangers, Shooting Stars, Bendel Insurance had some of the best Nigerian talent where are they?

Governors who control these NPFL clubs either don't care or would rather focus on inanities like going to take picture with Real Madrid president WTF!

Truth is our football system won't change as long as Politicians continue to use football administrative positions as rewards of political patronage. An APC or PDP member has a better chance of getting named sports minister or NFF Chairman than you, Goodjoe, Andrew or anybody else who has sincere passion for Nigerian football.

komekn:
The question is what is the NFF doing to address the problem ,what's the long term plan.

Our local football is in shambles compared to years when our local teams had dominance both local and international. They were the main recruitment ground initially for the larger bulk of SE.

Because to me are football is regressing, look at where our players are playing that have come out of the Nigerian system. And that tell us something.

Very true English players of today by far have good technique. Playing with quality foreign talent like you said has further sharpened and toughened them up to face the rigors of the game. The influence of Guardiola and Kloop on the English football establishment can't be emphasized enough.

komekn:
I do not DISAGREE.

When the English FA looked at the over riding number of kick and rush carpenter footballers they were producing.

They decided complete revamp and regeneration of the entire training culture and strategy was essential.

That change started with the football academies.

New personal , etc Liverpool brought in the former assistant manager at Sao Paulo in Brazil to head up the U12 development. Because they had to start young can't teach an old dog new tricks and mentality.

The best academy in my opinion is Chelsea and Arsenal in the UK.

That's why the game has changed in England for English players they needed to compete with overwhelming number of overseas players that totally dominate the EPL.

The injury was bad sha something that completely fractured the left side of his face is not beans. That said for him to have declared himself available for the AFCON means the Napoli doctors have given him the all clear. Anyway Eguavoen has said it's Napoli that will give the final green light.

Subzero047:
What Osimhen went through was a face injury not even a head injury, The guy should have been ready even before now

Heard he knocked down 28 points in the game before this one. You can't be under the leadership of an absolute beast like Giannis and not improve. Nwora should continue to keep his head down and work hard to be one of the best.

BascoVanVeli:
Danielnino00 look what Jordan Nwora did to somebody's child ooo starts at 58 seconds

BTW this has really been his breakout season.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2sn4nEOnKOk

Trevor Noah got nothing on him

tglobal:
Yes I agree. He won the award of the best premier league player in London (all of 5 clubs). This is better than being the best player in the premier league

I also noticed that he spoke a lot about having a very strong spine in the starting XI including Goalkeeper, Defender, Midfielder and Striker.

From Austin's body language we might see Uzoho reclaim that number 1 spot and then see maybe Balogun and Ndidi form the middle part of the structure. Victor declaring himself available thankfully gives an arrow head to work with.

Ejuke and Chukwueze could likely be his good to men for the wing role.

Honestly listening to Austin work I can appreciate why he was appointed to the technical department. Like you I agree he's not cut out for modern coaching. We still need a tactically sound coach who acknowledges and is keen to fine tune our playing style.

My expectations for this AFCON are still modest but I'm optimistic the team will play with even more intensity and attacking intent.

charlesemeka85:
decent football knowledge but not modern enough to me

Made a lot of reference on resurrecting our traditional wing play and expansive football which I hinted on few days ago nothing more nothing less

Was expecting to hear the tactical input that may be required if the opponent thwart our traditional game play but didn’t get any, may be that will be addressed when need be

There is another point he made which I concur and noticed as one of the issues bedeviling the team for some time now, lack of physical imposing players as we use to have before. I know many will argue that it’s irrelevant but in the African scene it’s goes a long way in helping team must especially the least rated teams.like he said physique mixed with technique and speed will be 100%


With what eguavoen said in the video with regards of how he wants his midfielders to play I think iwobi will be a jewel to him because the Everton man doesn’t shy away from getting the ball or making spaces for opening but very good at one touch football and long passes

On the other side ndidi will learn a lot from the coach because I believe from the video that he has few things ndidi needs to add to his game

Also as a coach who loves his full backs up the pitch aina will definetely shine under him

Correct!

PurpleHouse:
Yessssss!

Love you man!