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the list was likely submitted before yesterday and like everyone else said it's a head injury but he should be fine

Famocious:
Any justification for the inclusion of Joe Aribo who got injured yesterday?

Ihenacho may likely take his place..

bro easy na wetin bring thunder? overall list is good. no teamlist even that of almighty france or brazil is perfect. as long as the squad contains players who are the best and on form at that moment in time i'm ok with it. Esiti is benefiting from lack of options in the DM position to give Ndidi good competition

Prectega:
Na thunder go kill rohr ..

If estiti play , i will personally swear for him

congrats to olayinka for earning his call up and Azeez for a deserved return to the national team set up.

guess rohr wants to have a good look at esiti before moving to somebody else. overall good list

tbaba1234:
New super eagles list

Esiti is still there

Ebuehi, Maja and Iheanacho dropped

Dennis Bonaventure retains his place..

New invites: Olayinka and Ramon Azeez

yes EPL is ahead but i don't think the french ligue 1 is one you can compare to any russian, dutch or portuguese league. Apart from the steady stream of world class talent (hazard, dembele, bernardino silva) that have of recent been coming out of the league their teams on a good day can face-off and even beat the best EPL. Monaco and Lyon defeated Manchester city in past champions league seasons. The same city that has been wiping the floor with the competition in the premier league. winning with record points totals, record goals, most consecutive wins etc.

French league for now is still below La liga, Bundesliga, EPL and even Serie A but abeg respect that league the talent in there is unquestionable

Danielnino00:
leave Andrew... he just dislike the EPL... pretending to be a man city fan because of his MCM Guardiola

Ligue1 teams are piss poor in European competition.. just one title in ages!! Even the Dutch and Portuguese leagues have done better!

IMO, if u take out PSG from the French league, it would be on par with the Russian,Dutch and Portuguese league... Can the likes of Lyon and Marseille hold their own against Porto, Benfica,Ajax,PSV, CSKA, lokomotiv and spartak Moscow?

shout to my boy Osimhen. really gladdens my heart seeing him perform so well. what makes me especially happy isn't just his goal scoring form but his assists stats. what that tells me is that he's a team player who even if is not having a good day in front of goal will lay of chances for his team mates to put away. it's like he has started to improve on his weaknesses. hold up play is getting better the assist for loic remy highlighted that perfectly. his club coach has also acknowledged he's improving with every training session. Victor should continue to stay humble and learn his craft. next target for him is to break his away goal duck.

ordinarily i would have dismissed this as usual media speculation but remember reading of how he never real gelled with ramon azeez at the 2014 world cup in brazil of how when onazi got injured against france and keshi was about to bring azeez on mikel vehemently refused saying gabriel rueben should come on instead. all well it's still speculation sha

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remember reading of the french fleet stationed in Algiers during WWII

rabzy:
Of all French colonies Algeria was unique. France has been in Algeria since the early 1800s while others came in late 1800s and 1900s.
France also consider Algeria not as a colony but as part of France, it was like Puerto Rico or Hawaii to America, so a lot of French settled there over the years.
That made the war very brutal and in fact the French generals never wanted to stop and attempted several assassinations on Charles de Gaulle who negotiated the talks.
It was a bloody war with atrocities committed by both sides.

good one for him hopefully he can kick on from there

tbaba1234:
Iheanacho was also involved in the third goal.

https://twitter.com/LBlcfc/status/1176593604334276608

lol imagine Enyimba or Kano Pillars threatening that kind of sh*t with rohr? omo laff go full NFF office that day

ChrisKels:
Bayern threatens never to release their players for Germany national team, should Nuer be replaced my Stegen. Just negodu

Earthquake1:
Azubuike 'Modric' Okechukwu is not even in the starting lineup against Besiktas

udonmeanit? The same man that hands out more passes than waec exam

peterd53:
Sterling y

take heart my brother we're in the same shoe thank God I moved the captain ship from him

junnyjake:
Teams Ranking higher than you have bad days in office, and when you're lucky to meet them on such occasions, you make the most of it.

that is true but the reason why they are ranked higher than you it's because they have less bad days than you

Calvert Lewin follow you drag woman?

andrew444:
Everyday no be christmas jare, player must get bad game, even salah mane dem dey get bad games

Why e go buy DVD of etoo? he should rather buy the DVD of Dominic Calvert Lewin of everton

Osimhen should take last night's result as a learning curve. His hold up play might still need work but his pace (boy is faster than i thought), aggressive and good running of the channels are impressive. if i were victor i would buy dvds of etoo and aubamayeng guys who are not heavy on hold up play but have sharp movement and shoot at the first sign of asking

it's right to demand the best of performances from our national team but learn to manage your expectations. getting depressed because we didn't beat teams better ranked than us or have better quality players than us playing in the best leagues is abit over the top.

junnyjake:
I remember before the world cup, we played against Argentina and we gave them a great game in the 2nd half of the game, everyone was singing Rohr's praises, well, that didn't stop him from dishing us rubbish in the friendly games that followed and even the competition itself.

Today, it's the first half of the Ukraine game we're using as a reference point, there isn't much for me to applaud until I see the team replicate such performances in competitions.

if it wasn't for the anyhowness of our NFF i would be lying if i said i'm not kinda relieved dennerby is gone. apart from results (which our past local coaches replicated) the performances truth be told have been dour. i can take delayed gratification eg winning trophies qualifying for world cup etc if i can see clear steady improvement.

ideally Omagbemi or any female coach should be engaged and sent on adequate coaching courses to brush up their skills

tbaba1234:
I don't think NFF people wants Dennerby back. It is the Minister that is trying to bring him back.

They can manipulate a local coach easier.

after 5 matches? boss calm down remember two different years like that man city and chelsea won their first 6 fixtures but guess what? they both ended up not winning the league that year

BascoVanVeli:
Unpopular opinion. Liverpool don win league. Man city don't have enough to make it to January without Laporte.

this right here is why i disagree with komekn sometimes. some of these players we call up is because of their exploits at youth level and like you correctly said it was done to blood them early into the national team.

it's not a practice unique to us cameroon took an unknown samuel etoo to france 1998 world cup. ronaldo de lima was taken to USA 94, Theo walcott without kicking a single ball in anger for arsenal was selected for the 2006 world cup.

when osimhen's club form wasn't improving he was duly left out of squad selections. same for the nwakali brothers. it's not everything that must be conspiracy

jihday:
Shortly after the U-17 Osimhen was called up just to train with the eagles but Rhor was so impressed by what he saw that he decided to call him for subsequent games but when his career wasn't flying he was duly dropped. I can't see how that is a bad thing.

Earthquake1:
I repeat Calvert Lewin is an ass

If he weren't English he would be playing in Turkish 10th division

dude just scored lol

komekn:
I want you to look at how Alexander Trent crosses the ball with pin point accuracy and then tell me that the art of crossing is a dying art form.

This is Liverpool that doesn't play with a point man.

However, what's been happening is that wingers play like strikers and are not always looking yo feed the ball but score.

So in effect the wing backs have become the modern day wingers of football.

That not withstanding this is a very basic requirement the ability to cross by a winger. Something we are really lacking. Unfortunately Iwobi plays for Nigeria predominantly in the AM otherwise on the wing his crosses are satisfactory.

that is why I specifically mentioned winger's if you're talking about wingbacks or right-backs left-backs you will see many Who Can Cross the ball effectively not just those in Liverpool. Is it Chelsea's azpilicueta or Arsenal's bellarin or Manchester City's Kyle Walker just to mention a few.

Yes Alex iwobi give some decent ground crosses but overall I agree our national team winger's how to improve on how they cross

forgiveness:
Who can be more blind and dense than you if you can't comprehend what is being discussed!?

I'm happy that you know yourself very well and what you wrote up there describe yourself

forgiveness:
As you rightly said, LAST SEASON and it ends there.

What have YOUR OKEREKE and ONUACHU achieved more than Olanrewaju in football?

I hope you put on your thinking cap and activate your comprehension bility.

hasn't okereke performed better than kayode this season or you are so blind and dense to see it

same stats you choose to ignore when it shows that your MCM kayode scored only one goal the whole of last season but he is better than okereke and onuachu

forgiveness:
Na lie? Stats didn't support your fallacious statement.

wow i'm so sad because of arugbo ojo forgiveness said i'm a novice

forgiveness:
In SUPER EAGLES!?

What a NOVICE YOU ARE.

yes until further notice Kalu is Ahead of Simon in the Super Eagles. if it's paining you so much you can go ahead and table the matter at ECOWAS court

forgiveness:
Yes! Kalu is ahead of Moses, yes! ONLY on THIS THREAD and in YOUR DREAMS.

agreed the same musa some people are downgrading is even the super eagles all time leader in assists https://eaglecity..com/2019/09/nigerias-records-and-stats.html?spref=tw

records in that blog seem credible unless someone can disprove it

kennysville:
Hmmm..... softly softly people... una don get chukwueze and Kalu now, u wan throway Musa. Na so e dey work? When Musa scored for Naija at the world cup, una no talk football brains then O! Has anyone ever bothered to ask if playing on the wings is the way to get the best from Musa? I personally get disappointed by his plays sometimes but what I have realized is we need to play our boys in their areas of strength. Enough of makeshifting and trying to fit certain individuals into a game just so as not to ruffle feathers. (Whats that word again.... Ah yes... man management).

There is also the culture of selfish play which has been prevalent in our team. The chukwueze yall drooling over is one flipping selfish player and thats why his end products leave a lot to be desired. That said Musa thrives beta as a striker and not a winger. Yes he is very fast. But also very lethal. If our setup is offensive play, you will get the best out of Musa. But if we are goin to be the same one dimensional team with 4-2-3-1, while expecting crosses from musa. Sorry its not gna happen.

The formation encourages selfishness a lot and thats what will always play out. Everybody wanting to take the shine. Change the philosophy of the team to that of possesssion and you will see what I mean

Komekn your point about Wingers putting in good crosses consistently i think it may also be an issue of the modern game. compared to wingers in the 90s Chris Waddle, Steve Mcmaneman, Beckham(though he's more of the early 2000s), Overmars, Finidi, heck even Garba lawal guys who could cross like no man's business but today in the top 6 of the EPL you can barely find any effective crossers of the ball. dribblers aplenty but crossing? for some reason they all just love to dribble. some are better at it than others e.g hazard, salah while you have others like zaha, willian, Lingard etc the only winger i can say reminded of wingers of old are ribery at his peak and robben. it's like alot of our wingers graduated from the school of pius ikedia aimless dribbles

komekn:
I don't think so.

A lot of our wingers may not progress to higher levels of football because thier end product is very poor.

Dribbles without end product is just huffing and puffing. Our wingers struggle to put in a basic cross consistently. Then decision making in the last third is poor add to that selfishness.

There it seems is a lack of professionalism so we need better wingers. Musa is still relevant just like i think Victor Moses is till relevant because nobody that's come in is actually clearly better than them.

abi o rohr will have sleepless nights drawing tactical plans to subdue two of them

charlesemeka85:
With ajagun and kayode in their ranks I doubt if we can subdue them. Remember the duo are only next to Messi and ronaldo

guy lol your matter be like nigerian political parties when they win in court "it is a victory for democracy" when they lose "the judiciary is compromised"

simon is decent but kalu and chukwueze are ahead of him in the pecking order

Azubuike and Ramon are options to be looked but my personal opinion of both of them is i don't know if they will improve the team as it is. i'll be happy to be proven wrong

olanrewaju?

as for your MCM Ajagun you sha know how i rate him

forgiveness:
Fact finding.

Simon Moses is not attack minded. He can't dribble. Blah blah blah. Why d lie na?

Stats don't lie. Few games but still better.


Why mention Azubike Okechukwu when we have Ramon Azeez doing better in la Liga? Should I start mentioning Olanrewaju na, heaven go fall.

With few minutes Ramon Azeez is still better.

Abdul Ajagun is the only AMF in a top league but coach no wan test am. It seems you must belong to one cartel before you get a look. How Bonaventure take get invitation to the national team baffles me after Rohr made us believe he doesn't rate Belgium league. I even saw one player from the Greek's league make list.

Selective selection is all I see. Rohr is never in charge.

thank you it's simple really

komekn:
Forgive my ignorance but l just haven't heard a whisper about this guy.

With all the accolades and attributes you have declared he has. Then no matter what league he is in he should be the stand out player for club and league.

Please do not make reference to youth glories they are TOTALLY IRRELEVANT.

Now can you give more detail club, league titles won, etc, etc

Please.

BascoVanVeli:
But you didn't say this about Aribo who is in Scotland.

there's a difference Joseph just move to Scotland and has been improving while zubby has been in and out of Turkey for years

Earthquake1:
I watched the highlights and I can say that Ekong is not a top level defender

are you surprised the brutal truth is that none of our defenders are top level just average I'm slightly above average we can only continue to search for a top level one