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I'm not a violent man but honestly if I were sesseghon or ziyech teammates I fit use gun shoot both of them

game tomorrow is clearly 50/50 based on our horror show against madagascar. cameroon truth be told haven't been great unfortunately we have been worse. if we play to our potential i have no doubts we can beat cameroon but the question is will we?

pray we do.

LET'S GO SUPER EAGLES for better for better

for me the main reason you guys haven't really had a good AFCON is because percy tau hasn't played well. from watching you guys during the qualifiers it seems your tactics are be solid defensively then give the ball to tau

IronGalaxy:
you are right, but we haven't seen that kind of play in the tournament, it's mostly this drab defensive football, and bro the tactics from this coach are bad

i doubt the authenticity of the report. New Telegraph if you check their recent history haven't always been favourably disposed to the current NFF so i always take their stories with a pinch of salt. it's natural for players coaches to have a go at each other after a humiliating loss. they should just make sure they transfer that anger and aggression to the pitch against the cameroonians.

it just occurred to me now how will a coach who defended ighalo and stuck by him after his world cup flop now turn around and say "we don't have a striker" even after scoring a goal in the tournament? makes no sense

TheSuperNerd:
If true, I hope this can make Rohr turn to Osimhen.

Icon4s:
Tire for wetin? Na naija we dey. We swim and sink with the Super Eagles. No coach can get me disinterested in any of our national teams at any level.

Coaches come, coaches go but we the fans remain. We have seen a lot in Nigerian football to let Rohr get us disinterested.

that's the spirit win or lose super Eagles forever

Men this game is damn poor jam bodies United

andrew444:
And they dropped some better midfielders who did well in Seria A ?

Na them sabi sha

A North African team or Nigeria is winning this afcon

Mark my words

And Winfred zaha was on the bench for 90 minutes ?

I know right who lives the most dangerous player on the bench I mean really

Nigerian winning? I believe so too just have to keep improving at the moment I feel we are 60 to 70% capacity and we will need to be at hundred percent to beat the North Africans

andrew444:
Lol

I said Morocco will beat them

I said it earlier this afternoon

Morocco is a good team nah

But I think the Ivorians will still qualify

the ivorians no doubt have quality but I still think they're Limited in the midfield area just like their Senegalese counterpart

By the way Andrew I hail you oh midfield to bad full of plumbers not Carpenters abi?

I SMH for African local coaches you have Wilfred Zaha on the bench who do you bring in when you are in trouble? bagayoko facepalm

gustav25:
Bushman , did you beat common Burundi to a pulp ?

local man did you beat Benin?

he still had a few metres to make up guinean defenders would probably have caught up to him plus the tackle by the second guinean defender put him off.

p.s great to see on these streets bro

Mujtahida:
Musa would most likely have scored had he been selfish and aimed for personal glory like Ighalo is obviously doing.

chopping Ls since a million BC

forgiveness:

i think you are abit unfair to moses simon. he may not be the flashiest but he does his job low remember the games against cameroon (both) and algeria in the world cup qualifiers how he positional discipline allowed other players to do the damage. yes his primary duty might not be to defend but in modern football you have to bring other skillset to the table.

pius ikedia he's definitely not if it's the same patron saint of headless chicken runs we are talking about

ChrisKels:
I understand where u coming from and I have never been a fan of Simon. People say he helps the defense but, is that his primary assignment as a winger? A winger that can not contribute nothing going forward, that one na winger? Simon, to me, is what I would term a poor man's Pius Ikedia, dude is all strength and no brains and he can hardly raise his head up to save his life. Abeg that boy na -1

Thqt said, sorry but, Kalu Uche has retired from the national team

TheSuperNerd:
You see that Mbaye Niang in #9. He has been rubbish even from the first game against Tanzania. I told Yara Yara and my staff that Ighalo is definitely better than that Niang. And Niang is one of Chriskels' boys oooo....

Not surprised with the scoreline. I have gauged the strength of both sides but Aliou Cisse is Senegal's bane.

exactly cisse is not a great coach I've always felt for all the good players they have they are always lacking something tactical

The ref is biased against Senegal how is that not a penalty?

darkelf:
I expect a Senegal win.

well your team Crush Thursday are losing at the moment

but how effective is etebo on the left? the few times i've seen him play well in the GWG whether super eagles or olympics team he tends to excel in the box 2 box midfielder role. some how rohr is missing a trick on how to utilise etebo and iwobi once he can figure it out our attacking play would be scary to face

TheGoodJoe:
I have asked this question before. Can't Etebo play on the left midfield? Sometimes, you do not need to make personnel changes to make tactical switches. During the game, move Etebo to the left wing, move Mikel to a deep lying role and move Iwobi to 10.

i think i agree. although i suspect rohr feels mikel does not have the legs to screen the defence at his best john was never the fastest. maybe was also scared of the jorginho scenario when EPL teams figured him out that to nullify his influence simply put a man on him.

i was reading solace chukwu's take on the game one of the points he raised was that he felt iwobi's inability to click fully yesterday was because of the role he was given to stop diawara the guineans creative outlet. most probably a tactical instruction from rohr which as a result nullified alex's more attacking instincts although to be fair he improved in the 2nd half we could see the midfield experienced a mini collapse when iwobi was substituted for chukwueze which indicates to me that alex was keeping them honest.

against madagascar rohr should know that their are no excuses not to be braver.

TheSuperNerd:
More Thoughts on Rohr at the AFCON

I feel the team ought to be braver under Rohr. To be honest, I didn't see the need having both Etebo and Ndidi on the field against Burundi.

I knew it was unbeaten Burundi but again we are classes upon classes above them. When Mikel was messing things up in the AM role, I would have suggested Rohr shifts him backwards to the Deep lying CM role, alongside DM Ndidi, to calm things, settle in and dictate the game's flow from there. Move Iwobi to the AM as he did anyway and bring in Musa. The culprit will now be Etebo to drop to the bench not because he was having a bad game but because Nigeria had to take offensive control and truly rip apart the opponents.


Rohr needs to be braver offensively and look at at the big picture of making us a consistently fluid passing side creating chances upon chances upon chances and upon chances.
That way I don't even care if Ighalo or anyone leading the line will miss one or two big chances because I know we will have and create more. That way we also boost our chances against the other top teams where chances don't easily come by unless you deliberately create them.
We did create chances against Guinea though but we can do much much better offensively. Imagine a Mikel-Iwobi Combo with NDIDI doing the dirty works helped by Mikel's deep positional discipline as DLP/Regista helping out in defence too.

We need to be more assertive on the scoreboard and not just in tackling and defensive stats which makes us settle for just 1-0 scorelines.

gustav25:
Now d win 1-0 , no one will underline the borefest we witnessed

we have heard you please on your way out pick up the L waiting for you at the corner we would have giving you water to wash it down but we are all out please manage your spit take care bye

TheSuperNerd:
He contributed an assist today My Man Kelly. Chill a bit and celebrate the win before we dissect the team further, you dig?

dooooooocccccc! Welcome back bro I've missed your Incisive analysis how are your studies going are you almost finished?

sontoly:
We will celebrate the win, but if you look closely there was no atom of creativity in the team, the game was overall boring, the coach only sets up his team to defend and nothing more. If we play against a more attacking team, am afraid we will crack.

bro let's be fair a little bit if ighalo had buried his early chances we will be congratulating the coach for a good game

This is a long tournament and we have to peak at the right time

Good win professional performance not yet playing sexy football but we are getting there we will gel with time good one Kenneth Wilfred shout out to Simon Moses to

i think he's speaking based on the info put out there in public

jihday:
really lucky, mehn this your story is the true definition of all that is wrong with Nigeria, lackadaisical and deep rooted corruption. As per the eagles i'm sure they aren't owed money for just one match day, they can't protest for that maybe it was the NFF trying to spin something. I'm shocked by Joe's words though talking like someone who's used to mediocrity

hmmm intriguing experience you had there.

two things i gather from your write up is that people within the system and not necessarily FG where behaving criminally and that like your brave colleague one should not hesitate to blow the whistle when something wrong is happening because the higher ups in govt might be unaware of the situation.

your story has some parallels with what happened yesterday why was it when the players protested that suddenly the story that FG released money surfaced?

elyte89:
Dts d correct word ..."ma je mo le"


Safari is talking base on a normal condition,but we knw dis is Nigeria,once a fund is release by d govt to some ppu ,I bet u, if u don't scream out to collect ur share as at when due,DTS all,we re too corrupt in dis country.


I could also remember in 2015 when Ebola broke out in Nigeria,I worked with Nigeria port health, I was posted to one of d airports in Ikeja (MM1) as a presume staff.it was a contract job.I remember vividly when we were abt to start d job in August, we were orientated abt d job specification and during d job orientation we were told dt,we would b having three shifts in a day

Per shift for we presume staff/health workers,we were told we would b paid 15k and with a free meal/bottle water..for d nurses,dey would b paid 25k with a free meal/bottle water..while d doctors in d shift will be paid 30k /also free meal. we av 8presume staff/health workers/2nurses and a doctor for each shift.

We started d contract job dt same mid August, after August ending we were expecting an alert of d cumulative sum of our wages in our account as agreed during d orientation.. I could remember den ,when it was time, I check my phone messages frequently as if my life depended on it,but we didn't c anything

Fast forward to September ending, we didn't c a dime again, no alert no money,we were still working as usual base on say "no alternative" .At some point, we had to survive on tips we c daily from passengers who re traveling and also from VIPs, d likes of governors,ministers,rich successful bizmen and also some top A artist too, dts if u re lucky to b posted to d VIP section in ur shift,October came again, we saw nothing,at dis stage,some of d doctors and nurses with us began to resign and went back to deir daily hustle. Dere was a day we screened a man going to pharcourt from Lagos. after screening him,d guy asked Us about our job,and aw we re coping.. When he mentioned "cope".. A colleague of mine den just told him point blank dt we av not been paid a dime since we started d job since august...d man shouted " HAAAAA",dt he works with 'WHO " showed us his Id card and all,and told us categorically dt, WHO has paid d FG all d monies involved in logistics covering our
Salaries and all...dt he c no reason y d FG shld b owing us a dime ,he even went further dt we re entitled to a free meal /bottle water per shift..to let u knw he knws much abt d incentives involved.

My colleague angrily replied saying ,MAKE WE EVEN C MONEY FIRST B4 WE TALK OF FOOD" d man was so surprised,he later told us dt d FG Is in charge of everything,saying he has little or nothing he can do abt dt, he gave us tips sha .

As we approached October,all staffs were called for an emergency meeting,dey told us point blank dt dey can't pay us on our agreed contract in August of 15k per shift,(450k per month).

Dt henceforth, dey re paying us 50k per month, c height of wickedness,slashing money not belonging to dem,dey brought a document for everybody to sign,DT was early October... We signed d contract,(as usual,at all at all,na In bad),nobody could protest ..we worked all thru October expecting to c our first alert of 50k,nothing entered again,it was den we started grumbling,staffs were lackadaisical abt d work,(wc is normal),some stopped coming because no money to pay for tp fare.November nothing again

It took d courage of a girl among us after d morning shift dt we can't continue dis way,dis was around early december...dis girl suggested dt we go to any nearby TV station to.protest with our uniforms ,we debated abt it,some agreed to go,some didn't, and d closest to us in Ikeja was TVC IN KETU lagos ,we went dere with our uniforms, protested abt our money ,dey interviewed almost everybody dt came for d protest,we spoke our.mind dt,dey refuse to pay us despite d HAZARDOUS nature of d job,D news was aired dt same night at TVC station 10pm news,could u believe dt d following MORNING,2 top shot in abuja in charge of d program were arrested ,it was DT same December ending we got d salary/wages of aug-december2015

Infact I was lucky, my September salary/wage was paid twice,..

agree 200% if such is possible

TheGoodJoe:
The players have no excuse for what they did. If they are too big to deal with the hassles of the Super Eagles, they should step down and let those who can cope play.

We have soldiers on the frontline of Boko Haram, defending the country with their lives, earning little or nothing, sometimes stranded with no pay or food. Yet how many will drop their arms and come home.

Yet this one's embarrassed the whole Nation that their bank alerts have not come and were ready to abandon training. So if Dalung wants to frustrate the team, the way the players acted compounded issues.

he will learn

Onozboy:
I like what Rohr is doing ...chucks too like dribble

looks a solid starting XI seems rohr has opted for a bit of defensive cover and tactical discipline in moses simon. Iwobi has to really step up at some point pray today is the day. glad to see leon back among the starters think he brings more calm and solidity. hopefully if the game is done and dusted expect mikel to come in and add experience to close out the game. chuwkueze to come in and terrorize guinean fullbacks.

don't usually do this but let me use my full chest and predict a 3-0 or 3-1 Eagles win (hope i won't have egg on my face )

LET'S GO SUPER EAGLES

jihday:
Rhor is now ruthless, so he can drop Ekong

E don happen

boron10:
Atsu is a big disgrace

you don't mean it a Whole Ghanaian Messi lol

it's a goal up Benin

Truidstar:
We don see am. Nothing to worry about. We thrive in the midst of a little chaos. When there is order, we tend to relax and take things for granted. World Cup no complaints or discord.... How did that turn out?

ordinarily this would seem illogical but knowing the history of our national team over the years it's just another routine that happens during major competitions