₦airaland Forum

daveP:
B.Sc Mathematics in the bag.
I'm Out!!! 🙏🏾😎

Barryseal:
Unfortunately you can't do this in knockout football. You need to be disciplined and be prepared to suffer at times to see out crucial games.
You can't blitz every team 5-2 on your way to the final. It's childish to think that way.

komekn:
It really depends on what you call average and even below average.

For instance Jordan Torunarigha, left a obscure and anonymous career in the Bundesliga to the much lower Belgium league, would up call him above average or below average ❓

Barryseal:
Who are the best centre back pairing for the Super Eagles right now? We seem to focus only on the GK at the moment but I feel we don't have a settled back line.

Most of the CBs are old and the new guys haven't really stamped their authority.

Awaziem seems to have faded away. Ifhe had progressed, he would have been a bridge between the old and new generation and ultimately the leader at the back.

BankyGee:
And you feel proud and happy wasting 55KB to post this comment? 🙆🏾‍♂️
God abeg 😫🤣

TheSuperNerd:
Ebenezer Akinsanmiro SCORES!!!!

His Second Goal for Inter U19s. They lead 3-0 now vs Sassuolo U19s and they sit Joint Tops of the Italian Primavera alongside Eletu's Milan U19s.

The naturally gifted Mezzala-profiled midfield lad is balling up top in an attacking triumvirate and still delivering the goods.

jihday:
would love to see the post saying Buli is a poor league

TheSuperNerd:
Victor Boniface has more G+A (13) than he has played games for Leverkusen across all competitions this season (11).

Games played - 11

G+A - 13 (9 goals, 4 assists)

The Well-rounded Creative Forward.

TheSuperNerd:
You have refused showing us where someone said Awo is not in Top 6 Naija CFs.

Now I want you to show us where anyone says Awo will jostle for 4th striker slot.

The way you are going about this only exposes your intentions more and more. You should have outgrown this behavior by now to be honest.

mostob:
Oga is dropping a bait and nobody has agreed to pick it. Why? It may lead to Pro-Boniface vs Pro-Awoniyi which is exactly what most don't want here.

forgiveness:
Wash.

Leverkusun is not a top club in Bundesliga. Gbam.

Leverkusun never win shingbin league. Gbam.

You said Boniface is better than Awoniyi because he is more technical. What is technical if not galala dribbling?

Boniface 9 goals in 10 matches including other competitions but Awoniyi goals in other competitions are irrelevant. See hypocrite.

Abeg! How many double digit league goals Boniface don score in his entire career?

charlesemeka85:
I like Awo a whole lot. He has similar playing style with Osimhen but Boniface is more unique because he is a creator, dribbler and a decent finisher

Awo just like Osimhen are the type of strikers you can deploy upfront as a single front man if a coach decides to play a more defensive tactics. Awo and osimhen are good in the air as well as physical enough to muscle and out pace any CB in world football currently. Both are just like ex CIV and Chelsea hitman Didier Drogba and current city goal poacher Haaland

Bony on his part will suit in an attacking formation. He is skillful and good in tight corners, he drops deep to create and switch to the flanks when required. To me this makes him more complete than all the strikers we can boast of currently. He is the type of striker who can unlock the defense of a highly disciplined and defensive side with his skills and creativity

Bony is similar to the likes of Kane,Benzema and to an extend Zlatan etc.

Kog45:
As it stand today in eagle I will pick Osimhen and Iheanacho.

forgiveness:
Yes, based on eye test after surgery, Boniface is better than Osimhen too. Even pass Haaland because he can dribble like Maradona. You're right my none controversial brother.

In football, consistency takes you to the highest level but from your own perspective, talent wise without consistency determines who is bettter.

Point of correct, Taiwo has scored double digit goals from 2017/2018 season till date save 2019/2020 when he was loaned to Mainz and 2020/2021 when he was out due to injury. That was on the run of 5 goals and 3 assist. Which 3 or 4 years are you talking about? Do your mathematics well.

Lastly, Union Berlin finished top 4 last season ahead of Leverkusun and we know Taiwo played for that same team prior to that season.

Besides, Leverkusun no bi top club until they win the league. Nottingham forest has more laurel than Leverkusun.

Your koroko eyes no correct.

Kog45:
Sir Chris,are you also implying Boniface is way ahead of Osimhen technically

TheSuperNerd:
Okay, Forgiveness and the rest of the house... kindly answer this honestly and to the best of y'all ball knowledge.

Based on player profiles and personnel synergy, who among these CF options look the best to pair Osimhen up top? Take into account the various tactical variations and their contributions to the 2nd phase plays.

- Kelechi Iheanacho
- Taiwo Awoniyi
- Victor Boniface
- Sadiq Umar
- Terem Moffi


Note: I don't even expect the same answers coz ball knowledge levels differ and perspectives on why some pick A or B would sound legit.

TheSuperNerd:
Yet you literally come in here and still care about what is being said. You read it and it hit you so hard that you composed a manufactured agenda speech in defence of only one player - Awoniyi. 😂

forgiveness:
If you believe Victor Boniface will make the team ahead of Taiwo then I can boldly say you don't rate Taiwo but unfortunately, he is way ahead of any Nigerian striker in the world save Victor Osimhem.

He's playing at the highest level with the best players on the planet earth. He has already don dat at Bundesliga before he went to EPL.

Don't tell me you now rate Bundesliga above EPL just because of numbers of goals. Remember, you rated Osimhen ahead of Taiwo because he was in Seria A which was above Bundesliga even when Taiwo out scored him in 2021/2022 season.

Don't talk about consistency.

Internet doesn't forget things at all.

If at all we are to pick competent and consistent strikers over 3 to 4 seasons, there's no way Taiwo will not make top 2. That's even behind Osimhen but on Nairaland, he is not even in top 6.

What a joke.

BascoVanVeli:
Mehn Oliseh had to wait 4 business days before he read any criticism towards him we are talking about social media at its highest power. Even Mikel and Enyeama didn't really feel the full extent of what players today go through. Plus they were never seen as the ones that cist Nigeria a world cup ticket so u can't honestly say they seen worse.

BascoVanVeli:
So he just came up with that statement out of the sky right? U and I both know that not all the criticism was constructive. Then about the world cup, we also know that is part of the anger people have today. So it was not on top of friendly. It was on top of all issues put together.

daveP:
Things are at an all time low sotey na to open GK special camp from NPFL. Test them with that ball machine for different shot angles and see the assessment for saves first of all. Then we move to ball playing later. It's not even a top priority right now. Na that saves

Edu93:
You're focusing on one game.
Typical.
What about France in 2014, Korea in 2010 and Greece.
Especially against France and Korea where his mistakes were directly responsible to effectively knocking us out.
Enyeama was very poor at setpieces, no revisionism can change that...
Nigeria GKS are normally weak at setpieces, Uzoho is no different.
Infact African teams are generally not good at setpiece situations and have regularly been exposed at the WC

TheSuperNerd:
If Nacho and Boniface will start alongside Iwobi, then Iwobi won't play 10. There would be no #10. Rather we would have advanced 8s. Iwobi will play deeper.

Think 3-4-2-1 formation. No wingers. The 2-1 is Boniface-Iheanacho playing in the half spaces close to Osimhen. The 4 is Ndidi-Iwobi flanked by the wingbacks of Osayi and Bruno. The back 3 will be Omeruo/Awaziem, Ajayi and Bassey.

That is one formation where they can all fit into.

Another I have been pondering is one with a 3 man midfield. A 4-3-1-2. The 1 is the man in the hole behind two strikers who can also work the channels. And that 1 must also be able to penetrate centrally with his BTL runs to finish or create dangerous angled chances Foe the 2 CFs.

But in a 433, it won't work unless the corresponding Fullback on the right takes up both offensive and defensive roles with the RCB & DM covering for the RFB's overlaps. Iheanacho shouldn't operate as a wide RW but as an 8 from the RHS.


I don't like this 442 especially because Peseiro doesn't know how to set it up to look like a 4-2-2-2. Our wingers should have one of them as an advanced 8 to support Iwobi's creative role.

hatakekakashi:
Bro, Lookman was actually worst than Chukwueze yesterday. The only thing he did right the entire match that pass to Boniface that resulted in the first goal.

lovewins:
Hate Moses Simon all you want, he brings more to the team than Lookman does. Doesn't mean Lookman isn't better than him overall.

OasisX:


....Ẹ gbé kini yí wa, Àwa lo kan. We know SW gonna suffer it definitely, coz PBAT really has surpassed Buhari. LOL!

AndSunGorilla:
Maybe Okoye declined the invite. Is Noble first choice in his club? Also, can he even get a visa at such short notice to Portugal?

lovewins:
BREAKING: Maduka Okoye has been called up for Nigeria international friendlies against Saudi Arabia and Mozambique following the unavailability to f some recently invited goalkeeper.

The goalkeeper returns to national duty for Nigeria for the first time since November 2022.

raumdeuter:
BBC cancelled

Very soon Hundeyin will write an expose on BBC how the Queen was one of Tinubus girlfriend BBC director was getting a monthly allowance from Tinubu and King Charles one of his drug mules accomplices