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tbaba1234:
1 month in jail for the players

2 months for the official,

Ha
If that's the duration of the punishment in Nigeria, nothing might change. Some guys would still take the risk. After serving one sentence, they might be back in two years sef.

BascoVanVeli:
You know Ndidi would be in jail ba?

I don't know if they were prosecuted on the strength of the MRI aIone. Other investigation into their ages were probably done to prove them guilty beyond every shadow of doubt. That said, Disciplined Implementation of this in Nigeria would help the national team selectors greatly in screening

I can't remember exactly when he last played as a right back but he played right back this year if I'm not mistaken.

This settles it sir

Danielnino00:
A left back that can't cross and contributes little offensively. ,how is he comfortable there ? You think Rohr didn't notice the flaw in his game for him to have brought in Collins?

That I said he is comfortable there doesn't put him in the same class as the Mendys and Alonsos of this world

Earthquake1:
Jesus Christ!!!

Jesus Christ has no business with football sir. Bring proofs to show his natural position is on the left.

Earthquake1:
What is he,a right back?

He may be right footed but he is a left back

He is a right back who can also also comfortable as a left back

Modified
Sorry for the error,
I meant to say that he is a right back who is also comfortable as a left back

Earthquake1:
Lies,lies and lies again

Idowu represented well in that match,Messi had to drift to the middle to find playing chance

You are blaming Rohr for starting a left back in his natural position ahead of a right back?

Sorry sir. Idowu is not a natural left back

How I wish Ebere Eze can feature in next month friendly against the Cranes of Uganda

Rohr: Super Eagles want revenge against South Africa



Gernot Rohr has said the Super Eagles will be seeking to avenge a 2-0 home loss against South Africa when both teams battle again next month for places at the 2019 AFCON.

Bafana Bafana recorded their first-ever official win over Nigeria in June 2017 when they won 2-0 in Uyo.



The two teams clash again on November 17 in Johannesburg with Nigeria needing just a point to qualify for Cameroon 2019.

Rohr said the home loss to South Africa still rankles and he hopes his team could now get their pound of flesh.

“The defeat still hurts and we want to take revenge for it,” the coach told Kick Off Magazine.

“They beat us with strong counter attacks in Uyo.

“We dominated the game and actually played quite well in first half, but didn’t score.

“And then they attacked us on the counter, one towards the end when we pressed for the equalizer

He continued: “It was in June 2017, which is now quite a long time ago.

“I remember we had many players absent at the time, with that match taking place in the break between the seasons.

“I’m happy that everyone will be available this time around and that our team can get revenge for that defeat.”

Rohr picked striker Percy Tau as his best South Africa player.


Culled from Scorenigeria

komekn:
Good news real progression after leaving the local league. He is the current flag bearer for players leaving local league straight to Europe and at a good level.

Somehow nobody really talks much about him here.

BascoVanVeli why ❓

His goal was wonderful. Just finished watching

tbaba1234:
Which look in??

They need to go through the convulated process of switching nationalities since he has been capped by England.

November is just next month. Impossible.

But it was just friendlies he played na. Any need for change of nationalities again?

Icon79:
KPOM!

My usually reliable sources say that he'll get a look in for the Super Eagles next game in November. This team can only get better.
To me, we're the favorites to win the AFCON now ... if we play to our potential.


O pari

Will be so glad if this is true. Still smarting from Danjuma loss

tbaba1234:
The seychelles game is not inconsequential yet. We need to get at least a draw in SA.

Yes. We need at least a draw against SA to make Seychelles game a formality. SA will need at least a draw against Libya in the case of a draw or loss to the SE. A win over SE will save them the anguish of depending on a result against the Mediterranean knights to qualify.

charlesemeka85:
is this report real?


A shock name that could make the Super Eagles list for the AFCON 2019 Qualifiers in November against South Africa is on loan Liverpool forward Seyi Ojo, Owngoalnigeria.com can exclusively report.


Ojo is presently out on loan to French Ligue 1 side Reims where he has made seven appearances in Ligue 1 for the modest side following his loan move in the summer from Liverpool, where he was also farmed out on loan last season to Fulham.

21 year old Ojo openly confessed his readiness to dump England where he made 43 appearances for the various youth ranks of England from U16 to U21 if he gets called up to the senior national team of Nigeria by coach Gernot Rohr.

Rohr is keen on having a left footed winger in the Super Eagles hence he is open to the idea of seeing Ojo at close quarters in training with the Super Eagles ahead of their next competitive fixture against South Africa.

His switch will however require international clearance due to the games he has played for England and as at the time of filing in this report, we couldn’t ascertain if the process has been initiated by the Nigeria Football Federation ( NFF) .

Good news but would have been happier if it's Ebere Eze that this is about. The midfield needs serious reinforcement. First things first.

House, what's our thought on a 3-5-2 formation against South Africa?. Onazi, Mikel and Iwobi in the midfield while Ahmed Musa and Ighalo spearhead the attack. The only drawback is the absence of a good RWB. Collins is okay on the left. Just thinking.

tbaba1234:
His debut..

This means we have another natural left back option.

Any Hope that he will play for the SE?. I think this is more than just bearing a Nigerian name

TheSuperNerd:
Wilfred Ndidi regretting costly yellow card against Libya
By Colin Udoh, West Africa Editor, KweséESPN


Nigeria midfielder Wilfred Ndidi is "really disappointed" at the thought of missing next month's 2019 Africa Cup of Nations qualifier against South Africa.

The Leicester City midfielder picked up a booking late in the game against Libya on Tuesday for a petulant reaction to a call. That yellow card automatically rules him out of the fixture on 16 November, a crucial clash for both sides.

A dejected Ndidi told KweséESPN: "I don't really know what I was thinking. I was really, really disappointed because I over reacted.
"I thought I was in the advantage and I got the ball but my reaction was wrong."

Nigeria beat Libya 3-2 to take control of the group and now need just one point from their next two games, including the one in Johannesburg, to book their ticket to Cameroon.

But Nigeria have made it clear that the game is about more than just one point. The qualifier defeat to Bafana in June 2017 still rankles, and the team are determined to make amends with a win in South Africa.

Ndidi added: "I am feeling really, really bad because the South Africa game... I really want it because of the way we lost the first game.

"It would have been a way to give a comeback. I really don't know what to say but I believe the team will do well."

Striker and leading scorer Odion Ighalo says they expect a difficult game but will be going for all three points: "We know it will not be easy, but everybody wants to play this game because we want to go there and win after they beat us in our home."

Coach Gernot Rohr, who is the only Nigeria coach to lose to South Africa, also told KweséESPN he would be playing for a win: "I believe we can do something in South Africa.
"It will be difficult. You have seen that even Seychelles at home can get a draw. We are leaders in the group, now we have to go to South Africa for a wonderful football match and we will like to win."


Source: KweseESPN

Looking forward to this match like anything. The blood is hot

Baxter: Situation's not really changed

Bafana Bafana coach Stuart Baxter admitted to anger and frustration following the goalless draw away to Seychelles but insists their qualifying situation remains unchanged.

Bafana played to a shocking stalemate against The Pirates at the Stade Linite on Tuesday afternoon, dropping two valuable points in their bid for 2019 AFCON qualification.

After registering an emphatic 6-0 win on home soil a few days prior, it was expected that the team would at least return with three points to take their tally to 10 and maintain their lead in Group E.

That was not the case, unfortunately, and upon arriving back in Johannesburg on Wednesday, Baxter conceded disappointment that they failed to bring home the maximum points.

“My feeling about the game? Immediately afterwards I was frustrated and angry [about] the way the game panned out,” said Baxter.

“I met Gernot Rohr – the Nigeria coach – in London, and he told me the pitch was the worst he had ever played on in a competitive game, and I agree with him.

“That’s not an excuse, because we still did enough to win the game. But, I think it was a combination of the pitch, some unbelievable time-wasting and cheating by the opponents, a very poor refereeing performance and us not taking advantage of our chances.

“I think that’s how you know you can get that result. We had a clear penalty turned down, Nigeria got a penalty; we hit the crossbar and it bounced out, Nigeria hit the crossbar and it hit the goalkeeper and went in – those are the margins, you need a bit of luck on that pitch.

“So, I think the boys did as much as they could. We needed a bit of quality at the right time.

“The players were very, very deflated – I don’t want to say embarrassed because that would be deriding the effort that they put in, but they know the result was important for us, so they were therefore very down after the game.”

South African football lovers back home, although understandably unsurprised by the team’s continued failure to maintain a successful run, grew even more pessimistic over their chances of making it to the final showpiece in Cameroon in June next year.

However, Baxter has insisted it is not all doom and gloom as he quickly pointed out that even a victory in Victoria would still have required Bafana to get points off either Nigeria or Libya.

“The situation is not really changed. If we had won last night, we would still have to do the same things – we still have to knock Nigeria over, if we can, and if we don’t then we’ve got to get something in Libya,” he added.

“And that would have been the same even if we got a couple more points [against Seychelles], but it would have been very good for the confidence.”

Article by: Chad Klate (@CKlatey)

Culled from Kickoff.com

Curtisaxel7:
Rohr will do us a great disservice if he plays Mikel as a 10 again and wastes Iwobi on the wings.

Supported.

BascoVanVeli:
I would rather see Libya qualify than SA at least as pay back for 2015.

Like seriously. I just pray Libya wins away in Seychelles

Familiar Rohr mistakes almost sabotage Super Eagles in Sfax


Nigeria came out of the blocks quickly and looked to be cruising, but the German's inability to react to the game's ebb and flow haunts his side

Nigeria may now be in pole position to qualify for the Africa Cup of Nations for the first time since 2013, but they certainly made heavy work of it in Sfax.

There may well be a lesson here, in rising from adversity, in eking it out in a fashion that had not been done previously under this management. However, it was an unnecessary toil, one which might have been quite easily avoided.

It had all started so well, and by the time Ahmed Musa danced through the flimsy curtain of red in the Libyan penalty area to squeeze the second home, it seemed another pasting was on the cards.

The Super Eagles were soaring early on, buoyed by Alex Iwobi’s excellence, Odion Ighalo’s energy and a commonsense approach to self-preservation: the ball zipped across the turf, players dropped into pockets of space intelligently, and picked the right moments to vary the tempo of the passing.

Yet, after the opening 25 minutes, it all came a cropper. A two-goal lead may be notoriously treacherous, but even beyond the evanescence of that margin, there were deep fissures within the team, both in terms of composition and technical input, that meant that door was always ajar.



THE NDIDI-ETEBO DOUBLE PIVOT

The consequence of injury to Ogenyi Onazi was the use of Oghenekaro Etebo in a deep-lying midfield role.

There are, of course, many strings to the Stoke City player’s bow, but he simply is not this type of player.

Etebo is in his element when carrying the ball into the final third, and lacks the vision and discipline required to play a holding role. Invariably, and unsurprisingly, the Super Eagles gave up a ton of chances, and were slowly pegged back.


Often in the second half, Libya had space in behind the Nigeria midfield to run at the backline, and both Leon Balogun and William Troost-Ekong had their most uncertain showings in a long time with little cover in front of them.

Even more remarkably, there was a specialist holding midfielder, in the form of John Ogu, on the bench, but he would only be introduced after Libya’s comeback was complete.



FAILING TO STEM THE LIBYA TIDE

For all that Gernot Rohr’s reign as Super Eagles boss has been productive results-wise, his ability to influence the game as it goes on has been consistently the weakest aspect of his work.

Time and again, he has found himself out-managed by his opposite number, and at a loss as to what to do to stem the tide. The debacle against Argentina, where he failed to address the Albiceleste’s rising menace through the second half, still rankles.

In Sfax again, he was again caught out. As Nigeria lost control of the game toward the end of the first half and into the second, it was obvious that there needed to be reinforcement in the middle of the park to act as a breakwater. With Samuel Kalu struggling to fulfil any sort of responsibility, either defensively or offensively, he ought to have been sacrificed earlier for Ogu to come on.

Instead, it was only after Libya had found a leveller that Rohr shook himself out of his daze to make a sub.

By this point, the Super Eagles had been under the cosh for over 20 minutes in the second period.



INDULGING POOR PERFORMANCE

One of the cornerstones of behavioural training is the incentivization of good behaviour/performance, as well as punishment of bad. Rohr, over the two legs against Libya, and over the course of his time in charge of the Super Eagles, has failed to grasp this.

Case in point: Samuel Kalu.

For the second game running, the Bordeaux winger put up a weak showing. However, while, in the first leg, it was mainly about his poor decision-making in positions of promise, in Sfax it was a complete lack of tactical awareness and discipline.

His unwillingness to stick to the right side of the pitch and take advantage of potential overloads robbed the teams of other avenues of attack. While it could be chalked up to the impatience of youth and wanting to join in on the fun on the left-hand side, Rohr ought to impressed upon him what was required.

More worryingly, it exposed Ola Aina quite a bit in defensive transitions.

In spite of these, Rohr left Kalu on till very late on, when the team would clearly have been better served with a more disciplined player, especially in the second half. There is even an argument to be made that, on his performance in the first leg, he ought to have been dropped altogether.

Culled from goal.com

So it finished Seychelles 0 - South Africa 0. Not easy to win in Seychelles after all

safarigirl:
House, please, away from Ighalo, Atiku and Buhari.


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Curtisaxel7:
Can you imagine what a human being that calls himself a football fan just wrote. What is the name of this formation abeg?.� Wallahi even my grandma in the village will do better than this.

Honestly speaking this guy has no business with football. And for im mind he thinks he is one tactical genius�.

Kai. this is why Rohr and co should avoid social media coaches. Empty headed people everywhere.

Please, if you don't know tactical football, keep quiet and learn from others. You don't need to disgrace yourself in a bid to be a pundit.�

Like seriously?. Must you comment on what he said?. Must you insult another in a bid to correct a flaw? You thought you are the only person that saw his lineup?. Calling him empty headed is way off the mark bro. If you can't correct gently, just waka pass abeg?

Humility017:
there is no need for name calling and insults @all.
oga icons4 is there anything we can do to make that stiff necked German coach call up eze.
I heard the boy was just invited for mere friendlies.

it is becoming glaring that rohr is a fraud.

I support this. How do we petition NFF. If we miss Eze, Rohr will never be in my good books regardless of what he does


A midfield of Ndidi, Ejaria and Eze..........What a sight!

Joebie:
Super Eagles Target Eberechi Eze Reacts To Maiden England U20 Call-Up
Published: October 05, 2018

https://www.allnigeriasoccer.com/football_pics/6060Eze.jpg

Queens Park Rangers young star Eberechi Eze has spoken of his happiness after receiving his maiden call-up to England U20 side.

The former Arsenal youth-teamer had been invited to train with the Super Eagles at their get-together in London last year but has been overlooked for selection by manager Gernot Rohr in the last eighteen months.

The English Football Association have moved fast to cap Eze following his imperious displays for Queens Park Rangers this season.

''You want to be called up for international football and it is a great honour to have been. It’s a really good milestone for me,'' says Eze to www.qpr.co.uk.

''I found out on Thursday night. I got a bit of an inkling from the Doctor as the FA had spoken to him and I’m really excited.

''It will be a good experience, I’ve never been involved before so I am looking forward to seeing what it is like.''

Eze is among fifteen players of Nigerian descent called up to England's youth teams for international fixtures in October but the attacking midfielder is the only player on the books of second

—ANS

And someone was talking about Loyalty. Loyalty ko, loyalty ni. If I am Eze, I will do the same, I no go lie

maidaboi:
Just read on ans that england has invited eze to there u20 somebody should please tell me it's not true

Rohr...... Why are you doing this to us?

Taliban:
waoh his brother is really determined. it's not easy to do adult education and enter JSS1 when your age mates or those even younger than you are in SS2.

Can't stop laughing. Bad Bros

olusola200:
Point of correction Mr pastor

Nigeria is great but not greater
We are better than more than 20 countries

Gone are the days when deeper life members don't watch television but now they have smart tv and dstv also participate in phoning programs

Bros, what's d connection between Nigeria's greatness and Deeper lifers watching TV. SMH

gamaliel9:
Tiger Woods is back!

Congratulations