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COOL10:
I don't envy Iheanacho and Moffi at all. Na trap be this

Serious trap.

Onyedika and Moffi would have been better.

Joebie:
Give Lookman

Ekong not Lookman.

Goke7:
He's giving away balls making the SA looking better

The coach has listened to you. Iwobi is subbed off.

Zellas:
I expected at least 2 changes at this half time.
Omerou for osayi and yusuf for iwobi.
Delay in this subtitutions may see us trailing.

Removing Iwobi won't be wise.

More midfielders are needed.

Odunayaw:
A back 4 with a stationary DM will deal with those spaces.

That's the problem..

A DM is not stationary. It's a CB that's stationary.

Odunayaw:
A back 4 with a stationary DM will deal with those spaces.

That's the problem..

A DM is not stationary. It's a CB that's stationary.

mrwilliams9:
I hope everyone can see why Bassey can’t play LWB.

I think we should take off Simon for Yusuf. We need the ball to do the work. If you can’t hold ball, you’ll always be chasing the game and will tire quickly.

We really need to score first and ideally score two. This SA team has serious team chemistry.

If you remove Simon then who will create assists

jihday:
scorer? No be when you see ball you go score? We can remove Bright too but that will mean a switch to a back 4

Switching to a back 4 will be madness.

It will leave space in central defense.

Remove Osayi and move Simon or Lookman there and let Simon and Lookman be inter-changing.

jihday:
yup, need to sacrifice either Lookman or Iwobi for Alhassan

You can't remove Lookman or iwobi that's madness.

Lookman is the scorer while Iwobi is controlling the midfield.

Oasis007:
We need to switch to 4 - 4 - 2 or 4 - 3 - 3 formation, either way sub off Osayi for Iheanacho.

An extra midfielder is needed not iheanacho.

Iheanacho doesn't defend and he is injured.

Goke7:
if SA goes ahead, they deserve it, hoping they gas out so we can breathe

They won't gas out.

A passing team does not gas out.

Odunayaw:
Make Aina return to RB, Calvin to take the LB

Then we bring Osayi to Right Midfield

Remove Osayi and bring on Yusuf or Onyedika.

komekn:
I don't like the way SA are making combination passes to get through us.

Most of them play for the same club so it's expected for them to understand each other.

SE players are running away from the ball instead of staying close for short passes.

SE is missing Sanusi at LB.

Where is Moffi?

He should be warming up...

komekn:
God forbid VO Cannot b injured

He is injured.

Take him off...

He should not collapse on the field.

Blueelf:
Nope. I am not

And you can't tell me who to quote and who not to quote. You don't buy me data

SE has been toothless in attack because their favorite striker can't finish. Unless he proves us "Haters" wrong on Wednesday, I retain my stand

You and your ilk can hug a transformer if you don't like what I said

SE has not been toothless in attack Ademola Lookman has been scoring goals.

SE is not a one man team.

This is Lookman's tournament to shine and Lookman is shining..

The pain of Ghana crashing out is still peppering you

Blueelf:
Bench Osimhen for moffi not onuachu. Don't think like this. Read to understand. "Lovewins" my foot

Osimhen can't be benched so that your evil wishes and dreams for the SE will come to past.

Lovewins is a nairaland username stop quoting him.

You're full of hatred.

Blueelf:
Benching Osimhen would make Nigeria actually win comfortably

You always wish evil against the Super Eagles.

Benching Osimhen during knockout stages will be a foolish move because it's Onuachu the coach will start and Onuachu doesn't play as if he wants to score goals.

It should have been tested in the group stages.

I wanted to see a fully energetic Osimhen come on in the 2nd as a sub against tired defenders in the 55th- 60 mins mark and see his impact as a substitute.

Because once Osimhen loses his energy and stamina in the 2nd half the Super Eagles attack dies off and with Onuachu as his replacement the SE is toothless.

Please someone should tell JPES to bring on Yusuf and Onyedika.

Aribo at worst should come on for Osimhen because once Aribo comes on as a midfielder the SE loses control of the midfield.

joxxy01:
The South Africa I've followed from the beginning of this tournament will always start like a house on fire in the first 30 minutes. And wear out in the 35th minute till the end.They are the easiest route to the final if you ask me. if we can't beat them as they are now under 90minute, then we don't have business winning the Afcon.

C:AF president is from South Africa so expect SA to be favoured and also expect Super Eagles to have at least 1 red card same way Super Falcons got 2 red cards in their semi-final match against Morocco.

Mujtahida:
Eguavoen was flexible to the point him allow SM analyst to influence am. Result - that's what matters.

JPes gave some guys like Bruno opportunity against GB. I wasn't too impressed. Those guys on our first team are there for a reason. See Moses has edged out Chukwueze. We practically don't have a right winger because Lookman is a striker in this set up. He starts from the wings and in the midst of the game he situated himself centrally, coming in behind Osimhen to knack them kpako

Lookman is the RW..

this is what happens when strikers play as wingers they know when to come into the box and attack.

If it was Chukwueze he won't be in the box to attack and score goals.

JoeEeL:
Igbos didn't start a civil war.

The first election of 1959 was rigged by d british to favour d north. The first census was also skewed to project d north as having more population.

So i:gbo soldiers killing leaders, men, women and children of other ethnic nations under the guise and lies of fighting corruption is not reasons to start a civil war

From 1910 onwards to 1960 the Bri:tish gave most jobs to I:gbos even outside the Eastern region despite the fact that other ethnic nations also had highly educated people. That's one of the reasons that I:gbos are all over Nigeria.

It was after 1960 when the Br:itish left, that ig:bos began loosing their jobs outside the Eastern region to indigenes but both Sultan and Akintola still raised public awareness that there were still a lot of ig:bos who had jobs outside their region and things were put in place to ensure the indigenes got jobs but i:gbos weren't happy and also because their region wasn't the richest region so the I:gbos killed the Sultan who was the prime minister and Akintola and abolished regionalism to ensure they don't lose jobs outside the Eastern region and also get the richest and wealth of other regions. But when a counter coup happened and I:gbos lost control of power the I:gbos started shouting dis-integration and b:iafra and separation.

You have a mental problem if you believe I:gbos did not start the civil war

SoNature:
Oga, rest! You no get point. Amotekun cannot do anything for the British. If they wanted to control the security operatives of Nigeria, they would focus on the secret police (DSS) and the Military, not one eye Amotekun.

As for Shell, those ones are still operating in Nigeria because the NNPC is the most useless state-run oil corporation. If NNPC was a serious upstream oil and gas corporation, we would have sent Shell packing. By the way, NNPC has by far more stakes in oil and gas industry than Shell, so, no, they are not controlling the industry. For all JV partnerships between NNPC and Shell, NNPC has more stakes.

PS: I am done going you a free lecture .

They already control the M:ilitary and D'SS.

It's the same way the p:olice and m:ilitary does not have control over who enters your house and compound and they don't have control over how you secure your house unless they pass a law recommending where your house security guards come from.

So right now, the m:ilitary and p:olice don't have control over how A:motekun secures the SW and that's what they want.

It's not about more stakes. NNPC does not own a working refinery. Selling things in raw form is different from selling it in the refined form, the raw form is cheaper than the refined form.

SoNature:
For your information, the British once conquered and ran this country for several decades. They left in 1960 without fighting to stay back.

So, the British wants to control them, right? To what end exactly? Make una dey try think before una comment; is that so hard?

If the British is actually interested in Nigeria, it should be Nigeria's oil and gas, not one useless Amotekun. How those yeye people wey not fit fight herdsmen go take help their life? 😂😂😂😂😂

Br:itish already control Nigeria's Oil and gas through Sh:ell.

Apart from oil industry, the security industry is another industry they already control but they don't have control over tribal and ethnic security industry so they are using this man to test if Amotekun is pro-yoruba and see if they can make it anti-yoruba.

JoeEeL:
NIGERIA, A TOTAL ZOO

BRITISH FORCE, WHO HIS ANCESTORS BEQUEATHED NIGERIA TO FULANI, NOW HIS OFFSPRING IS TRAINING A SECTION OF THE ZOO AGAINST INTRUDERS OF A PARTICULAR ETHNIC GROUP WITHIN D SAME NIGERIA.

UNA NEVER READY YET. DEY PLAY.

Nigeria was bequeathed to I:gbos not Fu:lanis. Infact it was to both of them with I:gbos as the head and Fu:lanis as the 2nd in command.

What else do you think gave the I:gbos confidence to start a civil war

SoNature:
I will try so hard to stay civil.

Until you understand that who pass you pass you, you won't make progress in life. He was trained in the UK for crying out loud!

That man has identified the failings of the security operatives and wants to help them at no cost as a way of giving back to the same country where he comes from.

You need to change your mentality.

Godfullsam:
No knowledge is a waste. He may know something that the amotekun operatives don't know. And how do you know he is coming alone?

When you are pushed to the wall like the case of Nigeria security situation, every idea is a welcome development.

This is not the time to claim Over sabi.

PAYnDRIVE:
As the black man nor com fit use em God given Braun nko, make we all die first.

F@@l

If your enemy wants to control and manipulate you they will use someone from amongst you.

The man is a tool of Bri:tish imperialism and it will be very foolish of Amotekun to accept his offer.

Once they accept his offer then the Bri:tish will have control over Amotekun and Amotekun will start harassing Yoruba people and other innocent people instead of going after criminals.

It's the same Bri:tish people that train your soldiers and police and you can see how both police and soldiers treat civilians with hatred.

Tessyy1701:
The bolded is funny though

How is it funny

If SE was relying on Osimhen for goals then SE would have drawn all their group matches.

SE only scored 1 goal which Osimhen scored in the group games and the SE did not score from open play in the other group matches.

1 was penalty and the other was own goal. How to get the best out of Osimhen should be the coaches priority and changing his position and role should be considered because SE needs someone that presses and defends from the front like Osimhen.

safarigirl:
His early matches for us were shaky, but it was most likely because he was just coming in and wasn't familiar with the setup yet

This is why I was so mad at Eguaveon when he started him against Ghana for that crucial World Cup qualifiers, and any attempts to wash Eguaveon of the foolishness of his decisions will not be condoned. Lookman had just switched allegiance to Nigeria in February of that year, and by March, you fielded him against Ghana for a crucial World cup match? Is that not carelessness?

You knew we were playing our toughest rivals in Ghana, yet, you decided to start this newly minted English-born and bred boy that barely knew the lay of the land to face tested African warriors.

Lookman and Calvin had barely been welcomed to the Super Eagles when Eguaveon threw them into a blazing fire and they rightly got burnt. We had players that were Nigerian-born and bred or had at least played African football enough to know how to play Ghana, yet, Eguaveon dropped them for Lookman, Dennis, Bassey, all new cats.


It was a foolish thing to do and Nigeria paid for it. 2 years later, these same players that faltered against Ghana are flying in AFCON because they have gathered the necessary experience.

he capped them for the SE... so it was not a foolish thing to do..

they did not falter against Ghana. Uzoho messed up against Ghana and Osimhen failed to score so it was Uzoho and Osimhen that faltered against Ghana.

Same way Osimhem is faltering in this AFCON but people are too sentimental to see it..

If Osimhen was not the main striker and definitely NOT Onuachu as main striker then SE would have been winning matches by at least 3 to 4 goals.

I am 80% sure Eguavoen would have called Nathan Tella or Orban Or Adams for this tournament. he might say Tella is too young same way he said Amoo was too young.

Emmy450:
let me make this clear for you,. Nobody, absolutely no one, can do what osimhen does for the eagles,

The power,the pace, the strength the resilience.

Osimhen draws two to three players to himself thereby opening spaces for players like lookman to score goals..

So rest this matter..

That is not how football works..

Football is about tactics and players style of play, If Osimhen misses a match another player will replace him and teams tactics will adjust to the style of play of the players..

the goal had nothing to do with Osimhen, Osimhen did not draw 2 - 3 players to himself the defenders were only marking the striker which at the time was Osimhen it could have been Boniface, Awoniyi, Onuachu e.t.c and the defenders would have still followed the striker because that is what defenders do.

You can say Lookman benefitted from Osimhen's poor offside awareness because Osimhen was just running expecting an early cross from Simon but Simon cut inside and Osimhen had already run away from where Simon could have passed to him.

Infact, I would say its African mentality and stigmatisation of short people and small statured people that's making defenders overlook Lookman and Simon.

If you want Osimhen to score goals then another person has to play the main striker's role to drag defenders away while Osimhen plays Supporting Striker/ Winger role that Lookman is playing then remove 1 of the FullBacks and let Lookman play the CAM or number 10 role while Simon plays LW and switches sides with Osimhen and Iwobi plays CM while Yussuf or Onyeka plays DM.

that means the Goal threats won't just be Osimhen and Lookman but the main striker, Osimhen and Lookman.

before this AFCON and early in this AFCON tournament when Osimhen played as a lone striker he was the only goal threat and SE struggled to score from open play and needed penalty to win or draw matches.

Now that JPES has managed to gather sense from somewhere and play 2 strikers the SE has started scoring because Lookman has the inteligence to know that he should give Osimhen space and play his SS/RW role properly.

there was a time Moffi and Osimhen started a match together but they kept getting in each others way and kept trying to attack the same space and going for the same headers and eventually clashing into each other at times, both Moffi and Osimhen wanted to play the main striker's role at the same time and did not decide who should play Supporting Striker and they did not even know they could switch positions from time to time on the pitch it was a disaster..

So yes, Osimhen is very replaceable, SE already has players that play like him but they may not press like him and will definitely not be offside like him.

Joebie:
But how did that guy who stamped osimhen’s foot escape a card?

They are against Nigeria winning.

Blitzking:
Nigerians killed nigeria..the whites left a thriving economy...the educated and foolish Nigerians took over and messed everything up..they couldn't even differentiate their left from their right. Always taking the advise that will destroy them..one idiot even said nigeria has so much money the problem was how to spend it...to show u how incompetent the ppl that managed us are and it transcends various spheres of the Nigerian economy..take a look at hospitals managed by missionaries and their current state after those guys handed over those facilities,j you will realise there Is something inherently wrong with an average nigerian education aside...common sense is not actually common. Look at missionary owned school and their current state after they were handed over to the govt..check their current state....roads..police station etc.

Nope, the whytes left a rubbish economy but what shocked them was that the economy started to thrive after they left and they sponsored the Igbos and northerners to start a civil war against the Yoruba region which was making Nigeria thrive just to make sure it stops thriving because the "thriving" was somehow limited to the Yoruba region.

Go and read the thread in the link below with a clear mind and you'll know what and who was responsible for Nigeria's negative turnout.

https://www.nairaland.com/7979140/history-when-yorubas-opened-africans