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fabyom:
How? His left foot is already up and the ball is few CM away from him. How will he do that? Is he a magician?

A ball is spherical... if you kick a ball at its radius it will go straight.

Osimhen was running towards the post so he could see when Alisson's was rushing out of his post so he could have picked the left side of Alisson or right side of Alisson or pass to another player...

If Osimhen kicks the ball with his right foot just 1 - 4 centimeters to the left of the ball's radius the ball will go towards Alisson's left side...

if Osimhen kicks the ball with his right foot 13 - 20 centimeters to the left of the ball's radius and aims towards Alisson's right side the ball will spin and create a curling effect which will curve the ball past Alisson.

Kyle Walker Peters goal against city at 0.07 mins


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eGrc6MZhfKo


Kevin De bruyne goal against Bournemouth at 0:20 mins


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rdj_vQpy37I

Goal by rb salburg against Bayern munich at 4:25 mins


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O55Zz_BPGds

fabyom:
Allison was close, before he will hit the ball with his left Allison will have gain more ground on him. He would block it either with his foot or body. He made the best decision. I don't understand the reason for this argument. His teamate was open why take that risk with your weaker foot. You just missed a penalty and then decide to shoot with a weaker foot when there are other options. No now!

he doesn't have to use his left foot at all.. that's the point..

he can shoot it with his right foot towards alisson's left side or shoot the outside of the ball with his right foot to curve past Alisson's right side or also shoot it in between Alisson's legs..

he took the best decision.. he should convert more chances ...

fabyom:
Thank you for this picture. You can see that the keeper was closing Oshimen down and the only way he could score was to bend it with his weaker foot. The position of his body makes that near impossible. Oshimen run was diagonal cos of where he collected the ball from Gomez, and there were acres of space to pass for his teammates facing an open net. Why then should he risk shooting with his left when he can pass to a colleague facing an open goal?

Zambo had control of the ball cos it was a one-two pass. He has acres of space and good body positioning to shoot with his right foot and no teammates were in sight. Oshimen made the right decision so was Zambo.

Curtisaxel10:
Exactly. From the goalkeeper's position, Osimhen would have had to take an awkward shot with his weaker left foot which would either be picked comfortably by the GK or gone off target.

Why take that gamble when a teammate is in a much better position?

JayromWrites:
From the still picture. It's easier to score from Zambo position than from Osimhen for a Right footer.

Looking at the position of Osi, if he goes for goal, it will take something special to beat Alisson.

Osimhen's position is easier ...

since his right footed it would have been easier to play it towards Alisson's left side ( the blue line in the image below )...
or use his right foot to spin the ball to curl round Alisson's right side ( the grey line below )...
or through the legs of Alisson's...

Anyways, Napoli won....

do4luv14:
And looking at the second picture from another angle, that would had certainly be a goal for Victor, IF, that team mate had return the favour, instead or going for the kill

In the 2nd picture Osimhen is offside..

BascoVanVeli:
Zambo was in a tighter angle and still finished.

There is nothing wrong with passing to an unmarked teammate but sometimes u have to take on the responsibility, especially as a striker.

Osimhen scored from a similar and tighter position some weeks ago.

Curtisaxel10:
Lessons from the Napoli game:

1. Ball-playing CM/DM is the goal. I loved the way Anguissa and Lobotka (I think) controlled the midfield, taking the pressure away from the defenders even with Liverpool forwards pressing them hard.

Anguissa's twists and turns, control and movement were pure class. Ndidi cannot do that. His best move is to receive ball and pass to the nearest man ASAP .

Therefore, I think Ndidi should remain a CB for now. There, he can utilize his tackling skills without having to "ball-play".

(2) Osimhen is a good unselfish striker. His pass to Kvara reminded me of his pass to Chukwueze against Sierra Leone with the open net at his mercy. Both were excellent decisions, both were squandered.

Very nice striker, Osimhen. But he should stay away from penalties for now. He simply doesn't know how to take them.

(3) Osimhen functions better in a counter-attacking setup. Sit back and hit on the break. Peseiro, over to you.

His penalty was on target. Alison went the right way so it was Alison's goalkeeping skills that prevented the goal.

Osimhen played a good penalty but shouldn't have picked the same way spot as his teammate.

Osimhen functions in a high chances creating team not a counter attacking team. He starts his runs too early and usually ends up been offside so Osimhen's offside can affect counter attacking teams.

Ndidi causes too many fouls to play CB.

sprints1:
Oga academy no be ball if you are good you are good which academy KANU and Okocha go even the great De Lima ronaldo no go academy the academy way england get dey never win world cup since 1966 and na dem invent football. South Americans don't even have good academy and yet dey perform well in world cup we don't have good academy yet we have won 3 u17 world cups. We cannot simply win the world cup in Africa because we don't invest in sports and we have political problems in Africa. The talents dey but no system to bring them out. Our best players abroad don't even want to play for us once they know France or England or Germany will call them. Our sports in Africa has so much declined since the late 90s till know.

the great De Lima ronaldo joined the Social Ramos futsal team at the age of 12..

benardtotti:
But same you guys will scream blue murder if buhari favors his region ? Even when they are incompetent? We all know maguire and Shaw are lacking in talent ,yet they were favored week in week out , that's what we call nepotism, I'm not surprised tho ,the British colonised us , they taught us Africans how to be nepotic.

B:uuhari doesn't favor his region he favors Niger republic and Nig:eriens.. someone who favors his region won't allow nige:rien b:aandits over run his region..

One of the main reasons his not going after baandits is because they are ni:geriens like him.

Truvelisback:
But Mancity, Liverpool, Wolveampthon and others are different. In Mancity's First 11, almost all the players are non-English players.

The plan is to get the best coaches from around Europe and South America into their league to grow their english players especially the players in the youth teams of the clubs then gradually start the youth players in the senior team.

The amount of foreign players can never ever be more than all the English players in all the English football league divisions.

phemmyfour:
If it work with sport, why hasn't Africa won the World cup?

Why hasn't England (Men) won any major title since 1966?

Even AJ lost to Uz back to back

You cannot replace talent with patriotism and expect excellent results

most teams in Africa don't have good offensive plays and are competing with teams that have sports academies for children under 8 years old so most of their players have been in sports or football academies since they were children which ends up making them better players while African countries have teenagers in academies and still have a lot to learn when they get outside Africa...

England has to also compete with other countries who have academies for young children and most times better coaches..

AJ losing to UZ can be attributed to the current political situation with Ukraine.. A lot of sports are fixed... AJ will also lose to Fury in december...

you can mix talent with patriotism and get excellent results..

phemmyfour:
Unfortunately, patriotism doesn't work with sport. Chelsea's 2012 ucl winning squad had less than 5 English boys in the line up

Patriotism works with everything..

the point is there were english players on the team and there were and are english players in all their youth teams...

Sports is an industry and every industry provides jobs..

Sports provides job opportunities both high paying and low paying... so a country needs to make sure its indigenes are the major beneficiaries of all industries in this case sports industry.

Its not Nigeria where there's oil in Bayelsa, Akwa-Ibom e.t.c. but its foreigners and non-indigenes that are the ones getting jobs in their oil industry.. that's an abomination..

Its called ENGLISH premier league and in Europe...

they must favor their own people...

you don't reveal things like this when you're outside your own country or indigenous region...

He hasn't realized that's how countries grow their indigenous populations...

dazzlingd:
Nigeria is just a poor African nation with overpopulation, when I mean overpopulation, we have too many people below average IQ and literacy.

Family planning first will go a long way in solving Nigeria problems.
When a poor family keep birthing many poverty stricken children, they go to poor schools and drop out, increasing poverty rate and over dependency...

The wealth of a nation depends on the average economic value of each individual in that country.

You're right in some cases like overpopulation... I used to think like you but I changed when I realized the major problem was infrastructure and migration into Nigeria not overpopulation..

Poor schools are as a result of lack of regulations because most poor people send their children to public schools and according to you "poor people send their children to poor schools" that means that public schools are poorly maintained, regulated and upgraded..
poor schools are a result of the government not investing in education..

the wealth of a nation depends on the urban infrastructure of the states in that country... Its the infrastructure that's one of the major problem..

the main major problem that also leads to overpopulation is migration... the borders in northern Nigeria are open so all sorts of criminals are free to enter Nigeria especially through the northern borders and when you have a presi:dent that's not Nigerian that presi:dent will ensure Nigeria becomes populated with non-Nigerians..

joelsteron:
I am hoping Peseiro will use 3 men in defence someday pairing (Akpoguma , Ndidi , Bassey). Moving Aina and Zaidu to the middle having with Iwobi and Aribo. Then Monster machine flanked by simon and Lookman.

Ndidi causes too many fouls to be playing or even considered to be playing CB position and as a CB fouls can lead to penalties which he has just done against Brighton...

TheSuperNerd:
Meet Raphael Onyedika: Club Brugge's New Boy and CDM/CM pearl


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MGD102H879k
Just 2mins 40 secs of your time.




And below are a few Lineup options featuring Raphael Onyedika Nwadike in the near future as CDM considering that Ndidi is moved to CB. This is just 4 out of the many possibilities I've been considering and analysed personally. I could paste all in one post but 4 is allowed per post. Have your say, if you must.

only the 3rd formation which includes Moffi and Osimhen is good, the rest didn't give SE the desired results in AFCON and WC qualifiers...

SE has Osimhen, Sadiq, Moffi, Awoniyi, Dessers, Ihenacho, Victor Boniface, Yira Sor , Ejuke e.t.c.

at worse, 2 of those strikers must be in the starting 11.

at normal, 3 of those strikers must be in the starting 11..

SE needs goalscorers and assist providers on the pitch...

Moses Simon and Chukwueze should be benched or not invited...

BannedLarge:
He isn’t ready just yet. Lukaku that tore Seria A with goals flopped at United and Chelsea and he was harshly criticized. At a club like man utd, if you don’t start scoring immediately, they will finish you. I want to see Osimehn play a full season uninjured at Napoli and score 25 to 30 goals in all competitions for making that big move

Lukaku was the highest goal scorers at man utd so he didn't flop.

At Chelsea he was beginning to gain scoring form before the interview made him fall out with Tuchel so he also didn't flop at Chelsea.

TheLoneCitizen:
He is an epl-type striker. Very explosive.

he will be given many red cards and yellow cards in the EPL...

Awoniyi neatly won the ball from Davidson Sanchez against Tottenham and the referee blew foul against Awoniyi...

many EPL referees have racial aggression against b:lack players...

Meliforme:
Good understanding of the game of passing the ball.
Counter attacking threat.
Creating scoring chances for others is now on the increase, as evidenced in his key passes per game, and attempts at crossing the ball, unlike before.

That's him playing club football.. let him play for the S.E he will want to turn to the "hero" of the team...

Philosopher1979:
Real sociedad is not a rich team like chelsea that will buy players with a lot of money and bench them. He will enter their first team immediately. He will score goals and create chances in real sociedad

Let him score his goals in Almeria for this season...

charlesemeka85:
it doesn’t make sense judging umar with simy’s misfortune in the colors of crotone

Wetin mk u no also reason say sadiq fot hit over 20 goals for sociedad in laliga this season to attract big money to the epl or bigger laliga teams?

he has already scored 2 for Almeria..

He can score over 20 goals for Almeria this season and still attract big money move to any of the top 5 leagues in Europe..

charlesemeka85:
wetin mk some of una too dey fear for our players moving to bigger clubs?

Nawaooo

he has been playing division 2 football for the last 2 years.. so he needs a season of starting and playing games at top-tier level...

Look at Simy Nwankwo, once he left Crotone his goals dried up and unfortunately Crotone was relegated and are now in Serie C...

the way Almeria is playing especially with Sadiq scoring they will likely stay up... so in his footballing interest he should stay at Almeria for at least a full season...

In his financial interests then he can leave...

charlesemeka85:
how? Sociedad is a bigger and stable club than almeria in Spanish football

Samueltemi337:
How?

He is getting game time at Almeria and in my opinion that's what matters...

Eto stay at RCD Mallorca until Barcelona came for him...

fabyom:
It has nothing to do with the coach. It's all about the pitch even Barca will find it hard passing on that terrible pitch. What an eyesore?

you work NFF

passing has to do with coaching.. don't blame the pitch...

charlesemeka85:
wow will be a good move

will be a bad move...

Tinneh:
Omo African football still has a long way to go in development, I watched the last 30 mins of the ngr Ghana game and both team played nonsense...even a cadet team in Europe wouldn't play the way, to string 5 passes na problem..

I doubt an African country would ever win world cup till World ends..

because most Nigerian coaches believe the ball must be kicked over the defense and a pacy striker runs after the ball and scores... It boils down to laziness of Nigeria football coaching methods and lack of proper ball playing players..

U20 falconets passed the ball and were able to string passes..

olisaEze:
In the year 2020 alone, Malaysia earned 36.87 billion Malaysian ringgit from palm produce. Which converted to Naira is about N3 trillion! Is that not enough to put a dent in our national debts?? The palm tree is so under appreciated in this country, especially when u realize that that plant was introduced to Malaysia by the British with only Nigerian palm trees! Most people don’t even know that their vegetable oil used in cooking is made from palm oil, same as chocolates. Nice one from Okowa, I hope whoever comes next does not abandon this project. Continuity is always a big issue in dis our nation.

chocolates are made from cocoa..

lovewins:
Consistently finishing top 4 of the Spanish league isn't bad by any standard. But for Ajibade, almost is not enough.

With Asisat's dominance on the African scene gradually weaning, Ajibade is the next big thing. Playing for a "just good enough" club that will also deprive her of playing in Europe may just be the clog in the wheel.

Hoping they do significantly well this season, or that she moves to a better club.

Only injury or losing her speed can reduce Asisat's dominance in Africa..

Asisat is 27 years old so her dominance is not and never gradually weaning.. Asisat and many other players can have dominance in Africa together.

TheSuperNerd:
The Real truth. Little wonder no Elite club is looking at him just yet.

Even Moises Caicedo of Brighton could make the jump to an Elite side before Ndidi if care isn't taken. Lad is rising fast.

The Truth stares you in the face. .

In Samson Tijani, Raphael Onyedika and other CDM talents breaking through from our youth sides or through academies home or abroad, I expect to see Ndidi Upgrades. CDMs who can actually use the ball.

The Truth.

you've forgotten Leicester City won Premier League some years ago and recently won FA Cup and community shield...

Leicester City is an Elite club that has to compete with Liverpool, Man. City, Man. United, Chelsea, Tottenham , Arsenal for top 4 or top 6 and even now Newcastle United is also becoming an Elite club...

according to the NFF , Nigerian coaches and some people on this thread.... those guys are too young to get call-up invitation...

because if the NFF had sense they would have told Eguavoen to invite them for AFCON...

TheSuperNerd:
Elite defensively. Yes. I am the first person to let anyone know that Ndidi is a defensive actions Monster.

But he's unfortunately underpar in the Ball-playing aspects of the same role and this is a huge feature of the Best and the finest well-rounded CDMs on the planet today. Kimmich, Rodri, Casemiro, Busquets, Fabinho, just to mention a few.

So defensively Elite but Ballplaying-ly Poor.

Just the truth.

TheBadNerd's truth... not the real truth.

TheSuperNerd:
Finally,

@bolded... this is pure rubbish. I have always analysed Ndidi and even defended his qualities overtime but I have also come to accept with time and after enough and satisfied observation stretching 5-6 seasons that Ndidi has really got a ball-playing flaw which impedes his evolution into an elite well rounded CDM.

And my analyses and use of those words, "Ball playing", "Destroyer DM" and much more have since dropped and been used here and on twitter before Squawka released those tackles rankings.

So abeg... find something more cogent to say.

DM Pass DM. Understand what TheGoodJoe is teaching you. Danke!

TheBadJoe and TheBadNerd

Ndidi is already an elite DM he does not need your acknowledgement