When i remember the way this SA team moves the ball from defense to attack in split seconds......hmm. The beautiful quick midfield interchanges they are so fond of.....hmm. Percy Tau's wizardry..... hmm. Lorch's lethality.... hmm. Mothiba's mobility.... hmm.

I sorry for Nigeria.

tbaba1234:
Rohr on Osimhen and Onyekuru:

"Onyekuru and Osimhen are young and they are here to learn. Musa and Ighalo are experienced so they are the ones to start. For Onyekuru, he has to first fight with Simon and Chukwueze for a position and then maybe for the central position. For Osimhen, he has to be stronger. In training, any touch he falls down. So I tell him to be strong"

Lol @ "falling down".

What about Onuachu that falls at the passing of the slightest breeze?

Where's that my Vaseline sef?.

I go w@nk with this pics today till my p£nis fall off.

Whoever takes over from Rohr must prioritize the AM/ CM position.

Get us a creative midfielder for heaven's sake.

Iwobi is a big minus.

No matter how this match ends, #Rohrout.

I have a lot to say, but for now, suffice it to say that Rohr is a fool.

Joebie:
Awaziem should be adventurous?
We for just play Simon as RB and put Chukwueze ahead of him

My brother you just solved the mystery. Simon will fit into the RB role like a glove. Good defensive awareness and decent pace and skill to bomb forward. This is the very best idea to solve our RB crisis.

But unfortunately, we have a dumb old fool for a coach so....

jihday:
Rhor af Kill us

I just pity Onyekuru and Chukwueze.

We may win this match but it won't be pretty. It will be pure and undiluted jam body boring football for 90 minutes.

#Rohrout.

It's almost 2pm.

Where the fawk is the line up?

zayyadidris:
I don't know how true.!!

The writeup says clearly "explosive lineup SUGGESTION". It's a suggestion, not the actual line up.

So we can dismiss this one with a wave of the hand.

drDoom3:


Funny enough, the guy was suspended by FIFA in 2013 for a year because of the same offence, assaulting an official. The guy is an unrepentant sinner�����

BTW, my SE insiders, what's the starting lineup for today?

Lol @SE insiders.

Oga we no get SE insiders for here oh. Only a bunch beer parlour/ armchair analysts.

[quote author=forgiveness post=79980850]


They are all from Nigeria even to the border of Togo(the Yorubas indigenous people of Benin and Togo). I have meet alot of them who can tell you the town their forefathers came from in Nigeria.

THE ARTIFICIAL BOUNDARY IS AS A RESULT OF THE AFTERMATH OF SCRAMBLE FOR AFRICA. [quote]

The capitalized is the koko.

If we lose tomorrow, I expect the following to happen:

In the short run,

1. Rohr will hand in his resignation letter.

2. Mikel and Ighalo (and possibly Balogun) will announce thier retirements.

Danielnino00:
West African Derby in the quarter final...

Senegal vs Benin republic...


We still run this turf...

Benin have already outperformed expectations to get to this point. Even if Senegal eventually bundles them out, they will still be hailed as heroes to thier nation for decades to come.

That's how you make a point.

I love this Benin team

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

Well, your style is still far more attractive than ours, though I agree both are very conservative.

IronGalaxy:
we might be playing the shittiest football in the tournament but Egypt is not Brazil. When you say we are " incapable" you make it seem the Egyptians are Superhuman when this is the weakest Egyptian team I've seen in a long time. I don't see us winning tomorrow but it's also not impossible beating Egypt

SA aren't bad tactics-wise in my opinion. They're good at those quick interchange of short passes that opens up defences. Maybe what they lack is a good finisher.

The southies can beat Egypt.

Earthquake3:


I think he over 17

You want him to play with those kids?

Lol. Maybe for our U-23's then...

But we need more info on this guy. What is his position?, what is his previous club etc?

Earthquake3:
Psv have signed a certain Noni Madueke

That's how serious transfers are done. Not links and rumours.

soetanoreoluwa:


AFCON 2019: Rohr Bars FG Delegation from Super Eagles’ Camp

With less than 24 hours to the second round knockout encounter between Nigeria and Cameroon, the Super Eagles’ Head Coach Gernot Rohr, has barred his players from all forms of activities that could distract the team from underperforming during the match tomorrow.


The action which took effect from yesterday will most likely affect the large delegation of Federal Government entourage that will arrive Cairo today before heading to Alexandria for the epic clash tomorrow.

On Wednesday night, the coach allowed his wards free reign to interact with the media, friends and relatives around at their hotel base lobby.

However, begining from yesterday morning, the rhythm changed as the players were confined to regimented life style until after tomorrow’s match.


But when the high-powered delegation from The Presidency that will include Senate President Ahmed Lawan, Speaker of House of Representatives, Hon. Femi Gbajabiamila, the governors of Lagos, Delta and political aides storm the coastal city of Alexandria before the match, there will be practically nobody to welcome them into the team’s camp except the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) President, Amaju Pinnick and his board members who THISDAY learnt will be more diplomatic in handling the matter.

Pinnick is likely to prevail on the government delegation to see reason with the Franco-German tactician’s de ision as his job could be on the line should the team fail to beat Cameroon and proceed to the quarter final.


“Gernot Rohr wanted outright concentration and will not want anything to disrupt the calmness of his players and the tranquility of the environment.

“He wants Eagles to be more focused than before for the match against Cameroon on Saturday,” a top official hinted THISDAY in Alexandria yesterday evening.

The coach had insisted that the players must be in their rooms for their afternoon siesta which was between 2-4pm and no loitering, no visitors nor telephone activities are expected from the players until after the match on Saturday.


The media had its own dose of the camp ethos last night as they were barred from the training arena as the team trained behind closed door for tactical reasons. Before now, the media were allowed to see the first 15 minutes before the cameras are shut down

ThisDay

Rohr will do better as a team psychologist than a tactician. He seems to be good at preparing players mentally for games. I hear he once requested Pinnick to hire a yoga instructor for his boys. He often takes his players on street walks before games to relax their minds and give them the inner serenity they need, gets involved in thier personal life issues (Kalu's mom's and Mikel's dad's kidnap incidents come to mind), he takes the pains to advice his players on career choices and even send personal trainers to help them at thier clubs.

If only he was half as good with his game tactics, he would be one of the greatest coaches in the world.

Humility017:

Lol.... i believe some guys here knows tactics more than ROHR

Undoubtedly. Rohr's tactical knowledge is not even up to that of the average TV sports analyst.

AIG07:
Who else saw the match between England and UsA?

I don't know when we will get to see an African team play like that.

The rest of the world aside Oceania are heads and shoulder ahead of us in the round leather game.

This US female team may even old Rohr's eagle to a goalless draw.

France female team will beat the SE with a slim margin, maybe 1-0 or so. U.S female team will wallop and brutalize the SE completely.

Ladies and gentlemen, this is the end of the road. If we miraculously survive Cameroon, we are up against Egypt on home ground. And there is simply no bloody way we're getting past them. Not with a dumb archaic septuagenarian at the helms. From this moment, I don commot mind from SE and AFCON, I just dey wait make season start.

I only pity the young talented players (Osimhen, Henry et al) who are being robbed of the opportunity to use this tournament as a launching pad for thier careers. It's such a pity.

The upside to this is that the NFF will be forced to sack Rohr for disgracing us before the world. Bye bye Onigbinde!

nelszx:
Why must we always face Cameroon coming from any defeat?
Well we have a game in our hand
Nigeria vs the defending champions

Nigeria versus Cameroon? Is it confirmed?

With my almost zero knowledge and experience of football tactics (aside PES football manager mode games), I am 100% sure I will do far better than that idiotic white Onigbinde.

Gernot Rohr is a shame.

Here's a summary of Rohr's tactical plan for all our group matches so far:

1. When the team gains possession in midfield, send the ball back to the centre backs immediately. Don't bother about trying to find the forwards, send the ball to the back first.

2. The two CB's pass the ball amongst themselves until they run out of ideas and make an innacurate long pass that ends up either in the sidelines or in the opponent's possession.

3. No pressing for the ball in the opponent's goal area. Whenever the opponent decides to play from the back, he must be allowed to pass his way into our own half unhindered.

4. Don't ever try to build possession in midfield. Just give the fuvking back pass!

5. Nothing else.

Bolowolowo:
I read on Twitter that the NFF is reaching out to Arsene Wenger behind closed doors

I am not surprised. Pinnick is a passionate Arsenal fan and has been in constant touch with Wenger for years now. As a matter of fact, it was Wenger that recommended Gernot Rohr(who is a good friend of Wenger's) to Pinnick.

Though I'm very skeptical about the chances that Wenger will agree to come out of retirement to coach a team in faraway Africa at his age. Most probably, Pinnick is reaching out to him for another recommendation, if that is the case, then we should expect another French coach soon.

Philosopher1979:
We need kelechi nwakali in that team. He is a good attacking midfielder. Players like lukman Haruna and rabiu ibrahim should have been invited for the friendlies to see if they are still good. The team lacks attacking midfielders and creative players. The problem is the players we need are not playing for top european clubs and we make this mistake of thinking that once a player is not in leicester he is not good. We even have an attacking midfielder in our local league (i have forgotten his name). The creative side of our game needs to be worked and this fixation with European football needs to end.

I also suggest that we need to play with two attacking midfielders and not one. I mean kelechi nwakali can compliment Iwobi in midfield so as to increase our creativity. Our Journalists need to celebrate creative players and not just wingers and goalscorers. The team is not technically balanced. Also, there is a strange dependence we have on Mike Obi which is outdated and based on his performance in 2005. This is dragging back our football. Having the best striker in the world is useless or limiting if you do not have creative midfielders. Players like kevin de bruyne and lucas modric are needed in this team and NOT players like Gabriel Jesus. You dont get good tires when the engine of your car is not working.

Football is about technical depth and balance and not star players. We have lacked creative players since Okocha and this is psychological. We often REFUSE to invite creative players into our team because of "Mikel Obi mentality". This loss is a blessing in disguise. Rohr should have learnt. When the team played with Iwobi as an attacking midfielder for a year, we played well.

We are wasting Kelechi Nwakali right now because he does not have a good club. This is funny. WE NEEd CREATIVITY IN OUR MIdFIELd.
at least for now, iwobi and maybe chukwueze should be encouraged. At lease, they are the most creative players we have. Mikel is a defensive midfielder/deep laying playmaker and NOT A PLAYMAKER. We need to get over this Mikel mentality. If not, he should be dropped. Egyt has won the nations cup with home based players. There is an urgent need to search for, encourage and groom creative players for our national teams. If not even Ronaldo will not help this team. Just look at Juventus in the champions league with Ronaldo.

Kelechi Nwakali and Lukman Haruna for the SE? In this 2019?.

Some people analysis sha

iSlayer:
An extra thin midfield. I wonder what it would be like without Ndidi. Quality young reinforcements are needed, to be groomed into players that can fill the very big boots of playing senior team football. Picking from the age grade team :

Okon
Makanjuola
Oforborh
Tom Dele-Bashiru.

What about Tijani? Rohr has always wanted a tall striker you know