₦airaland Forum

AndSunGorilla:
I think Randy should give the other guys a run-in too, people like Kanu, Oparanozie, Okobi, Ucheibe, Yewande and the other ladies too. It's a friendly anyways, there shouldn't be an indication of automatic starts in my opinion.

This is the issue. A Sane coach should be giving 2nd choice gk a start or at least 45mins per game. God forbid any thing happens to 1st choice gk.

Time and chance should not be what we go use know talent again.

PDPGuy:
An impressive last 10 minutes of the first half, as opposed to the majority of the half where the team struggled to keep possession.

Long balls but won none. In our box too, no aerial ball was won too.

Unlimited22:
Can Nigeria just get one thing right? Even 1 na wa

frustrating. Na dem dey attack us o consistent. We have even tried to break their tempo atall.

naptu2:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9GkzZwj8E_w

e don hang😆

ekehopp2:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=apHRB_4tNgY

https://web.facebook.com/watch/live/?ref=search&v=1265398397431772

No audio? 😏😏

https://twitter.com/Authorhayzoos/status/1645446379274108928?t=815ZX20pTQJnIANLXXCyAA&s=19


You should check this out. If only Teta realized that Saliba no dey and na big difficult ground be dis.

Deltamani:
At the mention of Faith Ikidi, you just want me to start spilling out anyways she’s another well respected Superfalcon Player, the way her teammates da respect her da always give me joy...

Anyway, This Lady never still get replacement till date, When Faith Ikidi was really Faith Ikidi which Forward dare to torment her territory? Ask Abby Wambach, Birgit Prinz them go confirm am. One of the most Confident and risk taking Full back ever..

I was think Patricia George was her possible replacement when I saw her defending and the way she wins the ball back, how she rapport the ball too. But injuries seems to have cut her Pro Career short. I just hope she comes back to the game sooner than expected, since she said she’s taking a break till the end of the year.!

The talents are much but still yet to get replacement. Kon add bad Coach ontop the wahala. The most outstanding replacement in a long long while that makes one's heart to be calm when watching is Ohale.

Unlimited22:
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Perpetua Nkwocha, Mercy Akide, Faith Ikidi, Cynthia Uwak, Precious Dede.


Even casuals will remember these names for a long long time

very long time to come. The series will help alot.

Deltamani:
Uwak probably would have been African greatest woman footballer, Her name keep bringing back those memories, I wish there wasn’t any Sexuality issues that resulted to Coach Eucharia kicking her out of the team, this girl was just too complete as a Striker not like this our present ones..

Imagine a Coach dropping her Best Striker From the AWC and World Cup Squad and even going on to render an interview because of this Sex Life issue...!
Goalkeeper Racheal Ayegba was angry and spoke out because of Eucharia dropping Uwak as at then.. If Uwak was in the 2011 World Cup Squad, the likes of Oparanozie, Orji would have been coming from the bench…
Anyway it’s in the Past now..

The issues are that there are alway puppetmasters in Nigerian football than we wish to admit. Eucharia had strong backing from powers that be then. She too no try. E dey shark her like bread and akara then. To see her replacement na wahala till date.

Deltamani:
This matter still da ground for Twitter ooo

How they voted against Asisat Oshoala

Osasu go look for wahala by using the word rubbish on Chuks. That's how they dug up 2019 mata. Now it seems i understand Oshoala's tweet better.

What i hate about the dig up are those fools using this in a yoruba vs igbo tribal situation. They don't even know the back stories. They just want to push silly narratives. Shameless lots.


For now, if I'm a SE player seeing better pitch daily for years at my club, everytime i want to fly to Nigeria to rep my country, as soon as i board plane, I'll start having PTSD just cos of the rubbish substandard pitch and facilities on ground. That's a fact. Another is the so called medics that attend to players when down...oh my God!!! Do they even know what they are doing?

And I'll be switching mindset every month of the year about lush and good pitch to cattle grazing farm standard.

We used to say its no excuse but the national team deserve topnotch facilities and services.

Deltamani:
Cynthia UWAK Played: 9 games in 3 different U20 World Cup Tournament.. Canada '02, Thailand '04, Russia '06
Goal Scored: 5
Assists: 2

Her doggedness, great composure, relentless work on both wings, and sharp, stinging, ferocious shots expressed in very clear terms her potential.
She seemed to blossom under pressure. Her best showing should be when, in the closing 10mins of our Russia 2006 curtain raiser vs CAN, she scored 2 fabulous goals (the 2nd coming a minute into 2mins added time) that gave us all 3pts. She was named in Russia 2006 All-Star squad.

In 2007 she scored our only goal against Sweden 🇸🇪 at the FIFA Women’s World Cup

We need a Docuseries on how the falcons rose to global recognition and the players, issues and things that occured then, etc. Esp Uwak's issue. My mum is no football fan but can never forget Akide, Perpetual and Uwak ever.


Conflict resolution should be a must study for most of local coaches. It's an age long problem in both male and female teams in Nigeria. It's worse when powerful people in nff backs such coaches over the nation's strength

Deltamani:
Womensinternationals Result

USA 🇺🇸 2-0 Ireland 🇮🇪
Fox 36
Horan 79

The Irish chicks are a little bit tall, They’re So compact and organized.
But Ireland seems extremely tough to beat..

11, 26 and 4 go cause serious wahala for Randy's team. Watchout.

Deltamani:
Wishing you the best, Mal 💙

One of the things that distinguishes M from F are these injuries. This is scary. The ACL issue too is another big deal. I doubt any solution for now. Only officiating can help reduce the tackles that cause these kind of injuries.

Deltamani:
You can only pick two out of the six. Women’s edition. Who are you picking?

Perpetual is first overall.


It's hard to pick any recent baller. It's all been club glory majorly than national glory for them.


I go with the two legends abeg. Akide's touchline goal against Korea in 99 was like Garba Lawal's. None of the current can take on two defenders and put that off still balanced like nothing happened.

Ati Prof o
Ati Dele Ali or whatever
Gbogbo won no get sense.

This is still better that Prof letter

But you can feel the thickness of the gaslighting and deception in it. Apc way. Smh

A dumb way to reply her letter which was more sensible and direct.


This one is talking about giant and calls himself a prof with all the stats, facts and figures showing how worse things are? And from the comfort of his glorified abode?

Jodera2:
Lol... Even though they have but I think our quality will scale through. As long as we don't have any major injuries to our first team players, then I'm confident.

As for the bolded, Arteta learnt the game from Pep. They always believe to dominate games no matter the ground. Hopefully, he'll be able to adjust his in-game management in case things don't go to plan

Out great season should not make us think we are now giants all of a sudden. Sporting Lisbon has given us a good reason to revamping how we approach these games going forward, else, same old disappointment. UCL football showed pep pepper at crucial moments which is more painful than early ko exit. Pep don go upgrade. E remain apprentice.


Zinny has apologized for slip up.

mostob:
This will be a true test. TBH I don lose hope. City has no injury worry and Haaland be like person wey just do goal subscription. We tried but losing the cup at this juncture is painful.

I hope others come thru for us as well. Glad Jesus is back cos of he wasn't, the fear for worse. I hope Teta does everything to make Gabriel focused on his CB job and stop doing anything to overburdened that warrior now that Saliba no dey. These things should not be hard now🥴

mostob:
I don't think so. The penalty he missed against Sporting didn't affect his next game. He should be fine.

Well, the times are different now. Much more crucial than that night. But i expect him to bounce back just fine.

Jodera2:
I believe we'll beat Newcastle at their home as long as we don't have any more injury concerns.


Na just Man city at home be my issue. We just need draw there

Newcastle have an Anfield kinda home atmosphere o. But we can pull a surprise there of Arteta works on his foolishness and his defending structure. Arteta should realize it's not proper to always have possession and rather play to soak pressure at certain moments of the game. It helps frustrate opponents when the goals aren't coming. Plus we already are getting close to hacking the wengerball counter attack style. Almost.

Erm....

This needs to be improved on🌚

Jodera2:
We need step up. This is one of the biggest final.
The second biggest one is Etihad

Pressure ti wa!!

mostob:
E still dey pain me now bro... Just a simple pass, he fumbled. Arrrgghj

I have this feeling that decision may likely haunt Him.

Jodera2:
We need step up. This is one of the biggest final.
The second biggest one is Etihad

Can we survive Newcastle and City? Hmmm


"It was at this moment he knew he..." 😆

Jodera2:
Football is evolving sha.

Na Saliba injury cause all these things cos I know we'll never park bus the way we did today even with Zinny.

I saw many great opportunity we should have transitioned to great chances once we beat the first press but because we budey it, it was passed on.

Now, teams are more of system than individuals. it's the main reason why Guardiola will ditch a Degea for an Ederson even though he knows that The primary duty of GK is saves and reflexes. Same reason Zinny would still bench Tierney.

Two top 4 teams for us. Omo!!

We need to step up.
Teta needs to actually say and do

He called it 9 Finals.

The Anfield game didn't feel like one. It looked one sided. That's not how to play a final imo.

kokaneprodigy:
Exactly you saw the tactic, Gabriel was doubling as a CB and LB. That’s on Arteta not Zinny. Zinny was only playing to instructions. This is what I want Iamoyindamola to see.

If that is majorly adhering to tactics, then Saka didn't need come help White. Yet he did. That's superb game reading. Arteta didn't influence Saka to defend. That's why I don't want to simply put total blame on Teta. Zinny should know better.



That Nunez chance had me go crazy. I was almost seeing same old Arsenal that Mane used to tear apart😂

Who remember that moment that Zinny was blocking Ramsdale instead of being on Salah? Ramz pushed him a lil so he could see well and parry the curved shot of Salah.

chrisooblog:
Na just normal normal chief

we meuve 😎

Jodera2:
This Zinny conundrum is just like De Gea.

De gea for all his saves and reflexes can't seem to distribute ball and pass ball effectively from the back. Once there's pressure, he'll budey it and good opponents will capitalise on it. He might save 2 or 3 as a great goalkeeper he is but how many can he stop when pressure wan burst pipe?

Most top coaches are thinking of ways of limiting opponents from holding the ball reason why they prefer Technical players throughout the field right from the keeper down to the CF.

The main reason why we dropped points today was when we didn't effectively recycle the ball from back to front and losing possession recklessly esp in the 2nd half.

I just knew pressure would burst pipe and we should thank Ramsdale, Gabriel and Salah for ensuring we took one point to Emirates

This is a wrong example to use.

De gea is great at his primary duty-goalkeeping!!!

Zinny is NOT!!!

Being good with the feet gk is still a catch up thing with modern gks.


Ederson keeps clean sheets but in most cases is a bad gk. He's good with his feet.


Tomiyasu is injured and he still has better man to man tackles than Zinny. Should i because of Tactics overlook such slack?


We can deflect all we want, but the giants of european football care less about all of that. The earlier the better.


So far he's great for the attack approach but poor in defending.

Ya talking of recycling the ball when Liverpool were playing like demons? Oh my!!! Holding rightfully contributed to their pressure in our half but Teta was slow in doing what was necessary to stop it.


Tierney and Trossard were the key. Especially as Nelli was tired.


Lets always say it as it is.


The fact that man u fans love de gea no mean say dem no dey vex or call him out when he messes up.


Tonight, Zinny is that player!! Simple.

Jodera2:
My only Reason I feel he should have benched Zinny for Tierney was when the pressure was much cos no need for any buildup again.

But saying he shouldn't start na kolewerk. We all seem to forget how composed we were before their first goal

Zinny can't be starter for us on serious European night games pls. And i mean this in all sincerity.

But i agree. The bigger blame is on Teta for leaving him on longer than necessary. Tierney can never get nutmegged and not fight back.

I really feel for Gabu. His legs will be burning rn. Double job.

As a coach, i expect you don't give such overload to your last reliable CB after losing the other CB to injury. It's a silly silly tactic. Very silly. All cos you want Zinny to flourish? And again a dangerous winger called MO Salah.



Abeg Arteta lacks respect!!!!!?

toluxe0075:
You read my mind. I was shouting all over the place. Through pass became a mountain for Martinelli.

If that pass happened well, i will even overlook Zinny mess up.

Both goals came from his wing.

It was Ben White that was yellow carded o. And Saka dropped to help him defend. Yet you that wasnt having any bookings, 2goals came from that wing?


I know as coach will ruminate on that detail. It's not a needle in hay kind of situation. It is obvious.

kokaneprodigy:
Holding had his own, tactic-wise Zinny is not culpable cos he was simply playing to instructions. But you see Holding’s decision making was poor.

He always panicked under little pressure.

He was so bad that he kicked a ball to corner without pressure and was saved by the linesman who raised his flag for offside.

Any tactics that doesn't respect dangerous wingers like Salah is a rubbish tactics.


Besides, what happened to primary obligations. Are you even pleased to see that ordinary TAA nutmegged a defender like him? That made Trent feel like a sweet winger. What nonsense.

It is disrespectful to see Salah and play the way Zinny played.


Once again, i will say it


We can't resume Europe with just Zinny as a starter. Dangerous and cunny wingers dey all over Europe and they'll roast him until he either improves his defending (reading when and when not to do his stuff) and the likes.


Samu Chukwueze will make a fool of Zinny. And this is not me being patriotic. Its fact.

And there are more dangerous wingers than Chuks right now.