mostob: Their mentality was their downfall. They were mentally built for penalty shootout but Argentina had another idea.
like, Argentina were very direct in approach. Nobody told the Croats to decongest middle after 2-0. They still failed in matching intensity. Even the best are victims of their own one way football philosophy.
Mujtahida: I am here indulging TheGoodJoe in his favorite pastime on a point where even a cursory browsing on the internet throws up recent articles talking about the possibility of Spain overhauling the philosophical basis of its football or injecting more directness into it.
This back and forth is thegoodjoe using me for sport. No more.
Media o. Like something that's in the news since 2020.
Mujtahida: The logic is this: Arteta learnt under gaudiola = Arteta plays tiki taka.
If you have a nail, everything na hammer. If you string passes, e don be tiki taka.
I can even refer to a coach in a South American league that just watched wenger ball and is using it currently. He's never met wenger or been at Colney. If Toure is successful tomorrow, they'll probably say na TikiTaka
So who did Wenger now grow up under? This take is getting more ridiculous. We don't need clips to even use to justify this. No matter the beginning of any manager, they'll still decide which style to use, and it doesn't mean they didn't learn it well.
I can count several top managers and where they learnt tactics and most don't even stick to the first one. That will be stale. Very stale and disastrous for their own careers, especially when everyone is not gifted with players like Busquets, Xavi, Iniesta and Messi.
Allow this rest pls. Even the media knew he wasn't playing exact philosophy as the Pep he deputized for.
Danielnino00: The funny thing is that the two games he lost weren't entirely his fault.. Sure,he got some of his tactics and selection wrong..But if Okoye and Uzoho brought their A games on both occasion,we could be talking a different thing... This world cup has really shown the importance of having a good goalkeeper... In 2010, Largerback actually tried with the team we had, but Kaita and Yakubu cost us... Enyeama saved us .
That is enough to make All the teams that made quarterfinals in Qatar to be ousted on the grand stage, no matter who sabi or not. Danny, abeg no excuse for him.
elyte89: Unfortunately for eguavoen ,he lost two most important matches,to forgive him will b very hard base on our impatience record.
Had it been Dey were just friendly games those matches he lost,he would still b d eagles coach
Do u think ppu won’t have come for paisero heads too with d way he’s losing games if Dey were “important” matches
It was an insult to bring a 94 tactics to the fore at such a crucial moment of our football identity, one with bitter archrivals again. Like, who does that? Was he thinking the match was a 6game thing or what? Like caretaker capacity and you dey do like say no be emergency??
Kog45: Oya Oga Dave,name 5 top SE goalies....Haba Peter Rufai glorified Agbim..Rufai only cross was France 98 poor performance and this made me to rate Enyeama more than him.
That wasn't me calling him that. Prior to that discussion, I've never really seen cause to scrutinize him deeply. I did. Not a fan of recency bias either, but hype dey. Real hype.
I recall an old secondary school mate called him "glorified Agbim" and i watched clips mehn and i was like he no fit make top 5 best SE goalies by his own individual performance then. Some goals were stupidly conceded. He had some good days. But the hype....
How Morocco's former coach, Vahid Halilhodzic had an issue with Ziyech is still beyond me. Look at the passionate fellow some tried to make look like the Villain. Smh.
Morocco played good football under Vahid. They were already on their way to building something special but you see, the team won't be complete without Ziyech. They needed that extra bite, that extra technical quality, they needed to be one... so the Moroccan FA was right to bring Ziyech back and kick out Vahid and appoint Walid to take the team to the heights they are capable of reaching. And look at them now....
#Qatar2022DiariesMD
This buries the narrative that no player is bigger than the team that we oft say. Imagining same in the GWG....
Morocco has a working system on match bonuses for Ziyech to donate all of his(325k) to poor peeps in the country.
Here, na go, you will receive alert, Don't worry. We have told the honorable minister. How much is it sef? Ya earning well at your club now. Leave this chicken change for us. You should not be fighting over it. Ehen!!
Thank God no be Nigerian Gk be that. See the arrant rubbish Portugal put in goal
Here for don scatter if na Maduka
Well deserved Morocco. Win the World Cup.
Only 3 midfielders are tops in this tournament and Sofyan is one of them.
So sad that Qatar will be remembered for the breakfast lt serve superpowers and superstars. The tears and pain of never seeing the mundial again..... An Era comes to an end.
The 2014 SE team are perfect personnel wise to implement this Croatian style of dragging till Extra time/penalties. We will need a pk specialist in the team and a modric-esque midfielder to complete it. I love the Vic pairing in the middle. Nobody really talking about the Brazil middle atall. Livakovic, if his road ends here, has done well. Once again, I'm proud of the fact that Gk's have bigger spotlight in Qatar.