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Sports › Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2027, 2028 And 2030 World Cup by daveP(m): 8:07pm On Apr 27, 2018
Mickael2:
this shows how much you know about coaching. haven't you heard that some players are made for the big moments? if you are losing you dare not sub out your best player na or your main goal scorer rather you complement them, no sane coach would take out Messi or Ronaldo when his team is trailing, heck in 2012 or so against PSG, an injured Messi was subbed in when Barca were losing, guess what? with only one good leg he played a shot which the GK parried and that led to the equaliser and Barca scaled through
Really? Don't take it to far, you know what I mean......
Sports › Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2027, 2028 And 2030 World Cup by daveP(m): 8:04pm On Apr 27, 2018
Mickael2:
Iwobi hasn't even scored two goals against Crystal palace and you want to start him over someone who is in form?

do you want me to start giving you instances of when Welbeck beat more than one player? this shows that you didn't watch the Arsenal CSKA game because he did.

Which match against Chelsea did he pass 4 players and what was the outcome?
Im not saying Iwobi is the better of the two. Iwobi has a lot to still learn. But for that very flank Vs Atletico, when they began to defend En masse, as a coach who would you deploy to breakdown such discipline, a ball holder or a dribbler? All crosses that came Vs from his flank was by Ozil or Monreal. This is a Welbeck that when he attempted dribbling, he lost possession and that led to Griezmann getting an equalizer. I watched both legs of the Cska game, and I call that a flash in the pan. Vs Chelsea, the outcome led to a 4on 2 situation that Ramsey couldn't bury. 4arsenal Vs 2chelsea players. undecided
Sports › Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2027, 2028 And 2030 World Cup by daveP(m): 7:55pm On Apr 27, 2018
[quote author=Mickael2 post=67080309]can't you just say that the Atletico fullback was a stalwart on the day? I mean this is a team with one of the best defences in the world, Arsenal created chances, plenty if chances which shows that the team was doing okay, all they needed was a goalscorer, is it Iwobi that would have scored the goals? Welbeck remains a bigger goal threat than Iwobi any day [/Quote]One of the crosses that came from that side made Lacazette rise high to score. All due respect to Atletico, they defended well, and I'm not saying they didn't. I'm just on the tactics. Welbeck couldn't have done anything meaningful Vs the best defence in Europe without being a dribbler.

Once you have such stalwarts, you resort to some dribbling cos of the speed at which they close down. simple.

Gimme Iwobi and Welbeck to choose who would be a goal threat, and I'll pick none. trust me. arms folded.
Sports › Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2027, 2028 And 2030 World Cup by daveP(m): 7:51pm On Apr 27, 2018
andrew444:
Wilshere an average player the english media see as the english Xavi
Even Xavier has been average in some of the games he played in his career. it's now Wilshere that would be consistent? lol. Don't mind the English media, that guy would get extra drill from any coach asides Wenger.
Sports › Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2027, 2028 And 2030 World Cup by daveP(m): 7:48pm On Apr 27, 2018
Mickael2:
seems you hardly watch Atleti games, that's how they cover all the time, they weren't scared at all just their normal game.

out of curiosity though are you saying that Iwobi would have been able to dribble all three players at once? I am sure Welbeck is kinda fast too, he showed that against Chelsea in last season's FA cup final and Iwobi is definetly not the fastest guy around either
Beat your chest and tell me that Welbeck was the better choice for that wing throughout that game. Iwobi have done more than 3players Vs Argentina. he passed thru 5players at once and didn't go down. Against Chelsea too, he passed thru 4players, Cahill and Kante inclusive. So it's now 3rough defenders he won't pass thru or at least get a PK out of themhuh

It's no hype, but we both know who the better dribbler of the ball is in such tight spaces.


Welbeck failed to do his job at that wing and so Monreal had to fill in such role... Stop making Welbeck look like he's one good player. He's average to me. 2goals against Cska is not going to change my view about him anyday.
Sports › Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2027, 2028 And 2030 World Cup by daveP(m): 7:43pm On Apr 27, 2018
kentebemoney:
Very on point !!!

But tactically speaking Arsenal could have won that game if they had sacrifice ball possession
They panic when the other team have more possession. so that would have been a very bad tactic.... especially against Atletico.
Sports › Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2027, 2028 And 2030 World Cup by daveP(m): 7:41pm On Apr 27, 2018
Icon4s:
Naa, Iwobi would not have made the difference.

Welbeck has had a good run of games anf scored a couple of goals. So he was favorite to start from that wing and favorite to stay in the game for 90s. Arsenal needed a winger that plays direct football and also scores. And that was Welbeck.

Iwobi is a kind of player that gives you possession but we had the possession already. We needed a player that could take on the opposition directly, and there was none on the bench to come in and make that impact. So Welbeck stays for 90mins

Yes Wilshere had an average game but who could have replaced him?

Arsenal had no bench yesterday, so there was no way they could have made any substitutions.

Besides, making substitutions in a game is not a must. You can switch tactics and formations without any player substitution.
10s of thousands of arsenal fans disagree with this your analysis. Funny enough, most of them that insulted and vilified Iwobi were the very ones saying that he would have made a difference cos of his dribbles which Welbeck the heck, couldn't offer. Pls we know that most of the players on the pitch were very tired. only a foolish coach would leave a tired Ronaldo or Messi on the pitch in the name of that they would still make a big chance at winning. Not to talk less of Arsenal players that if Ancellotti were coach, they would see the backdoor out.

Don't tell me here and now that you believe that Iwobi's game is solely for possession cos I won't agree atall with you.
Sports › Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2027, 2028 And 2030 World Cup by daveP(m): 3:18pm On Apr 27, 2018
Icon79:
You're not the only one, bro. I really can't understand what Arsene Wenger sees in Jack Wilshere!

As per Mustafi, the less said the better. The question I have always asked is, 'has Per Mertesacker became so bad that Mustafi has to play come what may? That dude has been having a stinker all season long!

In fact, the new regime can't come fast enough. I am not an Arsenal fan but I feel bad for them. To me, Wenger should've been let go 2 seasons ago.


O pari
Pls help tell Icon4s.... Wilshere had an average game to me. Ozil still had a better game, even Xhaka had a better game.


Any Midfielder that is experienced and tactically skilled, would know that after that red card, the loophole must be exploited. But unfortunately, Welbeck was on the flank that Arsenal should've exploited. ATM were that scared that every time a pass went to Welbeck, three guys ran straight up to him to close him down. One on such a flank would need speed and dribbles to frustrate such defenders and force their hands to get a PK. Imagine Monreal had to now start playing that role,and oga Welbeck is a poor cover up player too. Iwobi is better.


Diego would be so happy that he didn't even use Costa for Arsenal and yet, they fell like a pack of cards. smh
Sports › Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2027, 2028 And 2030 World Cup by daveP(m): 3:10pm On Apr 27, 2018
Icon4s:
Who were the Impact players on the bench? He would have only made substitutions if we were leading like 3-0 to rest some players for the return leg.

I told someone even when it was 1-0, that Wenger was not going to make any substitutions. He had his best 11 on the field.
Impact players. Iwobi may not be a game changer cos he still has a lot to learn, but beat your chest and tell me point blank that he wouldn't have done better on the wing than Welbeck that kept passing back when he had space to dribble thru and do something. The three times he tried to dribble, he was dispossessed and one of such even led to the goal that Griezmann buried. Haba.

Iwobi would dribble that defender and at least due to pressure, can get hacked down in the PK box cos of the rough way those ATM defenders were doing. Pls.


Sometimes, it's not just about the best 11.


We have coaches and managers bringing on players that have just one contribution to a game even if they are bench warmers. we've seen that alot in the UCL.



Iwobi, would have made a breakthrough on that flank than a wasteful, less confident Welbeck any day.
Sports › Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2027, 2028 And 2030 World Cup by daveP(m): 3:04pm On Apr 27, 2018
EmmGee:
sir i really don't know which game you watched. but you definitely didn't watch the game
thank you for the above. I was just sipping juice when even the commentators made that statement as well.
Politics › Re: Is Rochas Okorocha A Member Of Ogboni Fraternity? See Photo by daveP(m): 10:48pm On Apr 26, 2018
98% of politicians are in one secret occult or the other. "clubs" littered ere and there are their public meeting places.
Sports › Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2027, 2028 And 2030 World Cup by daveP(m): 10:33pm On Apr 26, 2018
A dribbling Iwobi would have done better than that useless Welbeck that can't make an attacking run on the wing.
He made it look like it was 10vs10.

Ozil, Ramsey and Wilshere had a bad bad game too.


Shock that le prof didn't make any subs.

1-1 and I wonder how the arsenal defenders would face beast Costa.
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Liverpool Vs Roma: UCL (5 - 2) On 24th April 2018 by daveP(m): 10:10pm On Apr 24, 2018
who is here to gimme one reason to why Salah won't take the Balon d'Or?


Klopp trusts Arnold, and Roma attack wanted to use his inexperience to their advantage. it didn't work.


I expect Africans to start with their wash down mentality as usual.


wonder what Messi and Ronaldo have done this season to still take top spot at that award.


None of these two have done a two goals and two assists in a 1/2 legs, and a semi final for that matter.


Roma would try hard, I trust them to. But they can't close up that defence that is uncoordinated despite having 5men at the back.

Salah would score, and so would Mane.


FMS would smell and taste that final and they would win it.


Klopp have to talk to Lovren. what nonsense is that.

Chamberlain would definitely be influential if he recovers.
Sports › Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2027, 2028 And 2030 World Cup by daveP(m): 10:02pm On Apr 24, 2018
asha80:
it cant be them as they seem to always want to play up to their strenghts..if you ask me it started in italy this issue of stifling opposition
Hmm. Italy? Maybe the hard tackling but not the rendering if the number 10 to be this insignificant like now. Spain takes that.
Sports › Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2027, 2028 And 2030 World Cup by daveP(m): 8:34pm On Apr 24, 2018
I see what Klopp has done with Alex-Arnold and I fully get what Rohr is doing with Ebuehi.


Salah for Balon d'Or.


Unless they wana cheat Africa again.


Surprised that Qatar Airways now sponsor Roma. They are vexed with Barca or what? grin


Iffai hear say Marcelo go fit attack if he meets Salah.
Sports › Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2027, 2028 And 2030 World Cup by daveP(m): 12:32pm On Apr 24, 2018
Mujtahida:
Just say you want Efe in the team
To your number 10 disguising comment. I'll say football tactics have been fused with war tactics. Too much analysing the opponents weakness and how to exploit them, rather than just playing hour best game with the flair you got and the fans bring wowed.


War tactics and formations are now similar.

if it's before, when Milan met Inter, no one could just predict how it would go with all those stars that were present.... Who had time to analyse it Edgar David's was too rough. or that Pasquale couldn't dribble from the wings. It's truly evolved.

Dunno if I'll blame The English or the Spaniards.
Sports › Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2027, 2028 And 2030 World Cup by daveP(m): 12:25pm On Apr 24, 2018
tbaba1234:
Ebuehi is back in contention for the next game...
good news there. That department must have a fully fit crew@defence
Politics › Re: Nigeria Youth Forum Gives Buhari 7 Days To Apologize Over Derogatory Comment by daveP(m): 3:49pm On Apr 23, 2018
all these forums. bodies and organizations that we don't know exists or reps us, should goan sit down jare. swerve.


Only know they are influential when one politician talks thru the media, and then dry bones come alive just like that.
Sports › Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2027, 2028 And 2030 World Cup by daveP(m): 2:39pm On Apr 23, 2018
chrisooblog:
realistic list i agree the only two spots available to be fought for baring injuries (God willing) are goalkeeper akpeyi/ajiboye/ayeinugba? ola/elderson.

ola aina yes his form this season has been hot and cold but i would rather take him because 1. he is young and will likely improve 2. he has some offensive weapons (his crosses) which might be useful. echejiele of four years ago was ok defensively plus was playing regularly for decent european clubsides now he has really regressed badly. inability to pick a starting shirt in belgium division 2 side says it all. if in 2014 when elderson was better we coped we will definitely not miss him now in 2018 that he is poorer
Aside some untouchables, he will make camp and if he impresses, might pull a shocker. Even the now injured Obagoal, of invited to camp, would impress and also pull a shocker. So asides that, everything else, seems okay to me, save this issue of goalkeeping. I hope we are also prepping for bad officiating that trail most African sides going to the mundial?
Sports › Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2027, 2028 And 2030 World Cup by daveP(m): 2:30pm On Apr 23, 2018
Icon79:
Respect level +10! That's an exceptionally mature post by you, Safari. Kudos, my dear sista!!

Personally, I don't think that you've done anything to apologize for, but I am glad you did anyway. It makes you a bigger person.


O pari
undecided
Sports › Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2027, 2028 And 2030 World Cup by daveP(m): 2:28pm On Apr 23, 2018
maidaboi:
Not afraid of iwobi future because i have seen what he can do at his best
A nomenclature to call it? I formed "Iwobi's Woes" !!!
Celebrities › Re: Photos From Omoni Oboli's 40th Birthday Dinner Party by daveP(m): 12:40pm On Apr 23, 2018
happy birthday Omoni
Politics › Re: 2019: Ndigbo May Dump Buhari Again As Ezeife,Others Reject 2023 Presidency Offer by daveP(m): 11:09pm On Apr 22, 2018
see them selling our mandate upandan.
Christianity Etc › Re: How Bishop Adjeman Successfully Hijacked Winners Chapel Ghana From Oyedepo by daveP(m): 6:06pm On Apr 22, 2018
5thElement:
Lol. It's Martin Luther and not Martin Luther King. Get your history right.

Martin Luther, the ex priest who founded Protestantism eventually committed suicide and died a horrible death.


Were there abuses in the Church then when he nailed his thesis? Absolutely. But has the Catholic Church ever erred in matters of faith and morals? Never. Not once in her 2,000 years existence.
thanks, an auto-correct sturvs.
Christianity Etc › Re: How Bishop Adjeman Successfully Hijacked Winners Chapel Ghana From Oyedepo by daveP(m): 2:28pm On Apr 22, 2018
Chubhie:
It gets crazily messier when you factor in how sex flowed freely. You want a spiritual life? stay away from the social gatherings called churches today and start looking inwards.

You can read your bible and attend church but never give away your mind to any man to rewire for their selfish goals.
The sex rampage is almost in all churches that have considerable wealth and status, if not all churches sef, finances or not. but their own. week in week out I hear girls talk of how the pastors approach them for sex and whatever.


Many married women have aborted secretly. Men leaving/divorcing their wives after finding out that they aborted for "paistor"


Let's leave that sex issue for now. It would make this revelations seem like Sodom and Gomorrah again if we add it to this thread. SMH.
Christianity Etc › Re: How Bishop Adjeman Successfully Hijacked Winners Chapel Ghana From Oyedepo by daveP(m): 2:17pm On Apr 22, 2018
muzeze77:
Same thing happened with winners maryland USA. It was headed my a Ghanaian pastor kofi and it got so big and I heard profitable suddenly we heard that the pastor was being asked to relocate to ibadan , he refused and started his own church with some of his members. My Christian brothers and sisters open your eyes . This are no longer churches but corporations. If you don't know the amount of money the church is receiving , it means you are not a member, you are suppose to since winners belong to all members
Imaginehuh?


Like the way a CEO does to any subordinate in a financial firm. this sucks seriously.


You expect me to leave Yankee and just come and do the brown roofed city cos of what? That's demeaning and wickedness. Why not another branch in the same USA. You see why I say it's all intentions that matters here, and Hq have one of the worst intentions so far. Anyone her, if your father was this pastor, will you encourage him to come back to Ibadan?
Christianity Etc › Re: How Bishop Adjeman Successfully Hijacked Winners Chapel Ghana From Oyedepo by daveP(m): 2:08pm On Apr 22, 2018
DCMIX:
I need to hear from both sides before I conclude
In issues like this, one of the two wearing factions would assume silence until the law holds... so you'll grow old waiting. look at facts and get valid conclusion. what dyu expect the silent faction to do? support the allegations?
Christianity Etc › Re: How Bishop Adjeman Successfully Hijacked Winners Chapel Ghana From Oyedepo by daveP(m): 1:35pm On Apr 22, 2018
5thElement:
In the end it's all about the money and not the salvation of souls.

What a pity.


All these new generation "churches" are built on the foundation of the demon called Mammon.


If you are poor, it's a sin so just keep sowing that little money you've got till you are blessed.
and it sounds so so like the indulgence age of Catholicism that made MLK to give 95 theses
Christianity Etc › Re: How Bishop Adjeman Successfully Hijacked Winners Chapel Ghana From Oyedepo by daveP(m): 12:57pm On Apr 22, 2018
Chubhie:
It will interest you to know that the church system is self sustaining. If five people wakes up to the reality on ground and leaves, twenty new members would join the next Sunday.
Exactly. you can't have true members again in this dispensation in African church system. You correct or try to direct, you'll get empty pews and another church will less stricter standards take them in with "the love of God and with grace to succeed"


And sinful lives will be on parade ere and there.


This is the number one fright and heart attack of current crop of Nigeria pastors. that cash..... that cash.... hmm.


Mammon reloaded.


It's sickening seriously.

Cries and wailings for prosperity since the 80s now are answered prayers. but what is the wealth being used to do. just the wealth RCCG has, 0.1% of it can be used to feed Burundi for a whole year, 3meals/day.

and yet the stupid rule of all to headquarters is wrong guy applied.


It's in the scriptures to send to hq. But dyu notice the way the high priest redistributed the gather wealth?
Lord!!!!
Christianity Etc › Re: How Bishop Adjeman Successfully Hijacked Winners Chapel Ghana From Oyedepo by daveP(m):
Reference:
But you don't join an organisation then determine how it is going to be run. That is rebellion and is not fair. They are asked to remit so that funds can be pooled and directed. Winners Chapel is very centric and structured. Almost everything is run from HQ and it has been so from the onset so anyone joining now should know what to expect. If funds from its various Nigerian outreaches was pooled to set up the Ghanaian mission, what is wrong in pooling further to establish the Liberian or Kenya mission. That is the secret of how Winners grows rapidly. They are able to command unprecedented resources in millions of dollars anually to speed up the process of church planting and growth. The downside to the outreaches is that they will have to make sacrifices consistently.
I very well get your point. But is that how the church is supposed to be run? Like a normal business company? The aim of which is just keep gathering and gathering, without reasonable dispersal and influx of new converts and grooming of new converts from babes to adult that require meat and not milk?


Cos I dunno how else anyone can convince me about the structure in the Chapel. Why would I be hearing about Bill Gates charity from far away USA, and my own rich pastor hasn't even gotten a mention elsewhere like even Tb Joshua on the same front, even if I don't like using him as a veritable example here?


See the fact that it is run like a business centre will allow wolves and all manner of crafty animals to creep in and take advantage, cos the system aligns with a worldly system.


The very thing that one of those 7 seven in Revelations were guilty of.


I pray for a new dawn, but because we don't hear it in public..... I sense there are several lawsuits here and there for most of Nigeria's elite pastors one way of the other, and it's sucking lots of millions. Nigeria pastors are dumb, and lacking some wisdom that would make them unconformed to a worldly system.


Pains me that churches are slipping out of the hands of Hqs and the members there are in support full fledged. I'm I missing something?


See MFM in USA, see RCCG in UK? Asin it's sickening and a reflection of bad leadership from the church.


There's no other better way to say it.


They should revisit their Master and ask for wisdom profitable for direction.


So sad. Very sad.


The double standards again.... an issue for another day.
Christianity Etc › Re: How Bishop Adjeman Successfully Hijacked Winners Chapel Ghana From Oyedepo by daveP(m): 10:54am On Apr 22, 2018
Chubhie:
Cash was smuggled inside tyres and transported by road from Accra to Lagos. Money laundering.
whose gods is their belly.....





I think the spirit of Mammon is getting a revisit by Christians. It was very livid at the turn of the new millennium. But it was met with Lil or not enough resistance. Came in the guise that diverted many from the truth. And now eyes are beginning to see, ears are now hearing..... Sad one for people we call leaders in the house of God.



From this moment onwards, the church would continue to do stuff that would make judgement starting in the house of God to be very very justified and wanted. It's happening already.
Education › Re: 20 Amazing Nature Photos That WILL Make You SAY How Come! by daveP(m): 10:45am On Apr 22, 2018
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