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yinkeys:
Madugu’s game style will not work for European teams

We should start getting ready for that discussion cos it needs to be had if we really want progress at the World Cup. For now, we bask in his remontada record and mission X accomplished.

yinkeys:
But Esther got player of the match
The organizers didn’t want to give 2 awards to a player
I believe

E dey happen wella for football na. Ahaannn.


E be like Nedved vs Henry of that year to me o. Cos e too clearrrrrr. Like crystal clear. 11GA in 6games? 🥶🥶🥶🥶

Omo how did they discountenanace 3 goals and 8 assists just laidat? 🥶🥶🥶



APOTY candidates should be Nnadozie, Esther and Ajibade.


E kon be like we didn't really need Oshoala here. Just a goal.


I have to track back and say that like SA, this team will need to undergo some major rebuilding process. Some players should not even smell the Women's World cup as retirement showdown. Some will but that should be their last contributions to Super Falcons, and bow out honorably.


We still need to invest in tactical input irrespective of tonight's outcome. We won the mental battle in this game and it helped us gaan. Kudos to everyone involved in Mission X.


I no go lie, make Motsepe allow them win one o. 3 consecutive hosting no be beans. 😂😂😂😂

oloriooko:
Esther Okoronkwo is a set-piece specialist

My prayers from the 2022 wafcon came alive in Esther. For the long set pieces.

I don knee dan beg God to give us who go dey bury short set piece as e be like the Corner kick don see ijamilusi already.


Esther having a hand in 90% of our goals in this tournament should have earned her the MVP IMO sha.

Congratulations to our Ladies. What a turn around. The subs made the difference.

Mission X accomplished!!


That 1st half should be deleted from history abeg. Chai.

The 2 goals equalizer removed the entire hope the moroccans have and mental battle changed from that point on.

Var really came through as well. Lucky that Demh6was removing her hand before ball met it. Else,.....

They should give Esther the MVP abeg.

carbonado:
...YOU WERE SAYING.....

She showed up when wafcon experienced players were messing up.

Ijamilusi ❤️❤️

Ijamilusi has done enough for me personally for her debut wafcon. Without her, we won't have these 2 crucial PKs.

Funny enough, if it was 2022, they wouldn't call her 2 PKs o.

This is an exposure of the group stage approach. It's been there all along. The shooting, the passing, the tactics. We had to scrap a win vs SA to get here. This is embarrassing mehn.


Normally when person dey observe something, typical Naija reaction na to label one haterz or naysayers, to say one is overreacting.

These ladies reached here by their own grit to succeed. No tactical input from this coach abeg. It Is supper obvious. At least we saw the defensive input of Randy. We saw structure.

HeavenlyHolines:
Okonrokwo de play everywhere. She go tire soon

Confusion between her and Ihezuo on roles so far. Both dunno who go nod ball down or chase nodded ball.

African football

dodobytes:
This coach is seeing the game slip, yet won't make changes, use your subs

Throw in Rinsola remove Ihezuo

Remove Abiodun throw in Payne

Man has shown that he doesn't fancy Payne since group stage.

Ghana helped anyone with evidence that this moroccan side are terrible at the back. Did the coaching crew study they're game cos it is evident the Moroccan team studied our clips welllll wellll. They're exploiting weaknesses many of us on here have raised as concerning.

We however are still playing long balls and rubbish outcomes

We are literally helping the Moroccans at this point. They don't need to do much. Just pressure our fullbacks and continue from there. This is humiliation and rightly so. They're not playing like this is some final. They're not balling like they have scores to settle with a side that were favored over us in 2022. They're not playing like there's a Moroccan net to put the ball in. 🤦🏽‍♂️

Pidginwhisper:
Dem don net you already. You still dey fall back, what are you defending? They’re making it easy gor Morocco

In-game reading and Local coach na west and east. Person no go wan conclude but they make it hard for one to doubt such a conclusion. See how flat the middle is right now. Nobody is dropping to receive passws hence we are forced to use Plumptre and Alozie as push-forwards. Else ball no go progress. 🤦🏽‍♂️

dodobytes:
Why not unleash Jennifer in that midfield?

Im not sure Joe is fully fit with that hip issue that mde them sub her off vs SA sha.

The Moroccan coach is actively reading the game and adjusting his approach. He seem to have communicated that we aren't utilizing the ball so they should keep using the wings.

Who was that clown that gave them assists for heaven's sake bayii?

All the best to Mission X

2-0 in regular time abeg. Im not pleased with Debbie starting. This is Toni Payne kinda game. But let's see.

naptu2:
I wrote about this last year (and the coach of Bafana Bafana also said something similar). People often say that African teams play beautiful free flowing attacking football, but they forget to defend. European coaches that come to Africa often try to emphasise defending properly, keeping the shape of the team intact, etc. but this often annoys African fans.

Hugo Broos (the Dutch coach of Bafana Bafana) said that no African team can win the World Cup with that system.

Nigerians have often criticised coaches like Philippe Troussier, Thomas Dennerby and Randy Waldrum for tightening up our defences and sacrificing our attacking flair.

I think that's what she was referring to.

The generalizing doesn't even include teams approach of Morocco, Ghana, SA, even Zambia.

These 3 out of 4 sabi pass ball well than us, keeping possession. Yet they mix everything and still balance it out. Na we dey budeh ball pass out of the 4 semifinalists so far. We barely hold possession or string better passes. If na the African football she dey refer, omo!!!

We sabi press sha. But the issue is balancing out instead of all these "this one better pass that"

Especially when you have personnel for such fluid format of play.

Beautiful interview with Ayinde, but i have a problem with that African football part and Randy. Lol

Isn't that the tactics that made us play better ball at the World Cup and made non-lookers finally see the beauty of "African teams"?

We are not the only team in Africa so that term itself is vague cos many factors still exist to not make that term something to generalize right now, especially as other African teams have different approaches that can't be terms what she means by African football that Madugu is using currently.

She was one of the beautiful revelations under the Randy football now. Abi wetin my eyes dey see here?


Anyway..... Hmmmm

lovewins:
We can't have all these countries together at the WAFCON unfortunately, except a change is made to the qualification process. We need to find a way to get rid of this regional qualification process that is extremely skewed againt west african countries

True. The format is stifling and still yet, the group is counterproductive to the aim for the new format. They want more southern teams but still use 3 groups, using best losers format? 😂

Whoever thought that idea no think am well.

lovewins:
What a paradox

The former Ghanian coach largely responsible for building this team left them mod-project to join the Zambian team. Now the team she left just won bronze while she got kicked out of the quarter finals.

I sha commend the Ghana FA for getting a similar manager straight up. If na us, na Local coach straight. But what that Nora taught them needed a like for like minded person and their FA did the needful. Infact if na Local coach, those teenagers no go see this competition.

Now Nora is forced to realize no be by Banda and Kunda. She needs 11 players. She had 11 with Ghana but left for 2 with Zambia. Hilarious

naptu2:
And they've lost their Sasol sponsorship.

At this rate, I don't expect them to do anything significant at the next Wafcon next year. Ghana and Senegal should double up. I hope Cameroon and CIV too do the needful.

isan:
South Africa can't handle the pressure of a defending champion , they didn't impress in this tournament at all and this is their golden generation.... you'all need to respect super falcons more

The standards are different hence the demand on Super Falcons. No other team will be in our shoes and not raise eyebrows if it looks like some slack is about to happen.

We will lift it tomorrow sha. And then the next gen can start getting set to step in. I enjoyed the clips from training and post-training. All the debutants sang a song of Thank you to the senior ladies. 😂

yinkeys:
Ajibade always play the ball to her right
She better change spot
They have her tapes

The coaching crew of this Vilda man for don study them all. She's lucky Dlamini os right handed at PKs. Else that was a miss. I don't want my concerns to come true cos it will be terrible if the World Cup pk happens again. There were no lasers then. Just terrible takers o. Hmm. Anyways. All the best to Falcons. Mission X all to the last whistle

yinkeys:
This Ghanaian team will be frightening to play after 2027 World Cup
They look young

I saw about 4 players i recognize from their u20 team. Na soso teenagers. That their coach go siddon like Randy Waldrum. Hin heart wan cut😂


SA will have to press factory reset and go back to the board. The team has peaked and now a new set of faces need to take over. They messed up from their SAFA and kgatlana and ellis...

Seopo sha retire with one Wafcon on her cabinet.

Congrats to Ghana. That retake really helped them win this by the whiskers

Both sides had 4/5 terrible eye sore penalty kicks.

That's worrisome. All use the side of their boots but no power or technique. See that 3rd pk by SA by that tomboy, that's a pass to the gk not a pk.


I hope that's not what we plan to display if it comes down to that sha.

Congrats to Ghana. They were better of 90mins.

M7even:
The Ghanaian team have really improved through this tournament...they've been able to hold SA this long after losing 2 nil in the group stage.

Im impressed with their passing and duels so far. Sleek ball controls and just that finishing touch lacking upfront. That should have been buried asap. Woodwork hates Ghana ladies at this wafcon. Should have been like an Alozie goal -a "abeg no need for extra time here" goal.

naptu2:
But it's a sign that they are going to deploy their usual gamesmanship and dirty tricks. This is just the first trick. We need to be ready for them.

Sure.

If we score first, do we have what it takes to starve them of the ball and make them chase us down?
Or we allow them have the ball and concede foul upon foul while they grow in confidence with their sleek wing passes?
Or do we do 1v1 or mark out Chebbak and look for counters?

We need to be ready for these.
If na that Afro lady go ref, then i expect some fairness.

But if it's that tunisia lady wey no sabi call foul for us or give yellow to our opponent, then we are already on the 1st backfoot.


This is where we need live and direct impact of the mind of Madugu, not a repeat of what he attempted vs SA.

Nothing go vex me pass us seeing better chances and na baby shooting our ladies dey deploy, missing the net as a result. That will be unacceptable.

They're wasting their mental efforts by trying to checkmate Alozie and Plumptre via documentation issues. These are clowns mehn. This should make us end this under 60mins abeg. Moroccans😂😂😂🙌🏽

See As Enyimba dey disgrace themselves and the league ontop this Ideye matter. See the nonsensical reply filled with insanity and dumb logic that they dropped.🤦🏽‍♂️🤦🏽‍♂️🤦🏽‍♂️🤦🏽‍♂️

If na Enyimba dey do like this, then how does one expect the less successful ones to now react in conduct and principles?


This league sef.

Infact such a statement should evoke immediate reaction from League Management but crickets obviously