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Just Iheanacho for Musa

superbouck:
If you can not approve pls amend

In football, a coach is very important to a player and team. Hyballa was sacked by NEC and they've won their 2 games since his sack and has also coincided with Awoniyi scoring in 2 games. Awoniyi is good but therr last coach made him comes from the wings.

BascoVanVeli:
A lesson for all, it is not always how u start but how u finish. With all the goose eggs he laid, he will still always be remembered for the 2 goals that saved his club from relegation.

You were on the right track until Musa appeared on your list

superbouck:
my own 3-5-2 formation starting line up for super eagles Gk Carl Ikeme............. , Omeruo, Balogun, Ekong,......,...
Moses, Mikel, Ndidi, Etebo, Echiejile,,,......Musa,Kayode


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My advice to Nacho when/if he moves is to be more appreciative of his teammates in the event of scoring a goal. Those his deliberate solo celebrations come off teally bad on teammates. Papa go de pursue you to congratulate you, but you keep running from them. His talent is not in doubt but i think it's his relationship with teammates he should work on....

Well as for those celebrating a possible move to Dortmund, please look up a guy called Alexander Isak. Specifically brought on to replace Aubumuyang this summer cos it's definite he's moving. Isak's playing pattern suits Dortmund a lot. Bear in mind Nacho would be used as a bait in the deal, it's not as if he's been sought after by Dortmund. That there already puts him at a disadvantaged position. He'd have to work very hard in training to merit that starting shirt which i believe is very possible. Then we have Emre Mor, and Reus who may want to shine more playing as the number 9. All these make me wana advise Nacho to pick Hoffenheim, a club that originally wanted him as the coach would already have faith in his abilities. There's nothing better than a coach's trust in one's ability.

I can't understand how someone would be injured and another is being drilled. However, when the injured comes back without being drilled he auto assumes the spot of the drilled.... If Iheanacho thinks he can or should only play for Man City, then I'm sorry to tell him that his footballing career is over even before it takes off. Let's forget it, it's not that Pep does not like Iheanacho, it's his style of play that Pep does not like. As long as Pep is coach of Man City Iheanacho is going to be rated below the Janitor at Man City regardless of if he puts in overtime or agrees to go unpaid during drills. It's high time he gets out. I feel really sad for him cos he's not been given a fair chance at allllllll.



[Qquote author=CODMOK post=55982362]With Gabriel Jesus back, Iheanacho didn't make match day squad again. The most annoying thing this days is dat if u read man city team news nd analysis this days, Analyst seems to av forgotten that Iheanacho is a member of d team.
Pep Guardiola, abeg if Iheanacho isn't passing ur "drills", kindly sell him to a team where he can play regularly.
No offence taken pls[/quote]

If that team had gone to the ABC, they would have tortured many bigger looking teams. Ask a guy called Mowiz and some people that got to see them play. Their pressing and organization had no semblance of a Nigerian team. They lost out due to their inability to adopt a kick and follow approach on a water logged TB stadium in Lagos. Heard before the rain started wearing it the pitch they were running rings around the Sudanese.

Icon4s:
Has there been any Nigerian team that has enjoyed the best of conditions? Was it not in your very eyes that the Rio team landed at the airport and few hrs later went to play Japan and still won?

They were either in the process of finalizing their deals or just finalized the deals. They had not gone to Europe. So it was never a case of sending invitation letters to a foreign club to release them. Which Chukwueze is a foreign pro? Someone that's on IG taking pishure upandan. All I keep reading is Chukwueze to Arsenal, deal falls through. Chukwueze to Porto, deal falls through. Chukwueze to Villareal, last I read was small details remaining to finalize d deal. Next I'd see is Chukwueze scores for Shooting stars... Why was Enogela not involved with the under20s and his position usurped by Gavi Thompson? Cos Enogela decided to go pursue clubs in Europe. I think Amuneke excluded foreign based or foreign club pursuing players from d initial qfs so as to eliminate over reliance on them.

Icon4s:
So how was he able to drag out Nwakali, Osimhen, Chukwueze and Okonkwo for the "screening process " or was there no screening process for the quartet?

Since Guardiola kinda movement ain't Nacho's style then it's only natural he leaves. It'll be tamountly foolish of Nacho to remain in City after this summer. Benteke left, Sackho left, City is not the only club in the world and Guardiola is not the only coach, he may rank high but he ain't the best. You just fancy Guardiola but I think it makes no sense when you keep going in circles saying that training is better than action. If all Mbappe did was bang goals in training would you have heard of him. Come May, I hope to see this your highly revered Guardiola lift any trophy, if not we go get problem. Oh I forgot he'd be lifting the training trophy with Nacho skippering that team.

TheGoodJoe:
Guardiola proved that he wants his forwards contributing to the game play, just as he wants his keepers building-up plays and his defenders joining the midfield.

This is a big part of the philosophy and in turn improves the players. Nacho can finish. Guardiola gets it but he wants him to become fluid. Very fluid. Watch Lewandowski or Firmino and you will get it. When Nacho adds this, then we will have a monster. A year more is not his whole life and he will become deadlier. That is the most important thing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AV_ZwQ19MoY


I ask my self, can Naija anthem ever be rendition ed like how the Brazilians sang this in the 2014 WC? What an atmosphere.

Still on improving the spectacle of being a Naija fan, look at the organization of Leipzig fans. Can care less about what they chanting but it license the place up. I'd love Naija to have a fan hype man like some of these European and Asian teams do.

Check out @RBLeipzig_EN's Tweet: https://twitter.com/RBLeipzig_EN/status/853278861508980736?s=01

I'm telling you, the thing is painful. And that guy is really outspoken. I just feel the other regions are jealous of Western African success except the North cos they always have 1 rep qualifying. Southern African teams need to get their acts together with regards their football... As for Ahmad, he came on the wave of transparency, so if he does otherwise as to favoring the South and East, he'd be unseated in 4 years.

BascoVanVeli:
The longer i sit on this topic the more i feel we rushed into this Ahmad thing. Can u imagine that in his 13 years at the head of his FA they never qualified to a single tournament at any age group.

You can't see these faces and want to even conduct MRI. It'll be a waste of resources. These are truly young boys. I've seen pics of some from the eastern zone and they are young as well. I haven't been opportune d to see the northern zone teams, but I want to assume they are young. At this point I'd want to blame the NFF for not having an under 17 and under 20 coach. The under 17 coaches should be at these tournaments and select the best while also scouting other non-npfl academies for players. There should be a holiday gathering for the team until 5 months to the qualifiers when they are put in lengthy camps to prep them for national assignments. As for the under 20s, they promote the standout existing players from the graduating under 17 class while adding quality talents. The players not in npfl or NNL teams should then be loaned by their respective Academies to the league teams for a year to give them that big time experience. An agreement should be reached with these clubs that these players would be randomly summoned for training camps. This way we would always have a solid youth setup.
I know it's easier said than done but I know it's very doable.

Danycrusoe:
This boy even had to roll his shorts to make it stand on his waist, he is even the team's captain. Where was I at his age . Excuse me thesupernerd can I get a time travelling machine I wan go younger pleese


NPFL U15 PROMISES: Osogbo fans applauds MFM FC's wonder kid

Mountain of Fire an Miracles Ministries FC diminutive midfielder, Lawal Sulaimon became the toast of many at the Oshogbo City Stadium during his team's Nigeria Professional Football League (NPFL) Under 15 Promises tournament.

MFM FC's brilliant performances could not see the lads through to the next round of the competition.
The Olukoya Boys who lost their first game of the competition 1-0 to ABS FC beat Sunshine Stars FC 3-0 and played out a one-all draw against Shooting Stars and Remo Stars with GTBank Principal Cup back-to-back top scorer, Eniayewu Hammed, Lawal Sulaimon, Atoyebi Gideon, Hammed Saheed, Olugade Jacob and Aina Ayobami, putting up five-star displays.

Lawal propelled his side to their first win of the tourney over Sunshine Stars, he provided the assist that led to Eniayewu first goal of the competition off a well taken free kick. The skilful playmaker capped his performance on that day with a goal from the penalty spot. His overall display during the tournament earned him standing ovation from spectators at the Oshogbo Stadium.

Lawal, an SS 2 student of Anwar-Ul-Islam Model College gege, Lagos shared his thought with MFM FC Media few minutes after their 1-1 draw against the Ibadan-based club Shooting Stars.

"I'm very happy for the game we played today and very happy for our performance. In the nearest future we see ourselves playing for Nigeria. I also want to thank the MFM General Overseer, Dr DK. Olukoya for his love for the youths," the creative midfielder told mountaintopfc.com.

It would be fool hardy to implement qualifications by Regional zones in Africa. No continent does that. Asia at times have people all from the east of Asia. In 2010, there was no Asian Arab team in the WC. To hell with this their proposition. This was my fear when that Zimbabwean guy was the sole sponsor of Ahmad for the CAF presidency. I hope Ahmad and crew don't bulge. Nonsense... If it's like that, then West Africa needs 6 of the 9 slots. What is the Southern part of Africa scared of? Abeg make them no provoke me to anger for this peaceful Good Friday....

BascoVanVeli:
Its for 2026, they want to corner 2 out of the hopeful 10. I wonder how they would feel if Namibia and Swaziland end up representing them.

To add to this, during the last camping exercise in London, pictures owngoal claimed as exclusives, were gotten from different twitter accounts,
1) Calvin Emeka 2) David Doherty (majority of the pics were from him) 3) Shina Okeleji 4) DIfferent player accounts. I really dislike the word exclusive especially when it is not an exclusive. I took them very serious when they first started but recently they have started falling by the wayside I don't if it's cos of the unnoticed beef they have with allnigeriasoccer. E.g. of the beef, Owngoal said Aina is being enticed with under20, AllNigeria counters with a story that Aina is not eligible based on age. My brother who we go believe?

Dedebanky85:
Any body who is dedicated to Instagram, Twitter and Snapschat stalking can do what Owngoal is doing. Don't even waste your time on FB, cos players don't really use that. Most of the pics, videos, and stories Owngoal report are already on the players SM pages. The only time I can take owngoal serious is with news concerning unknown academy player transfers because they seem to have a connect to some of these players in states such as Kaduna and Jos which is accounts for about 60 percent of the academy transfers to Europe, So on that one I give it to them. But on national team selections, you and I can come up with a national team selection by just monitoring 1) Rohr's and Salisu's interviews leading up to the list, 2) Players current form, 3) Weighing the media hype of a certain player. If you try this before the SA game, I swear, just create blog and use the term from "an NFF insider who pleaded to remain anonymous", everybody would read your blog. That's all owngoal does.
I only take their academy transfer news serious cos they tend to get those ones right 90 percent of the time.

Any body who is dedicated to Instagram, Twitter and Snapschat stalking can do what Owngoal is doing. Don't even waste your time on FB, cos players don't really use that. Most of the pics, videos, and stories Owngoal report are already on the players SM pages. The only time I can take owngoal serious is with news concerning unknown academy player transfers because they seem to have a connect to some of these players in states such as Kaduna and Jos which is accounts for about 60 percent of the academy transfers to Europe, So on that one I give it to them. But on national team selections, you and I can come up with a national team selection by just monitoring 1) Rohr's and Salisu's interviews leading up to the list, 2) Players current form, 3) Weighing the media hype of a certain player. If you try this before the SA game, I swear, just create blog and use the term from "an NFF insider who pleaded to remain anonymous", everybody would read your blog. That's all owngoal does.
I only take their academy transfer news serious cos they tend to get those ones right 90 percent of the time.

TheSuperNerd:
You should understand Owngoalnigeria by now.... they make lots of deductions and postulations when it comes to The Super Eagles list for games.... and most times they are spot on... at other times... they are wrong.


There is no official list flying around to say Ighalo has been dropped... this is them being deductive and analytically predictive again.

Now I know why NFF can never have a functioning internal audit dept. How would able bodied men go to Uyo and look at that pitch with their korokoro eye and express satisfaction. If you guys look at the pitch they are expressing satisfaction on Toyin Ibitoye's twitter handle, AFRAID would catch you guys. Well it's a good thing they are working on it, but I know what the term "working on it" means in Nigerian pitch repairs. It simply means get it to a state of being less bumpy but it'l definitely be bumpy. Don't expect to see anything like the pitches in SA or North Africa.
Next point is after this repair, they'd close it down in September to repair it for the game against Zambia in October. What a nation. I don't even want to mention Abuja stadium or the Adokiyie Amesiemaka stadium in PH. Last 2 games on that pitch were horrible. CIV vs Sierra Leone and Enyimba vs Zamalek. Omg!, the Enyimba game you would bring a true football lover and a Nigeria lover to tears. To think the PH and Uyo stadiums were built in the past 5 years, I just smh for our public sector. I know we have the capacity to get it right, but it's looking like we may never have the right people to get it right.
It's cos of nonsense like this I would never want Nigeria to apply to host the Worldcup, cos it would be a waste of tax payers money. After that Worldcup, give it 6 years none of the stadiums would be functional. No plans would be put in place to utilize the facilities afterwards. And trust the FG, they would make it so difficult for the presiding State govts or private sector to come in and manage some of the stadia.

Again, I believe we can get it right especially with infrastructures....

TheSuperNerd:
NFF Okay Uyo Pitch For Super Eagles Vs Bafana

https://www.completesportsnigeria.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/image-42.jpeg



The Nigerian Football Federation technical committee have expressed satisfaction with the current state of the playing turf of Godswill Akpabio International Stadium, Uyo which is billed to host the 2019 Africa Cup of Nations qualifier between the Super Eagles and South Africa in two months, reports Completesportsnigeria.com.


An NFF press release says the inspection team was led by the Chairman of NFF Technical and Development Committee Chris Green and inspected the facility, which hosted the 2017 Africa Cup of Nations qualifier between the Super Eagles and Tanzania in September 2016, as well as the 2018 FIFA World Cup qualifying battle between the Eagles and the Fennecs of Algeria last year.


After the inspection, the team reported: “Every inch of the field is covered by grass and the grass is lush green. Julius Berger (the company that built the stadium) has commenced work on the field for the purpose of bringing it to the best standard possible. Every other facility is in good condition.


“The condition of the field, as it is now, is good enough for matches to be played on it. The Akwa Ibom State Government has continued to show desire and commitment to hosting the match.”


“We are delighted with the state of the playing turf and other facilities at the Godswill Akpabio Stadium,” Green told thenff.com.


“I can tell you that the pitch is just as it was when the Super Eagles played Algeria in the World Cup qualifier in November last year.

“The fact that Julius Berger has also started some work on the turf is even more re-assuring.

“They are adding manure, and afterwards will do cutting and rolling, and they have the benefit of the weather at this period. By the time we host South Africa on 10th June, the pitch will be one of the very best anywhere in Africa.”


Source: http://www.completesportsnigeria.com/nff-okay-uyo-pitch-super-eagles-vs-bafana/

You have nailed it with regards to our fans. I can chant some foreign teams fan songs. Even Ghana have a song that is echoed around the stadium when they are playing home games. Closest we have to a unified fan song is when SE need a goal "All we are saying give us one goal". But to to me that ain't a true fan song. We can at least have "Fan Ultras". The Supporters club is a very dead one. Same boring trumpets and disjointed drums slowing down the pace of the game. I await to see when Nigerian fans would sit in a formation and form a sign in the crowd. I don't know how these European, Asian and North African teams do it, but I think we could do same here. These things add to spice up a game and motivate a home side while intimidating the other side. It pains me that SE is playing a game and some people wear Barca, Man Utd and Chelsea jersies to our games. I don't think getting a white BYC or a green shirt is that hard to get. Passionate fans need to come together and plan on moving SE forward.

With regards to commentary, the lesser said about old nigerian cmmentators, the better

daveP:
To analyse this issue sef. same road,same talk. and to think that the song that has been on the lips of our national supporters club is still "he's a miracle working God" since dem born me.(nobody fit sit down compose beta song wey pikin sef go sing with passion?).

At least get some young peeps who know who jon champion and jim beglin are(those commentators may not know who these men are o)

Femi and the gang..... well jobs from the sport sector alone can employ tens of thousands outside the pitch, just passion driven alone, but fg are totally blinded. i twale for that nig info crew. they can make you appreciate common radio.
se ko pari?

tbaba1234:
Awoniyi played 90 minutes.. His incredible barren run continues...

But he knows how to get into positions but he misses a lot of chances. That guy should be on 10 goals at least by now.

Patience is the key. Our NFF is very impatient with a local coach but somewhat patient with a foreigner. Except you're a hot headed local coach like Keshi, you'd be shown the door asap. Oliseh is a very good coach. I love his philosophy of football. I could not see Mikel in Oliseh's team in the long run due to the fast way he vision ed our team to play. It takes time to build the type of team he wanted in an international setting. That's something you can achieve with a club due to the daily training. Oliseh loves this high-pressure football. He shot himself in th foot by calling up clowns during his reign.
Izunna, Onobi, Haruna, etc. Only Igboun was a good addition. Really liked that guy's all action style of footy.

tbaba1234:
Oliseh is doing really well in Holland, makes me wonder why he did not do too well for Nigeria. Another big win..

Bro I was on his instagram page and was hoping to get excited on the news of his somewhat affiliation with the Nigerian flag/colors but I couldn't see it. That's normally a good sign. I'm afraid we may lose this guy. Germany hardly toy with true talents and what this guy displayed midweek was some calculated display of how to attack while playing LB. The real LB should be afraid at Herta Berlin. If this guy moves to a better club like Leverkusen, Schalke, or even Gladbach, that's it for Naija. Germany would cap him and Germany play so many friendlies. See what they did with Gnabry. They give you hope with all these numerous friendlies and cos of their top rankings they get very favorably qualifying draws and get weak teams like Gibraltar, Azerbaijan and co. These are the games they use to cap you for life. When it comes to German dual players I fear more cos Germany would cap you even if it's for 2mins but those stupid friendlies are what they use to wet ur appetite a lot.

TheSuperNerd:
Jordan can play CB and fullback roles.... He is like Antonio Rudiger of AS Roma.... Rudiger plates CB, RB, and LB... He is German and just 24. Germany also has Hector at Left back.... so biko... make them go rest oo Jare.....

Jordan is ours... he even displays Nigerian colors on his social media wall/page I read one time...

If you noticed Soljskaer talked specially with Matthews after the game. Missed the game but I know he would have put in a great performance just as he did on Sunday

tbaba1234:
Ifeanyi Mathew's Goal


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FWduxrMF32M

My brother don't go there oooo. He's going to win Ballon D'Or from the training ground as we have been made to believe. He should take a cue from Niasse, Lukaku, Benteke, and the soon to be departing Sturridge. This football cycle is too short to wallow away in the bench al in the name of being trained by the best. You quickly become irrelevant if you're not playing.

tbaba1234:
Looks like Iheanacho is occupied with drills today. Not on the team again.

What BIG experience did Tiekeu and Ngadieu have prior to AFCON? Infact did OP know of them b4 AFCON? I bet without the aid of Google one can't tell their clubs... Belgium had not played at any competition in a while prior to being named darkhorses and subsequently making the QF at 2014 Mundial. Let's not get beat up with this experience of a thing. I don't mind throwing 4 exceptionally good defenders without int'l experience. As long as they have a top division club and play, that's what counts...

Icon4s:
I say again, that is no problem. Balogun and Troost are matured and experienced enough to suit into any tourney be it AFCON or WC. Omeruo i am sure u know his level of exposure.

Where are those Nigerian CBS outside this team that have those tournament experience?

I understand ur worry but that is what we have for now. After all the 1994 WC defense did nt have any WC experience.

Remember we are not Brazil, Germany, France or Spain.

What that defense needs now is cohesion. If there is any CB that u feel is better than what we have now bring forward his name.

Bro I like u optimism, but you get mind ooooo. Shwwwuuuuoooo! When you are mentioning nations that have array of talents you mentioned Nigeria with those mighty countries? See the country sef and the names of players you called. Portugal, Germany, France and Nigeria. My brother if you get liver put this post on an int'l forum like espn or goal not the Nigerian version, and include the names of the Naija player and track the comments below ur post. We only know these Naija players cos they are Nigerians.... Make we no de get things twisted. SuperNerd you know better na.
I'm happy we are having potential players, but to equate them to the array of talents these countries have is an int'l deceit....

TheSuperNerd:
It is good to always have a fantastic quality pool of fine players and super talnets....


In the world of football today, I must say that The nations witnessing a rapid breakthrough of abundant top young talents (u-21/23) and massive improvements from their players are as follows....


- France: Mbappe, Coman, Bakayoko, Benjamin Mendy, Lemar, Ousmane Dembele, Adrien Rabiot, Alban Lafont (my most favorite young teenage goalie right now... i rate him slightly ahead of Donnarunma), Moussa Dembele (Sir Komekn's nephew) , Anthony Martial.... etc....


- Nigeria: Onyekuru, Samuel Kalu, Kelechi Nwakali, Alex Iwobi, Ademola Lookman, Kelechi Iheanacho, Ndidi, Orji Okonkwo, Isaac Success, etc....


- Portugal: Andre Silva, Renato Sanches, Bernardo Silva, Adrien Silva, Andre Gomes, etc.....

-Germany: Julian Brandt, Julian Draxler, Leroy Sane, Davie Selke, Werner, Joshua Kimmich, etc....



These four nations...... hmmmmm..... Brazil, Spain, Netherlands, and even Italy with Donnarumma dey ooo.... Even Senegal deserves a mention.... but these four above lead the way in terms of stars for the future in abundance....



So in all... this is really good for our football....

Our second Golden generation is still super possible with these lads and more to come...

I agree with you bro... Lagos was specifically chosen due to the teams playing pattern which entails keeping the ball on the ground and passing swiftly. Testimony stadium has the best playing surface. If not that senior players don't like playing on artificial pitch, I'd have loved all SE games on that pitch. Nobody could foresee the rain. I don't know why the referee didn't call off the game the moment it became water logged. From what I learnt the Sudanese were bigger and resorted to up balls which helped them. But Amuneke advised the team to still maintain their passing game on the water logged pitch.

Icon4s:
You cant tell me that u dnt know that the Teslim Balogun stadium has abt the best artificial pitch in Nigeria.

The issue was not the Pitch bt the heavy rain that took place hours before and during the match.
Now dnt raise an issue of poor drainage in the Teslim Balogun stadium bc the PH and Calabar stadiums are not any better.

To your second paragraph, that statement u jst made is not an evidence that the boys were not paid their U17 qualification allowances.
So pls i need something more concrete. Show me any link to that claim.

Sure Aina seems a necessity, but to assume he'd displace Omeruo on the basis of training with Chelsea is a far cry from the truth. I'm one of the pro-agitators for d foreign burn Nigerians. But I can't do that at the detriment of the existing players. I see people update teams on a daily basis once a new name pops up. Now it's the Era of Tonarugari of Berta Berlin, tomorrow it may be another Academy break out player. I want to access these players in a game before I can start allocating national positions to them. Unfortunately only Rohr can access them in our trainings.

TheGoodJoe:
You missed the fact that Rohr has made his dissatisfaction of his current full back situation public. Also information of Rohr wanting Aina's Nationality sorted out before the next qualifiers indicates Rohr's interest and belief in the Young man.

He is training every day with one of the best right backs in World Football, Victor Moses. There is no guarantee he might start the game but it seems he is a big candidate. Omeruo never looked the ideal choice.

This is one player I rate highly. Very dynamic, drives with the ball, plays b2b, shoots with accuracy, I can go on and on. This guy, Onazi and Ndidi in the middle would be very massive to over run.

Icon4s:
Azubuike IMO is one of our least celebrated youngsters.

A midfield engine.

I was surprised he still remained in that league even after an excellent Olympic outing.

Gosh, Naija analysts amuse me beyond clownery. How would u say Aina pushed Omeruo to team B. Please look at the list again, did we have another CB other then Awaziem? That meant Omeruo had to pair Awaziem so as to get a balanced team on both sides... Rohr may have only read about Aina playing RB on some occasions, but I bet if he picks up a recent game of Aina, it would be of Aina playing RB. Rohr has no time to go watch EPL under23 league games to see Aina play as a CB. As far as I'm concerned, it's naija journalists that classified the teams as A and B. All I saw was Naija vs Naija, with one wearing green and the other white. We should not be in a haste to make assumptions for coaches. Truth is that in as much as we may want to see Aina play RB against CMR, truth is Omeruo would still play the position. Rohr believes in team continuity as most German coaches believe. See the German national team, you can predict their selection for qualifiers.

Kog45:
If Aina can pushed Omeruo to team B with just two days training then who is Shehu Abdullahi and Musa Muhammed to compete with him and who told u there are no issues with Abdullahi and Mohammed as RB,if there are no issues Ndidi w not be forced to play as RB against Zambia and Omeruo against Algeria,though Omeruo started as RB for eagles.

Rohr is an experience coach who have seen what he was looking for in RB in Aina and remember both Aina and Omeruo belonged to Chelsea,Omeruo on loan and Aina in main squad,a good coach w evaluate d situation.

According to reliable source d switching of Aina's allegiance to Nigeria is d top priority of Rohr and NFF coz of his displayed in training.

Why do we keep over emphasizing on physical football of the Cameroonians? If it was that CMR should have destroyed al their opponents at last WC. Even against SA which I do not regard as a physical team but a very speedy and technical team, CMR was always on the backfoot and managed to draw both games. I'd happily take a technical player / team over a physical one. I'd take a RB who knows how to utilize his space to his advantage, accurately calculate when to join the attack over a RB that only hopes his physical presence would intimidate the opponent. We'd see how this Cameroonian team would fare against technical and less physical teams at the confeds. I wait to see how far physicality takes a team.

komekn:
I did say previously that I had some questions about Iwobi. He has played pretty football at Arsenal with great technical players around him. I wasn't sure how he would cope in a blood, guts and physical warfare type game. That question was answered when we played Senegal. He simply didn't, will he improve its open to debate, will Rohr take a chance on him again in an even more physically contentious blood and guts I'll tempered football game hmmm. With a whole lot more at stake, not my decision but Rohr.

Omeruah is defender and nothing else he is not a RWB however Aina is.

Some of the RWB from Germany and Holland to my superficial eye seem a bit lightweight for a battle against Cameroon.Aino is not a lightweight.

Onyedinma is not a lightweight Aluko is not a lightweight i would play both of them against Cameroon. Iorfa needs to be seen in a competitive friendly he also is not a lightweight.

The match with Cameroon is going to be a battle Ndidi is essential in this regard, so is Mikel, I'm not a big fan of Ogu a bit slow and laboured and not offensively inventive enough. We need other options I also like Shehu he should not be playing in Cyprus.

It'll be tougher getting the German prospects because they believe just being a non-playing squad member almost guarantees a trophy for you as a player. But with England, hmmm. When last did they win a tournament, 1966. Even Naija has won more recently than the English team. Even the last WC we went further than England. It can be argued abouthat the group strength, but who cares. I think Naija is on par with England in terms of player abilities, difference is just that they are more organized in their footballing structure. So it'll be easy to convince these English boys to play for us en masse. But I doubt Udokhai may make it up to senior German team. Germans have so many young defenders. Hummels can play another 8 yrs, they have Rudiger, Sulé, Mustafi, Ginter, Kimmich can play center back. These are just some fee CBs and they have many more in that same under 20 to 19 teams. It's better for these boys to just jejely come and play for us. We may not win d WC but we have the potential to appear in d Semis. Who knows what may happen from there.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qb-5QWsCBvY

Senegal Vs CIV. Compare this game with the one against Naija. Almost same level of play.

Makes sense. However, I would have thought they'd still want to give it that friendly feel by doing everything right. What if people that bought tickets earlier still wanted to come and watch. I would assume it makes sense to come out properly dressed. But I get your logic though.

tbaba1234:
The stadium had already been booked, why not? It gave the coaches a chance to see new players. It does not make it an international friendly, it is still a training game.

Then why did they bother going to play at the Barnet stadium? They might as well have played the game at their training ground.

tbaba1234:
This is a training game.. They could as well have just worn bibs.