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andrewbaba44:
Motenengro did so well

Holland will still pick the automatic spot sha from their last game

Wrong. Holland are in the same predicament Tunisia are in.

Both Holland and Tunisia are playing their last games against the second best teams in their groups, Norway and Zambia. These teams fell out of form at some point in qualifying, then regained momentum and are out for blood. Norway and Zambia both need wins to qualify. The problem though is with the other best teams in their groups, Turkey and Equatoreal Guinea respectively. Both teams have relatively easy last games, making the pressure higher on the other teams. I predict Holland to scrape through, but Tunisia to draw with Zambia and get kicked out by Equatorial Guinea.

Surebaba01:
The liberia coach was the most Entertaining of the two teams

Lol... There was a time in the game Iheanacho played a through pass and a Liberian defender wasn't marking. The coach shouted, "Look over your shoulder, do you want to kill us?"

Rohr with a disasterclass today. Didn't make any sub after the Ejuke sub until 86 mins, then put in Musa for no reason I can fathom. Osimhen should never have played 90 mins, considering we have a more important match on Tuesday that we need to rest our players for. He should have removed Collins and Nacho since around 70 mins at the latest and then Osimhen for Onuachu around 80 mins to rest him for Cape Verde. Clueless coach.

Watching this game was painful. The only reason I stayed till 90 mins was because it was my country playing.

We need to up our game if we are to compete with the big teams in Africa alone, let alone in the world in general.

Subzero047:
Calvin Bassey is better than this Jamilu Collins

I thought it was only me. Collins is a stinkbomb. No football sense. Look at that play where he was supposed to shield thhe ball and clear it out. He played a stupid short pass to Maduka who was under pressure and we gave the ball away deep in our half unnecessarily. The second time, he gave the ball to Balogun who immediately fell and bought the free kick like any defender with football sense would do. The guy is a serious liability, him and Ekong. I would start Bassey or even Zaidu over Collins, Akpoguma over Ekong, and Aina as the right wing back instead of Simon.

In this game, Iwobi should come out for Ejuke. Guy looks lost. Later, Chuks should come in for Nacho. Then, Onyeka and Onuachu and switch to 4-3-3.

Danielnino00:
Lineup never drop ni??

3-5-2, Maduka, Awaziem, Ekong, Balogun, Simon, Collins, Ndidi, Aribo, Iwobi, Iheanacho, Osimhen.

andrewbaba44:
I know you will bring up this champions league issue

Mendy is not yet a world class GK

You are a Chelsea fan if I am not mistaken and I don’t expect less from you

If you guys can say drogba is better than Henry then there is nothing wrong if you guys thinks Mendy is world class because of the champions league clean shit record

So if Mendy becomes average in the next 2 season we should still call him world class because of that clean sheet record ?

He is new to top football in a top team like Chelsea ,he needs to keep up this performance and that’s all

I am not a Chelsea fan and will never be. I am just stating facts.

These are the results of a worldwide vote by the ICC to determine who the current best keeper in the world is. Guess who won. I wonder how you can be voted as the best player in the WORLD in your position and not be WORLD class, or maybe world class has a different definition for you than for me.

Icon79:
Unfortunately, FIFA TV doesn’t show these games in the US.


O pari

You could use ESPN+, but it is monthly and doesn't show Serie A anymore. Only boring La Liga and Bundesliga.

Icon79:
Thanks. I have just activated my Norton VPN, but I can’t see Portugal on the VPN region drop down country listing. Is there another country I could chose?
There are several other Euro, Asian, plus US and Canada on the list.


O pari

Try Luxembourg.

fabyom:
Some peeps here have not even watch Senegal nor Morocco play. They will just come online trashtalking. Senegal cannot transition play without Mane. Their attack is non existent without Mane. The midfield lacks attacking quality. Diatta, Koyatte, Geuye, Sarr, Sarr (Metz) and Mane. What's world class here except Mane and why should SE be afraid of this average team?

This is not the fault of the team, it is the fault of the coach.

You could say the same for our team too. We have lost or drawn virtually all games Osimhen did not play in after he became our 9. Cameroon friendly last year, our team was piss poor because Osimhen was injured.

andrewbaba44:
Mendy is very good but not yet a world class GK I think

Maybe with this his good performance in the next 2 seasons he should

Setting a Champions League clean sheets record as a GK doesn't make you world class? I wonder how you guys determine what players are world class and what players are not.

With Rohr, we will never get the free flowing attacking football our players are capable of. He is just too conservative. It is not his fault though, but if we want to move forward, we need a Belmadi-esque coach that can play organized, disciplined, free-flowing attacking football.

Onyeka’s game has really improved. Why don’t we try Aribo further forward like he does at Rangers (definitely not as a RW where Gerard usually plays him, maybe as an Iwobi replacement at AM)?

fabyom:
Even if we draw tomorrow and against Cape Verde, we will qualify cos Cape Verde cannot beat CAR 3 nil!

We are winning the AFCON! In the last edition with 2 of our star players injured, we still got to the semi-final!

Player for a player, no team in Africa is better than us when all our players are available!

I watched the whole qualifiers, only Algeria's attack scares me a bit! Bennacer, Brehama, Islamini, Ounas, and Mahrez! Real quality!
Others are average!

Stop having delusions of grandeur. If we meet Mali with our full team right now, I doubt if we can come out with a draw. We don’t even have up to five players in UCL, teams like Morocco, Senegal and co. with actual world class players are not even making mouth like this.

The good thing we have is decent squad depth, and hat is mostly in attack. Midfield is lean, defense has plenty names but mostly poor players really. The only promising players in defense are Zaidu, Awaziem, and possibly Zainab/Bassey. The rest have reached their ceilings.

fabyom:
The Senegalese attack without Mane is toothless. They rely heavily on him! Morocco and Algeria are the only teams that scare me.

Sarr is good. Diatta too. Senegal have young strikers too, Habib Diallo was dragging highest goalscorer with Osimhen in Ligue 1 and he's young too. Boulaye Dia is doing it with Villarreal this season. Niang and Diagne are also decent back ups.

Where Senegal really edges us though is in defense. You have K2 who is a world class CB, along with Abdou Diallo competing in a star studded PSG side. Bouna Sarr is at Bayern, Kouyate is at Crystal Palace. Ballo-Toure who is one of the best young fullbacks in Serie A currently at RB. You then have the best goalkeeper in the world currently in goal. Complete backline.

My only problem with Senegal is their coach. The guy is disciplined, passionate etc, but he isn't tactically sound. It has been exposed multiple times, today for example. He is basically a younger version of Rohr tactically. If Senegal can get themselves a coach on the level of Belmadi tactically, they will enter top 10 globally in no time because the talents are there.

Blueelf:
Well, you have a point. And I agree.

If it was about Africa first 11, then Maybe Osimhen and Ndidi should make the first team barring any "Ojoro"

However, if CAF decides to release their top 10 list for CAF player of the year award today, then it would be very hard

Osimhen and Ndidi will not make CAF first 11. That's a fact. Midfield alone has Kessie and Gueye, not forgetting Bennacer and co. You can't leave any of these guys out for Ndidi (Bennacer was the best player last AFCON, Kessie rated as one of the best players overall in Serie A etc).

In attack, Osimhen has not done enough to be considered yet. If he continues in his current form until the end of the season, then we can have that conversation. Mane and Salah must be in the front three, and you can always fill in the last with Zaha, Auba, Mahrez, etc. Hell, even Slimani and Ziyech are rated higher than Osimhen in world football. The reason we celebrate Osimhen so much is that we see his potentials, what he could become in a few years if he is consistent.

Arabiandude:
3 actually made the list.
The list includes Iheancho also and I believe so well that comes the end of this season, players like Awoniyi and maybe Ejuke will be added to this list and next season, Maduka and Onyeka might join also

Awoniyi is not good enough at the moment to be in that list.

Ejuke needs to move to a bigger league where he can become a Saint-Maximin (who was at Nice some years back dribbling as he is now but no one knew him then because Ligue 1). Same with Moffi.

I personally rate Sadiq higher than all our strikers except Osimhen. He showed his quality right from the Olympics at 19. I have a feeling that he will be the next Nigerian attacker to make a big money move. Guy is pace + finishing + football sense combined into a large frame. If he can work on using his strength well, he could be a young Ibrahimovic.

elyte89:
Ghana will beat s.a @ home..na dere u go c Ghana vein stand..all dey need is just 2 unreplied goals and dey re good to go..
S/A don jabo

S/A are one of the best teams in Africa when it comes to frustrating the big guns.

I see the game ending 1:1, S/A to qualify.

Icon79:
So two Nigerian born players are playing for Ireland: Ogbene and Idah.


O pari

Bazunu, their keeper too. Just 19. Man City youth keeper.

Utonwanne:
He can bench Bachmann or whatever his name is.

Forster belong to the past. I'm sure he's more than 37!

Bachmann is Austria's number 1 goalie. He impressed hugely at the Euros this summer. The only reason he has not been starting too many games is because Foster is more experienced. Both are very good keepers Okoye can learn a lot from.

However, he is nowhere near their level.

zuchyblink:
This is good

He won't bench Foster and Bachmann though.

He should just keep going back to Rotterdam on loan until the road is clear for him to come back to EPL.

Subzero047:
Aribo has a very high workrate biko

I said he plays like Aribo but with zero work rate. That clearly indicates that Aribo has a very high work rate. Understand.

Maduka Okoye joins Watford.

mostob:
Kane is not a world class. That's my opinion.
Make we dead the talk.

Kane is higher than or equal to Lukaku, and you cannot tell me that Lukaku is not world class. Hell, even Dzeko and Mertens are considered world class CFs, let alone Kane.

A certain Destiny Efosa on Fiorentina bench against Juventus.

Edo people dey try for Italy o.

Dortmund without Haaland play like Nassarawa United.

Nkunku and Chuks are extremely similar players. They even look alike.

The only difference is that Nkunku's end product is much higher than Chuks.

Nwakali nowadays plays like an Olise or Aribo with zero work rate. It is almost as if he makes bets before games that he is not going to fall throughout the game, so he doesn't tackle, run, or track back.

Philosopher1979:
At least it's better than having Moses Simon, Ahmed Musa, onuachu and shehu Abdullah I in the team. At least they will bring value to the team.
I pray it works. Rohr is confused and so if he does something right by adding quality to our midfield and wings let us be happy.
If ademola lookman keeps Ahmed Musa out if the team and ejaria can add creativity to our midfield I will be happy.
At least it will be an improvement. Although it's funny waiting for their switch before quality can be added to the team when other home grown talent is there.
But Rohr is so dumb that taking this route could be the only way out.

You don’t know Rohr then.

Rohr that I know will take out Ejuke to bring in Lookman. He will tell you that having too many dribblers is not good for the team.

So you mean to tell me Rohr left out an attacker with 6 G+A in the Premier league in 9 games this season and a striker who is the fourth highest goal scorer in the Bundesliga and the third attacker to reach double figures in goals in all comps in the entire top 5 leagues this season to invite a striker playing in the Saudi League because he "smells football" (in Rohr's words)?

In a sane country, such a coach should not have a job. Unfortunately, Nigeria is Nigeria.

Meliforme:
It seems like Rohr cannot wait to field the attacking trident of Simon-Ighalo-Musa, a.k.a the S.I.M.

I can't wait too.

Jokes apart, this attacking trio can bite.

Sure. Maybe bite burgers and chin chin. If you mean defenses though, then we are finished in Nigerian football.

Also, why is Bassey not on the list? Let’s not have another Alaba scenario on our hands here.

Where is Maja though? Is he injured?

elyte89:
Boss..I am beginning to doubt ur verdicts on some issues

As u watch ball reach..u can't identity a coach DTS riding on sheer individual brilliance of his players wout his tactical input

I like d thesupernerd example of d French coach..dts anoda perfect example of a clueless coach with good players,d only difference is he's good with his selection

To answer ur question

What's rohr football philosophy as a coach?

Senegal coach is also clueless, albeit a bit better than Rohr tactically. If Belmadi coached Senegal, they would have won the last AFCON convincingly.