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fabyom:
The Super Eagles need Ighalo. Plain truth. Aside Osi none of our strikers is in Iggy's level as at now!

True though. We even have one guy in Malaysia league breaking goal records. Let us invite him too, at least he is better than Osimhen, Sadiq, Awoniyi, Dennis, Moffi, and Onuachu all combined.

To score the goals Ighalo is scoring in the Saudi league, you have to be world class. I don't even know why they didn't nominate Ighalo for Ballon d'Or considering his scoring prowess in the great Saudi Arabia league. What a legend

MetalJigsaw:
Lol.. Mention the 'world class' in their midfield and also tell me any of their strikers that is as good as Osimhen.

I'm waiting

Gueye is world class. You have to be, really, to be a starter in the current PSG team with players like Wijnaldum on the bench.

In attack they have Mane. The guy didn’t say positions, he said departments. Mane is clearly world class in attack.

nairalandankrah:
Napoli rejects Atletico Madrid's (joao Felix + 30m) offer for Osimhen...
Shit is getting scary!

Mind u, At madrid bought Felix from benfica for 120m pounds

Source?

Ladumaa:
Is nacho loosing form or what? What's up with our golden boy?

His all round play is excellent in this game. His hold up play created the second goal.

You don't have to score every game to be influential in a match.

Subzero047:
Ehen?

He has also played like this in previous games. He has been consistent. Only reason he has not been getting 90 minutes is that Forss is also a very good player and has to get gametime.

Subzero047:
Onyeka starts for Brentford, I must say he has not impressed me this season

Onyeka has been the POTM so far, even as Brentford is losing.

zuchyblink:
Our Dept in CF position :- Osimehn,Iheanacho,Onuachu,Awoniyi,E Dennis,Simy,Umar Sadiq,Moffi,David Okereke and others

Dennis is a winger, not a CF.

andrewbaba44:
The thing surprise me Baba

The talent has always been there. He has been playing very well with Watford this season. It is still surprising why he is not in our squad yet with his performances. He has more to offer than many of the players we are looking at currently.

andrewbaba44:
Dennis 2 assist and 1 goal

As a 64' minute sub. Totally changed the game from 2-1 to 2-5.

Dennis with an assist.

Came into the game for Sarr and absolutely changed the game. I wonder how players like Collins are getting invites over this guy.

Sadiq is top of Segunda scoring charts and second in assists.

He's too good for that league. May get a move to La Liga as early as January.

ChrisKels:
The only thing Adeyemi does better than Amoo is pace. Amoo is stronger, more tricky, more creative and more cerebral for now

Amoo is actually faster. As fast as Insigne. Adeyemi is better though. Adeyemi is much more technical and with a better eye for goal. Amoo is still very immature in his game.

12large1:
In outsiders eyes, it’s obviously Mohammed Salah. But, Egyptians rank Aboutrika higher than Salah. It’s almost like how Epl and Nigerians rank Finidi vs osaze

False.

Salah is so loved in Egypt that he came second in the 2018 presidential election without even contesting.

andrewbaba44:
I agree with your options sha but don’t forget that isak scored 17 Laliga goals last season while playing for sociedad

Omo to score for Laliga this days Dey hard ooo ,so you should see the reason I put him there

Lol @ English politano

The same la liga that Danjuma is topping scoring charts directly from the Championship?

ChrisKels:
Hmmmm, this Ejike boy should better learn to be productive with his dribbles otherwise he would just be another Boufal to the beautiful gamem I'm not sold on him yet.

By the way, Chuks might find it a bit hard to supplant Pino, that Villarreal forward seem to have clicked in his absence with Danjuma and Pino the lynch pins

If Chuks is fully fit, he benches Pino any day any time.

Chuks that benched a whole Take Kubo. Pino himself has not been as much of a threat as Chuks was before he injured. The main attacking outlet right now in Villareal is Danjuma, it was Chuks until he injured.

samtol4:
Looking at the World cup African qualifiers table, I wonder how Cameroon & Ivory coast were paired in the same group. Ghana and South Africa are in the same group. Burkina Faso & Algeria are in the same group. Then look at Group J
Tanzania
Benin
DR Congo
Madagascar
Can someone explain this? This may be denied the best teams to represent Africa

DR Congo were very good some years ago. It helped them have good rankings. In the past three years, they have been performing poorly. I takes time for the rankings to rectify itself, but currently, they are stil ranked top 10 in Africa even when they shouldn't be.

Cote d' Ivoire have been unlucky with rankings since they won the AFCON.

BARAJ92:
What did this same Algeria play against Burkina Faso

Burkina Faso is one of the best teams in Africa. It is not easy to drag first place with Allgeria in a group right now. They would probably have qualified if they were in South Africa's group, Benin's group, Mali's group, or even Egypt's group.

Oasis001:


LMFAO..... yet Rohr is called clueless by many of you. Who's gonna pull out for Onuachu to nod? How many crosses were recorded in the first half?

The two goals we scored were initiated by crosses though. Awoniyi would also be a good sub.

I would want Osimhen removed. Guy has played like 10 games in the last three weeks. He needs rest for Roma games and so on. From this point, this game is almost dead rubber. Use this opportunity to test new legs.

These are the type of games Onuachu excels in at Genk. His aerial prowess and excellent finishing could be useful in this game.

Musa needs to be subbed off. The left wing with Collins is too weak in attack. Bring in Ejuke and put him on that wing, Bassey to support.

Collins playing nonsense as expected.

If Rohr doesn't give Bassey his first cap today, we can all conclude that he is blind, clueless, or both.

Rohr has preferred players. His team is too comfortable. How do you expect players to compete when they know that no matter how poorly they perform, they will still start games? (and these are not players like Messi and Ronaldo)

A coach that doesn't know his best players even when they prove themselves in games, is that a coach?

With the lineup I saw, I have lost interest in the game before it even started.

andrewbaba44:
Don’t forget Ghana is also winning

Even Mali, Cote d'Ivoire and South Africa are producing respectable scorelines in difficult groups.

Joebie:
One thing I like about Oliseh, he has self worth. He was probably the first indigenous coach to resign. He believes he should get the same treatment as foreign coaches. We can't be racists to ourselves.

Personally, I would even prefer Oliseh back. When he was coach then, the environment and hostility from NFF was too much. That was the reason for all the controversy we had with him. One thing I am confident about Oliseh is that he will not sit down and watch Nigeria lose to CAR in Lagos just like that without screaming down the players at the touchline. He is someone that can fight and die for his country. I will always prefer a coach with personal attachments to the club or country over coaches who just collect salaries and are satisfied with mediocre resuts as long as they get to keep their jobs and salaries.

Ppogbae:
Don't worry, the NFF will find a better a coach after they fail to qualify

We will probably qualify due to individual talents like Osimhen and Ejuke.

What happens when we meet the good teams though? How do we survive when we can't even create chances against teams like CAR and Cape Verde?

The last game we created and took real goalscoring chances was the Sierra Leone game. Before that, maybe the Lesotho away game. I won't count the Lesotho home game because I consider those goals as three lucky goals. Same with the Liberia goals.

We are struggling to create chances, and this is not only a midfield problem. Looking past our midfield, you'll notice our players are playing without any football sense. Simple one-twos are a struggle for them to make. Through passes, neat crosses, positioning, even simply paying your teammates into space have been problems for our team. The performances are too poor. I feel like we just have a bunch of big name players without team cohesion.

See what our mates Morocco, Senegal, Tunisia and Algeria are doing to small opposition. Using them to stat-pad. Meanwhile we're hoping to even draw an even smaller opposition tomorrow.

I don't think Rohr can mange our current crop of talents well enough. We need to look for a better coach, fast.

Our greatest challenge is the lack of urgency. Only Osimhen, Ejuke and maybe Onyeka played as if they wanted to win the match. The rest played like they just wanted the game to end. Pass multiple times in our half, then Balogun or Ekong remembers we want to score and then plays an aimless long ball.

CAR just executed a very simple game plan. They know they are farmers, so the aim was to bring all of us into the farming together. Since they are used to playing farmers game, they beat us of course.

Our players play in the top leagues in the world. I expected them to make passes between lines, play one-twos and so on. It was like we were no different tactically than them. When teams like ordinary Algeria play, the way they pass alone tells you that they have players that think and study football. The game today was just kick and run.

By the way, I wonder why Rohr didn't give Bassey some minutes. Asides even to cap-tie him, it was obvious that Collins did not eat before this match, with the way he played. Bassey is an attacking fullback almost like a winger. His pace could have added bite to our attack in the final minutes.

forgiveness:
This affirmed you are suffering from Paranoid personality disorder.

You need a psychiatrist or psychologist to help you out because it’s getting out of hands else why accusing me of the comparison between Awoniyi and Osimhen?

Why didn’t you accuse drDoom3 who started the comparison?

You are really sick. This is confirmation you’re also a tribalist of the highest order.

Stop this Mr. Forgiveness. I never started anything, everything I said was in response to senseless comments you made. Stop being immature, like a child in the playground pointing fingers at other children, saying they started it and not him. Please, you can do better than this.

forgiveness:
You think if one is not fast, static and can’t finish one will be playing in Bundesliga, right?

If we rate the goals both scored this season, which of them scored the best goal?

Do top 5 and let me see. Thanks

The difference between Awoniyi's goals and Osimhen's goals is that for most of Awoniyi's goals, the chances were created for him. Sure, he showed brilliance to finish them off, but they were created nonetheless.

Osimhen makes most of his chances, in some cases from nothing. Most of his goals were not goals Awoniyi would have scored if they were swapped.

Danielnino00:
...

This pitch needs remarking. You can barely see any white lines.

chrisooblog:
I agree. I love (no homo) Osimhen to bits but he will need to be doing what he is currently doing consistently for at least 2 seasons straight before we get into the conversion about him being better than greats like Aubameyang who has been consistent for at least 8 of the past 10 years.

That's the thing.

When people value Osimhen highly, it is not because of what he has done in the past. Onuachu hits 30 goals a season consistently but people don't rate him. Have you asked yourself why?

The reason people rate players like Osimhen so highly is because everyone sees qualities he has on the pitch that make him better than everyone else. Mind you, these are not qualities that are based on the type of team/league the player is in , or whether he has good teammates or not. Individual qualities like pace, power, strength, finishing, sharpness, pressing ability, dribbling, eye for passes, unselfishness, set-pieces, aerial prowess. These are individual qualities that makes players who have them automatically valued higher, whether they are the top scorer that year or not. This is because players who bring these qualities to a team make the team better, and these qualities can make a player singlehandedly change a game. The more qualities a player has, and the better a player is at a certain quality, the higher the player is valued.

Osimhen is so highly valued because he has more (and better) of these qualities than almost any other player in his position currently. Simple and short.

12large1:
Osimehn vs aubemeyang are we going for current form or overall? On current form it's osimehn but overall in the past few years, it's Aubameyang

I wonder how you guys rate players. Osimhen is 22. He hadn't even started playing professional football when Auba was doing wonders with Dortmund.

This is just like comparing Haaland and Ronaldo. Totally unfair. Even Haaland was not that prolific until he joined Salzburg like two or three seasons ago.

BascoVanVeli:
What does that even mean? What would he ask Victor to do that Taiwo can't do? U act like Taiwo doesn't play almost the same way. Osimhen is more physically gifted but it is basically the same thing. Taiwo can press relentlessly and make the same selfless runs that Osimhen makes. He can dribble and also create. We seem to that he was our darling striker before his goals dried up causing him to miss the Olympics. He was on top of the world until his form dropped. Now that the goals are there I can't honestly point at a weakness. He was always good at everything but he was too wasteful.

No shades to Awoniyi, but he is nowhere near Osimhen's level.

He is not as fast. He is better at finishing, but he doesn't bully defenders. His press is not as good as Osimhen's. He is also very static.