₦airaland Forum

Pidginwhisper:
Doesnt look like he’s happy.

Mainz was his former club and the club that brought him to the limelight. He didn't celebrate out of respect.

humility33:
With the way Udinese is going this season i doubt if he wont get noticed
More over someone just need mention him to Rohr dont think he has been capped yet by Italy

He has played for Italy U18 though, so he will need a switch.

wayodude:
This Bini Italian kid starts for Udinese against Sampdoria. Appears to be a left back but playing as a wing back today. We should keep an eye on him, just incase he blows!

He's actually a CM. He was the guy that frustrated Napoli and stopped them from making UCL last season. Very good player.

I watched Olise today. Class. Guy is destined for greatness. He will be a solution to our AM problem. Good passsing, good set pieces, good crossing, powerful shot. Also a good dribbler and strong despite his lankiness.

Ekong was a stink-bomb in this Watford game. Too bad.

Dennis looks hungry and dangerous. He will be a useful addition to our squad.

TheGoodJoe:
On another note, I believe despite the growth of our players in Europe, I feel we are missing a gold mine because the current people running our football are lazy. They are just in the business to harness what they want.

I will give you an instance.

When Christian Chukwu was appointed coach of the Super Eagles, at a certain period he was on break, he carried out a screening camp for players in feeders of our local clubs.

He went about watching matches of feeder teams and collecting phone numbers of players he saw with potentials.

Then after drafted a list of players from them and invited them to a camp in Ogun State, at Otta to be exact.

One of the players from Sharks FC feeders then made the cut. He said the first thing Coach Christian Chukwu taught them was endurance.

He said he brought axes, machetes, shovels, rakes and other farm tools. Measured a large piece of land in something that looked like a forest and told them to carry out a bush clearing work. (It is football they came to play)

He said they worked all day for days, clearing bush, raking, with not much food to eat. He said after about a week plus, they were done. Well raked pitches, wide and fresh.

He said, they rested, and keep in mind, feeding was not easy. They were supporting themselves and the coach was doing his best too.

Then he gave them a thorough lesson in total-football. He said for days, they did more of theory than field work. They only did intense jogging every morning and then lessons.

By the time they were ready for the field, he says it was nothing like he had ever seen. He said, he learnt things he did not know about football like breaking defences with triangular passes, etc. He said you will pass ball until it became second nature of you. Pass and move.

He said, unfortunately, Christian Chukwu got sacked during their program and he believed if the coach had finished with them, they would have done wonders. The coach wanted to use them for one of the friendly games.

What I am pointing out is that, there is so much work to do in Nigerian football, but this current set have showed extreme laziness. No grassroot work, no grooming of future players. We just wait for players to break through in clubs or some foreign player to do well and pledge allegiance to us.

I hope we pick up from where we are and shoot for our potentials.

The problem is not that we don't have national camps or academies, we win the u17 world cup almost every year.

The problem is that not all of the best talents get to these academies.

Two in two minutes for Onuachu.

Onuachu is a wicked man lol. Gave the defender hope before calmly slotting it home.

Danielnino00:
Who said his performance is abysmal?

What point exactly are you trying to prove?

The main point many of us here hold is that our team right now is much better than it was many years ago, on paper we have the best squad in Africa...So Rohr has no excuse not to deliver!

Simply put, we want him to do better...


Again,what's your own point? It is until we have 10 players playing for Barca, Chelsea,Man Utd, Liverpool,Bayern ,Man City and PSG before you can agree that we have the quality to win trophies?

Because Senegal with Mane, Sarr, Mendy, Koulibaly, Diallo and co, Morocco with Hakimi, En-Nesyri, Ziyech and co don't have good squads on paper right?

Moffi is not in his game today. Too many poor touches.

Ppogbae:
Umar Sadiq goal vs Tenerife....



https://streamja.com/aXJvW

Sadiq is almost as fast as Osimhen, he just needs to be more aggressive. His composure though is way above Osimhen currently. I said currently because Osimhen had wonderful one-on-one finishes at Lille, I don’t know what happened to his confidence since he joined Napoli.

It's crazy how much Osimhen has evolved from his game at Chaleroi. He has developed so much, especially physically.

The only thing left is to work on his shooting composure. That's literally the only thing separating him from Haaland. Haaland will put the shot on target from any angle or direction. There was a one-on-one he missed early in today's game that I expected him to have buried. The surprising thing is that he rarely missed one-on-ones at Lille. He was more clinical then, especially with those his first goals against Nantes and St. Etienne. He has the shot power, but accuracy is still not where it should be. Once he can solve those simple problems, he should be shooting and scoring on the level of Haaland.

chrisooblog:
Obviously he should work hard at improving that aspect of his game but I think like with everything else in life he should just be the best at what he's good at. He has great pace, he's good in the air and can be better. Has great dynamic movement which he should utilize more but more importantly he has the mindset of not being satisfied with being second best.

Drogba and Lukaku have/had poor areas in their game but what stood them out is they made sure they maximized optimally those things they are great at.

If I were Osimhen, I would work on my shooting, back to goal.

That's the only thing I would train for. Recieve the ball, turn, shoot. Once he masters that, he should be good in tight spaces.

The Leicester game showed how poor his shooting is.

Meliforme:
Ejuke's defensive shifts yesterday led me to conduct a little further examen on him.

I found out that of all our forwards in terms of man marking and tackling, He is the better.
He marks even better than 0simhen.

He is a dribbler, so it is easy for him to read body language. Dribbling goes both ways, both offensively and defensively.

His only problem is his stamina. He gasses out to quickly and then gets lost.

JohnBullMySon:
I have watched both Uzoho and Maduka and I'm sure that only Maduka is close to being a reliable goalkeeper in that squad. But Nigerians judge outward appearance a lot. Maduka looks boyish and incapable not like Uzoho who looks like a strong and confident person, so they consciously or unconsciously begin to scrutinize his moves a lot.

The team has a coach, assistant coach, and goalkeeper trainer, if Maduka had serious tactical problems, will he still be the no 1 presently?

You cannot even compare the two of them.

Uzoho has played Argentina (twice), Brazil, etc. and made crucial saves to keep us in those games. Maduka is conceding four against Sierra Leone. In fact, I can confidently say that at least 50% of every shot on target against us in all Maduka's games for us ended up in the back of the net. That's how poor he's been. The good thing is that we haven't played a decent team in a long time. The last serious team we played was Brazil in October 2019, and Uzoho saved us big time in that game. SInce then, we've been facing teams like Benin, Sierra Leone etc and we still concede against them.

If we go to AFCON with Maduka as is right now, we will be hugely embarassed. Asides from the fact that he is not confident, he does not inspire confidence at all. When a player takes a shot and you have Mendy in goal, you are confident he will make the save. With AKpeyi and Maduka, it's 50/50. They might make the save, they might pull off a howler and concede.

Ejuke was our best player this first half. We need to play with more urgency. I think Simon is not as good today because Shehu is messing up behind him. I would even prefer bringing Zaidu in as an RB or Ozornwafor in then Awaziem to RB because Shehu is not ready. Caught out of position for their goal, like I predicted earlier.

Bonke is too messy.

Shehu is a bomb waiting to explode.

Since Moffi has Grealish vibes, can we play him as an SS/AM with Onuachu or Osimhen?

After Senegal and Algeria, Ivory Coast is one of the toughest countries to face in Africa right now. Even without Zaha, Pepe, Amad, and Kessie, see the way they are dominating the Cameroonians.

In the knockout rounds, we should hope not to meet them. Any of Ghana, Egypt, Mali or Dr Congo groups would be the best draws for us. Ivory Coast will likely make it out of this group.

In contrast, Ebuehi is much smarter and technically astute. He knows what to do with the ball, has a very good passing and crossing range. However, he is not as athletic as Aina, not as good for recoveries as Aina, and not as good as Aina when you are parking the bus, for example.

Sainty92:
Ebuehi appears to have more education/training in Rb role than Aina how? Are you forgetting Aina's root? Someone that cut his teeth in one(if not the best) of the best academy in the world at Cobham Chelsea??
Ebuehi seems to be more tidy in possession like u highlighted but Aina seems to have that robustness and physicality that suits African games.
You said Ebuehi is less prone to errors, but I bet if it was Aina that gave a penalty away to Iceland which sirgudson missed at the last worldcup, u would have demanded his head. Aina has not really made any error leading to goal or threat to goal recent games but some people just want him out and Ebuehi in.
Well, your wish might be granted on Tuesday

Aina has excellent recovery, strength and speed. However, his decision making is poor, and his attacking abilities are appalling considering his athletic prowess.

chrisooblog:
Watching the WC qualifier between Gabon and Egypt couple of observations.

1. NFF should seriously do better with the kind of pitches they allow our players to be subjected too. The Gabonese pitch is lush beautiful and well trimmed.

2. Gabon has taken the game to the Egyptians but lack of composure in front of goal is costing them. Unfortunately anytime the ball falls to a Gabon player in a dangerous area it's not Aubameyang that's on the end of it so you can guess the outcome of that opportunity.

3. Egyptians are compact in defense not much of an attacking threat except pass to Salah and inshallah.

Let's see how the second half turns out.

If we meet this same Egypt at next year's AFCON, we have no excuse not to flog them at least 2-0. They look so poor, even with Salah.

seankafor:
It rained heavily hence the nature of the pitch,
It wasn't the best but not bad as it was painted..
Did y'all watched yesterday match between 3sc and NK in Ibadan?
That's how a bad and waterlogged pitch looks like and teslim was far from it despite the floods and rains..

We can do better thoor

Have you ever seen an EPL pitch like that, no matter how much it rains?

Lets not even go far. South African league, have you ever seen a pitch like that?

A standard pitch is supposed to have horizontal regions with different shades of green. Did you see that in our pitch? Or does rain also make the entire pitch have the same shade of green?

lloydtruth:
Aribo should not be wearing the no 10 jersey ahead of Iwobi, I am not understanding that guys game.

Coach's instructions are for him to play a more defensive game, covering for our attackers. Playing Iheanacho in a two man frontline with two active wingers is basically a 4-2-4, so those 2 midfielders have to sacrifice to cover for the extra man forward.

aodis:
Good forbid bad thing we no get pitch at all. And the officiating is very bias. Anyway, wahala for who no score for bad pitch! Nsogbu ��

Both linesmen are not good. Some decent calls towards the end of the half, but their calls were crazy at the beginning.

Two assists from Iwobi, two goals from Iheanacho.

This pitch is embarassing. Look at the black patches all over.

TheSuperNerd:
The Super Eagles WC Quest begins...

The Lineup vs Liberia.

Moffi?

jihday:
Is this the same Ivory Coast some people are always hyping?

No Pepe, Zaha, Kodjia, Kessie etc. Away game, not really their fault.

With Dennis 3 EPL appearances so far, I think he's better than many of our invited players. He definitely deserves a place at least on the standby list.

Awoniyi is too technical. Exquisite passes. Not as athletic or fast as Osimhen, but his football sense is too much.

Moffi with an assist after wonderful hold up play.