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NwaAmaikpe:


Oyibo man will use his internet access for research and inventions.

Naija people will use theirs for;

Pornhub,
xvideos,
Snapchat, Emmanuella's YouTube channel,
Nude video calls on IMO,
Harvesting magas from Facebook
Trolling and begging stingy celebrities on Instagram.

Then insulting NwaAmaikpe on NL.

Naija peeps are the ones that created Pornhub and Xvideos?? You think nigerians watch more porn than say US??

Joebie:
Bench or not. He looks good for Russia. We need a great bench

Yeah true. We have great CM options. Just need to look for AMs.

Humility017:
my pain is that....he was discovered late...
he is very close to his 30s now...
had it been he was still way younger it would have been so perfect....

I remember he was a bit rated back when he was at Werder Bremen around 2010 -11. He always wanted to play for Nigeria. Credit to Keshi for inviting him.

pyrex23:
dont think d injury was dat serious....



In other news...
Capeverde-SA 2-1 HT

I hope the scoreline remains that way. Need to laugh at my Mzansi friends after how they terrorized me last time.

OMANBALA1:
Mikel Agu showed some strong flash of skills and confidence...The boy is the future.

Yep I like that guy. Might displace one of Onazi/Ndidi if they aren't careful.

First time I'm watching Ezenwa play...he was much shorter than I expected. Good performance regardless. With Ighalo probably out injured, I think Nwakeme is going to start on Monday. I must admit I was surprised by Ighalo's performance today. Made me eat my words.

Great performance by Ighalo...hopefully his injury is not that serious.

Nigeria not ready to replace Mikel just yet...

Ighalo offering more mobility than Nacho. Great awareness!!! Good goal by Mikel!!

Like I said, Ogu should start ahead of either Onazi or Ndidi if we play Mikel as a AM. We need someone to dictate play from deep.

Ighalo!!! He's proven me wrong. Stupid yellow card to get though

KevinDein:
What's wrong with the line up? Who would you rather have in there?

Ighalo should be subbed for Nwakeme or Samuel.

Famocious:
Nigeria Starting XI vs Cameroon: Ezenwa; Shehu, Troost-Ekong, Balogun, Echiejile, Mikel, Ndidi, Etebo; Simon, Moses, Ighalo
Source : @football naija tweeter handle

If this is true, then I'm not too confident of a win.

Thank Goodness BT Sport are showing the game tomorrow. Can't wait!!

komekn:
Tega and Lookman are still possibilities with regards to Solanke I've never spoken to him so do not know.

It's really about continous engagement and relationship. Our approach sucks to put it mildly.

Your assumptions are wrong when these boys were relatively unknown why did we not engage with them.

Our approach can be likened to long lost cousins who forgot and rejected you when alarm deh blow and nuttin deh hand. When you come begin blow, we say Ah my Bro. remember me oh. What would you do in those circumstances

What about the ones like Agbonlahor whom we invited while they were at the English youth teams?? Some of these guys when they were "unknowns" probably weren't better than what we had. When someone like say Adebayor propped up (i.e around 04), we certainly had better strikers than him.
Yes you could say we should do better in regards to scouting, but I'm sorry if these foreign born players aren't /weren't better than the options we had when they were "unknowns", why should we invite them? NFF needs to better in terms of scouting, but we should be careful not to overpander some of these guys because they are foreign born.

forgiveness:
Sometimes, I just wonder what could be the ultimate goal of our footballing administrators.

Is it winning the world cup or just chop I chop that they become so blind so tey all the better players dey allude us?

For our very eyes David Alaba, Dennis Aogo, Ross Barkley, Adebayo, Dele Alli, Angelo Ogbonna and recently Manual Akanji waka commot for our very eyes. Why?

If we put some of these boys on our current list, no bi to dey dream World cup trophy?

Now, very soon we go lose Dominic Solanke, Josh Onomah, Abraham, Jordan Torunarigha, Uduokhai Felix, Ademola-lookman Sheyi Ojo etcetera because dem no pay rite to any chop I chop fellow.

These boys are very very good but our Oga at the top thinks otherwise.

I am not saying we we should trow-way all our boys but haba these boys are good.

Anyway, make we face Cameroon first before I begin yan as usual.

What makes you think all these guys want to play for us?
David Alaba - We screwed up big time. Biggest loss ever
Aogo - once said he wanted to play for us, rejected an invite from Amodu later on
Adebayor - Think he went for trials with the u20 and didn't make it(not sure). At the moment he broke out, we had better strikers
Ross Barkley - Only acknowledged his Naija roots. Never wanted to play for us
Dele Alli - Was never interested.
Angelo Ogbonna - Rejected call ups time and time again.
Akanji - NFF screwed up.
Not all these guys will play for us. We don't need to beg them if their heart isn't in it. Solanke, Tammy and Lookman don't want to play for us. Time to move on

Xhaka is a dlp. Wenger insists on pushing him high up the pitch...he even thought he was a b2b at one time. Wenger is just a straight slowpoke...no two ways about it.
Sack him now and bring in Tuchel. He has lost the dressing room

Lmaoo what a clown. I've seen Hausa, Yoruba etc freestylers that are at least just as good or way better. Dumb slowpoke recording this is bragging like he just struck gold.

Complain all you want of our "leaders", fact of the matter is you all put them there. Many of you guys comparing Kagame to what we have will still vote morons like Dino Melaye into power. All it takes during the elections are a few bags of rice and money for people to vote these guys. I bet you Buhari will still be president after 2019

Pathetic to see in 2017, we still have people bringing tribalism to the only thing that's suppose to unite us. Na wa oo...

ChrisKels:
If u truly were there at kickoff ( which I was one of the e-war Lords fighting Ghanaians and SAs), then u must know this moniker "denonso1", the exact replica of honorable sir Forgiveness here. I miss Game147 and my fellow warrior Colynzo though

The days of Ken Gaddafi. Lol I was still in high school back then. Shame how Kickoff naija ended

goldfish80:
I heard he's a New York taxi driver these days.

Not true. Said he doesn't live in America

Simon Moses has no business being in the squad at the moment. Same goes for Musa. I know it's early days, but Onyekuru can offer us what Musa does and more as a wide forward

Very Painful. One of the worst things ever is living to see your child die. RIP to Raymond.

mumemma:
take out Awaziem guy joor and leave Shehu or Aina dere.

Awaziem is in good form and full of confidence. Rohr could instruct him to stay deep while the other full back bombs forward

AndreTAyodeji:
Best lineup to prosecute the match,Aina should replace Awaziem while Alampasu or even Ezenwa will have my nod over Akpeyi who is now the third choice goalkeeper in his club and he as not even kept goal this season.I just dont know why people are sleeping on Ogu,i am not a fan of his before the senegal match but with the way he and Ndidi dominated that physical Senegalese midfield 3 that consisted of Gueye,Ndoye and Ndiaye without Mikel in the side,they both won me over.The duo covered for eachother very well when ever one of them ventures forward with the ball which helped relieve the pressure on our backline.Ndidi and Ogu will make us more defensively disciplined and will liberate Mikel to create for Iheanacho.Another part of Ogu's game that caught my attention is his throughballs and we very much know it is one of cameroon's weakness which we can effectively exploit with the right players and not hoofing longballs to our opponets half.

Akpeyi will remain first choice for now in Rohr's eyes.
Apart from Mikel, Ogu has to be the best passer among our CMs. Sure he's not quick, but he can dictate play from deep better than Onazi or Ndidi. He should've played against SA.

My 11

Akpeyi, Echiejile - Ekong - Balogun - Awaziem, Ndidi - Ogu - Mikel, Vic Moses - Iheanacho - Etebo/Iwobi

Don't know why Kayode is being left out...personally I'd pick him over Ighalo. It should've been a pick between Ighalo or Nwakeme. Musa and Moses Simon will always make the team even if they don't play for a season.

BascoVanVeli:
I don't see why he cannot play FB. My only issue would be if he would accept playing there.

Yeah same here. Don't think he'd agree to it.

Mickael2:
Etebo has hardly ever played as the CM or CAM for his club, he is not a natural passer if the ball at all. Etebo is the kind of LWF that runs the whole ninety minutes and you are sure he can score too. we play a 4-2-3-1, we do not have a front three, just a lone striker up top with five midfielders

Oh I see. This is when versatility becomes somewhat of a curse. Then the best thing is to move him to the left and play Iwobi as a 10. Mikel should drop back to CM.

BascoVanVeli:
Why not play ViMoe at right back?

You mean right wing back? Don't think Rohr would play a 3-4-3/3-5-2. Not a good idea to play him as a FB imo

Mickael2:
it must not always be a midfield three. in our bid to always play a midfield three we have sacrificed Etebo who I believe is out best LWF presently, we have a lot of wingers I repeat again, why can't we use that to our advantage? when Spain had a lot if midfielders they even played a 4-6-0 formation in a final at the Euros, we need to play to our strengths. we musnt always play like the foreigners

I thought Etebo was a CM/CAM?? Even if we were to play him on the left, where does Vic Moses play?? On the right? I mean it's not a bad idea having a front 3 of him, Iheanacho and Vic Moses with Iwobi as a 10 with Mikel and Onazi/Ndidi/Agu as pivots but the question is if he's going to be able to make those runs someone like Musa does from the flanks