When a coach like Mourinho has had three months to observe an opponent and prepare his team, it was always going to be difficult. It is natural to 'play into his hands'. He made it that way.
The players are just back with different level of fitness, we can excuse mistakes. But we know Maguire is naturally slow. Vidic too was slow. These kind of players use positioning to shield their defence.
Expert17: I will pick Matic over Fred as DM everyday.
Don't be deceived by Matic's lack of pace, you don't need speed to play 4
Mine is to watch the players and see. We were playing well with Fred, McTominay and Matic. Let us see what happens now that Pogba is back. Who plays best with who and comparison in different situations.
You are funny. You are the one making a direct comparison. Let these guys play football and let us see. A player might be better but doesn't suit a team.
ChristineC: we need a striker that can at least keep the ball upfront. we have non at the moment except Ighalo. in games where teams would rather sit deep and allow few spaces, a striker who can keep the ball or win his duels more times than lose it will draw more defenders to himself and create some breathing space for the support cast. the whole area around Spurs' box was choked and there was very little for late runners to work with.
Ole should play Ighalo when a team park the bus. He will occupy the two central defenders and forced an error
Matic is way better than him, Fred is just gara gara
I thought it was Matic should be sold just four months back. How do we allow ourselves to be swayed easily by current moment. Fred was our best player for a while and suddenly after one match he is the worst?
You guys should let these boys play football and see how things look
airmark: Just as Iheanacho had better goals/mins than Aguero that year at City, but we know who was the better striker.
I'm very busy today. Tomorrow i will expose the average albino that managed a paltry 73 assists in like 20 seasons, playing with top quality attackers. That's like 4 assists per season.
Now you are bringing Iheanacho and Aguero after you have been found out in the scale of more reliable stats. When you were comparing Scholes, Iniesta and Modric, did you remember Iheanacho?
Secondly how many thousand minutes did Iheanacho have in City to be compared to Aguero? We are talking of comparing tens of thousand of minutes vs tens of thousand of minutes.
Ask your Elampiro to tell us why the albino couldn't play impressive minutes, despite playing for about 20yrs. While at it, he should remove the goals he scored as a 2nd striker from his numbers.
Lampard played as an Attacking midfielder throughout. He also was taking free kicks
Scholes didn't have many matches because of injuries and sometimes SAF rested him
Look at Scholes injuries from in recent years. He was missing 15, 18, 20 games due to injuries
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Yenefer: Enemies of Nigeria, i pray to God one day u people, will take weapons and start fighting the NA. Can't wrap my mind around, the NA fighting to protect this people. ungreatful Yahoo boys
eph12: Lol elampiro were you on ban ni? Airmark and ibime have realized the fraud Lampard is na
Not on ban I didn't come here for a long time. I return now to get ready for the remaining matches of the season. As I was trying to do catch up reading, I saw that argument.
Few midfielders like the ones above drive Mercedes when it comes to assists, but live in Boys-quarters when it comes to goals.
Some midfielders drive Tokunbo (assists) but live in Mansion (goals) eg Dele Alli
Lampard is one of select few central midfielders that drive Mercedes and live in Mansion.
Be Kwayet!
Scored 41 penalties from open play and 8 from shootout for Chelsea. Being the penalty taker for a long time helped his goals tally. In his career he scored 60 penalties.
Minus his penalties let's know how many real goals he scored
airmark: And what concerns me with swish and his legend?
I am asking you what made Scholes to produce paltry 73 assists in 709 matches? 1 assist in like every 10 matches. Name one great CM with such shameful stat?
How many minutes of football do you think those 708 matches are? For instance, between 2010 and 2013, Lampard played 13, 817 minutes and Scholes played 6,512 in same period. So Scholes played less than half football time Lampard played.
Another angle to it is understanding football formation. Lampard was the most advanced midfielder in Chelsea 4-3-3 like De Bruyne is in City while Scholes was one of two CMs just like we have Fred and McTominay. This is one angle some of my guys here did not understand when I had an argument with them. Midfielders are different.
tunderoc: @Op firstly, there are rats in your house, there's a need to rid your house of rats "number 1 thing that attracts snakes". 2. This snake chase a rat into your soak away and couldn't find its way out, so it follow the only place where with its forked tongue sense oxygen, which is your toilet bowl. Many do believe that the water in the closet go all along to the soak away, NO it ends right after the U-bend that's why if you open the chamber at the back you find it dry. 3 get bottles of sniper and empty it into your toilet bowl and flush at least twice to kill other crawling stuffs breeding in your soak away. 4. Your 2 soak away pit are connected together, pls get a plumber to disconnect it, or expect more crawling visitors plus you may find out you spend more treating malaria as you will have mosquitoes and other insects infestation as result of your connected soak away.
Pls can you explain further number 4? What is the connection you are talking about? How is this disconnection done?
My consideration is limited to those players who 'prosecuted' the 1994 world cup qualifying matches and the 1994 Nations cup. Mostly from the first group game away to Ivory Coast.
afrodoc2: Ugbade believed he would have gone as reserve LB because he had played that position several times as well. Emenalo coming in blocked that possibility. There was no place for him in that loaded midfield.
Ok, it is a long time ago. We have forgotten some things that happened and the particular positions they were fighting for. Thanks for the update.
raumdeuter: I personally didn't think Ugbade had a compelling argument to make the squad he wasnt one of the outstanding players in the team. I think Oliseh coming and being an instant hit was one of the reasons Ugbade had to be dropped. He might argue that he is on the same level or slightly better than those who made it like Emenalo, Ezeugo
He also wanted to be the first Nigerian to make U17 world cup, U20 world cup and Senior world cup
Emenalo played as a left back in the world cup. So he obviously didn't obstruct Ugbade's chance of getting selected. Emeka Ezeugo had a physical presence Ugbade didn't have. Oliseh and Ugbade were both in nations cup as two midfielders who didn't play the world cup qualifying matches. Ugbade was a flop and kept exposing us. I was pained he was not allowed to make the world cup team to enable him male history. But the decision was the best. Some people wanted Ikpeba to be dropped because he was a new invitee who whose chance of getting a game was 1/20
I think i have gisted you guys about Ugbade and the spiritual warfare that he believes led to his exclusion from the 94 squad courtesy Keshi and his boy Mike Emenalo. Very funny story.
Ugbade has no excuse. He was poor in Tunisia 94. He also did not take part in the qualification to USA 1994. If out all, it should be scantily. It was Thompason Oliha, JJ Okocha, Isaac Semitoje that were in our midfield. Then Adepoju was also used.
Even Oliseh came after we had qualified for the world cup. But he was an instant hit in the final match of the Nations cup qualifier.
raumdeuter: Oliseh na baller when he came in 1993, He brought another dimension of vision and long-range pass into our National team that was when we realized we have a real world-class player on our hand
Did you hear when Oliseh was giving one speech recently about Yekini, He said
See this pass to Yekini, why won't a striker be praying for Oliseh every day, One-time ball and the striker isolated with the keeper https://j.gifs.com/lxNZMV.gif
Nduka Ugbade and the other guys looks very much like Edema Fulundu. I met Edema in Benin around 2002 or 2003 and we had some chat. He sounded somewhat like he was not fulfilled.
I'm the guy that likes to flirt with women (trying so hard to change). Sometime last year November, I hand some sex encounters with 4 different women (2 unprotected) and by first week of December I started experiencing some symptoms which include;
1.White tongue 2. Occassional diarrhoea (watery, oily and formy stool ever since then. I feel sudden need to ease like twice or thrice a day). 3. A gradual weight loss (I eat very well, mainly fruits and proteins with carbohydrates on average) 4. Occasional hand tremor. 5. Occasional body vibration and fast heart rate.
I used to smoke marijuana and take alcohol, but stopped. I also masturbated for about 5-6yrs, then stopped last year which added to flirting with women. I've not masturbated since then, but still take alcohol (mainly vodka).
I went to a university teaching hospital, met with the consultant and explained to her just as I'm doing here (she was wowed!). She then directed me to do HIV test (came back negative), H. Pylori test (also came out negative) and another test (I've forgotten the name).
She then prescribed, nystatin oral suspension and vitamin B Complex which I've finished taking, yet no change. Meanwhile, I've taken fluconazole, antibacteria and probiotics of late.
I'm waiting for the lockdown to be lifted to go back, but before then, (who knows when this whole problem will end) felt i might get some help here.
Please Doctors, what could be wrong with me. Especially this diarrhoea and white tongue. My stomach is always rumbling after eating. Please help.
Thank you.
Pictures of my tongue before and after brushing
May be your haemoglobin is low. You probably have iron deficiency anaemia
raumdeuter: When I dey vex for showboaters like Okocha you need to watch efficient footballers and know the difference
Big ups to Sunday Ogochukwu Oliseh, strong in tackle, Calm in possession with vision like an eagle, left leg, right leg, shots he dey there
See this break in attack and immediate vision to launch a through ball to his attacker not wasting time. Imagine say na JayJay win ball there, he will first relax and look to disgrace the opponent while our attackers will be there suffering
vs Senegal in the 2000 Nations cup we were suffering Oliseh had Malaria, he saw the team down and hopeless with Okocha doing his thing, Oliseh begged to come on from the bench and before long sent a long pass that opened the Senegalese defence and Aghahowa scored (elampiro where were you that day)
Omo that moment madness catch me, See as I run, Even watching the highlight now sef I wan dey cry.
If you watch all these good times of Nigerian football, you can see why some of us cant be bothered to watch the current eyesore we have now
That is why he played for European giants of his time like Ajax, Juve and Dortmund not the likes of Fenerbahce, Frankfurt or Bolton
Correct. I have not been following this session since the time football went on break.
tsmith: Since of a sick depraved society. Happens often, quick to parade the women naked..... now tell me who is sick!
The men are also naked. Look well. Moreover, 99% of stripping we see on social media is done to men. Only one woman na, you dey complain. You don complain for men since?