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MRTA7:
Exactly, nothing to be said for the poor quality of the chances created just that a chance has been created. The worst way to watch football is with numbers.

eph12:
Hmmm seems our idea of what creating chances or playing really well means are totally different. That's where the issue is, no wahala

eph12:
This is not true

eph12:
Elampiro I did like to hear your thoughts on Auba. Has he improved arsenal?

patrickmuf:
Ashley Young had Sanchez who was drifted infield almost every time, he had even more space to run into...
Shaw had Rashford so, his forays were restricted yet he was almost always in the Palace half swooping danger and making sure we had one more body to play through on the left.

patrickmuf:
Alas, stats has killed objective football analysis...

patrickmuf:
Against Chelsea we lacked the width that comes with natural fullbacks.
Every top teams has a full back who bombs forward to deliver crosses, create channels to evade congested Midfield or press.
At Bayern, you have Alaba and Kimmich
At Juventus, Alex Sandro
At Barcelona, Alba and Roberto
At City, Zichenko and Walker
At Pool, Robertson and Clyne before his injury woes
At Chelsea, Alonso
At Spurs, Ben Davies and Aurier.

They all press high up the pitch, serve as channels to open up the play and contribute in delivering crosses.
The mistake you are making especially as it concern Valencia is looking at crosses/chances created and ignoring all the other parameters.

patrickmuf:
We are not complaining just because we want more crosses into the box, the role of a fullback when you play with two inverted wingers goes way beyond putting crosses into the box, they help in retaining possession by creating a channel for the midfielders out wide, they also complement the pressing done by the forwards.
During the game, each time the midfielders looked out wide especially when the center was crowded out, Valencia was close to the center of the pitch as was Young except in one or two scenarios where he wasn't utilized prolly because the lads got fed up that he kept on losing possession. The commentators were also very vocal in their assertion that we needed more width to breakdown Palace and it's no surprise that it changed with Rashford, Shaw and a Lingard who was surprisingly more in sync with our midfielders than Valencia.
Val tho should continue on the right against Liverpool but Shaw has to be trusted by Mou against Salah who is definitely gonna leave Young for dead with his pace.

chidexxy007:
Really?
ok, goodnight.

patrickmuf:
Elampiro, shouldn't our full backs be more adventurous when we are playing a 3 man midfield especially with 2 of the 3 being more defensively conscious I.e. Matic and McTonimay?
Let's take Madrid for an instance, at Madrid, with Casmeiro and Kross, Marcelo and Carvajal are licensed to join the attack at every chance because of the midfield cover, when is it different here, quite simply put, the personnel or probably the methods.
With Rashford and Mata on, if your theory held sway, our full backs should have been more cautious since we had Rashford on the left, Sanchez through the middle, Mata on the right and Pogba joining the attack often but no, we saw our fullbacks higher up the pitch even when they were expected to be a tad cautious and that resulted in us recovering the ball quicker in more dangerous positions.
The obvious difference is the change in personnel manning the fullback positions in question and not the fact we were couple of goal down cos with Young and Val we were a goal down and at later two goals down but not much changed (don't mention Valencia's assist cos we went up the pitch for a corner and not necessarily because he forayed forward).

chidexxy007:
Oga, no need for the back and forth. He made a good assist which i praised but those passes seemed misplaced because Val's position as a RB when his team were attacking was poor. Maybe i missed something, which of his crosses in this game did they waste biko.
JM saw his full backs were very very poor and changed them suddenly the team started playing better and pressing from the front..
Elampiro, was that a coincidence?

chidexxy007:
Mou changed to a 3 at the back system. @bolded, quite true, no be small headache i get because of Val and Young today.. how will a right back in modern football be positioned same line with his CBs or even back when his team is attacking knowing fully well that there wasnt any winger in front of him, good cross though for the first goal but we seriously need modern fullbacks.
I guess Elamps meant Young picked up better attacking positions than Val but his defending was diabolical to say the least.

Good win tonight though, better coming from 2goals down.

patrickmuf:
The truth is Valencia didn't give them a chance with his positioning and I didn't in anyway mean that Lingard is better at RB, he just interpreted the role better with his positioning for the pass each time the midfielders had the ball.

It is criminal for a full back to be pegged on the same line with the CBs, at least not when you're chasing a game.

patrickmuf:
It isn't rocket science that we looked much more comfortable with Shaw on the left and Lingard at RB.
To be honest a lot of those passes from Pogba and Sanchez into the channel on the right that seemed like misplaced passes where only so due to the fact that Valencia wasn't adventurous enough, it was almost the same scenario on the left where Young who Elampiro thinks was our only attacking outlet in the first half, was atrocious today.
At some point, the players began ignoring Young even when he was in good position because he had killed enough attacks.
Against teams like Palace, we should be more daring and even though we triumphed today, we may not always be this lucky.
We need to set out to kill rather than contain.

Forceup:
No, I will pass..

The North doesn't know how to cook... The only thing I could eat there is Kilishi and Suya..

Only Igbo, Cross River, Uyo and a few Yoruba women knows what a good meal is...

crazysaint:






Very foolish man


But the most annoying part is, the lady says she's still in love with her husband, that she wont hesitate to marry the man Again, infact she's praying for that to happen!

Am afraid, one day you will sleep never to wake up again.

freeze001:
She still wants to remain married to that beast and that's just the sad part.

baralatie:
Nigeria’s total domestic and foreign debt stocks as at June 30 stood at about $15.1 billion and N14.1 trillion respectively, the National Bureau of Statistics said on Tuesday.
A review of the total foreign debt profile of the Federal and the 36 states governments and the FCT also shows a continuous rise since the coming of the present administration, from $10.718 billion in 2015, to $11.406 billion in 2016 and $15.047 billion in 2017.
Out of the current total figure of $15.047 billion, the Federal Government accounts for $11.106 billion, or about 74 per cent, while the 36 states of the federation and the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Abuja owe about $3.94 billion, or 26 per cent.
The Federal and State government shares of the debt stock grew from $7.349 billion and $3.369 billion in 2015, to $7.84 billion and $3.568 billion in 2016, and $3.94 billion and $11.106 billion in 2017 respectively.
The NBS gave further disaggregation of the country’s foreign debt to include $9.67billion as multilateral debt; $218.25million as bilateral (AFD) and $5.15billion from the Exim Bank of China credit to the Federal Government.
Details of the debt figures show that the domestic debts figures of the 36 states of the federation and the FCT have continued to grow since 2015 under the present administration.
From about N2.503 trillion in 2015, the NBS data showed the figure rose to N2.959 trillion in 2016 before reaching the latest point of N3.001 trillion in 2017.
According to the statistics agency, out of the total N14.017 trillion national debt stock, the Federal Government accounts for about N11.058 trillion, or 78.66 per cent, against about N2.959 trillion, or 21.34 per cent by all the states and the FCT.
Further breakdown of the Federal Government domestic debt stock by instruments show that about N7.56 trillion, or 68.41 per cent were in bonds; N3.28 trillion, or 29.64 per cent in treasury bills, while N215.99 million, or 1.95 per cent went into treasury bonds.
Although the NBS did not provide the Federal Government domestic debt figures for 2015, figures obtained from the Debt Management Office, DMO, website on Tuesday showed that total domestic debt by instruments as at December 2015 stood at N8.836 trillion.
This consisted Federal Government bonds N5.808 trillion, or 65.73 per cent; Nigerian treasury bills N2.773 trillion, or 31.38 per cent, and treasury bonds of N255.99 billion, or 2.90 per cent.
Among the 36 states and the FCT, Lagos recorded the highest foreign debt profile, accounting for about 37 per cent of the states’ foreign debts, followed by Kaduna (six per cent), Edo (five percent), Cross River (four percent) and Ogun (three percent).
On the domestic front, Lagos State again took the lead, with the highest domestic debt profile among its colleagues and the FCT, accounting for about 10.39 per cent of the total figure, followed by Delta (8.04 per cent), Awa Ibom (5,18 per cent), FCT (5.09 per cent) and Os

dlondonbadboy:
Did you know that in 3years Presidoit momodu Buhary has borrowed over 11trillion? No completed project! No light! No improvement of the lives of Nigerians!!

And the herdsman is about to borrow again?

If you are still supporting Buhari you are a complete goat, complete black goat...

CapitalCee:
Valencia and Young are our major weakness. if we had Alonso and Moses in our team. Valencias useless cross lead to our goal. Pogba is showing his talent but he still looks uninterested

IFearGod:
Is anybody seeing what Evra is playing? The guy still got it; crisp passing, intelligence, and speed.
Bloke would have been a good addition to our squad.