₦airaland Forum

Movic1:
That's exactly what i meant by southern unity that many fails to understand. Unite to achieve a common goal,then go your separate ways after the achievement.

tobimillar:
Enu awon omo yiibo yen ko da rara... abi kini itunmo "Lagos is a no man's land"? Haven said that, awa na gege bi omo yoruba, we should be diplomatic. We should support them wholeheartedly to have their biafra, and as soon as they do, Lagos becomes a foreign land that they will require visa to come to... I still wonder why 95% of Nairalander Yoruba's are against biafra. If they can fight for their biafra, and have it, automatically yoruba becomes an independent Nation too. I wish yoruba can ronu jinle

Icon4s:
There is another Fifa window arnd 3rd of June. The NFF should b able to arrange a friendly for the full U23 team. Full bc that would have been d week we were supposed to play Chad. So no match for d Super Eagles. We should maximise that chance to test d team we want to present in Rio.

I wish we can play 2 high profile friendlies in Europe using that window. Wont b bad if we test our might against U23 sides of Spain and/or Germany.

joseph1013:
LOL. thegoodjoe and forgiveness are a match made in heaven.

TheGoodJoe:

Read slowly.

Over the past season, under Pep Guardiola, Müller has often played as the lone striker

In the game Brazil played Uruguay recently, Neymar played as a lone striker.

I have not seen Victor Moses play as a lone striker. So how do you expect Coach Siasia to do such in a crucial game.

TheGoodJoe:

Is it because they wrote Stoke City striker. We know the strikers of Stoke over the years. Crouch, Walters, Osaze, Biram Diouf.

All these guys will get a nod upfront before Moses.

So it is a guy you saw once when he was in Wigan,you want Coach Siasia to play upfront and lob balls too. You would have preferred Coach Siasia building the team with limited accurate crossers to feed V. Moses against those Egyptian defenders.

I did not approve Coach Siasia's approach to the game but I knew what he was up against. He doubled up on the attack with Aminu and Ighalo, hoping to out muscle the defence of Egypt.

Coach Siasia also hoped he could penetrate with the pace of Musa, Moses and Aminu.

Unfortunately, Hector Cuper prepared his side for our direct play.

I can not heap blames on Coach Siasia because of the short time to prepare. A creative approach would have been better but we should give the man a break. He got us playing good Football. Something we are not used to.

Icon4s:
You can see that the team will not be for mediocre players.

I hope mediocrity will nt be tolerated. And Siasia should not apply sentiments in the invitation of players. Let only the best and nothing but the best make it to Rio.

I envisage a very controversial final 18-man list. Which may be made up of 15 U23 and 3 Over-aged players. Many "big" U23 names will be dropped.

Icon4s:
Well, I can't tell. Just for us to pray that God should put confusion in the camp of our enemies (The Pharaohs)

TheGoodJoe:

You just saw an article showing that Muller played as a striker in games for Guardiola and your writing wiki story. Does the wiki story change the fact that Muller plays as a striker in games for Bayern?

Now show me a link saying Moses played a lead striking role in the EPL.

Are you saying Coach Siasia should have considered Moses for the striking role ahead of Ighalo, Aminu, Iheanacho etc?

TheGoodJoe:

In the match against Egypt, We had Iheanacho and Ighalo upfront. After the changes, we had Ighalo and Aminu.

In the second leg, Ighalo and Aminu. Victor Moses was not an attacker in the game. So he was no threat to the central defenders of Egypt.

Victor Moses was not the target of the longest balls and he would have been a crosser if we were using wing crossing, not the target.

TheGoodJoe:


Thomas Müller
Position:Striker

http://www.goal.com/en-ng/people/germany/21854/thomas-m%C3%BCller

Over the past season, under Pep Guardiola, Müller has often played as the lone striker

http://worldsoccertalk.com/2015/09/21/thomas-muller-is-the-underrated-player-of-this-generation/

TheGoodJoe:

I am impressed, I did not know Moses had such a great leap. Nice post. Unfortunately, Moses is not a striker, so he posed no threat to the Egyptian defenders. But, I must say, he has a great leap and gets to a great height for a smallish man.

TheGoodJoe:
Klose for you viewing pleasure.

TheGoodJoe:


You do not even understand what you are saying. When you talked of Bayern coming back with crosses, were they crossing the balls to D. Costa and Alaba?

Most crosses go to the attackers. When we are talking of Coach Siasia opting for using the long thrust to Ighalo, were we talking of long balls to Moses?

Moses does not even have the height to cause trouble with his heads. When we talk of aerial threats of the pass, we talk of Klinsmann, Bierhoff, Agali, Kluivert.

Today one good example is Olivier Giroud. Frightening. That is one true aerial threat. Imagine Moses challenging Giroud for an aerial ball.

TheGoodJoe:


Coach Siasia took some he was familiar with and the some who played recently for Coach Oliseh.

TheGoodJoe:


He scored one, he scored one, is that aerial threat? If you bring those Egyptian defenders and our midfielders lob the ball from midfield to Moses upfront,

In ten times, how many times will Victor Moses beat the Egyptians to the ball..