₦airaland Forum

daveP:
Goke7 abeg bury this Homes based talk. It is stale. Since all these wafu and chan and what not tournaments etc, we still never see 1 or two that are good enough to displace players in the current setup. Pls no bring that Sunday Mba talk either. The usage of that angle is stale too.

We see how the NPFL teams are terrible in caf club competitions b2b with some of the best legs in the league having lack of technical and tactical setup over and over.

If they were the ones that played ghana in Abuja that night, the riot for worse pass that one.

Let them show improvements and then go far in the Caf CL and CC and we can start that discussion again. After all, we got Enyeama from there. That's how solid it should be. They should step up.

At least back in the day you can have hope from just reading Complete Sports that a npl club can defeat a Tunisian or sudan or Egyptian side. Now, we can't even boast of any npfl club that can best a congo club in caf cl.


Abeg abeg.

No we can’t and never bury the home based talk if our foreign based players can’t win matches at home. Far from it, we keep using the excuse of how poor our league is to justify the invitation of foreign based players who we keep shifting the time of our matches at home to 5pm or 6pm so they can cope with our weather and still they can’t carry their legs to get us 3 points. It’s a mess but let’s continue to live in denial sha

TheSuperNerd:
Ball playing midfielders.

Uche is one. Akinsanmiro is another. Nwakali in EFL League one is another but let's forget him.

The first 2 are ball playing midfielders who will do a good job, I am convinced but no... we keep snubbing this "conundrum" coach after coach nd after coach.

Even Eguavoen mentioned this when he failed to bear Rwanda at home and also knew this when we failed against Ghana. My problem is that they know but still don't get proactive on the solution.

Am sick of all these using stats in Europe to select players that will face African based players wey we no know their stats. We need to be more talent wise in our approach to selection. How can we be struggling to beat Rwanda and Zimbabwe at home just how?

Odunayaw:
Where this gets problematic is you make the only other option to be that home based stars will whip teams. That is false.

Make I even see what you regard as criteria. Pray tell

This conversation will continue for as long as we continue to struggle against teams except we want to chicken out by saying there are no longer minnows in African football which is a big lie. I will prefer home based eagles being beaten by fellow African teams than parading two APOTYs and other big names in Europe falling like a pack of cards.

TheGoodJoe:

I can't be critical of Lookman because he is adapting to a totally different role and it does not give him enough liberty to express himself offensively.

Let us give the manager some few games because it is really a tough demand on the players. He is also getting to know the players too.

We keep experimenting in crucial games and we think our football will develop. For every World Cup missed represents a big set back in our football. We will never use friendlies to experiment but crucial games where we need maximum points, we well so?

mrwilliams9:
I know we are frustrated with that result, but some of my permutations now that things have settled.

1. The talk of Uyo being cursed doesn’t really hold weight to me. We had enough chances to finish this match off in the first 45 mins. If we really think Lagos should be our main stadium, then it behooves the NFF to rehabilitate it and bring it up to FIFA standards.

2. We really need to scout for a ball playing midfielder that can take the pressure out of games in the end. Kill the tempo and secure points.

3. I don’t think FIFA will deduct the 3pts from SA for fielding an ineligible player. I think Motsepe will do some behind door politicking. Regardless, our players need to focus on winning out and giving themselves a chance, no matter how slim that chance is.

4. We should push on with Chelle through AFCON and beyond. This constant chopping and changing of managers does no one any good. WCQ will have finished by the time AFCON comes around. Barring an early exit, he should be given time to develop a system and pattern of play for AFCON 25 and 27.

That lack of ball playing midfielders or players has been our bane, reason I will never fancy tikitaka which we keep forcing down on our team. If we were more direct today we would have secured the 3 points

Odunayaw:
There is no over dependence. Leave this stale dichotomy of foreign and home based.

Ismail & Ihefu fc are recent examples of not being up to scratch.

It is enough to critic players without the unnecessary dichotomy of foreign or local

Bro if our foreign based stars can’t whip African teams even at home what are we inviting them for, we need to set criteria for success instead of dashing places in the national team based on what they do in Europe.

Bazkanova:
The NPFL is a joke. If our foreign-based players are 'overrated,' our local-based players are twice as overrated.
The biggest problem facing Nigerian football is its incompetent administration.

How competent are other African FAs? The issue is more with the kind of players we are featuring these days who can’t risk it all for the national team. How many players can risk that diving header by osihmen

9JAMac10:
Rip the big boss Stephen keshi. Even with all the odds stacked against him. He won the nations cup and qualified for the World Cup with a majority home based team. Guys until we go back to the drawing board we may not even qualify for the 2030 World Cup

He’s was the only coach who understood what it takes to put on the GWG. He went for players who had zeal and ready to risk all for the team. He went for brawn over skill and got tremendous results. He was castigated for his selections but got the job done. Even with the home based eagles he soared. African football is power and resilience not all these social media skits.

It’s high time we review this over dependence on foreign based players, it’s not working 100% for us. Zeal and commitment always comes back to hunt us. We can’t continue to see our foreign based stars struggle against home based African teams. It’s becoming a thing of mockery, something is wrong somewhere abeg

Well done super eagles you’ve tried your best.

Let’s just focus on Afcon now. Take it easy guys

9JAMac10:
No Osimhen no Nigeria.

Honestly what can we do without this guy

Joebie:
I wasn't expecting SA to slip to Benin. Maybe the slip I saw had to do with the deduction of 3 points. For now we just have to win even if na 1-0.

I hope the euphoria of the possibility of a 3-point deduction has not cast a spell on this match

toluxe0075:
Even if it’s 1-0, I’ll manage it. Ejor

half goal sef if it will give us 3 points

Odunayaw:
Rwanda scores.

Iku de

double wahala, this group tie wrapper no be small

TheSuperNerd:
While we look for our goal, SA has taken the lead vs Benin.

Rwanda also leads vs Lesotho.

If no show here, we may as well say a final goodbye to the World Cup. Still praying for something to change

Boys, you can do this. take your destiny into your own hands

My hope is that the Zimbabweans would probably tire out in the second half; they did too much to keep our guys from scoring in the first half

TheSuperNerd:
About time Chelle bins this 442 diamond rubbish vs the Zimbabweans. It worked against Rwanda but everyday isn't 442 diamond Christmas.

We just wasted 45mins experimenting against a side drilled in movements and positioning. We have created but not so much. Osimhen and Chukwueze probably came the closest to scoring.

And Ndidi. What a horrendous half. God! Chelle get serious please and make this a 3 man midfield and let Lookman and Simon/Chukwueze play closer to Osimhen, more like a 4-3-2-1 Pyramid.

Let the fullbacks stretch the plays if needed in tandem with the wing forwards operating between the half spaces and wing channels.

That first half was so low in intensity. Chelle better be giving them hair dryer treatment at half time.

We just must win, I hope the players themselves can disobey the coach small and push forward. Our midfielders were too in a hurry linking with the attack

Joebie:
Chelle does not have the best personnel for this formation in the middle. But I expect him to switch things up. I want to see are forwards our once click and combine together. Not too impressed we the passes to the forwards.

I don't just want to talk. You see, this tikitaka we want Chelle to do, I hope it will not ruin us. We just need to win, later we can switch formation and experiment

Samueltemi337:
Calm down
We are winning this match

I agree we will win

Truidstarr:
Too many rushed passes. Lookman and Simon should switch positions.

I thought I was the only one who noticed. Hope we see improvement in the second half

our midfielders need a little patience

Odunayaw:
Recoveries has been top notch

Yeah, we just need to connect midfield to the attack more

We need to slow the transition from the midfield to attack

Mujtahida:
I dey get draw vibes oo

back to sender, goals are coming

We may need to slow down the game

BankyGee:
2 hours, 52 minutes go go 🦅🇳🇬

Can we focus on the match, enough of yellow cards wahala

minfelix:
South africans are coming with counter attack ooo🤣🤣🤣🤣…we will all confuse ourselves before the match this evening today🤣

Reason I want us win our match today first then by tomorrow morning we can fire on with this yellow card issue. I know our players they can easily be distracted. This was how siasia missed out on Afcon qualification looking for more goals when a draw would have seen us through, he and team had the wrong info. Let’s make our team win today’s match abeg. These players are always on their phones!

daveP:
I've been Hammering on this ineptitude and incompetence for a while now. They probably feel they're just there to spend dollars, arrange meetings and matches without carrying the handbook, while also being terrible at appointments. They need close marking in the media so they can sit up. This is the most comfortable NFF set ever as regards administration. Nobody dey mark them.

We have never been too good when it comes to using off the pitch moves to advance our cause in the game. Look at the Libya game but for our captain Ekong and his social media awareness nff won’t have taken up that matter to CAF

mekabuachi:
This out group get too much drama
SA Will definitely hate Nigeria more 😂

I fear for our match in SA! It will be a bitter one for our hosts!

jedisco:
The whole system is becoming commoditised and with a more interconnected world, falling birth rates and remote working, labour would increasingly become more transferable. This has its pros and cons. It's for each to understand they're not here on account of a diversity visa.


My main grouse with the fees is how it goes on to affect attainment in many migrant communities. It's tough enough surviving but then after having paid all these fees, its an uphill task to start living and building wealth for many. What's driving most of the Torygraph articles is first hate and then the realisation what the otherside might look like. Most of these outcomes are quite stark when you look at most health or wealth data. Only a small cohort of Asians have been able to break the jinx.

What can they attain after a family of five or six would have spent like 20k on ilr, this is what will even make so many settle to remain on benefits and the same system or govt will start grumbling again about people relying so much on welfare. You can take so much from people and not expect them not get so much back. The whole thing does not encourage productivity in the long run. It’s a mess.

jedisco:
Hehe.. I knew this would come up.

For starters, I can guess what you're thinking, no be 9ja be dis. The first thing you do when you come into the UK is understand the system you work in. First, what is your understanding of someone not being fit for work. Then secondly, what is your understanding of the benefit system?
As a medic, you soon learn your job is not to be a fit note police -been there, done that, na you go tire that is if you no enter wahala.

Look widely, there are children wards where not uncommonly upto 1 in 5 kids admitted on an average day are not there because they have a physical health issues but because of mental health related issues i.e they are not eating, took paracetamol overdose, self-harming e.t.c. What would you do if you encounter such kids who would ultimately grow to become adults? You support them. In this country, hospitals would pay 4 people to sit all day and only be brought into action if a child refuses to eat. Abi is it the one of a hospital building a house for someone so the person could get off the ward. Or those that have called out an ambulance visit them over 200 times in a few months cos they keep threatening to kill themselves. Outside health, what happens when you see folks looting a store- do you start boxing them? Even the grocery chains sack their staff who accost thieves. If you have not worked in public facing roles, then there's the part of British life that'd take a while to understand.


It has nothing to do with inate strength. Some of the things you see as work, others see as suffer. If you have the system you have here anywhere, it would get abused overtime. The govt knows what to do to make it sustainable but again, this is Britain.
A colleague of mine completed a work assessment for someone in Canada, chap had lost part of a limb in a freak work accident. Their DWP equivalent callen the chap in for an assessment and afterwards told him to go and be a motivational speaker - him self weak for the guy. Here, outcome would be different. If you want a free for all, you get a free for all. Benefits are there as an essential safetynet. It maintains human dignity in a society but everything has a cost.

😂 I remember sometime at work just because I mentioned how I felt about someone raising their voice at me, omo na so dem tell me make I go on sick leave ( like two weeks), they even went to approve it without my asking, I had to beg them that I was fine and no need! So doc I understand where you’re coming from 😂 e get as e be!