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TheGoodJoe:
That is where the gulf in class comes from. The intensity from De Bruyne is on another level.

In that case,the skill level of Zidane compared to De Bruyne is on another level, that is where the Gulf in class comes from
You've always argued for De Bruyne with effectiveness, now a name has been thrown up that matches or even surpass him in effectiveness, you're shifting goal post

Baba please stop changing metrics to protect a position ... Na komekn way be that and we don leave am, na only newbies here fit dey follow am drag topic, make we no add you.

TheGoodJoe:

I repeat, history remembers more those that dominate. Most times, it titles towards the possessive game. Even Samba Brazil has that possessive flair.

In recent years, tactical growth has come from the tiki Taka offsprings.

This is a fact, not stating.

Baba... This your assertion is not true, history actually remembers only those that win.

History remembers who wins and not who dominates.
Chelsea won the champions League in 2012, playing what you would call haram football, in the year 2050, if an 18 year old refers to the history books what he will learn is that Chelsea were champions of Europe in 2012, in 2050 nobody will care ( except academicians) who had 82% possession in the 2012 champions League semifinals.
What people will remember as long as the world exists is that Chelsea won it in 2012... Finito.

Baba in this life, just make sure you win, when all is said and done, history will remember you as a winner, beautiful or not very few will care.

I say again, history remembers who wins, how you won is always secondary.

Ọmọ!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Nomyth:
Eze misses out of the English squad as does Tomori and Abraham.

They never learn

komekn:
Rabui is 33 and has been able to rise beyond youthful expectations and has really spent most of his time in the backwaters league of Europe in obscurity.

This one doesn't even know who Rabiu Ali is

Oga scout

komekn:
Your shameless bigoted double standard and hypocrisy is astonishing.

Chris Smalling last played for England in 2017 when he was in the EPL , he went to Roma in 2019/20 .

Last season he played 32 games in Seria A and was their most outstanding CB.

Fikayo Tomori has played 20 games this season for AC Milan. You claim I don't watch football and essentially have no Idea. It seems you didn't know that Fikayo suffered a hamstring injury in December last year, Dr 2 KNOW.

He has missed 8 games on account of injury not a loss of form.

Why do you like to tell barefaced Lies.

You have no shame 🙈🙈

Woah!!
This is a beautiful, beautiful take, so injuries can actually affect a player's playing time... A player can miss several games in a season and still be regarded as doing "exploits" wonderful!!

I hope you'll remember this when you judge Osimhen for not scoring 1 million goals with consistent consecutive alacrity consistency.

I hope you'll remember all these beautiful screenshots when you refer to Osimhen as essentially a "one season Wonder" soon.

When you remember Osimhen has scored only 11 serie A goals this season, I hope you'll remember that he did it in 17 games so far.. because he was *injured* !!!

komekn:
Let me quote myself;

Do you think an England manager will select proven and tested forward players who have been consistently outstanding over several seasons in the EPL. Against a player who has had one break out season in Seria A.



Let's be specific Gareth Southgate and what's the qualifying attribute proven tested consistently outstanding in the EPL.

You get way too emotive nobody and biased. You may think that Seria A is the best league in Europe but I don't think Southgate thinks so. That's why Tomori and Smalling irrespective of their exploits in Seria A are not getting invited.

There are probably three slots for strikers Kane, Ollie & Ivan. Rashford gets in possibly but not certain because he can play wing.

Maybe 🤔 if VO had played in the EPL over several seasons and been outstanding then he might be in the squad. But knowing Southgate squad selection pattern, he will not get in IMO.

Finally, we are talking about my preferences but making projections about Southgate selection into the England squad.

One last time.... You actually don't watch football.

If you do you'll know Fikayo Tomori is no longer a guaranteed starter at AC Milan.

And Chris Smalling? How many times has that one gotten into a Roma team sheet this season?

If these players had Nigerian passports you'll call them bench warmers.
But of course, English men do exploits wether on the bench or on the pitch
Anywhere they find themselves.... Na exploit and consistent outstanding qualitative quality.

But of course, you wouldn't know; because you don't watch football, you're not involved in football outside of Wikipedia and a love for England, your "fruits" is proof.

typicalgamer:
I don’t agree with solanke rating
But rashford is not a traditional but if we want to go there rashford is far better than osimenh not current form rashford o make una no wound me

Ollie Watkins I’ll pick ahead of osimenh because Watkins has been on a steady growth path since 2021 and he’s shown himself in the best league in the world, if Watkins had osimenh body and physicality it’s over for everyone.
Toney and solanke should go and eat poop

Even you would select Watkins ahead of Osimhen , the Watkins that plays for Aston villa o?
And Rashford ahead of Osimhen as a number 9?

It is over!
Abeg I no get strength for this kin talk... e no fit get head.
Make I leave una... It is well
I rest

komekn:
Get things in perspective.

Scoring goals in Seria A is not the same as scoring in the EPL. Seria A is ranked 3 in Europe currently but that rating will be lost . No Seria A team for to the quarter finals of the Champions League. That tells you something.

Do you think an England manager will select proven and tested forward players who have been consistently outstanding over several seasons in the EPL. Against a player who has had one break out season in Seria A.

England no sentiment on current performances do you think IvanToney, Ollie Watkins, Solanke, Rashford, will be dropped for VO.

Omo!
So Solanke, Ivan Toney, Ollie Watkins and Rashford are better strikers than the reigning African footballer of the year?
This is disrespectful not just to Osimhen, but the entire African continent.

As in ... As a coach you would select Solanke ahead of Osimhen? Really?
Even Solanke would not select himself!

Jesus! Does this guy even watch football?
Remind me... Last season's champions League final was between Man city and which team again? And from which league?, the last Europa League final was between Sevilla and which team, from which league?
What about the conference league final?

Insane! Just insane

And someone who claims to be a football "insider" will look at this Porto team and claim with his full chest that Fulham is better!

Just because a certain Zaidu Sanusi gets in the team.

Ọmọ!

At this stage of the Afcon all the teams have been training together for close to a month; that means the football is now almost like club football.
The team with the best players will win at this stage 8 out of 10 times barring unfortunate events like red cards and injuries to key players. That is why all the "underdogs" doing initial gra gra have been eliminated.

Do a South Africa/ Nigeria combined Eleven... Only the south African goal keeper will probably get in the team; we have the better players hands down, training together for almost a month! South Africa will need a miracle to drag us into penalty shoot outs which is a lottery.... That's the only way they stand a chance of winning.

If Nigeria wins this tournament, some people here will still complain that we didn't win it "properly"

Many here including me wrote off this team, but here they are in the semifinals, complaints still full everywhere .
Na wa

If Nigeria wins this tournament, some people here will still complain that we didn't win "properly"

Many here including me wrote off this team, but here they are in the semifinals, complaints still full everywhere
Na wa

TheSuperNerd:
I greet this house in the name of the Lord.

I am late and I am sorry. But I am here and what a weekend it is for Nigeria.

Peseiro, who I don't rate, has produced the best defensive setup I have ever seen the Super Eagles execute in the last couple of years. Kudos to him.

Aaah
Finally!
Welcome back the good Doctor @ bolded.. that right there is just an example of what sets you apart from a particular "Mr" here who never admits to anything.

This space just got more exciting.

Please guys it's match day,
Stop engaging komekn!
Abeg ... I've read the guy's takes here for at least 5 years now, he's best left alone to his "Anglo-Nigerian players" delusions.
Logic is alien to him, it won't fly .

And anyone who still believes komekn has anything to do with football outside of this forum, talk less of being a football scout is simply buying into his grand delusions

I mean .....what manner of football scout watched Nigeria vs EQG and say Alhassan Yussuf didn't impress? Just how?
Where did he learn his own scouting? Who employed such incompetence?

Back to match analysis people!

safarigirl:
Good evening guys, make I no too talk about our forwards first, what did you guys think about Nwabali between the sticks for us?

He looked calm, claimed crosses well, used his legs well too.
He didn't have much to do, faced one shot all game, which he could do very little about.
So I can't really place him anywhere yet.

Amedino99:
back then the league was strong but I believe that currently, if you transfer mamelodi sundowns to the npfl, they will repeat this feat. We have always been complaining about the quality of the league. Apart from sunshine stars that reached the semi finals of the champions league many years ago, when last has a Nigerian club performed even moderately in the continent. We struggle to qualify for the CAF champions league group stage and even if we qualify we rarely make it to the quarter final stage. The quality of football in the npfl is too low that the only way mamelodi sundowns won't be able to recreate something like this is bad officiating.

I also think another problem with the Nigerian league that people hardly pay attention to is fatigue occasioned by teams having to travel long distances on our bad roads to play away matches.... Imagine if shooting stars is to play Doma United, they will have to travel almost 20hrs ( that's assuming a smooth journey) by road to the match venue, and arrive a few hours to the match! That's a huge advantage for the home team already! So the best the away team can hope for is a draw.
One of the reasons why away wins are scarce in the league asides poor officiating

Hence it becomes difficult for a team to dominate the table with several points, regardless of quality

A certain Abdullahi Yusuf scored 5 goals for Kano pillars against Gombe Utd today... Isn't that some sort of record in the Nigerian league ?
Cc::BascoVanveli

This thing is just for photo ops or content, there's no intercourse going on as those photos would have you believe, y'all talking like you've never had sex before... Sex inside swimming is impossible or very painful at best.
For sexual intercourse to take place, lubrication is essential, now water is not a lubricant, matter of fact water will wash away any available natural lubricant making the sex nigh impossible or extremely dry

Emma513:
DO THINK EVERYONE IS RIGGER AND FORGER LIKE YOUR MASTER. WAIT TIME IS COMING...

Lol
I normally do not respond to quotes like this; but just so you know.. No be everybody dey this una "master" / "follower" thing.

To some of us: Peter Obi, Bola Tinubu, Atiku Abubakar are thieves of different shades cut from the same cloth, all blinded by personal/selfish ambition.

It's just that one is a small thief, the other a devil, yet another a big thief.

Ceejay94:
And you believed Inec result?

This is not a question of believe... I mean you and person play football , the person beat you 15:0 you say na ojoro
Reason am na.

What exactly will you prove in court?

zuchyblink:
Among Berti Vogts, Lars Lagerback, and Jose Peseiro, who is the worst coach ever to coach the Super Eagles?

Peseiro is the worst!
See Nigeria dragging 1 point with Zimbabwe and Lèsóthò na....
Zimbabwe wey dey normally collect 3:0 without stress

There's nothing brilliant about that Zimbabwe free kick ... A straight shot from 35yards out, enough time for the average goalkeeper to adjust his body to the flight of the ball and make an easy save... But no! Uzoho chose to dive!

Any ideas where to stream the match?

The faith of these Labour party candidates pass mustard seed o

You and person play football, the person beat you 15:0 you dey shout ojoro!

The winner of the election scored over 540,000 votes, you scored less than 70k votes, yet you're going to court... To do what exactly?

TheSuperNerd:
What's wrong with this team?

Answer 1: Jose Peseiro

Answer 2: The stubborn insistence on wrong deployment of personnels and also using a formation that absolutely limits the team.

Some in here think I am mad when I say Jpes is a dunce and is even worse than Rohr who was also terrible majorly in his final 2.5yrs as coach.

With Jpes, Nigeria at the Afcon won't do much. We would just compete and complete the numbers. We aren't getting close to that trophy UNLESS HE FIXES OUR MIDFIELD AND SCRAPS THIS STUPID 442/424 NONSENSE (since he cannot even deploy the right personnel to execute the 442 properly).


We just gave 153rd-ranked Lesotho a point in UYOooo. Kaaaaiiii... a shame that some will still come to Jpes' defence.

It is atrocious how a professional football coach will invite just four midfielders to prosecute 2 matches, and of the four midfielders,; one is AM, two are midfield work horses not even proper Dms, the other (a k a Aribo) is an inactive undefined midfielder...

How for f**ck's sake does he expect the team to function?

Ok... Let's manage what you've invited; play a 4-2-2-2 with Iwobi and Onyeka at the base, Iheanacho and lookman centrally behind Boniface and Awóníyì....
But no! The madman will play a nonsense 424 where everyone is running around like headless chickens with no control.

Who do us like this

komekn:
How many times have Nigerian players and African players been caught for age cheating ❓

Age cheating is a national and continental culture, because there is no automatic birth data capture. So you rely entirely on the integrity of the individual.

We are in a country with no INTEGRITY at the highest levels 🎚️. That's essentially stupidity.

We have kangaroo 🦘 court that ratified a criminal convict, certificate forgerer, money laundering, lD Thief who cannot remember the primary and secondary school he attended and nobody knows his age, as President of Nigeria 🇳🇬.

Early this year I was in Lagos at a U14 international football ⚽ tournament PSG was in that tournament. The PSG back three defenders were all over 6ft and built like boxers. They were all born in Paris and of Senegalese and Mali descent one of the tallest tribes in Africa 🌍.

We created the widespread reckless age cheating and that means precedent. Thankfully that has been reduced dramatically by MRI scans to a reasonable level.

You lots just throw around allegations you cannot prove in any court just to demarket Nigeria for whatever reason...

I won the election, question :by how many votes did you win, how many was illegally deducted from you and where? How many was illegally added to the other person's votes? You cannot say or you do not know, yet you won, the election was rigged!

He forged certificate...
CSU... He attended out school and graduated with honors! Our certificate is ceremonial.
You: But he forged it, therefore he's a certificate forger whether he attended the school and graduated is immaterial!

He's a convicted drug baron...
Ok, in which jail did he serve his sentence... It doesn't matter if he was jailed or not!

Abeg stick to football

Joebie:
Wetin u talk about Obidient movement?

In the Obidient movement Logic is forbidden!
Obidient rule 1 to 10
Thou shall not be logical!

komekn:
Statistics are indicative and not conclusive.

For instance the Scottish Premier League is rated 9 in Europe. But it's nowhere as good as the Championship in reality. Take out Celtic and maybe Rangers and they are on the level of English league one or two debatable.

Where would you rather be playing for Leicester city, Southampton and or Leeds United as opposed to playing for Hibernian in the Scottish Premier League

Players follow the money and the money follows the quality players.

Look at the average be weekly wage of Chavez FC it's £1.5k a week in Leicester city it is £50k a week , even the bottom team in the Championship Sheffield Wednesday it's £10k a week.

That in itself should tell you the story of the bottom half quality of the Portuguese league.

Nwakali has left Ponferradina a near bankrupt Segunda division club paying peanuts to go to a supposed higher club , league yes but club debatable. To earn even less than what he was getting before from peanut 🥜 to crumbs 😑.

But the club he has gone to has less quality than Ponferradina seemingly.

Lol You and all these your mathematical equivalents bottom half of laliga equals championship or English league 1 etc. Only you know how you arrive at these equivalents
Statics is only indicative and not conclusive until someone brings up Iheanacho... Then you'll remember he has scored (stat) only 1 goal in 1million appearances... Statistics is indicative not conclusive until you want to conclusively Judge Nwakali by his wages (statistics) which according to you might even be less than 100 Euros a week... [center][/center]
And just so that you can run Nwakali down, Ponferradina a club in the Spanish third tier is now "seemingly" better than chaves in the Portuguese top tier?
How person take dey argue these things
Abeg... I give up

Sometimes I struggle to make sense of some sentiments here.. it's like the ideology of the "Obidient" movement all logic is useless.
This Nwakali guy played in one of the poorest/the poorest team in la Liga 2 last season.
That team got relegated... from that very poor team, Nwakali got a move to a team in the Portuguese top tier (for context the 6th best league in Europe)!
Yet people assert he hasn't made any progress... Were they expecting him to move to Real Madrid or Bayern?
Make it make sense

The English u21 team made it to the final of the under 21 Euros and goal.com wrote an article about the last English u21 team that made it to the final 14 years ago.
Surprisingly more than half of the team have already retired, mostly in their early 30s (31-34 years) .

But our "Expert" in English football will come here to tell us only Nigerians retire early because we are all age cheats