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Maresca is a great coach handed nonsense

And I believe he is deliberately doing one or two to show the eediots Winstanley and Stewart how useless their squad is

What's the difference between Madueke and Iniesta when it comes to going a calendar year with no league goal and assist

The difference is Iniesta was not a substitute or injured like Madueke and played full minutes

Shame on the carryalong!

By the way Garnacho has now cost us 4 points this season by sleeping at the back post from a long throw

First against Brentford and again today

And Maresca will still give him back post marking detail next match

MorataFC:
Which defence are you actually referring to?
When Colwill was injured and Maresca openly complained about the need to sign another centre-back, I was the one who shared that news here. At the time, more than 60 percent of the fanbase here reject the idea. Many explicitly said, “I stand with the board on this,” while others argued that Maresca already had enough defenders at his disposal and should simply make better use of the options available.

Fast forward to now, and the narrative has shifted. This is precisely why the earlier concerns about defensive depth and suitability should not have been dismissed so casually.

He raised the issues about the need to sign an additional defender, but the majority of fans here go against it. Many openly stated, “I stand with the board on this,” implying that the manager should make do with the defensive options already at his disposal .

Maresca had Anselmino, Sarr and Veiga and was making noise.

He should be quiet. Midfield is the beginning and ending of all of our problems and inconsistency. That's what he should be making noise about

Nateevs still hoping for Arsenal to lose so we can chase them in title race

Better put mind on fight for 5th spot with Manure and Newcastle and hope UEFA allow 5 teams into UCL

Only pesin wey no know ball will believe a team with our midfield will compete for league

We have dropped 13 points from winning positions this year. No midfield solidity, no midfield control, just useless wingers everywhere

Enzoooooooooo

airmark:
I don't understand this their fixtures.

I saw in your past post that we would face Algeria. Why should we face a table topper from another group?

In quarter final

First we will face Mozambique in 2nd round

Tanzania have qualified as the fourth best 3rd place team with just 2 draws

Chukwueze is not strong enough for African football

Every attempt at a dribble sees him fall on the floor once the defender steps across him

Dessrs has been begging for opportunity to join a tournament squad for years and has always showed up for every friendly he has been invited to, yet coach won't give him 10 minutes against Uganda. Na this kain human aspect coach need factor to avoid players becoming dispirited.

Osimhen has obviously told Chelle to let him statpad to improve his AFCON record and will rake for him if he is substituted

Onyedika again

rooftops:
I dey feel this dele bashiru o. He is not playing like a typical Nigeria midfielder.

Make this uganda keeper comot now!! You are injured and still trying to force yourself to play

He's a powerful box to box

This coach should bring off Osimhen, Bassey and Onyemeachi to avoid stories that touch

Onyediiiikaaa

BlueRayDick:
My wife was supporting Barca before we got married due because that's the club her brothers support .

She don jump ship join Arsenal since we got married.

Effect of BlueRay dick

What really is wrong with Qatar and UAE, always arming sides in a conflict. Do they not realise their citizen population (in Qatars case) is less than 500k? When somebody finally reason their matter that's when they will know they don't have the population to be a non-pacifist state.

Almost every conflict in Africa or Middle East, I must see Qatar or UAE as one of the main sponsors

https://www.nairaland.com/8589954/saudi-arabia-bombs-uae-ship

airmark:
Neto sold for a Quenda that will arrive next season?

Without Neto and Palmer out for months, we would have drowned into the relegation water with the ineffective '2 Gees' at the LW. Not selling Neto was one of the best decisions by the club this term. Forget the agenda hawkers, Neto has contributed more than all these hyped wingers.

JP plays all wings and these should have been factored in before buying Kittens. At least one proven LW like Semenyo who also plays RW will cover very well with JP, rather than buying 2 gambles on the LW.

GloriousGbola:
You are assuming someone did not cut corners. As ac no dey work, as brand new tire is over 150k, as the bullet proof has never actually been field tested

A bullet proof car can't survive that impact

Bullet proofing is for composites that toughen fibres for small projectile impacts not for catastrophic impacts. It would make little difference

On top of that the car didn't hit head on, allowing the bonnet to absorb and crumple across the width of the car. Na just the side took all the impact and crumpled down one side only. Not even Trump car will survive that.

A40:
The irony is you overspeeding and the person driving normally you can never get there more than 15 minutes earlier

It's actually less

Let's say you are traveling 100km

If you do 100km/HR, you will get there in 1 hour

If you do 110km/HR, you will get there in 54 mins

User09:
Why cant it be both.

Overspeeding can lead to blown tyres

It can be both but one does not cause the other

Tyre wey done wear don wear

Based on our in-house Physicists any car wey blow tyre above 85mph will flip

User09:
Think you may be right about the overspeeding thing.

Just seen pictures of the vehicle; which is even a bullet proof vehicle. Sustaining that kind of impact especially if you consider that the truck that was hit was stationary.

FRSC posts on social media also alludes to overspeeding plus overtaking

Any car hitting that truck at 80km/hr will be totalled

PDPGuy:
Not a chance, because they weren’t his employees on official duties.
But AJ would most likely pay some money to their families as part of his condolences

Actually one of the dead is his coach so there may be some liability here. There should also be some insurance. They would be employed by AJs company which would have insurance for employees on duty. The other guy Abdul Latif (nee Latif Ayodele before conversion to Islam) is also on his team and is an employee

Official report has changed the cause of crash from over speeding to blown tire, reducing the liability on AJ

Kimbeast:
That was Palmer first season and he took the league by surprise. Everyone knows him now and he's getting man marked. He needs to grow up and adapt. The major difference between Palmer first season and 2nd under Maresca was the number of penalties he had. 9 compared to the 4 under Maresca.

The major difference is clearly what Android17 said couple of days ago

Every man and his dog knows Palmer is a better RW than AM, yet the board will keep stacking two RWs and forcing Maresca to use Palmer in AM

Palmer and Estevao was enough for the RW this season, Neto should have been sold especially with Quenda coming

Kimbeast:
You cant really blame the board. For the cm role it's 5 players for 2 position. Caicedo, Essugo, Enzo, lavia and Santos. Unfortunately Santos, Essugo and Lavia have been unavailable for most of the season.

Remove Lavia who doesn't exist and Enzo the stroller

What do you think is the mandate, to get the most out of a £13m Essugo or a £50m Gittens?

Essugo is an afterthought, and quite a poor player

I won't watch Coventry again this season

They have lost the 2 matches I watched, e be like na me dey bring them badluck

raumdeuter:
Plenty dead bodies by roadsides that people are used, Might be victims of road robbery, thieves caught and burnt or even Aboki that fell from a trailer

One time in School an AIESEC exchange student came from Holland, on her way to Lagos, the car passed by a dead body, She screamed and called attention to it and everyone else just dismissed it as just another dead body, She couldn't say a word and was in Shock till she got to Lagos

There was one that took the piss at Lagos Bus Stop in PH in the nineties

Usually bodies are cleared within 3 days but they left this body there for a whole 8 days, I counted every day cos my bus passes there on way back from school. The body was swollen like a whale, we were wondering what is wrong with the authorities

airmark:
How are you guys anxious to view such image? I wouldn't want to see it again.

Nezzjnr:
Why do you need to see the pictures?

We are Nigerians, seeing dead bodies is part of our upbringing, e no dey shock us.

Segedinho:
Just exterday....I was driving at 60's and saw some grass ahead.. I swerved a bit then notice a dead man just few centimetres over d uprooted grass.

I just smile and moved on.....imagine same thing with abroadians??

Gucciboy:
You really believe those stupid agenda ? Gosh the Board is not interested with players selection just results that's why they don't care how maresca has been mismanaging these players even playing them in wrong positions like James despite the fact that seems to work out well.

James is a solution Maresca worked out himself to inject small stability to the midfield

Look what the board demand of him

AMs:
Gittens, Garnacho, Estevao, Neto, Palmer, Buonanote, João Pedro, Tyrique George

That's 8 players for 3 positions

Meanwhile for the CM 3 positions, they only have Caicedo who is reliable, he had to convert James himself to be able to field 3 CMs at times, although James can only play once per week

This is definitely a design of the board. I spoke on this repeatedly in the summer

Ibime:
Are you not already sick and tired of the overbooking in wing positions

Can you name any wingers at Liverpool the EPL Champions aside Salah and Diaz

It's this wingers overbooking feewlishness that Emenalo used to do back then that made us chase away Salah and KDB

Not to mention puts the manager in a tactical hamstring of having to practically play 4-2-4 to accommodate all the wingers while one of the key components of that 2 in midfield is not fit for purpose to carry the workload

I am looking for how to sell Madueke AND Pedro Neto (as well as Nkunku, Sterling, Felix, Mudryk and Carney) WITHOUT ANY FURTHER ADDITION of wingers and we will still be good and overstocked with Gittens. Joao Pedro, Palmer, Estevao and Tyrique

That's 5 wingers for 2 positions, people still dey mention Kudus and Nnwaneri. Utter madness

Ibime:
Anyone who thinks signing million wingers is improving a squad instead of getting the CM right should look at Brighton

Since Brighton went to playing 3 wingers behind the striker (Mitoma, JP and Minteh/Rutter), they have been falling down the table for the last 2 seasons

There is no winger at Brighton who you won't want at Chelsea whether Mitoma. JP or Minteh, yet they keep getting worse because they sacrificed their central midfield/ or a 3rd centreback for more wingers

Even their wingers they sent away or benched (Encisco, Buonanote, Adingra) had them performing better than they are now because their middle was stronger then. Same feewlesh format Chelsea is following, buying more and more wingers and sending away other wingers hoping the next winger will make the key difference, while chasing the law of diminishing returns on wingers

If Encisco, Buonanote and Adingra could achieve better league finishes than João Pedro, Mitoma and Minteh, that should tell you their solution never lay in chasing more wingers.

cc Nateevs

Ibime:
No, Maresca should not be sacked but he should sit up

I can't think of many managers that can find solutions to the tactical straitjacket that Chelsea directors always put him in, with having to accommodate 3 wingers in his starting line-up plus a ghost worker behind them. They already build weakness into the set-up with their transfer policy

izzou:
Very glaring that AJ's vehicle was on a very high speed.

Whether na Nigeria or not, the speed was too much.

May God comfort the families of those who died

It can't be that high a speed especially if it took a hit on the side and the vehicle didn't flip

Nigeria still happened to them, from the careless driver to the parked truck. You would never see a vehicle parked on motorway or expressway in the abroad. They have hard shoulder running alongside the road for cars that breakdown, and laybys for drivers to take a rest every few km, not Naija where someone will just place a stationary vehicle on the side of a high speed road

Segedinho:
Lesson to be learnt in this regrettable AJ's ordeal is u can only oppress others with you "guide" not necessarily enjoy the country called Nigeria.

R.i.p to d dead....quite unfortunate it is their 1st time visiting this mini-hell

They spent last Christmas here as well

raumdeuter:
Will their families sue AJ for the loss of their loved ones

The driver is mostly culpable, but AJ will take care of their families no doubt