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PDPGuy:
Guys, will this line up and formation work for the SE in Russia?

———-Balogun——Ekong——-Awaziem——-

—-Ebuehi——--Etebo——Ndidi—-—Idowu——

—————————Mikel——————-

————Victor Moses————-Iheanacho——-

I am not yet sold on this back 3 formation.

Let's see the team execute it in another friendly.

maidaboi:
Yessssss. The much maligned Musa has shake to
the net in the Europa league against a backwater
league team named Lyon. This goal definitely rules
him out of the wc squad, had my doubts before but
this boy is getting useless by the day.
Unacceptable.
copied

Bros I am not understanding you again o.

TheGoodJoe:
Taking Mikel behind will cut off supply to the striking players. It is better he plays behind the strike force.

I don't understand why some peeps do not understand this simple fact.

For a team that is blessed with so many DMs you still want to push Mikel to the DM position.

tbaba1234:
After the WC, Nigeria should cap Ejaria and Ebere Eze. Those guys will be willing to play for Nigeria. I know Ejaria follows Nigerian football bumper to bumper and was part of the 2013 under 17 set so convincing him won't be hard. Ebere Eze was with the Nigerian team in London.

These guys are easier pursuits than those that showed no interest at all (e.g. Tammy).

Like icon4s said, I wish we had standing youth teams, it would have been a great way to test out all potentials.

Honestly, at least there are no Olympic qualifiers this year. Why not use that budget on an U21 team. (The current Flying Eagles are 19 years or less).

The U21 team would be for players who are not eligible for the next U20 WC but are not yet in the Super Eagles. Same team can easily be progressed into the 2020 Olympics team.

We have so many talented youngsters every where, both home and foreign born, and if we don't start going for them we will lose many of them.

Nothing should stop the NFF from organizing a friendly, during the FIFA window, for these players.

The Super Eagles is in an evolving stage and so we need a continuous injection of new blood into the team. We need a reservoir, not just a pool, of young players to chose from so as to sustain the development of the team. There should be little or no room for experimenting with an untested player in the Super Eagles. The U21 team would serve as a platform to test those young players before we ascertain they are ready for senior team action.

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tbaba1234:
On trial with IFK Norrkoping in Norway... Abdulrazaq was with the 2017 under 17 team.

Good one.

Mujtahida:
Etebo is injured?

This my comment might sound strange or odd. It is Not likely that all players we are banking on will be fit for Russia. I don't pray so though.

tbaba1234:
20 year old Habib OKAFOR (Angers france) selected for Tunisia under 23 team for a friendly.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DYR4I0cX4AAPiEA.jpg

Double post

tbaba1234:
20 year old Habib OKAFOR (Angers france) selected for Tunisia under 23 team for a friendly.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DYR4I0cX4AAPiEA.jpg

When are we going to be having standing U21 or U23 teams like this?

Morocco also has something similar.

Honestly, Nigeria needs a standing U21 team for us to effectively assess and harness young players born home and abroad on their readiness to make the SE as not all can make the WC team.

Players like Cyril Dessers, Peter Olayinka, Dennis Bonaventure, Maduka Okoye, Victor Osimhen, Taiwo Awoniyi, Musa yahaya, Sadie umar, Chidi and Kelechi Nwakali, Dele Alampasu, Kingsley Michael and a host of others who are at the verge of making the SE can be assessed and those who are ready introduced into the team through this.

There are FIFA free windows coming up. We just organize a couple friendlies for them. They can play against the senior teams of relatively weaker football nations in Europe or Africa.

The NFF needs to create a separate budget for this kind of team.

If Morocco and Tunisia can do this why can't we?

See that Naija son now going to Tunisia.

Haha, Small Olamide of yesterday. this one too Don Dey old.

Happy Birthday Badoo master.

MetalJigsaw:
Enough of these history discussions already

It would have been better if you just sit and read. You stand to learn a lot from it.

tbaba1234:
Results are not the most important thing now. New tactics /approach will be tried out. It will be good to see our defense under pressure from a home team. I do not think, we will be easy to beat though.

Haha, results are not the most important thing?

Putting the defence to test and trying different formations is still a test of whether you can get results under those conditions.

Though win or lose the only thing that will be affected is FIFA rankings but it is still very important we get results from those friendlies.

Every coach will want to go into a tournament with confidence from a good run of games

Kog45:
Better forward the info to NFF technical team our youth coaches are not like Rohr o.

Make me I forward....

Kog45:
I don't think these teams should pose a threat though it's friendlies.

Poland are favorites to win in that friendly.

TheSuperNerd:
Pre-WC friendlies Countdown


Nemanja Matic Tops List Of Serbian Players Invited For Friendly Tie Against Nigeria

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The coach of the senior national team of Serbia have released the list of players who will be in action when they take on Nigeria in a friendly game later this month in Barnet.

Head coach Mladen Krstajic named Manchester United midfielder Nemanja Matic in the squad which was released earlier today ahead of the March 27th game.

The list consists of three goalkeepers, ten defenders, nine midfielders and two forwards lead by Fulham forward Aleksandar Mitrovic with Aleksandar Prijovic of PAOK Salonica, the other forward named in the squad.

Former Chelsea defender Branislav Ivanovic who now plays for Russian side Zenith St. Petersburg tops the list of defenders which also has Dusan Basta of Lazio and Roma defender Aleksandar Kolarov, who was once on the books of English Premier League leaders Manchester City.

Bar Matic, Southampton midfielder Dusan Tadic was also listed alongside the likes of Sergei Milinkovic-Savic of Lazio, Adem Ljajic of Torino and on loan Liverpool midfielder Marko Grujic who is with Cardiff City temporarily.


Serbia Squad

Goalkeepers: Vladimir Stojkovic (Partizan), Predrag Rajkovic (Maccabi), Marko Dmitrovic (Eibar);

Defenders: Branislav Ivanovic (Zenit), Antonio Rukavina (Villarreal), Dusan Basta (Lazio), Nikola Maksimovic (Spartak Moscow), Vujadin Savic (Red Star), Matija Nastasic (Schalke), Dusko Tosic (Besiktas), Milos Veljkovic ), Aleksandar Kolarov (Roma), Ivan Obradovic (Anderlecht)

Midfielders: Nemanja Matic (Manchester United), Luka Milivojevic (Kristal Palas), Sergei Milinkovic-Savic (Lazio), Adem Ljajic (Torino), Mijat Gacinovic (Eintracht), Marko Grujic (Cardiff), Dusan Tadic (Southampton), Filip Kostic (Hamburg), Andrija Zivkovic (Benfica)

Forwards: Aleksandar Mitrovic (Fulham), Aleksandar Prijovic (PAOK)


**Ade Emmanuel

Source: http://owngoalnigeria.com/2018/03/12/nemanja-matic-tops-list-of-serbian-players-invited-for-friendly-tie-against-nigeria/

Russia 2018 WC Countdown: 93 days 6 hours to go

I am not so optimistic of our chances of beating Poland especially as the game is in Warsaw, but we should be able to beat this Serbian team.

tbaba1234:
18 year old center back, Shawn Adewoye of Genk in Belgium.. Potentially, one for the future.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DYHG7fFU0AAT1vK.jpg

The Flying Eagles coaches, please take note.

TheSuperNerd:
Rohr Names The Two Goalkeepers That Won't Make World Cup Squad

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Super Eagles manager Gernot Rohr has strongly hinted that Plateau United netminder Dele Ajiboye and Feirense starlet Dele Alampasu will not be included on the 23-man roster for the 2018 World Cup.
The German argued that Alampasu is inactive at his Portuguese club while Ajiboye has not been selected in the latest squad because he was given the chance to displace Ikechukwu Ezenwa as the number one goalkeeper in the African Nations Championship team and could not do so.

''They had already their chance, remember that we invited Dele [Ajiboye]. Dele is no. 2 in CHAN team and it'd be surprising that he is no. 1 and Ezenwa no. 2 in the Super Eagles ,'' Rohr was quoted as saying by Goal.com.

''Alampasu, unfortunately, is never playing. You cannot take a goalkeeper who is never playing

''Uzoho made his debut for Nigeria against Argentina and did very well. He plays for the second team of La Coruna; we could see him [at the World Cup].

"Ezenwa was injured but he is returning gradually and he's played with the second team at his club already. We'll see who will be the fittest.''

Former U17 World Cup winner Dele Alampasu has not played a league game in Portugal since April 30, 2017 when he went the full ninety in Cesarense's 3-0 loss at águeda.


**Ifeanyi Emmanuel


Source: http://www.allnigeriasoccer.com/read_news.php?nid=26915

Russia 2018 WC Countdown: 93 days 17 hours to go

You see why I said from the 5 not all will be given a chance in the friendlies and would be dropped without being tested.

Technically a wise decision to focus only the 3 goalkeepers going to the WC.

somehow:
Short memory things for some people....

He probably was not aware in the first place.

Not everyone follows national team football like that.

Icon79:
Actually, it wasn't just Reuben alone. We can excuse him if he had fumbled on only one or two players, but Keshi fumbled on:

Michael Uchebo
Shola Ameobi
Ejike Uzoenyi
Kunle Odunlami
Ramon Azeez
Uche Nwofor

And I can go on and on. So it wasn't just one player. The entire bench was useless - sold to the highest bidder.


O pari

And I say again, take Uche Nwofor off that list.

And you have forgotten how Ejike Uzoenyi made that squad?

tbaba1234:
The village people...lol
Joel Obi has a muscle injury,

That boy's fitness is as epileptic as NEPA light.
I hope he will not make us one player short if he finally makes it to Russia.

See Awusa people with English.

kennysville:
A question for the super analysts......

How does one really neutralize a 3-5-2 formation? Is it really infallible? What formation is guaranteed to effectively counter it and render it useless?

cc: Icons4s, TheSuperNerd, TheGoodJoe, Safarigal,Joebie, Forgiveness, Kog45, Mujtahida, Somehow, TBaba, RealPoacher .

The major key remains to exploit the gaps left behind the Wing backs.

Firstly, you need fast paced wingers.
Secondly, you need good ball passing midfielders with good eyes for space.

Go watch Argentina's second goal in the last friendly, Pavon exploited the gap left behind Aina who was in a no man's land.

A traditional 4-4-2 or 4-3-3 with players with qualities described above will do it.

A 3 Man fronline as in 4-3-3 will add to the number of attackers that will engage the 3CB who would ordinarily crowd out a lone striker from a 4-5-1 formation.

MetalJigsaw:
the guy sef na gamble for coach Rohr. It's more like purchasing a non-tested electronic item... Nobody really knows if it's good or not in the market, until it's being taken home and ultimately tested... What you see is what you get. LOL

I hope he comes good anyway... It will be a big asset for the team. He's a tall and promising defender.

Eze na just training material na

Kog45:
Musa is better than Ajayi?not debatable and who was comparing the duo?

If not for club issues do they think Aayi is better than Ideye and Kayode even Nwakaeme.

Truly he deserve the call but very nauseating,Musa and Ajayi debate.

There is nothing that cannot be mentioned on this thread.

After all someone has already Said Sunday Eze is better than Leon Balogun.

Kog45:
Yes i see some comparing Amuneke and Ajayi,have watched Ajayi this season,for now he can't cut it in eagles.

Eze,some say is another Oboboana,likely to give Omeruo threat?�he can't cos he need to refine his game and not ready for this WC.

Gabriel,nothing to say.

It means at this point we know over 90% of those that will make the final list.

It is really not likely that any new players will break into the team.

Rohr made it clear that this March friendlies are to assess new players. It doesn't necessarily mean they will get game time o. Maybe just to assess them closely in camp. Some, if not all may not even make match day squad for the Poland and Serbia friendlies.

Joel Obi may be a new comer to Rohr's team but not a new comer to the Super Eagles. IMO he was the only quality player that can add value left to be featured by Rohr. And with some good showings in the friendlies he stands a good chance of making it to Russia.

Kog45:
I don't see Ajayi,Eze and Gabriel pose any threats.

True. Especially Eze and Gabriel.

MFM walking on a tight rope now. 2-1 is not a good result to take to North Africa.

tbaba1234:
Ajayi has been playing from the wings at club level in the last few years.

That is when he plays as an SS which he plays in most games.

Icon79:
In that case, Ahmed Musa might miss his chance if Ajayi performs. Unless Rohr receives an order from "above" to keep Musa to support federal character.


O pari

No. Musa in addition to being an SS option brings more in the area of wings play.

I think Ajayi is more in contention with Ighalo, Iheanacho, Ideye and Nwakaeme.

MFM 1-0 MC Alger 42mins.

Danycrusoe:
I remember we all proposed possible solutions to NPFL's niggling issues some months back. I have a compilation of most if not all of the suggestions back then and I should v posted it here as asked by Sir Terzurum but I was waiting for a time when we all v our attentions on the Npfl and dx seems like the right time to do that. Please these suggestions are from all of us here and incase u v a new idea u can chip it in.


Fans and enthusiastic lovers of the Nigeria Professional Football League are already looking forward to the new league season which starts in few days.

Last season saw improvements in the league and many expect a higher level of improvement this time around especially with the new TV deal with NTA.

However, some are still pessimistic about watching the league stating, Security, Poor players welfare, Empty seats in Stadiums on match days, low publicity of the leagues and poor level of performance by the players amongst many other negatives.

Fortunately, some segments of Nigerian football fans have rendered their opinion and suggestions on the way forward which they hope will help the LMC

■ PRIVATISATION Of CLUBS

A larger percent of Npfl clubs are owned by their respective state governments, and this mean players are owed salaries, clubs flout some LMC rules and go unpunished. The best and biggest clubs in World football are not government owned, if not privately owned, they would rather be community owned or runned by fans.

Government clubs should be sold to interested private individuals or organisations. Club football is a big business hence it should be run as one and not as a governmental organisation.

Also there is a need to make fans feel attached to their respective clubs and this can be done by Community ownership of the club's.

Privatisation of the clubs will also ensure that issues of players protests due to unpaid salaries and bonuses will END.

It is not a must that government should hold on to the maintenance and ownership of clubs. If they still want to retain that, they should outsource to management companies. Companies with solid pedigree in management consultancy services. They are to do research on how this things are done , the acceptable standards, running of club affairs and report back to the government with good details. It will still be a win win situation. This gives room to quality and committment

■ RESTRUCTURING THE LEAGUE

Due to the large size of the country and risk of travelling by road to match centers, fans are discouraged to visit away grounds in the league unless when the away ground is in a neighbouring state or community.

Apart from that, there have been cases of accidents, highway robbery encountered by teams on their way to or from away grounds. Kano pillars, Ifeanyi Ubah and kwara united have all been recently involved in road mishaps in recent times.

An Abridged league as adopted by the Nigerian National League or The Major League Soccer in USA can be used from subsequent seasons in order to reduce lengths traveled by teams and increase the number fans who travel to away games.

■ ENLIGHTENMENT OF REFEREES

Refereeing is one part of the Nigerian league which leaves a lot to be desired. Frequent reports of favouring home teams, cancelling of legitimate goals and issuing of late penalties and red cards in order to favour a particular team gas turned fans away.

The league has been ridiculed as an "Home win only " league where away wins are rare. Many league matches have been abandoned in times past due to referee's questionable calls

If the LMC can work with the Nigerian Referees Association to psyche up match officials, many are of the belive that it will reflect in results on match days

Also renumeration payed to the match officials should improve as this will reduce cases of bribery. Referees should also be given maximum security before, during and after matches to reduce, influencing, threatening and violent acts against referees.

Some segment of fans also feel there is a need to have a minimum requirement before a referee can handle at game in the Npfl so as to increase the quality of officiating.

■ REBRANDING, REPACKAGING AND AWARENESS

Many pontential local league fans are lost to the allure and exposure to the foreign leagues. This is helped by the lackadaisical attitude of the LMC and clubs to properly use the available media for promotional of football activities like match previews and reviews, player transfers, change in match schedule, live commentaries of matches and pictures from the field of play.

The LMC on their part should focus on embarking on a vigorous awareness campaign for the league. Twitter hash tags and post are not enough, Television and Radio stations and Newspapers should be effectively utilised to preach and spread the gospel of the NPFL far and wide.

Also all NPFL clubs should be forced to run at least 3 social media pages and website. This will help fans get in touch and stay up to date with Match schedule and other activities.

Also clubs should make use of billboards, posters and other forms of advertisement to promote their image.

■ DEFAULTERS OF LMC RULES SHOULD BE APPROPRIATELY DEALT WITH IRRESPECTIVE OF THE OFFENDERS

Owing of players wages, violence by supporters, players and officials and abandonment of league matches should be dealt with instantaneously and harshly so as to serve a lesson to others.

■ INCREASED SECURITY AT MATCH VENUES

The number of security officials dispatched to match venues are sometimes not enough, this gives fans and home team officials a chance to constitute violence during games

Security is one way fans have found to excuse themselves from match centres, while there has been improvement recently, we expect more to still be done to totally eradicate violence at match centres.


■ STADIUMS AND PITCHES SHOULD BE WELL MAINTAINED

Many pitches in the NPFL leave a lot to be desired and while many of them are artificial surfaces a few of them are natural grass.

The natural grass pitches are not well maintained to suit the camera, the case of U.J Esuene Stadium during the match between Enyimba and Mfm last season is an example, where the pitch was in a bad state and yet was televised on TV.

Many pitches in the NPFL need to be upgraded and we hope the LMC can work to that effect and any team which fails to adhere should be punished accordingly.

We the fans itch for a time where all the playing surfaces of all the teams in the league will b natural grass and it will be a welcomed development if the LMC can consider it.

■ PUBLIC RE-ORIENTATION

The entire populace need to understand that there is career in sports. Sports is now big business and should be treated as such. The idea of non partisan followership of the League in nigeria needs to be set aside and looked into wholistically. Clubs need to be a thing of personal possession on the part of the fans.

■ SOCCER AT GRASSROOT

Gone are the days when schools had Principals cup, State cup and so on, many of this grassroot tourneys are not being held again. Even inter house sports where other high schools were invited seems to be a thing of the past. What happened to YSFON?
Lets bring back the days of youth involvement in our sports, the NUGA games, even if possible, introduce Varsity League.

■ ACCOUNTABILITY

This one is the most controversial part of all. Players play so they can earn. Whether they lost is not a reason to withold their Salaries. Salaries need to be paid on time without any form of coercion or mass action in the way of players goin on strike.. accountability with respect to gate takings and club policies need to be spelt out.


Cc: Icon4s, Somehow, Bascovanveli, Omanbala, Tbaba1234, Thesupernerd, Terzurum, Kog45 et all

Yeah, I remember this. Well done. Time to dust the book again.

Goal for MFM!!