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Humility017:
people tire me for this thread nor be small...
should 90% of the teams heading for afcon have a player like Awoniyi and Oshimen I am so sure he will make their 23 man list and may even play top 9 for some top countries too.

here some Rohr friends are writing off the team...especially oga icon4s.

a player that could score over 20 goals for a modest Belgian club in a season...
give that player to teams like Ghana watch him play.

oshimen is a good finisher...he will surely compliment ighalo...as long he is never short of supplies from the midfield dude will deliver....

emenike prior the 2013 afcon was playing in Russia I think and I am not sure he scored up to 20 goals then.
doing well in major tournaments like afcon is a more of bravery

Oga don't say what I did not say.

I didn't write the entire team off I don't just have confidence in our centre forward options. Same way I felt before the WC.

komekn:
Osimhen has played essentially his first season of first team football. He yet to be proven let's be realistic good potential. But he is not playing for Real Madrid he is playing in the Belguim league and not for the best team.

And people want to compare him with Ighalo.

My preference is for Onuachu more experienced should not be over come by the occasion and gives us more options up front.

Bros, some times I forget u are a Nigerian

wayodude:
Please can you name some exceptional strikers Nigeria has had in the past?

There's something I'm trying to figure out.

You cannot be asking me this

Earthquake3:
That you can't guarantee

That's why I used the word "May" and not "will". Even 4pts is no guarantee

safarigirl:
exactly.

I have seen sixteen year olds that would pass for 23, but once dem open mouth, you go know their real age

You have seen 16 years old that would pass for 23. But you can never agree that a 20years old can pass for 27

Issorite, I comment my reserve.

Earthquake3:
Well be praying that Canada women beat New Zealand so the way may be clear for our women




#Also for my bet

3pts may actually be enough if we don't lose heavily to France.

Joebie:
We are going with our best attackers regardless.

That is unfortunately so.

wayodude:
Why is the attack blunt?

Ighalo and Onuachu are not strikers with exceptional abilities. Osimhen though talented but is still young and still much work in progress.

I know people may want to blame it on supplies from the midfield and wings. But, even with the quality of our Wingers and midfield, our attack is not something to brag about.

comodo:
Peeps Putting trust on Osihmen to lead the line. I laf. The dude will be bullied & bullied until he will beg to be substituted. Best bet is bring him in when opposition defense is already tired.

My brother if you ask me, We are going to this AFCON with a blunt attack.

Earthquake3:
Can you say that guy is U12?

He looks 16-17 to me

I cannot just look at a single picture and conclude whether he is 12 , 16 or 17.

Besides, does that order smaller boy look 12 to you?

International Friendly results:

Uganda 1:0 CIV
Ghana 0:0 South Africa.

Earthquake3:
Can your bones develop to this stage at 12?

People's development differ. Everyone cannot be stunted or diminished.

Oasis007:


I do not trust him to lead the Line.

If you cannot trust your "best striker in the qualifiers" so who can you trust. Or who then are we deceiving

tbaba1234:
The Ukraine team that was already through to the next round?? If Ukraine needed to beat Aigbogun's team, they would have.

Ukraine had already qualified and so rested a number of their regulars.

If they really needed to beat us to qualify they would have beaten us.

3rd group matches are always like that. Which is why I now have some little hope in the Super Falcons game against France.

Oasis007:
My preferred Lineups

Why did u not put Ighalo(our best striker) in any of your starting options?

Odunayaw:
Isn't it by the mercies of God that we've gone some months here without Dominic Iorfa being mentioned in the same breath with call ups

No one is saying anything about Josh Maja too.

soetanoreoluwa:
Super Eagles forward, Odion Ighalo has resumed full training with the squad as the team continues preparations in Ismailia for the Africa Cup of Nations, AOIfootball.com reports.



The Shanghai Shenhua star forward has been out after sustaining a minor injury in Shenhua’s 1-1 draw against Tianjin Teda in a Chinese Super League encounter and missed the Super Eagles warm-up friendly against Zimbabwe last weekend in Asaba.

The forward had some training sessions with the team in Asaba but was not dressed for the warm-up clash against the Warriors which clearly indicated the coach was still allowing proper recovery. Ighalo had said he would not rush the recovery process in order to forestall a relapse.

The 29-year-old however completed full morning training routines with the whole squad for the first time in the camp at Ismailia after working with his personal physiotherapist and also undergoing some rehabilitation exercises towards recovery.

Ighalo’s return will come as a boost to the team as they vie for honours at the Nations Cup in Egypt.

Well, I wish he recovers early enough.

Rohr, no excuses this time.

forgiveness:


I hope Rohr is not gambling with the decision to take injured Ighalo to AFCON?

The guy just completed his recovery today. Chineke meeeee.

So, Rohr was planning to drop an inform Osimhen before now. Someone who was the best Nigerian striker in Europe for that matter!?

I am beginning to think Rohr wants to destroy our football ni.

Now, that was why Rohr took both Onuachu and Osimhen, just in case Ighalo didn't recover early enough or his injury relapses.

Sincerely, I am not raising this red flag because of Iheanacho. I am only concerned we are going to the AFCON with an unfit striker.

Well, I may not know the extent or degree of the "knock" he received, but what I know is regaining full fitness for games takes a recovery process which can run into days or weeks. And so if you rush back that player too early the injury may relapse. So that means Ighalo will only be involved in light trainings for now. But would he have been fully fit before the game against Burundi?

kellycute:
see your life outside.. U turned 360 over night ontop somebody wey u carry put for head that year. So what changed? It doesn't have anything to do with football only, there must be something u ain't telling us. Something fishy!! I ask u again... U drop am message and he ignored u? Answer that question in forgiveness voice. Haha

Turning 360 degrees means u are maintaining same direction.

Going the opposite direction requires turning 180 degrees.

BascoVanVeli:
Who said he was injured? The coach is doing the right thing. It's not because the doctor says a player is healthy that you rush him back. Look at Durrant ending his career in the NBA because he was rushed back, the coach wants to be sure. This way Ighalo is fresh to go for the afcon proper.

Chairman, the fact remains that he is not fully fit for this AFCON which is just a week away.

U said we should not rush him back meaning u are very aware that he has been out injured.

A player that only resumed training yesterday. And u know how physically tasking the African Game can be.

Well I have said my own.

andrew444:
Who told you ighalo is injured? if so are you really sure about this and what your source?

Just wait. U will soon find out.

soetanoreoluwa:
Exactly, the medics are just trying to take Precautions for any possible relapse. He's good now.

Meaning we are going to the AFCON with an unfit striker in Odion Ighalo.

This is totally not acceptable. Simon was dropped from the WC squad because of injury now it is Ighalo's turn and nobody is saying anything.

Not as if he is a Mohammed Salah or Sadio Mane.

Call me an Ighalo hater if you like but I will always say what is right or wrong. Rohr has just lost my respect with this one. Period!

safarigirl:
the Iheanacho worship is too much.

If we are worshipping Iheanacho like this, what would have happened if we had Salah or Mane?

Ok, no vex for the worshippers
Please calm down.

do4luv14:
BREAKING NEWS!!!!

Sources reaching me is that NACHO is grossly over age, hence his regressing, and eventually dropped from the Afcon square


oya oga ANDREW444 d age cheat catcher

oga CHRISKEL awon capentary crew

and averaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaggggggggggggggggeeeeeeeee bear palour crew

make una come confirm an oo,

cos the sauce dey verrrrryyyy hhhhoooottttt

In time past we have all agreed and linked early regression of our players to age cheating.

But it now seems our problem is not just age cheating.

The 2013 and 2015 were very young crops that we were really looking at to see if that trend of early regression will change but alas it is looking like the same old old story.

6 years after the 2013 boys played the U17 WC only Francis Uzoho, who was an unused substitute, is left in the Super Eagles team. And that one sef na manage because we lack credible options.

The 2015 U17 has two, but hope they can maintain their development.

Meanwhile there are several previous Eaglets generations that we tagged age cheats that still went further to provide quality players that played long for the national team.

I remember my argument with TheSuperNerd like 4-5yrs ago: "Chemical reactions with the same reagents irrespective of the Catalyst will always give u the same product".

There was this clamor then and push for many of those Manu/Amuneke boys to be pushed into the Super Eagles. Players that were not tested at senior professional level.

Was I being too conservative? Now you be the judge.

Moving forward after some of us have seen the career trends of many of those recent U17 stars are we still going to expect likes of Akinwunmi Amoo, Wisdom Ubani and Olusegun to be "World beaters", " New Ronaldo" , or "New Iniesta"?

Our problem is not only age cheating but also our football development structure.

You now understand why a club will value an average Brazilian, Spaniard or Argentine 17years old more than a 17yrs old Nigerian who just won an U17WC MVP.

soetanoreoluwa:
Just recovered from injury. He has his first full training session yesterday with other team member.

Uncertainties surrounding his full fitness level before the AFCON. which is why Rohr didn't drop any of the other 2 CFs.

safarigirl:
Exactly what I was saying

He was banging in goals under Rohr, suddenly the same coach doesn't have a style that suits the god that can do no wrong.

Kelechi should get a coaching certificate, buy a team, and coach them, so that they will play in a manner that suits him, because at this point, there is no club or team that will play to his strength and even if there were, he wouldn't be good enough for them to consider him

Calm down Miss

naturecures:
I need Coach Rohr go watch clips how Junior eagles coach Amunike used Samuel Chukwueze & Osimehen then at world cup. Having those 2 Weapons means alot. God bless naija, 4th Cup coming

That was a cadet world cup. This is the AFCON

Onyekachi419:
Me watch Nigeria match, no
I prefer boomerang
I no 1 get hbp...

Good luck to you

So because say we change keeper SA sef change their own keeper. U go see how Swart go chop goals made in China today

Earthquake3:
You are lucky to have whipping girls in your group

What would you think of South Africa who have to face China in a must win match

Ehen? They have their whipping girls in that group na. South Africa. Every group has one.

jihday:
where did you keep this your energy preworld cup when forgiveness was fighting for Kayode's inclusion, using the same logic most people used to tag forgiveness a tribalist I think I can safely call everybody fighting for Iheanacho's inclusion tribalist. the argument for his inclusion no even make sense, see players like Eleke, Awoniyi, Odey and that one-cap player that used to play in Israel but now in Turkey they all had fine seasons but nobody has even said a word about them but our fellow forumites wants their darling iheanacho with 1 epl goal to be involved, una wicked and don't want the best for Nigeria

I don't think the like for Iheanacho is tribally rooted. Some of Iheanacho's strong lovers right from time are not Igbos: notefully : TheGoodJoe, Bascovanvelli, Humility, Joebie, Tbaba1234, Joseph1034 among other. So there is no basis for you to want to link the call for Iheanacho to tribalism.

And please keep that tribalism talk away.

andrew444:
Thats what i heard, shehu is down in the pecking order

Not true. Awaziem cannot be ahead of Shehu at RB.