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ChrisKels:
Am I the only one who thinks that Richarlison is over hyped?

Think so too, his end product doesn't match his rating

1realBobby:
Please apart from hesgoal, what other streaming platform can i stream the napoli match? hesgoal is breaking too much today

Viprow but ads too much sha

Another day another Osimhen goal

Subzero047:
He is injured

OK, thanks

Is Balogun injured? He hasn't been part of the team for a few weeks now

Curtisaxel10:
For now they are good enough for our bench at least

Sure

Napoleon55:
Why?
France has better midfielders,
Young and old,
Capped and uncapped,
and England is not looking his way.

England will look his way

Jordan Ayew can boast of just 1 league goal in 28 games

andrewbaba44:
Henry onyekuru not good enough to start game ?

If Henry onyekuru is not good enough to start game then chukwueze is the only winger good enough to start game

Moses Simon

Curtisaxel10:
I've been shaking my head since I read that "article" if it deserves that appellation. Poorly written beer parlour nonsense analysis from top to bottom. Rohr shouldn't call Jamilu Collins and Henry Onyekuru. Ebuehi "cannot play the African game". Rohr should invite 10 home based players. Whoever wrote that piece of trash clearly hasn't been following the team nearly as closely as the least informed of us here has and therefore isn't at all worthy of the smallest bit our attention.

IMO Collins and Henry are good squad players but not good enough to start games, if we can get upgrades they should be ditched without any hesitation

smartsmith0907:
This is a very nice analysis...am sure even rohr knows this and he is actually working on it... concerning the left footed CB...we have Jordan for this position...and let's hope he get cleared very soon by FIFA and apart from this I think we're good to go.

I agree with him about the defence and the players to drop (apart from Ebuehi, that gragra talk is crap) but about the home-based, I totally disagree

Gernot Rohr comes across as one football coach who thinks he knows his onions even if it is going to take forever for him to deliver a trophy. Will you blame him? No. His coaching pedigree suggests that he is not one used to podium celebrations. He doesn’t understand the hurry in delivering trophies to the teeming fans. Again, would anyone blame Rohr? No. He hasn’t been lucky to handle teams or countries with the kind of talents available to our national teams’ tacticians. And his employers Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) didn’t set very high standards for Rohr when he joined because Super Eagles was a sinking ship that needed an undertaker to rescue it. Rohr dragged the Eagles from being ‘Super Chicken’ or a big-for-nothing squad.

Credit should go to Rohr for reducing the average age of the team to between 22 and 24, giving it a very competitive edge if they play to their strength and potentials. The German also used his influence to sway a lot of Nigeria-born kids whose ages we can vouch for, unlike our locals whose ages are measured by sworn affidavits not birth certificates. This bunch of players has close to ten years to give their best to the nation with proper coaching.

Penultimate week, the news from the international media suggested that Rohr would be working with a 50-man squad. Many screamed blue murder considering the time the manager had spent rebuilding the squad. The 50-member squad sounded like a failed project given the exploits of our players in Europe which clearly showed us who our best players are. For others, it was in Rohr’s character to list 23 players with five standby players, most of who sneak into the squad when invited players sustain injuries playing for their European clubs.

Rohr may have heard the cries of his critics in the media since the world is a global village. On Tuesday, Rohr spoke with French newspaper Ouest France stating that he had drawn a 30-man squad which he hoped to submit to the NFF in the next three weeks. This provisional 30-man team would be pruned to 23, which he would announce as those to prosecute the June 6 tie against the Lone Stars of Liberia inside the late Teslim Balogun Stadium in Lagos from 5 pm. No prize for guessing that the remaining seven players would form Rohr’s characteristic standby team.
One would have glossed over the stories but considered it expedient to pick Rohr’s brain knowing that this is how he releases his squad list to gauge Nigerians’ comments on his intentions. The thirty-man squad looks more like it unlike the initial flyer of 50 players. But this 30-man squad shouldn’t include goalkeepers Daniel Akpeyi and Ikechukwu Ezenwa. The list shouldn’t have Kenneth Omeruo, Tyronne Ebuehi, a good player but doesn’t have the strength to play the African game, Jamiu Collins, Ahmed Musa, Henry Onyekuru, Samuel Kalu, Chidozie Awaziem and Shehu Abdullahi.

I want to shock Rohr here. If he insists on the central pair of Balogun and Ekong, Nigeria will not win the Africa Cup of Nations. They are poor headers of the ball, they can’t anticipate crosses, and are tentative to their approach to most games. Over time, this writer has seen the duo beaten by good passes which either of them ought to have anticipated, making them look like amateurs that they really are. It seems to me, that Balogun and Ekong play in the same position to necessitate this flaw. They are both right-legged players, raising the poser how any one of them could function as a no.6 player. It is the reason the Eagles concede early goals.

If Rohr can’t find a left legged or a defender who uses his left foot very well, he might as well look at the local league for such a player.

The performance of Enyimba’s Anayo Iwuala in the last two AFCON qualifiers against the Squirrels of Benin Republic and the Crocodiles of Lesotho proved that Rohr was all along underrating the capacity of the NPFL stars to compete for shirts with their foreign-based compatriots.

Providence had a hand in Iwuala’s journey into the national team because he was never in Rohr’s plans for the AFCON qualifiers until some Europe based players pulled out due to coronavirus restrictions.

One would have suggested Semi Ajayi but he is prone to mistakes and doesn’t know how to neatly wrest the ball from the opposition. Ajayi’s major flaw is tackling from behind. He has good height, knows how to head the ball but he is a slow runner. I will suggest that Rohr finds somewhere in the defence Ola Aina because of his versatility. He has a good height, uses both legs, plays regularly for Fulham and that should help get him into the Eagles’ first team. Players such as Balogun and Ekong will struggle against top-class oppositions like Mohamed Salah and Sadio Mane.

The best player in the Eagles’ current defence is Zaidu Sanusi. He can be a truly world-class player with the right guidance. It is no surprise that Wolves FC of England’s scouts want to sign him for next season. I foresee a bigger future for him.

In previous Eagles teams, we know who is no.5 and who is no.6. Uche Okechukwu and Chidi Nwanu never stood on the same line while defending. Players like Taribo West instilled fear into the minds of opposition’s attackers. West understood how to partner Okechukwu at the Atlanta’96 Olympic Games largely because Okechukwu knew what to do. What we have now are players who fall to the ground when strikers run at them. Recall, how we couldn’t defend against minnows Sierra Leone and conceded four cheap goals at home to draw the match 4-4. Are we sure, Balogun and Ekong are the best choices for the centre-back position under Rohr?

We already have two tested goalkeepers in the national team, Maduka Okoye and Francis Uzoho. Both goalkeepers have age on their side. They have enough years to grow into being world-class goalkeepers. They are young and have shown a high propensity to learn. In fact, they have learned from their past mistakes. It has been easy for them to recover very fast because they are young. Kudos to Rohr for sticking with them. However, the third choice goalkeeper must come from the Nigeria Professional Football League (NPFL).

Rohr should again invite John Noble who mans the goalpost for Enyimba FC of Aba, Nigeria’s surviving club in CAF’s inter-club competition to find out if he is still in form. Rohr has no business playing our armada of foreign-based stars against the Lone Stars of Liberia in Lagos. He should at best invite 13 foreign-based players and fill the remaining 1o spots with good home-based players. The argument that he wouldn’t want to take risk which could jeopardise Nigeria’s chances of qualifying for the Qatar 2022 World Cup is weak if the opposition is the Lone Stars of Liberia, with due respect.

Allowing the three home-based players in the last two games against the Squirrels of the Benin Republic and the Crocodiles of Lesotho back to the squad such as Adekunle Adeleke, goalkeeper John Noble, and Anayo Iwuala would boost their confidence. It would further reassure the others in the domestic league that they could surpass what the trio would have achieved with a second invitation. Home-based players in the local leagues would know that they are no longer training materials for every new session before Nigeria’s international matches. This is the fillip the domestic leagues need for growth.

Nigeria has always been blessed with great forwards and the current Coach Gernot Rohr has been blessed with three goal-scorers that are totally different but can complement each other when used properly. Now, the German needs to earn his pay and make these guys fire the Super Eagles back to its glory days.


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TheSuperNerd:
You are wrong. Lingard has only 1 assist in April.

Lingard had:

Goal+Assist vs Wolves
Brace vs Leicester
Goal vs Newcastle
❌ vs Chelsea.


Iheanacho (6 G+A) had more goal contributions than Lingard (5G+A) in April. I have been closely keeping tabs on all the possible challengers/nominees for this POTM award.

Kane's April Count is 4 already. Any goals he bags on Sunday counts towards the May Award.

Iheanacho stands a good chance yet again.

If he does win it I think he'll the second Nigerian to win back to back POTM after Osaze

forgiveness:
Benedict situation then was just like Onuachu in the Belgium league.

In fact, he was the best foreign player in his league.

I don’t know how Chukwu managed to make the team but he didn’t last long.

Both were not good enough but they made the team that means osimhen would definitely play,

forgiveness:
Westerhof will bench Amokachi for Osimhen? Kkkk

Ikpeba played mostly as a winger and he won Olympic in 1996 and still played a part in 2000 AFCON.

ikpeba was mostly used as a sub during 2000 afcon, did not really see Amokachi play by 98 he was already battling injuries

BascoVanVeli:
Na wa ooo. U mean to say that this blatant dive is a penalty

What a JOKE of a penalty decision. Saka kicks the Villarreal player. #VILARS pic.twitter.com/NJdvYQgruB

— TT (@MillwallTT) April 29, 2021

There was contact chief

forgiveness:
Ndidi might make 2000 team but Osimhen will not smell reserve.

Osimhen will not smell bench in year 2000? A team that had Chukwu Ndukwe and Benedict Akwuegbu, Abeg shift

forgiveness:
Ahead of Oliseh, Yekini, Amokachi, Ikpeba, etc?

Osimhen will start ahead of ikpeba and maybe Amokachi. Ikpeba career faded very quickly

1realBobby:
calm down guys.. Eyimba will score a late winner.. quote me after the match

This guy na ogboni

Arabiandude:
Ighalo played 21 games for Grenada in Laliga 2 and scored 4 goals,( that's about 1 goal in 5 matches)
Ighalo played 4 games for Grenada during their playoff and he scored just 1 goal( that's 1 goal in 4 matches).
Ighalo played 58 games for Grenada in 3 Laliga seasons and scored 13 goals( 13 goals in 3 season. That's about 4 goals per season and 1 goal in 4+ games).

How he first qualified Grenada to Laliga and later become Grenada legend according to some persons here with these stats is a misery only to them.

He did so well for Grenada playing in Laliga and he was signed by Watford, a championship club in England, not even a mid-table clubs in Laliga or EPL signed him from Laliga.

I hail una oh

He's a legend because his goals helped them promote from division 3 to laliga 2

forgiveness:
Based on your ascension, all the aforementioned players are better than Pele.

Which kain talk be this?

edi287:
Suarez didn't score that much under Hodgson. He played better under Rodgers...

He scored lots in Holland and Spain did Rodgers do that too? Suarez na fine player no matter how or where, I think he only played for 6 months under Hodgson

Ppogbae:
If he goes to Turkey then I'll stop posting his goals here. He shouldn't even entertain such offers.

He's closing in on 30 and there's money in Turkey, can't rule out the possibility

chrisooblog:
Bro under normal circumstance if we didn't have quality strikers and Ighalo was playing regularly I wouldn't mind him coming back into the fold.

I remember Didier Deschamp calling a French striker (forgotten his name) from Mexico and Portugal calling a quarter to retire Quaresma from Turkish league so it's not exactly a new phenomenon.

Gignac

edi287:
Yep. Rodgers got the best out of Suarez and Sturridge.

Suarez? Regardless of the coach he'll shine but Sturridge? Yes he played his best football under Rodgers

ChrisKels:
No be only spiritual problem. So him now na client, and Ighalo dun go lock am up?

"if you get sure client, lock am" - Bella Shmurda

I read from Collin Udoh recently that Ighalo won't come back, I want to believe he's talking from a place of having more information than most of us

AndSunGorilla:
Please sir, I heard about Paul Hamilton and Sebastian Brodericks too, how good were they when you watched them. Also is it true that Teslim Baloguns shot used to tear net? When you watched Teslim how good was he?

This man You suppose ask which year we start to wear green

JohnBullMySon:
So, Rohr talked about Simmy yesterday. He said Simmy has a chance but the striker role has so much competition. And........... Rohr still mentioned Ighalo again.

https://omasports.com/index.php/2021/04/27/we-have-competition-in-the-striker-role-but-theres-a-chance-for-simy-says-rohr/

This must be a spiritual problem, Ighalo biti bawo

mostob:
. I understand where you are coming from. Playing Nacho,Victor and Moffi together at the same time is kinda risky. The midfield need to be solid that is why I picked Ndidi , Etebo and Nwakali will be my first pick. Simon and Chuks will only come in if you're playing either Moffi or Victor on the wing. But as a two forwards with Nacho behind them, the FB will have to provide the width which may expose the defence. Now, with the two fullbacks overlapping, Ndidi will hold the midfield with Etebo providing defensive support while also contributing in attack. Nwakali will be the deeplying playmaker. I know two o the midfielders are far from the first eleven right now bit I couldn't think of any suitable personnel.

Nwakali won't provide the final balls, the type that the strikers still need to feed on. This your formation no fit work we need an AM

mostob:
Well..it can only work against small teams. And if at all we are playing that formation, A midfield of Ndidi, Nwakali and Etebo should be able to complement them.

Chuks? Iwobi? The Simons?

K0MEKN:
Too many mentions

Emotive prejudice at its peak

Iheanacho has come good but osimhen has been a 80 million waste man

This isn't the real Kome, this is a troll

JohnBullMySon:
Exactly. Starting from the Jersey, everything was ordained to be a disaster. We were in group of death though.

That hideous jersey, the group was tough but sacking the coach and some key players few months to the tournament didn't help matters. I think Sweden was very beatable and we could have avoided defeat to Argentina.