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andrewbaba44:
He plays in a more competitive no doubt

But say the truth

The only reason Maduka will remain our first choice is because he is oyinbo

This is false

Icon4s:
Firstly, i Welcome you back to the crew.
Really missed that Safargirl's kind of view in discussions and argument.

Well, for the two goalies, Rohr and his team have really don a good job in managing to groom these two goalies for Nigeria.

Excellent that they both kept clean sheets, even though I owe it partly to they not really being much tested in both encounters.

On the issue of their rotation, you cannot have equity if both goalies are in form and are available for selection. You must have a "number 1". The other would then serve as a backup. Goal keepers generally get better with Experience and age. And so it is better to identify the "number 1" and give him more of the game time.
Take a major tournament like a WC or AFCON for instance you don't Present a different goalie for each game. The first choice goalie keeps goal for 70% to 100% of the matches in that tournament.

So, it is normal for the first choice goalie to be more regular in goal than the second choice.

Okoye is the first choice

femianski:
And also three consecutive clean sheets. (Adding the second leg match against serria Leone)

It has been a very good qualifying series bar that freak game against Sierra Leone

andrewbaba44:
Ebuehi had an okay game just as aina did against Benin nothing special but I trust you guys to make a case out of nothing

You fit tell people wey no watch ball something else

Spot on, Lesotho barely troubled our defence they are very poor compared to Benin

Danielnino00:
Is the draw for the final rounds of qualifiers going to be based on FIFA ranking??
I thought it would be random selection

FIFA ranking

elunico:
Nope! It has to be from the position you qualify from the group. First Vs the second of the proceeding group, I believe.

No, only the group winners move to the next round

JohnBullMySon:
Will the draws be according to FIFA ranking?

Yes, the top 5 ranked vs the next 5 ranked

ChrisKels:
With the quality of stars we have now, even Goodjoe, Icon4s, Supernerd, Andree44 would esily qualify us without stress, nothing too special about that, so don't make it a Rohr thing. If Rohr had met us when we had only Mikel and Yobo as our quality players, we would not be qualifying for any tourney at all.

Lol

andrewbaba44:
Omo this one hard

Not really, as long as Senegal, Algeria, Nigeria and morroco remain top 5 in FIFA rankings we won't play each other

Danielnino00:
I'll like Uzoho to start..
Okoye shouldn't feel too relaxed that he is now the first choice...

Yea, Ebuehi and maybe Awaziem

Rohr says there will be little or no change to the team that will face Lesotho as he's already preparing for the June games against Liberia and CAR

charlesemeka85:
Former England U21 skipper Nedum Onuoha has claimed that he did not turn down the opportunity to play for the Nigeria national teams, and has explained why he didn't accept a call-up to play for the Super Eagles fourteen years ago.

Born in Warri but raised in England, the Manchester City academy product was contacted by the Nigeria Football Federation in the weeks leading up to the 2010 World Cup but he shunned their advances.

Former Super Eagles manager Shuaibu Amodu also tried to persuade the dual-eligible center back to switch his allegiance from England to Nigeria in 2009 but was unsuccessful.

German manager Berti Vogts, who coached the Super Eagles 2007-2008, named Onuoha in his first provisional squad in 2007, only for the player to decline the invitation.

In an Instagram Live session with our colleagues Team Nigeria UK, Onuoha explained : "For the first five years of my career, I played for the U20s and U21s of England and the only time I got a call up for Nigeria in my career was from Berti Vogts when he was manager and this was in 2010.

"I got a call up from him saying he wanted me for the AFCON and at that time Roberto Mancini had just become manager at Man City and I was out of his plans and Berti was calling just before the turn of the year.

"This was the first time it happened that I wasn’t part of the first team. I didn’t want to leave and I was worried about leaving for AFCON and having nothing when I come back because people say this is a shop window, it raises your profile and for some people it’s not the case."

Onuoha revealed that he is proud of his Nigerian heritage and to buttress his point, the 34-year-old sensationally claimed that he never sang England's national team whilst on Young Lions duty.

"At the time I was 24 years old, this is what I’m thinking cause I was honest with Berti that I wanted to do it but it wasn’t just the right time.

"From that exact moment, nobody from Nigeria called me again and I was hearing from everywhere that I had turned Nigeria to beg for England.

" But if you look at it anything the media has said wasn’t true and to add to it I know my identity and I was honored to represent England but anytime I got to play for England I would never sing the anthem because I know my home is somewhere else.

"So I appreciated what I was doing and I was given because I’ve the British passport but I always have the green passport and playing for Nigeria is something I’ve always wanted to d," Onuoha concluded.

Oga rest, you were never interested

JohnBullMySon:
In May, FIFA world cup qualifiers.

June

JohnBullMySon:
Osaze as well. Some people na after they type finish them dey begin reason

Is Osaze foreign born? He grew up in Nigeria even played our local league

Subzero047:
Whose fault is it, shitty players were performing while he was having injuries

I've seen your football takes here, I'm not shocked

Subzero047:
Out of the 4 of them Osimhen scored the least goals so maybe Osimhen is the shitty one

Yeah, he has played all games without missing a single minute

Olulong:
That was a 16 team tournament with one team qualifying from the group.

The first group had DR Congo and SA

The second had Egypt.

Now which of the teams in the current group comes close to any of this teams??

Not DRC but Congo

humility33:
How am I sure you're not watching this match with IDENNAA

because everyone that have been watching super eagles matches with both eyes opened knows the usefulness of Iwobi

It's the same person

Owngoal could be correct Onyekuru in for iwobi

DrKlever:
ofcourse all the players are valuable to the team but I'm sure you understand the context he meant it. "Valuable" here, he meant indispensable in his position. Hope you gerrit now? If you don't gerrit then forget about it

He knows what I'm talking about na, no mind Andrew

andrewbaba44:
Onauchu is valuable to the team and so do other players

Stop saying what you don’t know

Lol, I know you know better sha

andrewbaba44:
Shine for training and flop for match ba

Omauchu wasn’t meant to start ahead of nacho and osimhen at first ,make we Dey tell our self the truth

If player like ndidi iwobi osimhen have a bad training nothing will stop any of them from starting

If you have a capable replacement and you flop in training you may not start unless you are very valuable to the team. Onuachu isn't valuable to the team, he has more than capable competitors, him not doing great in training will make dropping him a very easy decision

andrewbaba44:
I don’t believe that news

And we no go judge player because of training

But na training coach go use judge player

smartsmith0907:
Starters

Okoye
Ekong
Balogun
Aina
Aribo
Ndidi
Iwobi
Nacho
Chuks
Osihmen
In a 4-4-2 or 4-3-2-1 formation

your line up no complete, who will play LB?

Ppogbae:
Doesn't matter. They already qualified long while ago

It matters because according to some people here they are the most talented team in Africa, they should be eating teams like congo for dinner

Senegal couldn't even beat Congo, mtcheeew

TheGoodJoe:
Ronaldinho won individual laurels. Winning serie A while Iniesta was winning champions league, world cup, Euros.

Come on. From serie a to where?

Iniesta is ahead when you compare their careers.

Ronaldinho won Champions league, world cup, copa America, LaLiga, Serie A, world footballer of the year, European best player. What does Iniesta have that he doesn't have?

chrisooblog:
English players have always been bought for huge amounts what else is new? I insist Carrick pre-Man U days wasn't rated by many. Can you prove Carrick was the reason Tottenham regularly finished 7th?

In 15years time someone like you will say Bruno Fernandes was an ordinary player before joining United but in reality you may have never seen him play. Carrick was a top player before he joined United

kendrick93:
Okocha played only one game, as a sub against ivory coast

Was talking about that game against Ivory Coast

chrisooblog:
when spurs where known as Tottering hotspur? Carrick was just another English midfielder nobody knew even scott parker sef was better known. It was when carrick joined Man U that his game transformed for the better. I know he was part of the glenn hoddle team that finished I think 5th that season that had the likes of jermaine defoe and joe cole.

Tottenham regularly finished in the top 7. A player bought for 18mill in 2006? Stop capping Bro

TheGoodJoe:
Mikel was playing for a top team and starting against top teams and was a regular for a longer time than Essien.

So he is rated ahead of Essien.

You can say think before you talk but it does not change the fact.

Mikel was a top player for a longer time.

Finito.

Just like Iniesta and Toni Kroos we're top players for a longer time than Ronaldinho. Thus rated higher than him.

Finito.

Deep down, that is the truth.

Mikel rated ahead of Essien Nothing I see here can surprise me again

TheGoodJoe:
I don't care if you believe.

But, you can not Google and be claiming.

Google are articles.

I was obsessed about the news.

I can even tell you Mikel stopped training with the team and was living in a hotel away from public to prevent anyone from reaching him.

You can only Google and argue.

You can only claim to watch and argue. It's on Google too.