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mostob:
That is a funny decision na. It is just like putting all eggs in one basket. God forbid Uzoho and Maduka are unavailable come November, how will they help other GKs to BUILD CONFIDENCE in time

For a long time we only had 3 GK in Enyeama Ejide and Aiyenugba

benji93:
Stop this nonsense. You are only mentioning this after the fact. Do not carry it around as if it's always been known. If you had brought this up before the friendlies, perhaps you would be taken seriously.

OK, no vex sir

forgiveness:
Stop fooling yourself. Siasia and the clueless NFF didn't know a win was enough to qualify us for the AFCON hence directed all the players to search for the 3 goals exposing the goalkeeper to Guinea counter attacks that finally led to an equaliser.

I repeat. Stop fooling yourself.

So how did this negate the fact that Aiyenugba flopped?

mostob:
Make we talk true... our coaching crew no try at all. Three goalkeepers were invited for two FRIENDLY matches, it doesn't make sense to just play only one throughout when the so called friendlies is to assess players. Our in-house journalist here was claiming they are helping Okoye to build confidence. Is he the only keeper that needs to build confidence ni? This is a case of bias but but Some people refused to see this.
Some of you questioning Alampasu'call up should remember that he was not particularly doing well in the German 4th tier. In fact, some people here said he got the call up because he usually comment and like NFF posts.
A player can struggle in their early career but that doesn't mean they are bad. Make una free Dele abeg. What the coach did is absolutely bad.
Now the question is ability wise, is Okoye better than Dele?

You guys need to understand that before the games Rohr wasn't interested in making the other 2 guys part of the team, the only reason he called them was because he had to call 3 GK

ChrisKels:
No, as long as he remains the second choice goalkeeper in the Latvian league, the SE will remain a dream for him

Wait! He's the second choice?

forgiveness:
You mean all the three goalkeepers are we have in the whole country?

Alampasu has been blocked from the eyes of the whole nation become they feared he might perform better than all the goalkeepers forced on us.

Against Togo he was played for just 20 minutes but that's not the case for others.

Guess this was how Siasia felt for Aiyenugba when he decided to use him for a very important match, the rest they say is history.

Danielnino00:
Are you sure you read what's on the screenshot very well??
As in very well?

He knows what he's doing

komekn:
That's essentially a whole lot of Balderdash.

A limited training session can not and will not compensate or displace a whole season of consistent quality football in Seria A.

Aina played his first game for Fulham against Wolves. Aina had highest number of touches on the ball in the entire Fulham team. He also played the full 90 minutes plus. And yes l watched the match.

They lost narrowly to Wolves 1-0

The highest rated player was Ademola Lookman.

A match in which Aina has barely had time to get to know his team mates. Played the full 90 minutes hadthe most touches and had to deal with the small matter of Adama Traore. Yet you say he was MASSIVE FLOP.

Awaziem hasn't been impressive and or outstanding for Boavista he has played two games one in which he was very poor and another just about average.

Absolutely without a doubt Awaziem that cannot get near to Porto first team, will not make even the bench in Fulham.

So you are creating your own version of truth, but to what purpose. To justify the unjustifiable.

Of all fulham players who started the game, Aina was rated lowest by sofascore. Although I agree that he's barely had enough time to train with the team

ChrisKels:
Not totally sold on him yet, still prefer Uzoho as the first choice. Also, Okiki will give him a good fight for that 2nd position.

I think Uzoho will likely be number 1 when he's back, but Rohr is trying to give okoye game time maybe it will force the hands of his club coach

Forgive me, food is ready

forgiveness:
You like fooling yourself. When I less busy I will search.

Self sub.

forgiveness:
Alampasu played in Campeonato de Portugal (league), the third tiers of Portuguese league before he played the U23 team.

You can visit google to search for this but don't have time to prove to us that Aina was our best Afcon defender

komekn:
I will have a look not sure if l did it on my phone or laptop.

A quick look and l came across this from CAN which was generated by thier own analysts for the AFCON not the myriad of other football analysts on line.

This is for full back na

komekn:
Yes we do.

Ovie, Tega and Eze.

Wingers in the waiting Ademola, Osayi and Fred Onyedinma.

Tega and Eze are English youth team players why should they get invite? Osayi and Onyedinma? Who the hell are those ones?

forgiveness:
Not true. Azeez was already on the standby list.

Would still have to be notified to join the camp, imagine you don plan your holiday for one week one coach go just call you from the blues to leave your plan and come training for Austria I sure say you sef no go like am. I'm certain Azeez will be back next month

mostob:
I know but that 'coaching crew' guy was implying that there was no MF to call up to replace Etebo and Aribo.

in his defense Etebo pulled out just 2/3 days to the game, that made any replacement a bit difficult to call up

IDENNAA:
No, he wasn't poor. Very lively and composed rarely put a feet wrong. Immediately he joined the game our right wing became very dangerous. I am more impressed with his 15 minutes than anything Akpoguma and Ebuehi played

You said you only watched the last 18min or so of the Algerian game but somehow you know Awaziem played better than Ebuehi

Edopesin:
You seem to forget that these friendlies were not played with the first team

Our back 4 have played against way better teams including Brazil and average teams like Algeria, Cameroon and even Tunisia when it mattered with good performances. Two bad games with majority of the players not likely to play on a normal day doesn't change that

Akpoguma played more minutes in a makeshift position, give him a break

I'm not surprised, reactionary fan base. We beat Cameroon and Tunisia about one year ago

benji93:
I dey boil right now. Make no body kon tell me say Okoye better pass Yakubu and Alampasu. Cos at different times all these goalkeepers have either not been playing consistently or have been completing in lowly rated leagues. On one hand Alampasu had not been playing consistently for Feirense, but he was playing for their reserves. On the other hand Maduka was competing in the German 4th tier. For some, playing for the reserve team of a team competing in the portuguese premier league is better than competing in the 4th level of German football. Besides i remember clearly that, Maduka wasn't always in goal at Dusseldorf. He warmed the bench some of the time. . I still wonder how he got his first call-up. Either Rohr's searchlights are more intensely beamed onto the German stage or Maduka advertised himself one way or another. I can see one Okatugba(verified twitter account), who claims he's a UEFA certified sports journalist wrote that he told him to create a twitter account, i suppose subsequent to an interview.In the tweet he touted him as Nigeria's next first choice goalkeeper. I suppose some of these posts, with pictures of course could have gotten several retweets until, well the Oyinbo coach couldn't resist it(close to home). . I will count on the latter to have been the major reason for his call-up, cos i don't know who looks beyond Bundesliga 2. Perhaps the perennial crisis in our goalkeeping department is a reason for casting a wider net. Yakubu, another one is the first goalkeeper for SKF Sered in the slovakian league. I would think this should count as something. At least try him. Meanwhile remember that Maduka was substituted in against Brazil, i mean if you can do that in such a high profile match, why not substitute these other goalkeepers in after about 60 minutes or so. It's not as if the goalkeeper would disrupt the game of play that much. Not that he has any plan anyway. . I do think Rohr made a mistake in this regard. What is good for the goose is good for the gander. The scenario that just played out over 2 games reeks of favouritism. Tactics aside, i am quite dissapointed in this singular action. He could easily polarize the team because of this. People talk. Chukwueze, Iheanacho and Alampasu are member of the same under 17 class. They'll probably sympathize with their brother, moreso Maduka is partly German. Hmmm. This guy is definitely inching towards an imminent sack, probably not because of tactics, cos his employers are as clueless as he is.

You can say whatever you want to say without twisting narrative, if Uzoho didn't get injured Maduka wouldn't have tasted action that day

mostob:
Azeez

there is also one Alhassan. .leicester is monitoring him,

Also, all those MFs in championship,we can still find 2 decent CMs there.

Azeez is already part of the team, forget this Alhassan Abeg we don't have any quality midfielder

Clint02:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYJxFmbYrxs

This Tunisian keeper sha,I no fit laugh. Na real basket be this.

Chokri na very fine keeper o

mostob:
Do you know how many CMs that are littered across europe? Heck,you and your fellow coaching crews could have follow Nerdie's update here. Na makeshift you dey look for. . Isalright

Who are they?

sophtcopy:
Truth be told, this our coach no dey try. The only thing I like about him is how he has managed to fortify our team with abundance of talents home and away, especially away but tactically, baba no sabi anything
Give this team to a good coach and watch Nigeria flog other African countries 5:0, 4:0, 6:0...

Lol

forgiveness:
We want to see other goalkeepers to ascertain if they are better. All these grammar don't add up.

The coach who is supposed to see them have seen them and he has made his pick

smartsmith0907:
okoye

sanusi. omerou. balogun. apko

ajayi

Moses. iwobi. chuks

nacho

musa
just like I predicted musa and nacho to lead

The words 'biased' and 'sentiment' about to be used heavily on this thread.

Danielnino00:
That's also true..

I just want us to get this goalkeeper issue sorted out as soon as we can..

I think it has been sorted. Uzoho Akpeyi and Maduka, we'll have a clearer picture next month

benji93:
A team that has a history of having goalkeeper problems. You are trying to slip in a fact you are not sure of. Not because there were no other goalkeepers. What does that even mean? Nigeria has always problems in the Goalkeeping. We have never been spoilt for options in the goal keeping department. Mention any other goalkeeper that was as good as those three while they donned the GWG. You better have a support for whatever fact you put out. Maduka was invited while he competing in Regionalliga west, the 4th-tier of the German league. If he can be invited, others deserve to be featured when called up. This is not a tournament. These are friendly matches were you get to test players.

The only time I remember us having problems with our goalkeeping department was '98, Sunday Rotimi and Greg Etafia were good enough to at least replace Aiyenugba as 3rd choice both of them were never given any chance to prove themselves

Danielnino00:
I thought we were all in support of the phasing out of Akpeyi and Ezenwa??
What do they have left to offer again?

I know Alampasu had been tried before,but that was around the time he wasn't playing regularly at his club..I think he deserves another chance now.. Same with Yakubu..

See,this friendly might be our last chance in a while to try out new players..after this,we are back to the qualifiers...
Unless we won't mind seeing the trio of Akpeyi, Uzoho and Ezenwa at another major tournament as our goalkeepers,it's time we give chances to others...

I agree with you but but knowing Rohr it will be gradual especially for Akpeyi, he still kept goal in our last competitive game

benji93:
You mean coming in as a 70th minute substitute agianst Togo is good enough a test? kontinue. And you must know Rohr in person to be so sure he won't invite other goal keepers. He already has his top 3 or top 4 goalkeepers. What confidence. Even though i won't be surprised if he does that. It's not beyond the Oyinbo average coach.

Is he supposed to be rotating keepers? Which team does that? For a long time we had Enyeama, Ejide and Aiyenugba not because there were no other keepers but because it's better to have a settled team

forgiveness:
I see. FC Porto is not a decent team. Are you shocked he kept a clean sheet?

Hmmmm na cup game, I'll love to see the team Porto used that day

forgiveness:
Chaiiiii! Fantastic!? Why you think say I go swallow that hook line and sinker when transfermkt dey?

What was the huge role he played?

See his last three seasons in four tier of German football and 5 or 6 tier of German football. He wasn't a starter. Stop. Lying here.

But if they tell you to backup your claim that Aina was our best defender at the last Afcon you go dey dodge, see as you rush drop screenshots here

Danielnino00:
Forget all this long story jefe... Okoye isn't in anyway way rated higher than Alampasu and Yakubu.
The other two should be given a fair amount of game time to prove that they have what it takes to challenge for the goalkeeping spot too..
It makes no sense for Okoye to start all 2 games..
45 minutes each for Alampasu and Yakubu today will be fair..

There's nothing to assess in Alampasu, this isn't the first time he's getting an invite under Rohr he even played against Togo. Whether he uses those guys or not it doesn't change the fact that they won't be invited for next month games as he already has his top 3 even 4 keepers (Akpeyi, Maduka, Uzoho, Ezenwa)