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Iwobi assist

TheSuperNerd:
Holy moses!! That was so clean and nicely done. This is actually the last piece I have been silently hoping Osimhen adds to his arsenal. Freekicks!!! Ball striking from freekicks. His curl seems improved. Damn!

Yekini could hit power freekicks in his days. Osimhen's idol, Drogba was clutch from freekicks for country. I hope Osimhen brings this skillset to the GWG soon.

I hope he get it right with his next club, he’ll touch unbelievably scary heights

TheGoodJoe:
Funny if you think Top 5 league is the problem. When Maduka Okoye, Taminu and Nwabali did not come into the Super Eagles from the Top 5 leagues. People know Kelechi Nwakali is good and are scared how good he can be playing for us.

scared how good he can be? Not sure anybody here is against the progress of the Super eagles, we all want the best for the super eagles I’m just saying let’s stop wasting our time chasing shadows

kentebemoney:
Who amongst these guys are long ball, through ball, press resistant their strong suit?
Nwakali's skill set is needed in the team. These African teams play us with players from African leagues and them dey try.
If in a squad of 23 with 16 as "top 5" players cannot cover for one "below top 5" player, then wahala dey be that.

oya nau

zicky:
So you agree we can get a midfielder outside the top5 league who's better than what we have now.

yes if he’ll make us better, so which midfielder doing well in a league outside the top 5 do you know?

Goke7:
Those midfielders are not willing to put in their bodies for us they can’t just take risks, it’s better we allow them focus on their club duties jare

earlier this year we saw players put their careers on the line for the SE, let’s hire a competent coach then we can come back to this discussion.

zicky:
A midfield that can not dictate or control a game even against smaller countries?
Imagine have Mikel or JayJay in our midfield, do you think Ekong will be lobbing the ball like he usually does, because the midfielders we have can't do it, they only know how to tackle and maybe chase the ball.

if you need Mikel and Okocha to beat Rwanda then we need to take a second look at the coach, can’t imagine Guardiola blaming their current run of form on Rodri’s injury

BankyGee:
How does playing for AC Milan make you the best all of a sudden? Okoye plays for Udinese but somehow we all prefer Stanley Nwabali to him, you think club side and national teams are the same thing?

Thank God you said they're using their "best" players. I don't think we're using our best players in EVERY position, we have the best in some positions already, not all. We don't even have a solid bench. Our bench players couldn't beat Rwanda lol...

our starting 11 couldn’t beat Rwanda either neither could they beat Lesotho. Genuine question, which better player do you think we haven’t invited yet?

zicky:
A midfield that can not dictate or control a game even against smaller countries?
Imagine have Mikel or JayJay in our midfield, do you think Ekong will be lobbing the ball like he usually does, because the midfielders we have can't do it, they only know how to tackle and maybe chase the ball.

or maybe we don’t have a good coach

zicky:
so you can't boast of the one in the top5 league again, Udinese

yes, we’ve tried both the one in SA is calmer 🤷🏿‍♂️

elyte89:
That’s true sef..I no even reason go dt side ,where would Dey have picked deir players from if not deir local leagues and oda good leagues around..besides We re just unnecessarily proud like say we be Brazil 🇧🇷 or Germany 🇩🇪..I will keep saying it ,till we find a better option,I c no reason y Kelechi nwakali can’t play in dt our midfield ,what’s special about our current midfielders 😏.

any coach who’s thinks it’s the skill set of a player warming bench in England division 3 is the answer I’m sure he can find same in our local league. This guy have been walking about from holland to Spain to Portugal now to England all these coaches don’t think he’s the answer to their midfield but you think he can be the answer to one of Africa’s biggest team okay o

kingphilip:
Can you please suggest someone the super eagles need in the midfield or is the midfield okay by you as it presently is?

Onyeka Onyedika Ndidi Iwobi Fisayo, this midfield is more than decent we just need a good coach to get the best out of them

elyte89:
D last World Cup has proven this ur statement to be a false one

If the Croatian 🇭🇷 keeper playing in the Croatian league was not given d chance,aw re we going to knw that he was a fantastic player if Dey av also glued to the top five leagues alone.that keeper was massive during d tournament

maybe because that’s the best they can boast of, our keeper plays in South Africa because that’s the best we can boast of

Truidstarr:
The England, Spain, Germany, France and Italy of this planet, where do they get their players from. Make we no too argue…. It’s not a players problem. It’s a coaching problem.

many people don’t believe a team can have consecutive poor coaches

BankyGee:
That's exactly what's killing our squad, Morocco don't have a world-class "squad" but have players that suits whatever playing profile they need and that's what makes them a solid "team"...

We're... No, most people here are all about "top 5 leagues" and not all the top 5 leagues players are performing for us in the national team, make una dey play. National team is not club side, you need the best in any position from whatever club he plays for to form your good national team side, as far as he go deliver.

Morocco strikers;
Soufiane Rahimi - Al Ain (Dubai)
El Kaabi - Olympiacos (Greece)
Youseff En-Neysri - Fenerbahçe (Turkey)

Midfielders;
Amrabat (Fenerbahçe).
They have players from Panathinaikos, Al-Ahly, Al-Sadd, Al-Hilal and they're all balling for Morocco.

We... No, most people here dey dey deceive themselves. Or the South Africans that are the second highest scoring team in the AFCON qualifiers are all top 5 leagues players.

Top 5 league players are needed too but trying to make players playing in lower leagues seem like toys na just anyhow reasoning. Too many cooks spoil the broth 🙃

the countries are using their best players, do you think if Morocco have a player in AC Milan they’ll throw him away for a player in Spanish division 3?

opes:
Otto Addo keeps his job, refused to resign and GFA couldn't fire him. He signed 3 years contract, almost $50k per month salary. Hope our local coaches could learn from this, not to accept anything NFF throw at them, just because they want to coach super Eagles.

Let your contract protect your job.

Coach elyte89, hope you are talking to your lawyer to take note..lol

finidi no do reach this una wan kill am, GFA are just an unserious body, if they really want to sack him they’ll do that without any problem

Joebie:
We fit pay, abi na we wan pay?

if we could pay Lambarda (abi weytin be his name) don’t see why we can’t do same with him besides I read he applied for the Ghana’s job last year or 2 years ago

Joebie:
Available coaches. Dem plenty yanfuyanfu:

https://www.transfermarkt.us/statistik/verfuegbaretrainer

Lucien Favre won’t be bad at all

TheSuperNerd:
Abduljaleel Ajagun starts in the AFC Champions League for Al Hussein FC of Jordan vs Shabab Al-Alhi Dubai of UAE. Game on in 48mins.

this one still dey alive

TheSuperNerd:
David Ankeye on the bench for Genoa in Serie A as they take on Cagliari currently. Genoa led by Partick Vieira leads 2-1 now after 66mins.

Okechukwu Azubuike played all 90mins in Turkey's 2nd tier and lost 3-0 alongside his side, Erzurumspor FK.

Oke still dey play ball

TheGoodJoe:
If we are found guilty of the charges, we will take the English FA to Court and best them legally.

Kevin De Bruyne is 33. We have to work towards his exit than thinking of rebuilding through him.

City actually need to rebuild that midfield, thankfully Pep is staying for another year (plus 1)

daveP:
Complete football is knowing when to attack and when to defend.


You're bringing stats that showed how "great" you guys were at attacking, cos that's what stats do. Oya talk about your defending now? Oh, it's not a metric of the team now. 4 sweet goals and you still believe you played well


All the times Pep's team conceded 4 unreplied goals, there were all games that defending was worse than a championship side; from 2014 till present. How will i now comfortably sit down and say Pep's team played well in them? Is it a taboo to admit being outsmarted? If Spurs packed the bus, you'll say Negative football. They didn't now, but they wounded your defense, and guess what? That was now the avenue to say they played well because the stats shows shots and possession??

Ahan!! Ahan!!

🌚🌚😳😳😂

someone called this guy Grealish from Temu 😀

TheSuperNerd:
Christian Nwachukwu scored a goal as his side Botev Plovdiv beat Botev Vratsa 3-1 in the Bulgarian EfBET Liga. He played 81mins from the start.

Ehije Ukaki also started for Botev Plovdiv as a winger playing 71mins before being replaced by Samuel Akere who played the remaining 19mins + added time.

You people will not see him talking about players in carpenter’s league now, until he reach Nwakali then ‘wHy ARe tALkinG about a LeAguE 1 plaYER’

daveP:
Don't be too sure. He's not giving any Olise vibes na

England knows he’s special, he knows he’s special, Arsenal have been hyping him even before they signed him as a kid, my bro just quit dreaming about this boy

TheSuperNerd:
Sadly we won't snatch him. Pretty sure Nwaneri will wanna follow in Saka's footsteps. But again, time will tell it all.

time isn’t telling anything, it will take a great stall in his development for him to consider us, one thing I’ve learned is most of them will take 1 England cap over 100 cap for Nigeria

daveP:
Their current set up is toooo choked to even get Eze chance. To get 10mins in big games na wahala. We need to snatch this one. There's nobody like him right now in our reach

even the boy won’t answer you

Awoniyi out

viccy12:
Consistency, ma nigga , is the problem. Let him be consistent

has been in the epl for almost 10 years and starting more than half of the games he has been involved in unless you have another definition for consistency, that is consistency my friend

How’s that a yellow card for Aina?

[quote author=BankyGee post=133002897]Did I hear you say Alex Iwobi is not good?

What a fkkkking GOAL! My baller ⚽🇳🇬

Did I hear you say Alex Iwobi is not good?

What a GOAL! My baller ⚽🇳🇬 pic.twitter.com/QwoUcVTR8c

— Banky G 🎤⚽ (@BankyGee_) November 23, 2024

take that video down, they can rapture your page for that

Iwobi goal

18 years old boy dey start Euro final in a team with Figo and Rui costa but them say he no get talent, these Barca fans and their satellite campus (Man City) fans too dey funny