₦airaland Forum

BascoVanVeli:
They finally gave Maikaba a good stadium and this happened

that man should be given one of our NT to manage, preferably U-21

safarigirl:
Ehen, before I forget, wetin carry una ex footballers go meet Tinubu?

hunger o my sister, country hard everybody.

benji93:
You this man, be very careful. . Perhaps Pep loved him cos he took his bench/limited role without complaining.

I kinda agree with you, plus he was a utility player who was close to the end of his career

TheGoodJoe:

We Africans are behind tactically and we need to do more in tactical education.

I once read in Spain, before a player moves from most academies to senior football, they have over 700 games, tactically analysed under their belt.

In academies in Spain, UEFA pro licensed coaches coach them.

So these players will have an edge with respect to tactical acumen.

Which makes a coach like Guardiola to prefer them. Not that he has a thing against African players.

wonderful! Throwing your own people under the bus just to dick ride Guardiola. So Wenger,Mourinho and other top class coaches that have no problem using African players them be mumu?

Osimhen start as Napoli take on Udinese in about 10min time

do4luv14:
had we faced Cameroon with Okoye yet

give me date, time and Venue

5th of June 2021, we lost by a lone goal

chidi1:
Here you go chief! Nigeria vs Cameroom


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GAbkSM9DhCQ

Okoye doesn’t have sharp reflex, he was slow to get down

mostob:
Yea..but have you watched him lately?

I watch him every time, because he hit post against Leicester? Still not impressed but it doesn’t mean we should allow him a clear sight sha. Just saying there’s nothing to be fearful about his shooting

safarigirl:
Na only Partey and Okoye go play the game? Abi Okoye never catch ball wey come from outside midefield before? Abi na Dodo Mayana dey catch ball for Ghana? Abi na Chiellini and Bonucci dey Ghana defense?

No be two legs match we dey play?

Some of una go just siddon for house, dey imagine worst case scenarios. I know say light no dey, so na heat make you dey reason far like this, pour yourself dusting powder and carry mattress go your frontage. You'll be fine

imagine partey and shooting in the same sentence

chidi1:
Just musing, you all know that Thomas Partey enjoys shooting the ball from the mid field, our defensive midfielder, Ndidi, is out due to injury and we do not have a goal keeper, as far as I am concerned (Okoye is out of the question), please can someone help me pacify my anxiety. I feel like we may be facing another Tunisia, one error prone mistake by Okoye and the Ghanians close shop.

Partey shooting accuracy is poor, so poor that Arteta had to answer questions about it

13large:
Hindsight is 20/20 because now the same people that were criticizing gernot rohr for not understanding Nigeria football identity and praising Eguavoen is speaking differently

please I never criticized Rohr for not playing ‘our style’, I don’t even believed in whatever that means, but Eguavoen is acting like he’s stuck in the 90s. Imagine Pep saying I’m searching for a CB like Koeman.

mostob:
With how expectant we all are for the match against Ghana....I hate the fact that Egu is still obess with the whole 1994 eagle's talk. Read an article where he said we don't have midfielders like Oliha and Adepoju currently...

Like... what's wrong with this guy... this is 2022 for God's sake

I actually watched the interview and I was shocked, guy you no get your own way of building a team? Why using 94 template?

komekn:
Leicester are struggling to replicate the previous past seasons form. They are below mid table. That means the ratings of some players will go down.

At the moment Youri Tielemans is the player generating interest not Ndidi. He really needs to up his game if he wants a big club move.

he’s generating interest because he has refused to extend and demanding to move

Subzero47:
Ndidi on the bench?

yep, Mendy will start

Truidstar:
Osimhen!!!

and a nice celebration to go with it

Iheanacho start with Ndidi and Lookman on the bench

I want to tell you that Osimhen scored a bullet header but they will say I dey overhype am

andrewbaba44:
Nwakaeme scores

at this point I think it’s criminal that this guy doesn’t have more than 1 cap for us

andrewbaba44:
Yet season upon seasons epl top clubs aren’t signing mitrovic

why does he need to play for Liverpool when Fulham will soon be back in the epl

mostob:
Heard Ghana wants to bring back some of their old players from retirement ahead of the double header against Nigeria.
Gyan and Muntari were among the 0layers suggested.


Omo...we Don enter am

Make we sef bring Okocha back

don’t think they plan to bring gyan but I know Muntari is coming

komekn:
Akpoguma will not get on the bench.

A good barometer of a player quality is the level of interest he generates. Several EPL clubs put in bids for Tosin Adarabioyo but Fulham rejected them all.

Akpoguma is one of the lower paid players in his club, he is not even first choice , mostly a substitute. How many top clubs came in for Akpoguma ❓

if your head is knocked it will echo because it’s empty. If any club had genuine interest in Tosin, fulham will do business. You keep talking like you talking to kids who know nothing about football.

komekn:
Forget your tags , how many players have gone straight to the best teams in the Bundesliga from the championship ❓

Akpoguma will not make the bench at Fulham and Fulham is way better than Hoffenheim and has superior quality players.

So let's examine my proposition by team composition analysis: Below two screens shots of players and bench of both teams in a recent match.

Let's start from the back main CB's for Fulham are T.Ream ( USA 48 caps) , Adarabioyo ( CB) Hector (Jamaican 35 caps), Wing backs - Tete( Dutch 14 caps) Robinson (USA, ?) Williams ( Liverpool loanee Wales caps 17) l will not talk about Terence Kongolo who is Dutch international but very injury prone.

Hoffenheim main CBs are Akpoguma, Hubner, Grillitsch, Posch, no senior international caps apart from Akpoguma 4 for Nigeria. Wing backs Kadeřábek (45 caps Czech) Raum (3 caps Germany),

Let's look at the midfield , Fulham currently Anguissa is on loan at Napoli ( not sure why he not in the Championship with Fulham) Carvalho ( pre contract to Liverpool FC) Chalobah, Seri( 38 caps Cote d'Ivoire) Onomah, Cairney( Scotland caps 2)

Now let's look at Hoffenheim Midfielders , Gieger, Baumgartner (17 caps Austria), Stiller, Samassékou (17 caps for Mali)

And finally the main forward player's; Bebou (19 caps Togo and the top goal scorer si far this season with 7 goals in the Bundesliga), Kramaric (65 caps Croatia) Dabbur (33 caps for Israel) Rutter.

Now let's look at Fulham strikers; Mitrovich, highest number of goals scored in a season in the history of the Championship so far , with 34 goals from 32 games. Essentially astounding. I'm sure some of you remember the two goals he scored against us in a friendly game 2018.

Other forward players are Decordova-Reid (16 caps for Jamaica) , Kebano ( Congo 7 caps) H.Wilson (29 caps for Wales)

Mitrovich is on near £90k a week.

There are more than five players who have scored at least 7 goals in Fulham in the Championship.

In my honest opinion if Hoffenheim played Fulham FC they would get beat COMPREHENSIVELY. In every department Fulham are better. Bebou will not get into the Fulham team their best striker. Consider Ivan Cavaleiro (Portuguese 3 caps) he can't get into the team always on the bench he is much better than Bebou.

Please put emotive sentiment based preference aside and be objective.

what is this ogogoro analysis??

Papi85:
What do you guys expect when he was dropped for a defender from Orlando pirates who just managed few games but had so much hype about him that got him a call up to the afcon team

Even he made the least ahead of ajayi who was only called up to replace injured balogun

if it was Germany would he have decided to stay away? These Europeans too controversially drop more deserving players for less deserving ones

andrewbaba44:
I think they said he was angry he didn’t make the afcon squad and he was called to replaced injured balogun

he dey craze, he should gerrout

JohnBullMySon:
I don't support the inclusion of worthless players by anyone. But please, Onazi's case is far worse than Rohr's previous selections. We are not talking about a young talent here. We are talking about a player who is 35 years old by football age, has had a career already with the NT and on a steady decline into retirement. Let me not even mention the league.

Whoever is responsible for Onazi's inclusion is a Tier 1 idiot. Honestly.

you people like to justify rubbish, who told you Onazi is 35? No difference between what Rohr did and this one, infact this is better because Onazi isn’t on the main list

mostob:
Oga, Chuk has not been impressive but until another player play that wing and impress, the wing is still his.

na, even at the Afcon iwobi did more than Chuks on that RW

Clint02:
Please o,hesgoal is no longer showing epl games. Somebody should recommend another site.

just change the .com to .tv

Definitely taking Dennis over Chuks on the right wing

Englandboy:
Ekoong not starting and not on the
Bench

he’s injured

komekn:
Agreed without question.

But the context of discussion is Ajayi and Akpoguma and my submission is Ajayi is better. In addition Akpoguma is almost anonymous in the Bundesliga he will not get into any EPL team .

And he will not get into any top Championship team and his team although in the Bundesliga is not better that quite a few Championship sides.

even in beer parlour and newspaper stand you won’t get this type of analysis

andrewbaba44:
Was there any striker that even impressed at the World Cup apart from musa

You said onuachu was a starter at the 2019 afcon

Onuachu only started that game because ighalo wasn’t fully fit

Linus mbappe

we played 3 friendly games ahead of that Afcon, Onuachu started 2 and played the whole second half in the third one then went on to start the first game. Sorry but I think he was the starting striker at that Afcon

AndSunGorilla:
But his save ratio is probably less than 50%. For every two shots on target, 1.5 fo enter net

lol, 65% actually