₦airaland Forum

TheSuperNerd:
Nigeria U20 Flying Eagles continue their fearless/menacing displays: Humbles Brazillian Conquerors 2-0 - Part 1

MOTM for me is Benjamin Frederick


#21 Chijioke Aniagboso looks quite unbeatable between the sticks. Confident in the air and a good shot stopper. Also looks kinda comfortable with the ball at his feet. Bagged an assist for the second goal via classical route 1 football


#3 Solomon Agbalaka was solid defensively for the most parts but was a bit shaky in the first half which saw him forget the tenets of Penalty box defending. He was lucky not to concede a penalty after VAR review shows an Italian foul preceding his handball in the box. His crosses caused a few problems in the final third.


#6 Daniel Bameyi surprised today. Damn, he may not be close to half of the best technically and is still bang average on the ball but I have to admit that the lad is quite a tank defensively. A rock to be reckoned with in defensive actions. Lad put in a hardworking defensive job at RB and even had a crack at goal on one of his few forages upfront.


#5 Abel Ogwuche continues his flawless displays at the heart of the Flying Eagles backline. Smooth in possession and solid in aerials (100% aerial duel success) and ground duels. His Sweeper qualities saw him rack up the most clearances in the game (9) for Nigeria at the back. Solid performer. Has covered himself in Gold so far as one for the future of the Super Eagles backline.


#12 Benjamin Frederick. What a monster of a young man. The smoothest in possession at the back. Recorded the most passes of all our defenders (38) and also won the highest duels (9) among our back 4. His 1 v 1 defending is arguably the best in this team. I bet only Daniel Daga rivals him on 1 v 1 marking/defending. He recorded 6 tackles vs Italy's Pafundi, Baldanzi and Cesadei.
Benjamin Frederick is a future Super Eagles Defensive lieutenant. Trust me. This kid is going to the top. A top defensive talent we have in Frederick whose only sore point at this tournament so far was the penalty he gave away vs Dominican Republic.
Aside that, Dude has been flawless and class.


#Daniel Daga is truly an insane midfield anchor. Did a fine job on Cesadei and Fratti. Mad and aggressive off the ball and quick in closing down opponents. Brilliant in blocking passing lanes and strong in duels. And just when you think he is all about combativeness, his technical qualities shine through. Press resistant and calm on the ball. Has got the passing range to spread and switch plays to get us progressing forward. Daga is a gem. Only those who focus on both the beautiful and dirty works of Midfield plays will understand what a gem we have in this lad.

I'm not getting ahead of myself but I see why close observers of the team live in Abuja before the U20 Afcon called him Little Kante.


#10 Victor Ehuwa Eletu. The Highly Cerebral Baller of our middle game dynamics. I said on twitter that if we would stand a chance against Italy's midfield, then Eletu must start not just for his familiarity with most of the Italian youngsters but because his ball playing magic would definitely help us in the midfield battle and did it? It sure did. Eletu EASILY recorded the highest passing accuary (95.5%) among all our players who started and also created 2 chances in his 67mins before being subbed off.

His ball sense, decision makings, press resistance, progressive carries and strength in duels makes him quite the near complete midfield package. Dude is definitely destined to become a Super Eagles Midfield General. A star in the making.


#18 Samson Lawal played the first 45 mins and was largely anonymous despite having 2 key passes. He was a huge let down and had to be rightly subbed off for Tochukwu Nnadi.


#8 Tochukwu Nnadi played the second 45 mins and seriously impacted proceedings with his involvement in link up plays and our midfield passing sequences which kept our plays ticking. He provided 2 key passes as well but more than that recorded more than twice the passes Lawal had in the first 45. His energy, his intensity and ball plays saw the midfield 3 of Eletu, Daga and himself take full control of the middle game which began seeing us progress even further into the Italian half both on the counter and in regular offensive transitions.


Part 2 will be about the attack only. Stay tuned.


#MDU20WCDiaries.

daveP:
Yeah. I know. The other side go long to describe 😆

JohnBullMySon:
Racism is a joke compared the tribalism and bigotry present on just Nairaland alone

daveP:
the funny thing is this version is cos they don mellow. The one of slavery era was they coming to disrupt our ancestors lifestyle with their greed. Even if we have working country or continent, they'll still scramble for us cos our wealth is massive and addictive. Many of them are currently broke like France is.


As for those blacks returning, they themselves are a huge huge problem that may make indigenous africans to prefer the whites after settling down back here. They get wahala. They will need some tough factory reset to commune and stay with indigenes. They may even be more toxic with the tribalism sef. Hmmm.

daveP:
To me, All the Say No Yo Racism campaigns are just nothing. Cashcows for some folks like Nigeria NGOs. Players ate not benefitting. Just waste of show and energy.


And hey, they're all the same. Don't expect it to change when that in itself is one of the pillars of nationalism, esp the current wave of nationalism and politics. Shey na sports e go kon stop? A pity sha.

codemaniacs:
Orban is not tall enough to play CF..

Victor Boniface, Osimhen, Awoniyi, Terem Moffi, Umar Sadiq or Paul Onuachu should be the CF

Gift Orban should play LF

Victor Boniface or Umar Sadiq should play CF due to Osimhen offside wahala.

Terem Moffi should play RF

Osimhen or Awoniyi should play SS behind CF so that when crosses come in both Boniface and Osimhen will be in the box to head the ball.

solonnachi:
Italy are playing 4-1-2-1-2.against Brazil. Which kind formation be that?

Mujtahida:
France carry our eyes see pepper for final.

quickberry:
Even if we wan parade overage players, they should be good...not these carpenters and vulcanizers. Trinidad and Tobago 2001(u17 world cup), we paraded overage players, but we still played good football. No be dis kind gidigbo wey we dey play for dis tournament.

do4luv14:
Atlst heavy possession 1 2 football is on display,

Papi ah lie

do4luv14:
Even at that, we could had beaten them, If not for those questionable calls, like that PK from thin Air

Papi85:
Tochukwu Nnadi is good. His b/b play is impressive

do4luv14:
Na pep student dey Coach FG ooo, Don't you see the heavy 1 2, football on display 😂😂😂😂

Papi85:
Eletu is very calm on the ball

komekn:
You are correct similar but not SAME.

komekn:
I said this about 7/8 games ago that Everton will not be relegated.

Looking at the bottom 6 Everton have the best players and the greater quality squad depth.

Nwakali will not get into the youth team even if they allowed him at 24 to play in the U18's.

Kog45:
The different Iwobi 2 goals and 7 assists in top league EPL and Nwakili 1 goal and two assists in very lowly rated league SEGUNDA.The two are wide apart comparing the leagues.Yes nothing to talk on their influence cuz both failed to save their clubs from relegation.

komekn:
Nwakali under no circumstance should be on the same page talk less sentence as Iwobi.

Please BEECO

Papi85:
he needs to calm down while he’s good work on the pitch do the talking for him

Papi85:
This Orban boy don dey over talk. Mk em calm down joor

TheSuperNerd:
Orban: “Three goals is not enough for me. I always want more, I live on goals”

TheSuperNerd:
Gift Emmanuel Orban: Naija's Scoring Demon

Made Gent Debut in February.

20 games, 20 Goals

More accurately, 22 G+A in 17 starts.

6 Match Winners.

andrew444:
Call me biased ,but we can easily say Taiwo awoniyi single handedly saved forest from relegation

opes:
Not sure they survived yet

Kog45:
Well done Taiwo Awoniyi for proving doubting Thomas wrong.

Yes not that rated by some but some of us who know you from roots never for once doubted your ability to rise to the occasion.

I remembered your word to me in UAE during U17 WC you said uncle I made this team y the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ and a starter due to injury of reliable Isaac Success but I will not let Nigeria down.

I hope Nottingham Forest survive the relegation and congratulations to Man city.

chrisooblog:
Congrats to Man City one of the best if not the best side in the world right now.

Kudos also to the genius Guardiola for turning the 'competitive' EPL to a farmers league.

Arsenal no sugarcoating it we bottled the league but still super proud of what we did this season.

This will hurt no doubt but learn important lessons and get stronger for next season.

Big shoutout to Awoniyi. Despite an injury interrupted season you returned and stepped up when it mattered most.

tbaba1234:
It is me, I have logged in with my normal account. I had to reset the password.

Philosopher1979:
Abeg, nothing special.
Just remove corruption and bias from nff and we are okay.
Stealing money is the problem of nff thats all.
And selectng players is based on who knows who and who can bring money
From u17 to super eagles.
NFF is poor because it has stolen the money it got from its sponsors
and the new sponsors are afraid and do not trust nff
Dangote and Dozzy Mmbousi and many milloniaires in Nigeria
can fund nff but the theives there make everything impossible.
They are so myopic, selfish and wicked
Thats all
the structures are there
youth football, fantastic football academies, players been discovered
its just that some corrupt and short sighted personalties cannot see beyong their narrow selfish ambition

Note: Senegal and Morocco is not a big deal to me
THEY ARE NOT HISTORICAL GIANTS OF AFRICAN FOOTBALL
HOW MANY TIMES HAS BOTH OF THEM REACHED AN AFCON SEMI FINAL

If we get a good coach the next world cup semi-final is sure