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Was he listed by Klopp for this season? If yes, then he is very much in klopps's plans

jotey:
I still wonder why he refused to go on loan

That's the beauty of dynamism.

AIG07:
I'm loving it with the way the team is having abundant wingers and fullbacks who can play on both sides.

Did anyone notice that our only goal came when Simon and Victor swap sides? The cameroonians became so confused that they were caught unexpected and out of position.

Ejaria Trains With Liverpool First Team Pre-Manchester City
Published: September 05, 2017
Ejaria Trains With Liverpool First Team Pre-Manchester City
Liverpool continued their preparations for the Premier League clash with Manchester City at City of Manchester Stadium, with a training session held at Melwood on Monday morning.

Based on the photos published by the official website of the Reds, former Nigeria U17 trainee Ovie Ejaria may be drafted into the first team by manager Jurgen Klopp for the visit to M11 3FF, having trained with the squad.

Golden Ball winner of the 2017 Fifa U20 World Cup Dominic Solanke is away on international duty with the England U21s who are preparing to face Latvia on Tuesday, and wasn't involved in the session.

Ejaria has not made Liverpool's match day squad for their first five competitive fixtures this season, but it is thought he is still in the plans of Klopp as the transfer window closed for business last week and he remained at Anfield.

The 19-year-old has appeared twice for the U23 squad in Premier League 2, notching an assist against Sunderland on August 20.

Ifeanyi Emmanuel

Photo Credit : liverpoolfc.com
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Exactly.. And never do we have to sub Mikel out in other to hold on to our lead. Just switch him to a DMF. Our players can be that dynamic

AIG07:
beautiful suggestion. This will afford us to create more chances and cut open defences with a two edge sword with Mikel thumping the long balls for counter attacks why Iwobi brings in those sleeky decisive defence splitting passes. This will be pure football!

Once again I say,Victor Moses is our BEST player

Very good point. I see Mikel more as a versatile midfielder, than a stand out AM. For AM we have very good options also . I remember Siasia stressing we should rather use Iwobi there. In my estimation, Iwobi will become a legend

jotey:
iwobi
.we can move Mikel back to CMF

I'm lost o

daveP:
yah. or it doesnt amaze u one bit?

Dey twale??

daveP:
Joe is not joe. as for this level i can conclude you sef dew twale for hgm attimes. marvel!!

Victor Moses is ANS' MOTM

Well but this will be Nwakali's first season in the Eredivisie. I mean he just got loaned to VVV Venlo. Do you really feel his exploit in their second tier wasn't noticed. How did u verify that?

komekn:
I am in agreement with you.

Nwakali on this thread is being considered on past glories but glories in youth football. He has spent a season at low rated Dutch club. If he was making waves he would be well known in the Eredivisie but he is not. Currently he doesn't merit a call up. The SE is not for boys but those who have proven themselves worthy.

It's quite obvious that we do not have a replacement for Mikel. I really would have liked to see Ogu in that midfield to see what he can do, particularly in the latter stages of today's game. His composure and calmness could possibly have calmed down matters for us opposed to the frantic play we adopted towards the end.

I actually would consider Sone Aluko for that role as a quality option.

Lol. I'm that kinda person. I agree with u today, disagree with u tomorrow. Or I could even disagree with everyone. Hardly with the crowd

daveP:
football philosophy can make him debate 20peeps at a go. mehn!

Did anyone notice that some refs would have blew another penalty against for one of those tackles in the 18?

Uwc lol .. How Na?

daveP:
Okay. gracias. joe na 1man mopol o. not your joe actually

He was. I saw it on the line up

daveP:
Wait o, why wasnt he listed among the subs on screen?

It's not a sin to park the bus The problem is we could have done it better. We were playing away, and we needed at least a point. We had already prooved that Cameroon was our baby in the first tie. The only thing we needed to prove is that we could beat them again in their own backyard to confirm our dominance. And it's totally fine to that parking the bus.

TheGoodJoe:
I have never in my life watched Nigeria play such abominable football parking before. Never ever. Until Cameroon turned to Barcelona for us.

Except the bullying we suffered at the left back, we played an excellent game today.

Personally I would choke up the midfield and lunch long passes to the attack every now and then.
Ezenwa has done the necessary job. But is he our 1st choice? No. I can't even say it's Enyeama either. We will need to find the answer soon.

It's time to go for Torunarigha since the World Cup ticket is almost in the bag.

Shehu was great as RB

Vic Mo can play almost anywhere on that pitch. Why is everyone forgetting that he hit the bar... He can lunch fast attack from anywhere. His is not the kind of player that can be tamed. Why is no one seeing that he can play as AM?

Exactly what I was saying. Replace Exhiejile with Aina. Choke up the midfield. I saw Aina in bench. He was the first from left before the start of the match

AIG07:
another beautiful one over there. Cameroon ain't that strong in the middle. I think I pointed this out during the confed cup. But I was so amazed they won the central midfield battle.

Switching to a 5-4-1 or 4-5-1 formation would have balance things up. But after the goal he chose 4-3-3 with tiring wide men(the two moses). It came to a time I didn't even see S.Moses on the pitch-I even taught he had been sub.

Eh wait was Aina on the bench? Cos me no see am.

Mathematically they could still qualify if they beat Algeria, hold us to a draw and beat Cameroon, thy hoping that we lose our final match to Algeria. Let me just say if Zambia fails to beat Algeria tomorrow, we would need just one more point from the last two games to qualify.

Icon79:
Folks, enough of all these permutations. Here's your SIMPLE MATH: Nigeria now need just one point against Zambia in Uyo in October to qualify for #Russia2018.

So get all those champagne bottles chilled for the October 7th cracker at Uyo.


O pari

I agree 100% with what you just said

Modified
In fact let me say you are very much on point. I had to think over all you said again

goldfish80:
This is a very tough game to analyse to be honest.
I felt the team played a very tactical game, following a well laid out plan from the bench. They played like a team who was set up not to loose. The first 20 minutes was to avoid conceeding and try to keep the Camerounians at bay, the next phase of the game was to excert pressure on their defence. Solid game management I must say based on the circumstance we found our selves needing just a Point from the encounter.

We got a goal and waited for the Camerounians to react so we can get the ball behind their defence with our pacey strikers when they committed players forward. To execute this sort of game plan required zero margin for errors but unfortunately, we conceeded a penalty.


On the part of the Camerounians, they frustrated our engine room (Mikel) by allowing him no room to dictate the tempo of the game. They tried to cut off passing lanes from the defence to the midfield as much as possible which resulted in the Super Eagles launching balls up front.

I will rate Victor Moses, Balogun, Alhaji Shehu and Odion as our best performers. All the same, I would have bitten off the fingers of anyone who offered me 4points out available 6 against Cameroon when the seeding was made. Not a bad result at all.

Best Zambia and qualify with a game to spare. This was our wish when the seeding was made. We are well on course.

It was perfect.. Or how many goals do we have to score away for you to agree we were executing the plan perfectly -- answer, one. We did just that, and we could have won this. Sometimes counter attacks are made cutting of the midfield by lunching long balls to the artackers.. I know we were capable I the win. Personally I would have subbed uwa for Aina. Switch Moses to AM after replacing Mikel -- yes I said so. Bring in Ogu instead of Mikel for more cover. In other words adopt a more defensive approach and choke up the midfield, while fixing our LB. like I said before, Shehu have found a home in RB. If anything, we were in danger of losing this game had the game been longer.

As for Ezenwa, I'm happy he was exposed in this game. It will be a blessing in disguise.

Oasis007:
Nah! It wasn't perfect. The Combo of Ekong and Balogun made it look like. The Midfield lost the Battle, couldn't win second Balls too.

The Team was set to hit the Cameroonians on Counter, did we succeed?! Poor touches and passes in Midfield didn't make it work.

BTW..... I really don't wish to argue on Team Performance rather to appreciate them all!

Playing to the game plan is perfectly.. We were meant to hit them on the counter and soak up the pressure

Oasis007:
Perfectly?! No! Nothing is perfect with the Performance, rather average. Also we shouldn't nail Ezenwa for the Penalty conceded, rather we should thank God that the Ref wasn't biased and decided to overlook some reckless Challenges that would have resulted in Pks.

We should be happy we get a Point out of the Match. It worth celebrating! Ezenwa is ready, he has proven it and if the Coaches trust him, he earned it.

Echiejile's wing was badly leaky

Thank you.. Besides we were playing perfectly even after Mikel was subbed out in the previous match. I didn't even think Mikel was one of our top performers today. But glad I'm now confident that we will not be too comfortable with Ezenwa as our first choice

tbaba1234:
There was no problem.. The team was playing perfectly before the mistake by Ezenwa.

Dissapointed.. But goodbye Ccameroon

The result will still be 4-0.

I thought Mikel failed in one of our build ups to a good counter attack opportunity. He needs to raise his game after the break

Vic Mo continued from where he left off in the first match, but his crosses could be better

Shehu has finally settled for a position.

Ighalo is the major reason why we scored

edi287:
Disjointed game so far. Balogun, Moses and Ighalo have been our best players. We need to get control back at mid.

Balogun is my MOTM so far. Close call with Odion Ighalo

Much to my surprise stadium scanty o

Coincidentally I feel the same way I felt before that first game -- no nerves at all. Expect a similar result.

OMANBALA1:
Chai, seventeen minutes to kick off.... Adrenaline is high.

Lol u are officially in now. Glad to have u here for good and all the new voices.. Keep up the good job TheSuperNerd

TrueHuman:
my oga, how i for do..?.the thread na gold mine...lol,unadulterated football analysis,intelligent arguments,family settings just to mention a few.