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What will this thread be without Nwakali??

Lol that means Nwobodo don retire be that. At least for now

AndSunGorilla:
Messi too dey dia now . Ibra was still playing for the Swedish team after he left and Almiron left MLS for Newcastle, so never say never.

The funny part is his serious curiosity lol

TheSuperNerd:
He's literally dropping a reference to Eguavoen.😂😂😂

You missed the Joke.

Person when go MLS dey serious about national team football? That na the first question.

AndSunGorilla:
Have you monitored Nwobodo at all? I honestly haven't watched him play at all but I think he did well against Messi's team. Is he worth looking at at all in your opinion?

You dey find my mouth abi?

AndSunGorilla:
I dey suspect you too, u be dealer? Why u no think say he dey refer to my brothers and sisters from the south east of Nigeria?

Togo praying Orban does not score more goals this year

Me praying Ebuehi was in bench after seeing Roma-Empoli scoreline

Do you know Guardiola?

Meliforme:
Nobody on this thread has defended Wilfred Ndidi in the manner i have done his defense.
They say he is limited, i reply that he is not as limited as he is made to look, just that he has been told to keep it simple. He has been told to keep it simple is a statement i kept repeating.

I have known Wilfred Ndidi before his days at Leicester, qualities don't just disappear.

Concerning Kelechi Nwakall, i always have this to say: Victor Osimhen, Kelechi Nwakali and Wilfred Ndidi are the most important players in S.E, very important to how we play. They are like the backbone Eguavoen talked about. Get these guys into the starting lineup and boost our chances of winning any game. This is not a mere talk, but a product of a painstaking research.

Lol these days when we see another good striker we will be praying he is from another country.

charlesemeka85:
another striker 😭

The guy phone don magnet “Igbo” for autocorrect sake. I dey suspect am now.

TheSuperNerd:
We both know Nwakali and Alhassan aren't making the Afcon list unless JPes becomes "Born Again".

Also, who in the heavens is Igbo?? ABI YOU DON DEY SMOKE IGBO?

Updated on SofaScore

villagereporter:
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Is dis line up real sir?

See who starts away to Spartak

Na Ndidi ans championship prompt my post. Na u carry the matter go Nwakali like everything else. If u are not doing banter about Nwakali na OGN u dey post .

charlesemeka85:
that one concern u

No be because of the same nwakali prompted your post?🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Kettle calling pot black 🤣🤣🤣🤣

For sure

TheSuperNerd:
Let the season ride on. I would definitely do so with time. Putting everything together in one post.

Meanwhile, for now, as each striker pops up each week and we are in the mood, we could break down the unique quality or qualities of each striker outside the Top 3.

A fine discussion angle, Joebie. Kudos.

I see everything revolves around Nwakali

charlesemeka85:
you can’t compare the championship to laliga 2 or even Chaves as a whole 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

I will gladly welcome a player doing very well in championship clubs like Norwich, southampton,Leicester,Ipswich etc than a player from Chaves,Estrella, portimonense 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Una don dey praise Championship Abi.

charlesemeka85:
them don humble

Fiaaam they go dey tell u wan ekuke skill set is what is lacking in super eagles midfield 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Na only them dey see the skill set 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Nerdie, I’d like you to double down on this wirh SE in view. What is unique about each player, as well as which are similar? What will the outsiders (besides the top 3) bring to SE, that SE is lacking?

TheSuperNerd:
Nigeria's League of Extraordinary Hitmen

Nigeria is truly home to a special league of players.

TheGoodJoe calls them the League of Extraordinary Hitmen.

We have them in grades from A-Class to B-Class and to C-Class Strikers/Forwards.

They are:

🥇Victor Osimhen - Undisputedly World Class.

🥈Taiwo Awoniyi - Solid PL Performer who is relentless.

🥉Victor Okoh Boniface - Bundesliga's New Menace and a potential World Class CF with well rounded qualities.

4. Gift Orban - Another potential World Beater.

5. Terem Moffi - A Big Game Striker. On his day, he is literally unstoppable.

6. Kelechi Iheanacho - A 9 and a half. Clinical finisher. Incisive final ball expert. On his day, A bonafide game changer either as a 9 or an SS.

7. Sadiq Umar - A fit Sadiq is a big kanu-esque problem.

8. Akor Adams - New boy in Ligue 1. Still on the rise but will make a name for himself surely.

9. Ebere Paul Onuachu - Turkey based now but still an assured goals getter.

10. Emmanuel Dennis - Turkey based now too but when he really gets down to it, he can be menacing.

11. Etc.... for every other rising striker option out there across Europe and beyond.


Other mentions:

- Cyriel Dessers
- Josh Maja
- Chuba Akpom*

E no dey finish...

O pari

TheSuperNerd:
Not true @bolded.

JPes still doesn't know sh*t about what he needs in the middle. His list alone proves it. The only evidence that he knows lies in him inviting a player or two that will address those limitations.

Lookman and Iheanacho worked well majorly because the opponent was Sao Tome. Taking nothing from both lads but against Tougher opposition in African football, they both won't see, regularly, in a game the space they saw against Sao Tome in the half spaces and between the lines.

So playing Lookman and Iheanacho as false wingers behind Awo and Osimhen was just to overwhelm Sao Tome with our attacking prowess. Something they as a far weaker opposition obviously could not cope with.

Better play no doubt. We can also attribute it to the better pitch

TheSuperNerd:
Nerdie returns on page 15,000.

Iconic. 🤗💥💥

Meliforme... thanks so much for your short yet beautiful analysis on the game. It was only yours that truly captured how we really played and approached the tie vs Sao Tome. It was indeed a 4-4-2 or let me say in its truest essence, a 4-2-2-2 approach because Lookman and Iheanacho operated more as false wingers and attacking midfielders through the half spaces.

Yes, It is Sao Tome... we were expected to win no doubt. So we should not scream "Eureka" because of the result. Like Joebie said, we beat Sao Tome 10-0 and felt on top until Algeria and co brought us back to reality.


But the difference this time lies in the personnel coming through for us and in how we moved forward in attack.

Ndidi's forward plays, Boniface's easy-on-the-eyes understanding of the withdrawn striker role (#. Iheanacho's false winger role from the right half space/right channel... Bruno Onyemaechi's understanding on the overlap and underlay... Lookman's inside forward swagger... Osimhen's dominant box performance and ability to shift outwide to accommodate a fellow CF in the middle and Chukwueze's hybrid role as a half space operator and true wing force.


The midfield still needs a few tweaks and the defence isn't there yet especially centrally but the Fullbacks options has fine depth now.

LB - Zaidu, Bruno, Collins and/or Bassey

RB - Aina, Osayi-Samuel, Ebuehi

JPes gotta just get the CB pair right and finally get the midfield balance that will instantly make the Super Eagles true Afcon Favorites.

Time will tell.

Relatively speaking yes. We need a full strength Morocco and Senegal to give us some reality check. Zimbabwe and Lesotho will cover for Southern African opponent warm ups

Kog45:
Sir Joebie,are you saying Lesotho and Zimbabwe are not great test in WC qualifier.

Hands when I don rest since. Where you hide put? U leave me to carry your Nwakali matter for head. Emeka and komekn buttons I don press tire haha

TheSuperNerd:
Hands still dey pain you? 😏

Well, I was only looking at the FIFA calendar which applies to every member federation. But yes you are right AFCON participants can squeeze something out during the winter break/camping phase

Amedino99:
I thought countries are allowed to play a friendly or two before the start of afcon.

We have another international break to arrange a max of 2 matches from October 9-17

Then we have two WC qualifiers on Nov 13 and Nov 20. That’s a possible max of 4 grade A matches before AFCON. Considering Zimbabwe and Lesotho are not great tests we must utilize the FIFA window in October if we are serious about winning the next AFCON.

If una like make una think say we don ready for defense department. This victory reminds me of how we beat the São Tomé 10-0 and we were feeling like we were all that.

We only have attack. We need games to know what we are doing defensively especially in the CB position.

NwaIdeato:
I'll put my neck on the chopping block by insisting that Iheanacho will really thrive in that #10 role if he's given the chance to realpt grow into the role. I know it was Sao Tome but I've always seen Iheanacho as a very cerebral attacking midfielder type of player who can play off the shoulder of our #9s (Awo, Osimhen, Boniface and Gift). When Iwobi returns, it becomes a question of how we can fit in all this plethora of attacking options (that will be Peseiros biggest puzzle and I don't envy him one bit). The dynamism of our attack is such that we might have to play more of a 352 formation to really bring out the best of our forwards.

And to think that Nathan Tella and Chuba Akpom haven't even joined sef.

Ndidi is finally growing on me, that new role he has been playing under Enzo Maresca as this ball progressing #8 has unlocked some crazy beast in him, his passing both on-and-off the ball looks so assured, even God knows we badly needed this Ndidi revamp cause he's a very solid player that needed the right coaching to unload his abilities and express himself fluidly.

Boniface, Awo, Osimhen and potentially Gift Orban will do some serious damage at that AFCON, with Ademola/Nathan Tella and Chukwueze on the wings.

I like Frank Onyeka's game, solid pivot in that midfield with very good attacking abilities as well, him and Ndidi will form a solid anchor, Aribo is still decent. We definitely do need 2-3 more midfielders to be finally complete in that department.

Our full back depth is really GOOD- Aina, Ebuehi, Bruno onyemaechi, Osayi Bright, Zaidu/Collins.

Center back pairings still a work in progress so the jury is still out on what the likes of Bassey and Jordan Torunarigha will offer...but veterans like Ajayi, Ekong and maybe Omeruo will be trusted to bring some stability to that backline at the AFCON.

I think we're few midfield tweaks away from being ready for the big stage, maybe Peseiro should look the way of either Fisayo dele bashiru, Kelechi Nwakali and perhaps one of the U20 boys.

Na tubu tubu mess am he go do.

solonnachi:
Why Jpes no play Jordan now?
Have we gotten an option to Iwobi in that midfield because I saw Iheanacho and Lookman doing a good job today?
Who will Jpes pick to AFCON from Osayi, Aina and Ebuehi for RWB?
Who will Jpes pick to AFCON from Sanusi, Bruno and Collins for LWB?
We need quality friendlies before AFCON.

Keep soaring Super Eagles!

We have felt this same way before, after beating the same team

Stat padding match

Haha I understand you. This is why we can never get a quality coach.

Kog45:
When a coach agreed to pay cut then something was wrong….J Peseiro na dem dem coach nau.

That’s the problem. Because Nigeria are underachievers considering the talents we’ve always had. Nothing is guaranteed with Nigeria. But we def have more chances in AFCON and WC than Togo.

AndSunGorilla:
Well Adebayor got both.

Ehen.

jihday:
oh, to play yes he’ll have plenty of it, I thought you meant opportunities to achieve things in football

What was my original statement? Oga

elunico:
What are his chances of playing in the World Cup with Togo?

Na lie eh? Who wan compete with Orban in the forward position playing for Togo. He will play almost every game if fit even if na qualifiers for AFCON and WC. What’s the lie in that?

Orban has more competition in SE than Togo. What’s the lie in that? Na wa

jihday:
this one na lie o