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seborrhic:
It's in England they would be flexing muscles, scoring in every game and very early.
But for 90 whole minutes the same team could not even score, talkless of defeating a struggling Athetico Madrid team

By your logic, LA liga was nonsense last season because Barcelona who won it easily were humbled at Anfield 4-0.

I hope you agree with me.

Liverpool to vent their Champions League frustration on West Ham.
Correct score: 3-0.

Goal!
Lacazette

MorataFC:
Weldone sir

I'll remind you at the end of the tie in about 3 weeks time.

You can quote me after the match, Liverpool will hammer them 4-1.

And you can take that to the bank.

Liverpool has always struggled against teams that play 4-4-2 (Remember Napoli?).
So I see them just slightly edging this tie

SHEGZYDONIAA:
Oga... Watch out none of this 3teams can defeat Man City... Madrid is going out in this round.... I think you need to re-check your list

Quote me at the end of the tie.
Man City go chop am home and away. And you can take that to the bank!!!

Manchester City are facing a possible Premier League points deduction and could even be forced to play in League Two in the wake of their Champions League ban, experts have warned.

The club have today been banned by UEFA from European club competitions for two seasons and handed a €30m (£25m) fine for "serious breaches" of football's European governing body's Financial Fair Play rules. UEFA's Adjudicatory Chamber found the club had overstated its sponsorship revenue in accounts submitted between 2012 and 2016.

As well as handing a major boost to the teams battling for fifth place such as Spurs, Chelsea and Sheffield United, the ruling could also have a knock-on effect on the side's Premier League status. This is because any club has to supply true information to get a Premier League license, information which would have had to be the same as that supplied to UEFA.

High-level sources have told The Independent that this will force the Premier League to act because of their own licensing which follows on from UEFA's Financial Fair Play regulations. The paper reports that Premier League committees had already discussed possible punishments for City if they were handed a ban by UEFA, with a points deduction now seen as "highly likely".

Although City have said they will fight to have the ban overturned, sources claim this wouldn't be the case with any Premier League punishment because of the specific situation.

The Football League recently changed its rules so that any club found in such a situation would be bumped down to League Two. This would mean City swapping their battles for the top of the table for League Two crunch ties against the likes of Grimsby Town, Forest Green and Port Vale. Instead of the Manchester derby seeing City take on United in the cauldron of Old Trafford, their nearest league rivals would likely be Salford City, owned by former United legends Phil and Gary Neville, Nicky Butt, Paul Scholes, Ryan Giggs and David Beckham.

https://www.dailystar.co.uk/sport/football/man-city-facing-points-deduction-21500707

ZombieHUNT:
Shut Up there my Yoruba Muslim friend
GoTV

Make no mistake, he is not Yoruba. He's Hausa Fulani. And there are many of such monikers on nairaland who are Hausa-Fulani but keep on masquerading as Yoruba.

AreaFada2:
They all already know Bubu is a disaster. But too proud or too cautious (most are veritable coward) to admit it.
Just wait. They will properly speak up and dissociate themselves from the disaster after May 2023.

Spot on!

obailala:
And look at this idiot here thinking he knows me or knows where I'm from simply because I advised him to drop the needless inter-tribal slurs he was introducing to this thread. Do you actually think the reason I responded to your comment was to join you in the gutter of your inter-tribal stupidity?

This thread talked about a police station and everybody seemed to be making fun of the camera quality and all of a sudden, gbam!!! One idiot found found a way to turn the thread into another retardedd tribal contest. You obviously dont realise how stupid you and your kind sound when you run around with these your yoruba vs igbo slurs on this forum.

Just incase no one has told you this, grow up and start acting like a normal human!

You are right he shouldn't have turned it into a tribal contest. However, you need to look at the comments of the OP on this thread to know that he took that picture to denigrate the Yoruba tribe as he even went ahead to claim that the governor of Ekiti state is not performing well because of a dirty police station - a federal agency- he has found within the state.

So he probably sensed the tribal bigotry in his post and then gave it back to him before he succeeds in having a field day in his tribalism.

So there is no fun in the thread to begin with because of the stain of tribal bigotry it carries.

And do well to take a look at the antecedents of the OP.

Finally, I know you're Yoruba from your previous posts but I for one will never allow the quest for approval make me describe my father's house with a left hand.

Have a nice day sir.

Not surprised as Buhari has shown no interest in the federal character in his appointments.

tartar9:
They are both criminals

Not supporting any of them. In fact, I'm against the amnesty program as it has also become a means of siphoning money.

helinues:
That's done everywhere in the world except for exceptional cases.

Those who have been attacking with knives recently in UK are repentant suspected terrorists

Repentant or ex inmates?

At least they served their time for their previous crime and that's very different from releasing terrorists without trial now.

Lalasticlala, can you please give this a wider coverage so we can have a sound argument on this?

Ebenezar2020:
Like I've always told you, you're a kid with zero knowledge of politics.
This is called Prerogative Of Mercy.
The Sole Exclusive right of the President to pardon and forgive and bring them back to the society.
After all Niger Delta militants also received amnesty and were rehabilitated and placed among the society during the Yaradua/Jonathan era

I believe there is a world of difference between militants and terrorists.

chatinent:
One of the judicial functions of the Chief Executive is amnesty or a presidential pardon. But personally, this particular case is abnormal.

Presidential pardon without trial? Presidential pardon to terrorists?

Please are you a legal expert? I'm just curious because I know there is Terrorism Prevention Act or something like that.

GamalNasser:
Exactly What law is Buhari using to make these killers avoid trial ? Where did he get the power to "canonize" captured Terrorist from ? Why can't armed robbers and Evans enjoy such priviledge too

If there is no legal backing, why then is there a deafening silence on the part of legal luminaries on this issue?

Or has Nigeria turned into 'democratic communist' state where speaking against the wrong actions of the government is no longer tolerated?

PlayerMeji:
My person, I share your views on this. And I hope you understand that there's a war raging on for the soul of this country and the souls of Christians in it.

They are released to propagate the jihad on this nation after all the atrocious deeds perpetuated while some ethnic groups have been warned not to attend the burial ceremony of the father of the erstwhile leader of the group.

All in this country.

Thanks for your contribution.

But I will appreciate an argument in support or against this action citing relevant sections the law.

With heavy heart and great sadness, I read the news about repented and rehabilitated Boko-Haram members being released and reintegrated into the society.

However, as a novice of law who is interested in knowing what the law says concerning the action of the Federal Government, I want the law experts to please shed more light on the position of the law regarding this issue.

Is it constitutional?
If it is not, why is there a deafening silence from legal experts on this action of the government?
Why can't armed robbers, hired killers, kidnappers and so on also not benefit from same rehabilitation?
Why is the NASS silent on this issue?
Can the Federal Government turn itself into prosecutor and judge at the same time.

So many questions in my head right now.

Sad!

I hope no one steals the testing kits.
This is Nigeria!

sarrki:
This is sooooo sad.

NMA Kaduna regrets to announce the gruesome murder of the wife of our colleague, Dr Philip Ataga, who was kidnapped 1 week ago alongside her 2 daughters, who are still in the captivity of the kidnappers. She was murdered while negotiations were still going on. May her soul rest in peace. Let's kindly pray for the safe release of the daughters. Amen

PRO
Dr Baton B. Ayuba
NMA Kaduna State.

I am an ardent supporter of Muhammadu Buhari I voted for him in 2015 and supported him for his promises to tackle insecurity

Boko Haram was threatening everyone including myself and family and the incumbent then president Gej was incapable of putting it to a stop

I campaigned and contributed morally and financially in my locality for Buhari being a former military officer a major general and war vateran

Me and others excused him in the first term thinking he’s trying to study and settle down but we are all wrong

We are only battling with Boko Haram then

What we have now is bandits, kidnapping , Boko Haram , Fulani herdsmen and iswap

He should stop playing saint hiding under some people are sabotaging his government

He his the commander in Chief

His first responsibilities is securing life’s and property of the citizenry

Mr President you have failed me and many well meaning Nigerians that voted for you against all odds

I'm I dreaming?

Someone should please wake me up!!!

masterflowx:
You dey write like .
Though we know you're very bitter about the Liverpool progression right now.
But thank you for accepting your fate.
YNWA!!!

Bitter? You are talking to the wrong person. I'm a neutral football fan and I support any good team. This season, I'm rooting for Liverpool to win the league as I don't want Manchester City to win it for the third time in a row. Some people even think I'm a Liverpool fan self.

Liverpool want mark three points register this night as always.

They have been consistently consistent and it is impossible for them not to break the 100 point barrier set by Man City with the way they are going.

It's their time and they should enjoy it to the fullest.

Goingon:
Brodha i am with you

Let's also include Korea Sweden China India Japan Brazil Canada USA Iceland France Russia Antartica while we are at it.

The more the merrier , if we get more Africans to see light we will rule the world sire .

The first humans were from Africa so the whole world is African isn't it ?

Thunder fire those who dare to correct us

Sir i beech you please continue , don't get discouraged pikins don try.

I really like your sarcasm. If he had said a black country, maybe one can even think about his argument, but that Guyana is an African country? Common!!!

Efewestern:
I think there was a misunderstanding, Iran's foreign minister only said his country will only accept new negotiations if US lifts sanctions.

No doubts, sanctions are crippling the economy, but this same country has been under similar circumstances for almost 4 decades, I doubt if they'd give in to Trump's demand.

At the end of the day, we hope both countries find a common ground, atleast from all indications, both countries do not want conflict, a good news by the way.

I still see that interview as a covert way of saying:
The sanctions are killing Iran's economy, so we want US to come back to the negotiation table.

Kevinsamba:
I'm down with something
Is sore throat and constipation part of it's symptoms

Please check yourself into an hospital immediately to confirm it's not Lassa fever.

Astark:
Mhen this messi guy has haters oo. Just go on any football page on Facebook, twitter and Instagram even when the post doesn't concern messi or Barcelona, they'll still troll and insult him.
Modified
The mumu op has removed the picture, clown

Dobosiyesa!

Igbosmoker:
This op is a big fool.

Tell me any person dead or alive that has won this achievement!!

World cup golden ball
2x copa America best player
Olympic medal and best player
Under 20 world cup best player.

Has Argentina highest goal scoring record ever
Has the most assists in international competition ever.
Damn

So much venom in your post.
You be snake?

Anyways, for the records, I'm a Messi fan, but I just searched through my picture archive and the only one relating to Barcelona I found was that Messi picture. I have Ronaldo troll pictures on my phone too. I downloaded them because I see them as funny and nothing more. I no carry footballers for head like gala o. Picture edited sha.

So focus on the news and let's have your take on Barcelona's new coach.

Quique Setien has been chose to take over as Barcelona coach from
Ernesto Valverde.
The Barcelona board approved the decision for the 61-year-old to become the new Blaugrana boss unanimously, with the former Betis
coach's stock having gone up since this morning.
Barring any surprises, Setien will become the new Barcelona boss.
A frenetic day at Barcelona began in the morning when Valverde took his last training session at noon, then president Josip Maria Bartomeu informed him that his time with the club was over.
By the afternoon, and after a tense board meeting, Setien was chosen as coach until June.
The contract details are yet to be finalised, but no problems are expected and Setien 's agent is already in Barcelona.


More to follow

Source: https://www.marca.com/en/football/barcelona/2020/01/13/5e1cbf7122601d111f8b4677.html

There's a long list of anti-tackling propaganda out there. The legendary, blue-eyed, Italian defender Paolo Maldini famously said: "If I have to make a tackle, I've already made a mistake." If there's an heir to Maldini's on-field elegance, it's former Spain midfielder Xabi Alonso, who added a much longer entry to the 'ball-winning-is-bad' discourse.
"I don't think tackling is a quality," Alonso told Sid Lowe back in 2011. "It is a recurso: something you have to resort to, not a characteristic of your game."
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He went on: "I can't get into my head that football development would educate tackling as a quality, something to learn, to teach, a characteristic of your play. How can that be a way of seeing the game? I just don't understand football in those terms.
"Tackling is a [last] resort, and you will need it, but it isn't a quality to aspire to, a definition."
Alonso, of course, got to play next to the kinds of players who did all the tackling for him. They'd win the ball back so Alonso could sweep it up, down and across the field with his trademark passing precision. First, it was Javier Mascherano at Liverpool, then Sami Khedira and Lassana Diarra at Real Madrid, and finally Javi Martinez and Arturo Vidal at Bayern Munich. Were he playing today, perhaps Alonso would be lucky enough to play with Wilfred Ndidi.
The 23-year-old Nigerian was purchased by Leicester City for £17 million from Belgian club Genk in December 2016, just weeks before his 20th birthday. He was brought in to replace N'Golo Kante, the two-players-in-one dynamo whom the club sold to Chelsea for around £32m the summer after their incredible Premier League triumph.
Unfortunately for Ndidi, Kante was seemingly a one-of-a-kind, irreplaceable player. In his only season with Leicester, the club improved by more than 40 points and won the title. In his first season with Chelsea, the club improved by 40 points and won the title. He's one of only two defence-oriented midfielders, along with Arsenal legend Patrick Vieira, to win the Premier League Player of the Season award. He also landed both the PFA Players' Player of the Year and FWA Footballer of the Year awards too.
No pressure, huh? Well, it has been a little more than three years since Ndidi arrived in the Midlands, and not only has he challenged Kante's claim as the best ball-winning midfielder in the world, but he's proving Alonso wrong. Tackling isn't just a quality. It's a driving force behind Leicester's rise toward the top of the Premier League.
Want the ball? Ask Ndidi
The first two months of the season were a slog. Despite winning two, drawing two and losing one, Leicester were grinding out results in an unsustainable fashion. Per the site FBRef, they created 4.4 expected goals in the first five matches and conceded 4.6. In other words, every game was something like a coin flip. They could win any game, but they could lose any game, too -- and that isn't a recipe to break into the Top Six, let alone qualify for the Champions League.
Then something changed. Brendan Rodgers, it seems, realised that he had a weapon and finally decided to deploy it.
In the first five games of the season, Rodgers mainly played Hamza Choudhury, a perfectly capable ball-winning midfielder, alongside Ndidi and Youri Tielemans in midfield. That structure kept them in every game, for good and for ill. However, the tactical beauty of having an omnipotent ball winner player such as Ndidi in your squad is that he allows you to shove an extra attacker onto the field without losing much (if any) defensive solidity. It's why Pep Guardiola has been able to play the likes of David Silva and Kevin De Bruyne as de facto midfielders at the same time -- it's all thanks to Fernandinho. And in the age of three-man midfields, it's why Leicester won the Premier League with a midfield of Kante and Danny Drinkwater before Chelsea won the Premier League with a midfield of just Kante and Nemanja Matic.
Rodgers dropped Choudhury from the starting XI and then dropped James Maddison, a player who would've been a traditional No. 10 a decade ago, from the front three and into the midfield. Since the 1-0 loss to Manchester United in the middle of September, Leicester have won 12, drawn one and lost three. Their performances have kicked into a much higher gear, too: They've created 29.9 expected goals and conceded just 20.5. At the heart of it all, Ndidi has been an absolute machine.
Truly dominant players tend to create easily digestible stat bytes -- read every Lionel Messi article I've ever written -- and Ndidi is no different. It's simple: He has won more tackles (53) and made more interceptions (56) than any other player in the Premier League. Add up the defensive work of his midfield partners, Tielemans and Maddison, and neither their combined tackles (43) nor their interceptions (26) come close to matching Ndidi's mark. He's doing the dirty work all by himself.
However, that doesn't even do his dominance justice. Leicester average more possession than all but 13 teams across England, Italy, Spain and Germany's top flights. Part of that is because Ndidi is able to keep winning them the ball back, but that also means there are fewer opportunities for him to make defensive plays. TruMedia, though, offers defensive statistics that normalise possession for every 1,000 opponent touches. Ndidi is averaging 7.33 tackles and 4.74 interceptions per 1,000 opponent touches. Both marks are top in the four aforementioned leagues.
Want someone to go and get the ball for you? Right now, there's no one in the world better than Ndidi.
Now, he doesn't do a ton more once the ball is won, but he does just enough. He completes an above-average proportion of his passes (around 86%) and plays a central role in moving the ball into the attacking third. Among Leicester players, only Tielemans and Maddison have completed more passes into that area. Plus, with Ndidi on the field, Leicester are able to have two players in their midfield who can move the ball into the penalty area -- both Tielemans and Maddison are in the top 20 of the league in passes into the box -- in addition to three attackers in front of them. Their ceiling now is so much higher than it was back in September.
Although Leicester are second in the table, they're probably due for some regression. The three matches against Liverpool and Manchester City were a reality check. Across those three games, they generated 1.2 expected goals and conceded 9.2. Jamie Vardy is also finishing his chances at a Messi-esque rate of 14 non-penalty goals on just 8.8 expected. Through the first 21 games, Leicester have the fifth-best expected-goal differential in the league. But since they decided to let Ndidi control the middle all by himself, they've been significantly better than that.
Thanks to the financial gap between them and the 14 other clubs, the Premier League's Top Six were supposed to be unbreakable, but Ndidi & Co. have shattered that idea. With a 14-point lead over fifth-place Manchester United, they're heavy favourites to return to the Champions League next season.
Ndidi certainly belongs there. Whether it's with Leicester or some other bigger, richer team that decides it wants its own one-man midfield, he should be at the top of the game for a long, long time. For any aspiring Xabi Alonsos out there or anyone who wants to dribble a ball over the next decade, here's a scary thought: Ndidi turned 23 only a couple weeks ago.

Culled from: https://africa.espn.com/football/leicester-city/story/4029200/why-leicesters-wilfred-ndidinot-chelseas-ngolo-kanteis-the-best-ball-winner-around?device=featurephone