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safarigirl:
HT

Malawi 0-0 Senegal

More importantly

Zimbabwe 2-0 Guinea

At HT Group Standings

Senegal 5Pts
Guinea 4Pts
Malawi 4Pts
Zimbabwe 3Pts

Contrary to what the points may suggest, this is just a group of unserious teams

Zimbabwe is the worst,the team lack character.

TFLASHOGEE:
uncle kog you will be tagged as one of does that aren't honest for this as Dem don mention earlier say you don dey follow bad eggs na observe I observe o I know want missile or atomic bomb abeg my defense know strong

Ha bad eggs for Super eagles thead...My man no lele na faceless forum we dey,here sometimes na cruise o...in reality we go respect ourselves wella.

safarigirl:
Sometimes, na that kain response some people need

I say Ekong for tell the journalist, "Oh, you too you were not informed? I have married O"

Osimhen for ask the journalist "Is that why we are here?"

Yes the question look somehow,especially to a married man cos madam dey house dey watch o

Mujtahida:
You think I won't be happy if he plays well? I will because he's a SE player. Shikena

A fan that doesn't happy see his team winning cos his favorite player not making the team is having mental disorder.

safarigirl:
Please, you people should see what a journalist is asking your player in Pre-match press Conference. A whole somebody's husband

I don laugh scatter, na bad thing to fine in this world of Sodom and Gomorrah?

Kai see mature response....if na my nigger Osimehn the journalist for know wetin dey....like it seems u dey craze abi go ask ya mama for house....na joke I dey o.

Uzomacharles:
Please I made my research and found out that NIGERIA U17 will be held next year and I really wanna to participate in it due to my love for football and joy to see myself representing Nigeria home and abroad...

But this is the problem, I'm a student in Owerri (FUTO) and I play for my department as winger,midfielder and striker if the need arise and I want to know if there's anyway I can connect to any trial or scout or even an agent here in nigeria?.land which birth Emmanuel Amuneke,Kelechi Nwakali,Chidiebere Nwakali,Samuel Nnoshiri etc....
I would love to see your helpful feedbacks and also welcome for any insult too lol

University student in U17 camp?look somehow my man.....my candid advice for you,try to make it to U20 team,also don't joke with NUGA games cos have seen friends who made it from there to various clubs in NPFL but if you can work harder then you make world university games,players like ex polish international Emma Olisadebe,ex super eagles Seyi Olofinjana,old eagles Adokiye Aimeasemeka,former NPFL highest goal scorer Edith Agoye,one cap eagles Dayo Ajoge,ex Fly eagles Adeolu Adekola,ex eagles Andrew Uwe,Segun Odegbami and many more were products of school games

Do not be discouraged if you don't make it to national youth teams cos Seyi Olofinjana and Emma Olisadebe didn't played for any youth teams but made it through world university games held in Japan and Italy.

Good luck son.

Danielnino00:
Jibola Adebola looking unfazed as he read criticism from Nairalanders

Do you think those guys send...Nwakili and co dey flex for camp o na we dey see loopholes wey no dey.

I saw Aribo and Nwakil pictures I just dey laugh with our comments on them....$10k(bonus) richer yesterday.

IDENNAA:
You are begging roll and rhyme with some bad aggs...lol

Oga Idenna nawa o....don't worry one day I go jam u for states and knock ya head.

IDENNAA:
By the way , Cc.Kog45 you are a suspect. I can sense it in your Aribo defence. I have noticed a trend in your Aribo crusade. Be careful so you don't ruin your reputation here.

My man quote me out where I defended Aribo foolishly....the same Aribo I criticised prior to Afcon,so saying it in football terms that what Aribo has churned out so far in Afcon is remarkable is a sin.

Pls I want to know why I'am a suspect,pls I want to know my good friend.

IDENNAA:
So , because David Alaba donated money the whole world has to stand still ? We have thousands of Nigerian players who have investment running into billions that employ thousands of Nigerians , but we don't hear about it.

Now , Alaba donated money 13 million dollars and that should close the conversation o, the value of foreign borns. That doesn't do it and Nigeria shouldn't be having open defecation problems if your government and the electorate aren't madd.

If David Alaba like let him donate his scrotum Aribo will still be critiqued after every game in GWG. So , y'all better start planning your next line of action.

No sacred lambs around here!

Sir,am not getting your point and really confused with your outbursts.... ..oh i don't think you love local Nigeria born player as I do cos i followed them passionately watching NPFL like mad from 1982 -2002,I had break watching NPFL when I left Nigeria.

Sir, I love my local breed super eagles players and I can tell you one of them is Taiwo Awoniyi,Taiwo is like a son cos the day he was born and christened I was there life......

Oh I see you bringing in Aribo,good before Afcon it was here I said am not really happy with Aribo performance in GWG despite having close relationship with his father,now am damn happy with his performance and I will not bench him for Nwakili till Nwakili prove otherwise....I came into Aina defense when some believe their dogs can play the game than Aina.....I had my only real fight here with doctor Michael2 when he was trying to rubbish John Mikel Obi who remain my all time love super eagles player after Stephen Okechucwu Keshi and Samson Ebowei Siasia,just to tell you I hate it when anyone is trying to rubbish a professional player earning thousand of dollars.

If you believe nothing special about Alaba donation and some are even donating billions,good I appreciate them and wish them well in their various endeavors

nairalandankrah:
Osimhen hits the bar

Oga dankrah why not report Awoniyi hit the bar against Egypt and Sudan during the course of the games and seeing people para for you.....good that Osimehn is back.

David Alaba donated 13.3 million naira to Nigeria in diaspora commission (NIDCOM) recently to assist in curbing open defecation in Nigeria but here to some the foreign born are useless.

CC:Mujtahida,Humility33,Astrid4,Karlovych,

Joezinho:
And here you are disrespecting Musa.. A player that has been dedicated to his country.. Our most accomplished goal scorer in the highest global competition. Stripped of captainship but he stayed dedicated.

Or is Musa not a national hero? Maybe you might tell us U17 world cup is bigger than AFCON..

Even Kelechi Nwakili go dey laugh "National Hero" tagged wetin we go call Nduka Ugbade...this our thread sometimes eh na cruise o.......I know Kelechi Nwakili will be praising almighty God and thanking Austin Eguavoen for this lifeline which I know the young man will not allow it to slip.

Joebie:
Aribo vs Sudan

Oga thank you...all I know Eguavoen thought Aribo will not be able to withstand Africa opposition,needed to call Nwakili and gave Aribo Egypt match as a test run and he didn't disappointed,against Sudan he was brilliant....now Aribo name is on the lip of Eguavoen as one of the players that are unplayable.....truly,am impressed more with Nwakili against Sudan,hopefully more games we are going to see his best......but one thing is cleared Nwakili will work his socks off to bench Aribo....Aribo work rate damn high,funny enough am seeing guys saying our midfield was in tatter against Sudan,enough of this trash abi not Sudan match again and we are complaining about Rohr....some here would be terrible as a coach,picking player on sentiments by rubbishing hard working ones in favour of their chosen players....enough of this,let us analyze as it is even if we don't rate a player...I don't rate Ekong but so far the guy is unplayable.

andrewbaba44:
Ebuehi should start against guinea

Aina shouldn’t play at all

Yes,but I would have love to see Aina on left side but better to rest cos of that yellow card. I still trust Aina as LB than Collins if Zaidu is not available...Good the team is depth,really surprising seeing us doing well with non availability of Osimehn,Balogun,Ighalo and injured Awaziem

zuchyblink:
Our full backs doing well. Did you see how Zaidu dispossessed that Sudanese player?

Yes Zuchy,honestly I was impressed with Zaidu cos I don't rate him....good to have Aina,Ebuehi and Zaidu

zuchyblink:
He missed four,one from Nacho, Iwobi,goal mount scramble and Moses. He needs to sieze the opportunity because post AFCON is gonna be tight for him. These players are salivating on that position: Osimehn, Onuachu, Dennis, Moffi et al

Sir,goal mount scrambling a chance abi?ball that hit the post....Iheanacho pass that Awoniyi hit and deflected to corner by Sudanese defender and a pass by Simon that he squared play to the box but missed by Aribo.....Oga Zuchy,the only through pass was Iwobi pass at the right corner of the box.

We have not missed a sitter so far unlike before that Ighalo do misses.

Danielnino00:
Ebuehi might start against Guinea..Cus if Aina picks another yellow against Guinea he will be suspended for the knockout game...

Ebuehi is capable and good to have the duo.

Danielnino00:
He lost the ball only 3 times! Which one is "several times?.
His job was to stabilize the midfield and he did that well.. You are just looking for every available opportunity to justify your hatred for the guy...

Just rest

Daniel,the issue here is Pro Aribo vs Pro Nwakili,nothing more.They know themselves and let them continue with their sentimental analysis.

Aribo I saw yesterday is unplayable and Nwakili I saw against Sudan was impressive.

Nigeria midfield yesterday did well.The game possession in both half told us that,so i don't see any reason condemning the two young men.

When Aribo was subs out all technical crews member stood up to say boy well done and here we are looking for wrong passes,when midfield when to sleep,whereas Eguavoen did most of his playing on the wings.....Nwakili came in to brought stability,hold on to the ball,calmn it down,maintain the possession and he did it well.

Really surprised seeing different views on their performances and I want to say am really impressed with Sir forgiveness analysis on both players,very balance judgment.

zuchyblink:
We are creating a lot of chances but we are not utilizing our chances

Sir,4 goals in 2 matches showed that we are not missing chances anyhow though we can do better.

Good performance so far and I want to give kudos to Austin Eguavoen led technical team.Prior to Afcon Super eagles performances was at it's lowest ebb that required radical changes which led to sack of Gernot Rohr.

Rohr sacked brought needed stability and confidence to the team with more fans ready to watch the team,our victory against Egypt gave us hope that we can do it again by conquering Africa just like we did in 1980,1994 and 2013.

The team lost some of her regulars to injuries especially goals merchant Victor Osimehn but despite that Eguavoen was optimistic and never lose sleep unlike Rohr,against Egypt,Nigeria showed real dominant and against Sudan the team showed real champion traits.

The inclusion and dropping of some players doesn't went well with some football fans especially on this thread,Nwakili,Olisa Ndah inclusion,dropping of Kevin Akpoguma but this happens,fans are not always satisfying when it comes to player selection.....but the team need our support irrespective of players selected.

The analysis here were top notch with different views on how the team perform so far but some still trying to negate the team performance despite securing six points from two matches...some school of thought believes the midfield is not in existence,especially against Sudan but my big question,is it possible scoring three goals without having solid midfield?NO...it was just a game plan of Eguavoen and it paid well...We do forget easily that Sierra leone overran our midfield and came from 4 goals down to level us.

The team is on the right track and sincerely we are winning this Afcon with right attitude.

Good luck Super Eagles.

zuchyblink:
Okoye inexperienced to be our first choice goal keeper.
Aina's foul on that player was clumsy.
Awoniyi missed his opportunity of getting his first hat trick in GWG by missing 4 chances. I love the way he bullies opponents defenders
Great team display.
Chukwueze,Simon,Aribo, Zaidu, Ekong and Omeruo ran the show.
Aribo's fluidity was orgasmic.

Oga Zuchy,Awoniyi missed 4 chances?clear chances or what....the only chance he missed was a pass given to him by Iwobi which was even in a tight corner and difficult than open chance Ighalo missed against Argentina.

Oga Zuchy,Taiwo Awoniyi is the 4th rated CF behind Osimehn,Ighalo and Onuachu but post Afcon things will change.

TheSuperNerd:
Please stop this.

Okoye is the Number 1. Support him no matter how uncool you are with him in Goal. To be Frank, he hasn't put a foot wrong in this tournament.

Doctor NO NO.....Okoye I saw today will cost us Afcon unless something is done by technical crew to psyche him up.

Omanambala:
I am giving my views and you are telling me to stop....is this tyranny ? I cant give my understandings ? Biko , chill...lol

No , Chidi Ordia was of a different class....lol

Oh am damn sorry,forgetting it was your personal opinion which I must respect.

Omanambala:
Imagine if it was NWAKALI that was losing all those ball ARIBO was losing in the first 25 minutes..they wouda crucified him and us....lol

I saw Aribo lose possession three times in the first 25 minutes and our midfield collapsed in this period.

Oga,pls stop this Aribo vs Nwakili,the two young men are representing us for God sake and one must be on the bench which is normal in football....we need to be mature in our analysis...am more impressed with Nwakili today but Aribo I saw today is unplayable with Simon Moses,Wilfred Ndidi,Ola Aina,Kelechi Iheanacho,Taiwo Awoniyi and Troost Ekong who I don't rate but so far in this Afcon these seven are unplayable.

Omanambala:
Aina , while full of energy could be a little sluggish and lackadaisical in decision making. While he is okay and could do the job , I personally favor Ebuehi.

Sir,pls stop this...Ebuehi is damn good but Aina I watched against Egypt and Sudan has nailed RB position,nothing like sluggish and lackadaisical in his games...Aina today reminded me of Chidi Odiah.

My stand has been Ebuehi to the right Aina to the left.

DrKlever:
It's my birthday fam . I only wish for SE to spell Sudan today.

Doctor happy birthday

TheSuperNerd:
Lol... I am sure he will have his "tactical" reasons and only if those will yield a mad victory then why not?

For me, I would have only made one change. Just one.

Was initially gonna be two but I feel introducing that 2nd change can come later in the second half.

But like I already said. The same XI vs Egypt can definitely get the job done vs Sudan and win good.

The only difference is in how many would we actually score and what degree of dominance would we actually exert?

This is the difference between my one change and the likely starting XI today.

Yes,if we go by our different tactical reasons,definitely one of two players would be dropped but coaches don't joke with winning XI especially when it comes to national team.

I think we need to see talented Chuckwueze again though he was the only starter that didn't got it right against Egypt

Meliforme:
I was just about to reply the post where you asked me to give my preferred line up, i decided to scroll down to read some more posts before replying, and then i saw this.

You should have been patient.

Mr Kog45, It is well.

Oga meli,you will be a very radical coach cos am seeing you dropping at least three players today against Sudan.

TheGoodJoe:
Sadiq Umar

He sparked a discussion after the game. Did he play well or did he not?

My verdict. He was atrocious.

Why?

Tactical failure.

He was the only player that had Eguavoen barking in anger and directing his movement. Samson Siasia explained this when he worked with some home-based players in the Super Eagles camp. After briefing, training, drilling them on tactics. As soon as a scrimmage game started, they forgot everything. Siasia said, sometimes, these things take time to register. Sadiq definitely had a tactical nightmare and gave the coaching crew headache.

Take nothing away from the youngman. He showed total talent. Sweet touches. Intelligence in reading players movement but this coaching crew wants sound tactical involvement and Sadiq will face a heavy hand during lectures. If he nails it, the guy will fly in this competition.

Sadiq Umar is just like Paul Onuachu so team need to play to their strengths.

forgiveness:
Playing Nwakili with just Ndidi in the midfield is suicide.

Iheanacho must give way for Nwakali to play then allow Ndidi and Aribo to continue.
Next time we are defending a goal, I think Onyeka should be considered ahead of Nwakali.

I thought with Ndidi-Onyeka the pairing which I frowned at will give Nwakili more opportunities.....okay how do you see Ndidi-Aribo-Nwakili

TheGoodJoe:

I think this is a point I do a breakdown of what I noticed and possible progression we might expect.

I will start with Kelechi Nwakali who remained the most controversial pick and most discussed.

What I noticed in the game was a totally different role from what we expected. When Eguavoen explained his philosophy, he talked about diagonal long balls being key to his system. Kelechi Nwakali came to mind. However, I know Guardiola relies on Laporte and Ederson when we are under high press. This happens because, in a high press, the midfielders have little time on the ball.

It was refreshing seeing Ekong taking that mantle, and Omeruo doing more of the low ones. In that case, Nwakali was not utilized in that role.

What I saw instead is that Eguavoen has chosen a double attack system, with one of the strikers having the capability of playing as an attack midfielder and able to create for the striker and offensive wingers.

This was what happened when he made the change. He formed an attacking pair with Sadiq Umar and Kelechi Nwakali.

I told someone what was most interesting was both support strikers, are named Kelechi, and both were U17 best players of respective competitions.

So I think the coaching crew want Kelechi Nwakali to play a more offensive role than we expect.

Another thing I noticed was that his pass to Ejuke. The weight of the pass was so precise, that it stopped at the right time that made it easy for Ejuke to work with it.

That is why I feel Kelechi Nwakali will not play a deep midfield role in the coming games. Time will tell. Will expatiate more on Nwakali soon.

Oga dust your certificate and go to NIS.