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Karlovich:
Ebuehi and Madueke start for Twente and PSV respectively.

PSV?

TheGoodJoe:
Aina impressed me with his reading of plays. His dropping to help the central defence repeatedly showed his fluidity to fit into different roles.

Needs to work on his long deliveries.

Aina looked classy.

thegoodjoe respect.

Aina should be a starter in Super eagles,honestly I want to see Ebuehi and Aina playing fullbacks for eagles with good CBs and Ndidi in the mix we are good to go but the issue is Rohr.

elyte89:
I will want to go with ur conclusion.. But den, I will still insist on " so many monikers" on dis thread saying boldly dt nacho was better Dan mbappe in all ramifications... Only few monikers limited deir argument on comparison and not sticking out deir neck on "saying nacho was better Dan mbappe"..I knew d insults I and some oda monikers faced den trying to correct deir gaffes ..so bro,I knw wetin I dey talk

I am not just good @ digging out ppu old post,d way forgiveness and komekn does...I for don burst ppu here

elyte Wetin dey happen now,this your para no be here o.

I remember vividly but sometimes we just need to appreciate our own even at then Mbappe was better than Iheanacho in all ramifications.

isan:
Maduka about to get another clean sheet

....though I don't rate him but this guy is eagles number one for now,playing in Dutch league is a plus for him.

andrewbaba44:
Tammy will surely have another good season with the way things are going

All I am saying he should have passed that first ball as he can’t score bro,if na person like ziyech we go understand

Didn’t you see the lovely pass from Werner to him where he scored ,if Werner has behaved like him there will be no goal

Andrew my man Abi no here we dey talk say make Osimehn dey selfish,pls let Tammy dey selfish o, without goal he would be on the bench though true talk from you.

Icon4s:
Compare with this team:

1988 Olympics Nigeria squad list:


Goal Keepers:
David Ngodigha
Christian Obi

Defenders:
Jude Agada
Augustine Eguavoen
Chidi Nwanu
Sylvanus Okpala
Bright (10-10) Omokaro

Midfielders:
Adeola Adeshina
Emeka Ezugo
Osaro Obobaifo
Joseph Odegbami
Ndubuisi Okosieme
Samuel Okwaraji

Forwards:
Dominic Iorfa
Henry Nwosu
Mike Obiku
Samson Siasia
Rashida Yekini

I just compared them with the '88 squad not to even mention the 1996 and 2008 squads that went as far as the finals.

Wole(Joseph)Odegbami the younger brother to Segun Odegbami.Also Nduibusi Okosieme senior brother to Nkiru Okosieme of Falcon fame.

Wow Sylvanus Okpala the quick silver.Kai late Sam Okwaraji also made this team.

Chai, Austin Eguavoen,Chidi Nwanu,Emeka Ezugo,Samson Siasia and Rasheed Yekini made US 94 team.

Manfred Hoener coached this good team.

humility33:
Oga joe my only fear with this indigenous coaches is the bribe taking and questionable team call ups that is always associated with them....

Don't want a situation were players now pay to get call ups at least for now no news and allegations like that even though rohr have been clueless especially in tactics

Rohr as indigenous coach...Humility baba must have been shouting corruption by now.

Do you know how Maduka got his invitation or some of those boys like Oyenka,Tijani.

What we need now is a coach that can bring the best out of these players whether foreign or indigenous but I still prefer foreign ones.

TheGoodJoe:
Sydney 2000 Olympics squad remains my best. When you consider that we dropped the likes of Abubaka Musa (Played a lot like the young Mikel), Emmah Isah, Joseph Yobo, Emmanuel Aniele, Emmanuel Ebiede, Sunday Ibeji to mention few.

The Squad.

1 GK Greg Etafia
2 DF Gbenga Okunowo
3 DF Celestine Babayaro
4 FW Johnson Sunday
5 DF Iyenemi Furo
6 DF Christopher Kanu
7 FW Victor Agali
8 FW Bright Igbinadolor
9 FW Yakubu Aiyegbeni
10 MF Azubike Oliseh
11 MF Garba Lawal*
12 MF Henry Onwuzuruike
13 FW Pius Ikedia
14 MF Blessing Kaku
15 DF Godwin Okpara*
16 DF Isaac Okoronkwo
17 FW Julius Aghahowa
18 GK Sam Okoye

What a good team.My good friend Sunday Johnson made the team,a very good winger who injury ruined his career.

Sunday Johnson was another Segun Odegbami in the making.He was the only outfield home based that made the team.

smartsmith0907:
On aina I wasn't too happy with him today...firstly these sierra Leone players are tall and very strong they took advantage of aina's height and aina did well offensively but defensively was nothing to write home about.
Partially rohr was at fault coz he should have been more vocal when we were still leading 4-3 and implore the team to defend more but the fact sometimes coaches are given red cards and told to leave the pitch had it been we have such situation won't this players makes same mistakes..this players lack discipline and feelings for the national team there is no bit of patriotism sir I remember during your days there is patriotism in the team.these player plays with their last breath...thats why the likes of yak,KANU,odegbami did expectionally well in the international scenes and lastly sir there is no sprit of leadership in the team.musa and ekong are bad leaders am speaking here not as an insider but as a pundit ekong should be able to call the team to other which he failed today. Way forward is there is need to a leader in the team I mean a vocal leader.am not happy tonight despite everything done to make Nigeria happy the result was very poor. The truth there is no crime in falling down but the main crime is in staying no be this rohr played well against Cameroon,south Africa ,Brazil et al like that.

I think Balogun Leon should lead the team.

Ekong lacks the quality and Musa no go area for me.

Eagles will soar again.

smartsmith0907:
As a senior member and elder here abegii point out to the wrong rohr did today.

Good we got the draw because I wasn't expecting super eagles winning a team like Sierra Leone that came back from four goals down in away match

On Rohr,well nothing to say for now cos I wasn't happy with what happened in Benin.

smartsmith0907:
Show me where that took advantage of his wings ...at least he was solid on his wings than aina y'all clamoring for.

...but checking some ratings after the match,Aina was rated than Akpoguma despite played as LB,even was rated than Sanusi comparing both legs.

My man it seem you don't rate Aina which is normal.

smartsmith0907:
What ya saying is trash
You say thing you don't know a damn thing about
Aina this aina that see the rubbish he played today...if you can't see the truth and face the truth when being told then bleep off.

Oga Smart,i thought you are one of the noblemen here,remember I compared your analytical views with thegoodjoe,pls continue churning out your good analysis,no need to disrespect anybody based on their opinions.

Pls this is a beautiful forum where we have different opinions and it must be respected.

Akpoguma and Aina so what,we are talking of a team that disappoint the teeming fans.

All I know the team will come out stronger in their next games.

Let's keeping on supporting Super Eagles.

kellycute:
rohr is really messing up. Let ebuehi and Aina fight for the right back. Let Kevin fight for CB with balogun, ekong, Omeruo, awasiem and semi. Rohr should stop this nonsense of forcing Kevin as rb down our throat.

Kelly,honestly Rohr just need to go back to the drawing board cos he is losing it.

I remember dropping Aina to the bench for Collins who was just coming from injury at Afcon showed how Rohr thinks about his players.The same Collins is on the bench for Sanusi.I can bet it with anyone that Sanusi signing for Porto paved way for him if not Collins would have been a preferred choice.

How on earth would a coach benched Ebuehi and Aina,one with world cup experience and other with Afcon experience and still playing in top league for average Akpoguma for God sake.

I have made up mind that with Rohr I don't see Eagles emerging as a team to reckon with globally.

chrisooblog:
oga Kog i'm not saying Maduka is the finished article in terms of being national team goalkeeper. i agree with your second paragraph but it will be too simplistic to say it's only SE that has boosted his career. Sparta Rotterdam is in no way connected to rohr but Maduka has been a featuring for them in consecutive games. yesterday was terrible for everyone including maduka but judge yesterday without any sentiments was he the major reason we have been conceding cheap goals?

yes our goalkeepers are below average but the frequency with which our defense has been conceding goals after the last AFCON is cocerning

I got your point Sir....yes we have serious issues with our defense and I want to point it out that it is time to pair Balogun and Awaziem and let see how it goes,Balogun is aging and time for young Awaziem to learn from him. I never rate Ekong and Chelsea really messed development of Omeruo up,

I don't know how Akpoguma would fair as CB with Balogun.Semi Ajayi belonged to the same class with Ekong.I want to see Adarabioyo coming in if truly he has committed to Nigeria,also Jordan Torunarigha and possibly Iorfa jnr.

Do we really need to be complaining about our wings back with Ebuehi,Aina,Collins and Sanusi..capital NO.

Time for Rohr to put sentiment apart and give us a good team

chrisooblog:
de gea recently chopped 6 playing for man u so stop giving yourself high blood pressure because Maduka conceded 4 it's football it happens! the same uzoho who's flair you suddenly miss was also chopping so calm down.

Oga Chris chopping goals or not our keepers are very average.

It was glaring yesterday that Rohr is just using eagles to help Maduka .The friendly against Brazil paved way for his contract at Rotterdam and friendlies against Algeria and Tunisia gave him needed break in Rotterdam.

Alloy Ago failed us when we talk about super eagles goalkeeping department.

jihday:
A journalist with the team said he saw him complaining to one of the backroom staff

Hmmm,Aina on the bench against Algeria,Tunisia and funny enough him and Ebuehi on the bench against Sierra Leone...
Walahi Rohr dey craze.

I can saying it anywhere that Sanusi is not better than Aina.

Ebuehi as RB and Aina LB! Shikena..

somehow:
Speechless.

Fans blocked super eagles from leaving Ogbemudia Stadium.

busky007:
With talents like Akpoguma, Okoye, Uzoho,Awaziem,Omerou and Akpeyi

I thought Keshi won it with bunch of average players.

Curtisaxel7:
I blame Rohr for not inviting a single proper DM. That is where he lost the whole thing.

Sir if we cannot beat Leone stars with 24 players in camp then Rohr should be sacked.

busky007:
I have earlier stated the following to someone who said that Rohr should win Afcon. But my point is why do we need Moses when we can score but can't defend. We need legendary defenders join . The team is bad ,Fact

....yes Rohr must win Afcon but he can't and it's obvious.

Stormtrooper11:
I am defending sanusi,cos overall he was our best player today.did u see how many passes he gave but were wasted?

Honestly I want Ebuehi and Aina as our RB and LB...Sanusi is not better,forget Porto.

Subzero047:
Ekong is a very big culprit in this game but nobody is saying it

I know with Balogun we will never concede four goals against Leone stars.

Ekong is overrated in eagles,very average a defender.

smartsmith0907:

Let's just be calming down.

Smartsmith baba just mellow for now or else na here dem go start EndsSuperEagles oh.

Utonwanne:
We needed to cup tie him

cup tie then why not 5 minutes to the end of the match.

Rohr preferred Akpoguma as his RB but better for him to slug it out with Balogun and Ekong at CB and let us have Ebuehi and Aina as our RB.

andrewbaba44:
Awaziem is not a natural RB ,someone should correct me if I am wrong

If awaziem as a CB can play RB at afcon then why can’t akpoguma? I prefer aina or ebuehi thou

Awaziem played RB due to Jamilu Collins injury and Aina moved to LB.

I think Rohr love it Germans....Maduka and now Akpoguma.

Anyway am expecting total victory for Super Eagles.

SilverNorGold:
I agree with you, my brother.. Thank God for answering our prayers.. He's given us a more incorruptible anti-corruption fighter in the person of President Mohammadu Buhari..

We should support him, the way Ghanaians supported Rawlings.. "He's my brother", "he's witch-hunting our son", "stop prosecuting our thieves" and other unpatriotic tribalistic defences will only frustrate this fight...

So, my beloved brother, let us join hands with President Mohammadu Buhari, irrespective of our tribes and religions.. That's the only way corruption can be eradicated completely from Nigeria.

God bless you.
God bless me.
God bless all Nigerians.
God bless the Federal Republic of Nigeria.

sorry bro,Buhari has missed it.

busky007:

It is normal for us to boast as we are one of the proudest countries on the internet. It is here you will hear someone say that Rohr should win the AFCON with all the talents at his disposal. That if Rohr fails to win England, then he is wack.

What we need to learn is that at best, most of our players are bang average

Yes he should win Afcon.

I have a question o.. 2face no dey buy car ni...Respect to 2baba.

kellycute:
well let wait for uzoho to return to the team then we will know if rohr will bench uzoho for maduka.

I think Rohr need to sit down and give us his number one,really surprised to see young Uzoho a WC debutant on the bench at Afcon for Akpeyi.

The team just need a stable number one keeper cos they are all average.All they need is trust to build their confidence.

...may be with Maduka Rohr would be satisfied.

Subzero047:
Guy Aina is a good player but not as good as Ebuehi anything you are putting is jara

Oga no much difference between the two and na you dey put Jara as if Ebuehi na young Danny Alves.

Subzero047:
Aina is starting because Kenny Tete the first choice RB is injured

Okay o

Subzero047:
Someone can be a lesser player than another without being terrible

I think you are confusing terms here

If I get you right it's delusion and belittling to rate Aina at par with Ebuehi abi.