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goldfish80:
I know I hit a nerve whenever someone mentions Osas. It is simple psychology and I didnt expect any less hence, I added "controversial opinion" as a prefix in my initial post.
Truth is that Aina was given chances and he failed. One of the reasons people praised Aina was his versatility to play on either flanks but I am surprised same fans are saying he wasn't given a chance on his preferred position.
Why was he sold as being able to play on either flanks the first place?

If you like, talk about Osas and his grand father it wouldn't change my opinion that Aina is not a good fit and guys like Stanley Amuzie at Sampdoria would have done better if given equal opportunity accorded to Aina.
At right back, Musa Mohammed, Tyronne Ebuehi and Nura Mohammed are far more talented than Aina and they will certainly have a big say in the future of that position for Ngr.
It is time Aina's fans start adjusting to the realities of the future.

I don hear you sir.your opinion my opinion differ and that's the beauty of the game

LieDetector:
for the sake of civility, I'd hold back from calling Colin udoh a fool. How could he be so clueless to know that fans' displeasurable reaction over a player's lackluster performance isn't only peculiar to Nigeria. Go check other nations how underperforming players are grossly given sticks. making excuses for a supposed professional midfielder who could not string good passes together and another who's always jittery in front of onlooking crowd perfectly suits the description of a fickle fan. English fans for instance do not give a flying fvck about your past performance. You're expected to be shunning out good performances because as a fan, you pay to be entertained not to be bored to death. I'd send Onazi and Joel back to Nigeria through canoe if I were the coach. Those guys should just retire from football.

Oh you think Colin Udoh knows the game better than guys here?NO o.

I'm Onazi fan but truth be told he is losing it faster and Onazi himself was ashamed of himself but here Colin want Nigeria to think otherwise.

It is better to have promising young players in the team than abysmal old players.

Pls check out Onazi,Joel,Echiejile, Musa and Akpeyi and let evaluate their performances in eagles under Rohr.

Icon4s:
Did you not see Aina play?

Yes Aina was not convincing enough but Echiejile made the team on preference not performance.

Sir how is your stake on Shehu now,remember how i rate Shehu but am more convinced that Ebuehi is better.

Also on Joel performance so far,with four solid friendlies the guy was damn too poor,making the team tells me sentiment

Onazi Ogenyi is out of shape.After England match i need to reevaluate my stance on him,not good enough for this WC,hope to see Ndidi back in action.

goldfish80:
Controversial opinion, but honestly speaking Aina doesn't look to me a solid player. Even while he played LB, he never made daring runs that suggests he has it in him to offer something extra. He made a dogs dinner out of the chances given to him.
After the the world cup, he has a big fight to claim either of the fullback roles in the team because certainly, Usman Mohammed will come back to fight out the RB spot with Ebuehi.
The confidence of the team managers to hand him the captains band against Athletico and the yoe man's job he did in that game suggests to me that he is the guy Ebuehi will contend with. I dont care how anyone feels about it but Aina doesnt hold a candle light to Usman Mohammed, expect of course we want to be economic with the truth and common sense flies out of the window because Aina is London born

Spot on Aina didn't take his chance

Musa Mohammed as captain against Atletico has nothing to do with any special interest from managers cos he already had his cap with eagles,so naturally he is the leader.

Musa Mohammed better than Aina,well your opinion just like your opinion on Osas Okoro as the best Nigeria RB.

Oh Aina London born,this should not be an issue in analysing his performance.

The young man can still come good with his age cos have watched him as RB and is cool,technically gifted as a player.

Martz101:
goldfish thank you for this, musa Mohammed is miles better than Aina

Musa Mohammed is MILES better than Aina snd Osas Okoro is the best Nigeria RB inclusive foreign based.

andrew444:
Na goal wey uzoho don concede you dey calculate abi ?

Shebi caballero who is a world class keeper concede 6 for Argentina against Spain,if na naija keeper una go don kill am,continue to dey find wetin no lost for uzoho body.

Even Manuel Manuel neuer dem use 2 goals welcome am yesterday against Austria,I just hope you are not against the young boy.

Pls this is between kog45 and chriskel,nothing serious if you read the basis of our discussion and it's all about exchanging banter.on the young man performance.

Chriskel was the first person to talk about Uzoho here and i told him eagles was not for division three keeper.

The guy played against Girona in LA liga and after watching Uzoho for the firstl time.I called out Chriskel that Uzoho is promising.

That's how we started on Uzoho so not today or England match analysis.

Humility017:
what do you expect from a very conservative coach.....
he appears too predictable....

Let's hope for good outing but tactically we have a lot to do.

ChrisKels:
The pro Shehus should bookmark that post because in no distant time I will come back to taunt them as im hammering them(u inclusive) now over Onazi. I once hammered you over Uzoho innit?

Oh taunting?may be after WC then hammer me on Uzoho not now though he did well against England despite conceded elementary goal.

Uzoho 5 caps 5 goals conceded and should have been 7 with AVR.

I wish the young man a good outing at WC.

elyte89:
We can always excuse shehu been a fasting Muslim even though DTS a lame excuse,at least he's a professional


Meanwhile boss,give me my 5naira,I don' win our bet,echiejile over aina

Oh i did not bet with you but telling you performance should do it for Echiejile but you kept on hammering is a must for Echiejile to make it,NO my man.

But fact still remain Echiejile has lost it,hope he prove me wrong at WC.

ChrisKels:
I dont care how you lot see this but Rohr's over conservatism and rigidness might cost us a fortune at the long run.

No matter how u guys paint it, he goofed with the judgement of Aina's position in the team. Why not give the boy as much chances in the RB which is his main position, he instead preferred a make shift in Shehu.

Aina should have been giving as much opportunity to see if he could replicate his Hull showings on the RB position, he should have been the one fighting it out with Ebuehi while Shehu fights for his place in the midfield with Agu, Agbo, Onazi and Joel.

If Ebuehi and Shehu had played on the left side, would they have done better than Aina did? If Rohr was honest with his judgement and wants to accommodate Shehu, the either of Onazi and Joel would have joined Agu so that Shehu shifts to the middle while Aina slogs it out with Ebuehi.

As bad as Joel and Onazi are they are headed for Russia ahead of Aina, Agbo, Azu and Esiti yet someone wanna make me believe Rohr is an honest man? Smh

I'm not pro innit boys but Aina was treated unfairly

Oh my God what a post!thumb up.

tbaba1234:
Rohr also said that Joel Obi is unfit and that some players were 'heavy'.. ( maybe Onazi?)

Joel not fit then why taking him to WC.Rohr should know that no excuse for poor performance.

The Joel that i saw against England and Onazi are damn too poor and if care is not taking our bench will suffer for it,

Akpeyi erratic

Ezenwa not convincing enough

Echiejile out of it

Shehu as RB glaring he cannot do it

Onazi out of shape

Joel very unfit and unconvincing

Musa still trying to meet up

Etebo consistency issue

Awaziem not yet clear on what he can do.

A good bench determine the success of a good team,hope Rohr shake things up.

teeezy00:
Squad

No Aina

Yes no convincing performance from Aina,still young,hope he comes good in future.

tbaba1234:
He was making excuses for Shehu which is normal but his praise for Ebuehi was enough for me to believe, he is considering starting Ebuehi.

It is not about praising Ebuehi is better remember i rated Shehu ahead but with what i saw against Congo and England even a blind will start Ebuehi.

ChrisKels:
I am sorry bro, it was an oversight. No be you na Icon4s, Kog45 etc

Yes my man.

edi287:
Rohr needs to tell him to calm down. He is too eager to impress. There was absolutely no need to clash heads with Leon Balogun. It was hilarious and quite sad

Sir is not about calming down but he is not the same Joel again,three matches with no cleared cut performance,taking him to WC would be pure sentiment though i don't rate Agu but he deserve it more than Joel.

Martz101:
we need to drop joel obi, but j doubt if the problem was fitness

I watched Joel at Torino very well this season and i will not deceive you i wasn't surprised with his performance,not the same Joel that came with flair in 2012,no thanks to injuries though not possible,him and Onazi deserve to be dropped,very awful displayed.

Mickael2:
I just dey here dey check out some very very very funny analysis.

First of all we both saw it since 2017 that Onazi is gone, after this match even Sir Kog45 no fit defend am again. but trust them sha.


Then again, everybody is hailing our second half performance, but bar Iwobi's goal which other chance(notable or not) did we create? England were winning, they didn't need to push yet in that second half they still created the better chances after we scored and for God's sake this is England, you know the same England that we have been saying we will wipe the floor with? yes that sane England and we barely created 3 chances of note and people are still making reference to the Argentina friendly when we have been so poor recently.


Our main problem now is Mikel. naturally he doesn't have enough energy to function as an AMF self, but to make matters worse the Chinese league has been on for a while, I doubt he has had enough time to rest since he started all his team's recent matches, that's like 10 games at least in the last few weeks and yet we all know that without Mikel our team is...well Panama wearing a fanciful green jersey and the end point is that we will be destroyed. Ndidi is not yet training with the full squad, I don't know when he will get match fit but let's just watch. The main problem is that the Chinese league's calendar has affected Mikel and it will affect our team, that AMF role will be too stressful for him now and that's when we will see just how good our team is.


coming down to the manager, I'd bet thousands that Onazi would still start our matches, in fact make that a few hundred thousands. The coach is just a man manager, it works for Zidane because he has a lot of top quality players but when your forward players are either wingbacks in the clubs or they have a permanent quarter on the bench of a midtable team then being just a manager isn't going to cut it.


Finally to address those calling for Ogu to becoming a starter, you don't change your midfield most especially like that. No matter how impressive Saul is in training and even friendlies now and even if Iniesta starts playing like an old lady he will still start, that's one area of the pitch where you don't just change players because they come in as subs and perform well. Ogu may not even make it to Russia and I won't be surprised I mean Kayode was left at home for a Lokosa who had no chance whatsoever. I mean based on what Ighalo did today wouldn't Lokosa at least be a better choice? in fact I have tire

Oh good you called me out on Onazi,well am not a static analyst who always based his opinions on love or hate for player but flexible when it comes to football talk,

On Onazi performance against England if i have my way i will drop him from the team and if he come good tomorrow i say it with no emotion attached to it.

asha80:
when is the Ramadan fast ending? if it continues till world cup starts then it is no brainer that ebuehi should be a starter if shehu's fasting is going to be a problem

I do rooted for Shehu but just too glaring Ebuehi is better though Aina is out but possibly Aina is even better than Shehu at RB.

On fasting that shouldn't be an excuse.Talking about tactical awareness of the game,Ebuehi is my guy for RB/RWB.

OMANBALA1:
But since. Ndidi is not fit Joel and Ogu or Joel and Agu.

Sir pls any updates on Ndidi injury cos fear dey catch me o.

CC:tbaba1234

asha80:
he is right you know lol..reminds me of philip osondu issue when he went to belgium..abeg make i match brake here

Sir ok tell us Onazi real age since his official age is football age.

Icon79:
Haha!! Is weight really the problem or is old age catching up with him? How old is Onazi anyway? Real age not football age


O pari

Sir what is football age but his real age Google should do that for you.

Kai O pari master you want to start another debate on age?NO

I dey gbadun your analysis on Nigeria/England so continue and leave Onazi age matter.

Topshow4real:
Hey bro, you're about to be scammed! Be careful. But if you've paid them any sum already, just admit you've been scammed!!!!

Professional 419 with office and official website and email address plenty here. . .

Were you hired for a professional job?

Yes we have scammers but don't be deceived we have Nigerians who are earning big in UAE,forget all these 900 dirham--3k dirham job o that fly round we have guys getting big pay job.

Pls just try to update your CV always and God will smile on you.

I have two younger brothers of a childhood friend who are earning over 50k dirham and one of them is on 70k dirham,funny enough they got the jobs from Nigeria.

A friend of mine is on 45k right now though he has been in UAE since 2006.

Have met a Igbo guy working with Etisalat in 2016 at their head office and earning big.

My man some started with 800 dirham but now earning 5k dirham,so you cannot say.

Pls be positive and it shall be well.

giftdavid112:
Thank you for the concern, I appreciate. I posted here asking some questions, none about the authenticity of the job.

Bros relax your mind and since you didn't paid for the job nothing to loss.

Listen to this,two younger brothers of a very close friend got their jobs in UAE directly from Nigeria though with America degree and earning 55k and 70k dirham respectively as salary.

They are one of the few Nigerians having the opportunity to be at top post in Dubai and Abu Dhabi.

So possible for you too and anybody to get that salary package.

Do not be discouraged,guys were just advising due to fraudulent practices that goes on around the globe.

Martz101:
in all fairness Agu should be dropped

Let's keep on watching

StaffofOrayan:
Why all the criticisms on Sowore?
We are all tired of godfatherism in Nigerian politics but we attack the person that addresses it?
Typical crab in a barrel mentality
If you don't like Sowore just go vote for your Atiku/Buhari/Mafarki/Saraki/Dakwanbo that you love so much and expect some miracles
Useless youths everywhere without vision

I think a vision less and useless man will campaign and vote for Sowore.

dollarcoolcat:
I can't come to terms with this statement, yes we know you've problems with the Senate president but no that statement sound so demeaning and derogatory to governor of Kwara State.
If you read between the lines of most of sowores statements you will agreed that he's no different from our regular politicians. He's not what he portrait himself to be, he's jes a much younger hell rufai.




Quote me if you like, it won't stop me from breathing.

Thank you,Abi not the same Sowore of Unilag,only God can save Nigeria youths from memory loss.

If Ahmed is a PA to Bukola then Ambode is what to Tinubu? house boy.

Sowore misbehaving, Dino dissapointing and Yahaya Bello a tryant.

Martz101:
him starting that match shows Rohr trust him, he has started all our friendly since he came back

Yes Rohr trust him and am seeing him making the 23 man list but so far he has not really imposed himself.

I think his pedigree is going for him among fans not his performance.

I want Joel that would complement Mikel in the middle and Ndidi doing it with them but so far he hasn't,may be with Mikel in the team we see better Joel tomorrow.

Mujtahida:
He is the king of underperformers and he has been consistent in that regard. Makes it easy for one to judge him.

But then I wish him all the best. Who knows what magic the land of the bear may work on his brain and legs.

Muj i will not deceive you,so far am not impressed with Joel,Etebo,Agu,Echiejile,Aina,and Akpeyi.

These are the guys that would determine our performance not the likes of Mikel and Moses cos a good bench tells the depths of a team.

Hope to see them shake things up before WC.

Martz101:
seeing the congo game again, i don't think joel obi was bad

Sometimes better to watch the match all over again to have good view and balance review of the team.

Icon4s:
Iwobi can also play SS.

And what do you mean by Simy providing cover for Ighalo.

Iwobi is such a utility player. A gift to this team. I wonder when people say he should sit on the bench and wait for Mikel to get tired.

If i get Humility right Simy providing cover mean a good sub for Ighalo.

Joebie:
It’s so obvious. That’s why we are light years behind as a country. Now how would the players feel?

The NFF guys are real typical Nigeria politicians.

Do you think they care about eagles or Nigeria football than we do.

My man they don't care.

safarigirl:
If Rohr drops Ogu for Agu, Etebo or Joel, me, I will shout nepotism here.

None of those three has done anything spectacular enough to unseat Ogu, if we are all looking at things reasonable.

Whether in club or National team, Ogu trumps all three players, so, all this talk of Rohr likes this one, that one is a golden boy, this one is a workhorse is rubbish


None of them is better than Ogu by any stretch.

GBAM