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Icon79:
God bless you, my broad!

If I hear about Zambia's young talent again, I will puke. You don see naija wey get old talents. Yup, Ekong, Simon, VicMo, Nacho, Iwobi, Etebo, Ighalo, Ndidi .... they are all old cargos, on their last legs of their journey. I can't wait for tomorrow to arrive so we can put this game to bed.

Is it possible we could lose tomorrow? Absolutely! Football can be a funny game, sometimes 2 times 2 doesn't always give you 4. Think how Venezuela almost beat the Argies last month. However, what pisses me off is all these prophecies of doom. I am confident that we'll beat Zambia and I will tell you why:
First, we're playing at home and would defend the home court
Second, we've learned our lessons from the SA game
Third, player to player, we're better than the Zambians
When two teams are both playing well at the same time, the better team would prevail
Player to player, we've more experience than the Zambians
And it may come down to experience
If you watched England vs Slovania yesterday, it all came down to experience
Slovenia was totally outplaying them at Wembly, but inexperience cost them the match
Slovenia made one mistake and England (Walker and Kane) capitalized
Nobody is saying that this is gonna be an easy game
But the cream would rise to the top in the end

Mark my words!


O pari

mumemma:
make we qualify first na...I remember France 98,we never beat Denmark we don begin plan Brazil.make we qualify abeg

EEGA:
We need Felix Uduokhai,Jordan Torunarigha,Dominic Iorfa (Jnr).The NFF should get this guys before the WC.

whoisboj:
Let them do Autopsy so d truth will come out
But let's look at it from this way, davido has never really been a philanthropist, so wat if tagbo was mudered in d car when davido realized he wud jz loose 500k on a drinking competition (iPhone 8 300k + 200k)
I know he( davido) is bigger than 500k but no matter how rich ua, no one likes losing money

elyte89:
Heard MOSES is seriously Injured







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Na one moses guy for my area o ,c as ppu BP don't rise

Kakamorufu:
at least if they miss out, nigeria won't be pitched against them again

Kakamorufu:
i tell u. The way he analysed the game got me shaking o ;-(

junnyjake:
I don't see Southgate including him in his worldcup squad.

Mickael2:
I see light, well MAINLY light but some darkness still and I will explain why.

I have seen some people saying we can sit back if the Zambians sit back forcing them to come out and play, home ground does not support that. If I pay 5k to sit in the VIP corner and you are playing 0-0(plus a boring game) after 60mins, I will join and start chanting 'all we are saying...' and if you have been in that situation before you will run mad, and go all out attack forgetting what the coach said, this is what happens to Madrid, once it's 60mins and they are yet to score, the boos start ringing and the players get disorganised and become easy picking. If Zambia can withstand our attack till the 60th minute mark we are in trouble.


Another point, the coach is going to show them some clips of that first leg. Trust me the Zambians had 3-4 very good chances that should be put away, if they have a proper team psychologist he will point out the fact that they have become more clinical since that match(I think they beat Algeria with only 2 shots on target), that is a nitro-level confidence booster. There mindset will be if we can create just that same number of chances like we did in the first leg, considering the fact that we are more clinical now and their gk is worse than ever, we may be able to put one away and hold out for the remainder of the game. If they score the first goal we have a big problem, I am not sure we have won a game that we conceded first under Rohr, he is not a tactical genius.


Also, they may watch our clips from their first match against us down to our last match and notice one thing, our midfielders(Mikel is included) all take atleast 20mins to settle into any game and that is a bad omen. If they can take advantage of that by attacking through the middle instead of the wings in the first twenty minutes then they are sure of two good chances, that is assuming Onazi remains Onazi and is caught out of position a lot of times in the first half and Ndidi remains Ndidi who would rather concentrate on attack rather than defence.


Finally they will watch that first leg again and discover that their lord and saviour(Echejile) who provided them with 3 good chances in the first leg is still our LB. Now Leon is a good CB, but he is different from Omeruo in the sense that he is always quick to rush out whenever a player beats his LB, now this is not really a bad thing but with proper tactics it becomes a bad thing. Create an overload and Leon is dinner, that is let the RW beat Echejile and while Leon comes out to mark the RB runs past Leon and receives a pass, that means Leon is out of the equation and assuming Onazi isn't back covering they have a safe passage to our 18.

Now they have to pray that all these things go according to plan and they must remain clinical. If after the first twenty minutes they haven't scored then they should pull back and choke every attack and wait patiently for that 60-70th minute mark. All in all this will not be a blowout, quote me anywhere. You do not destroy Zambia, it is impossible, highest two goals, you do not see them at the wrong end of a proper hiding

maidaboi:
we have noah serenren obazee

Taliban:
Igeniwari was not killed by 3Sc fans o. Yes he died in Ibadan in an Fa cup match between Stores and Rangers. 3sc no dey o.

tbaba1234:
People forget that young finidi was very fast too but he had more to his game than pace.

junnyjake:
In my dream I saw us scoring 2 goals in each half. And then we conceded.

junnyjake:
These guys are trying as much as they can to look youthful.

junnyjake:
I think Babangida was arguably the fastest player in the world back then.

Those who were gamers then would know he had a speed of 99 in the then Winning Eleven game. That was year 2000.

But finidi was class.

paradigmshift:
how you they see olamide lmao, na mouth dem dey. e go mess up olamide up. e be like say you no know eedris.

Icon4s:
I took interest in it at Secondary school and learnt it. Although our wicked French Teacher drove us into it. We had an option of French or Arabic

I love their letterings and learnt it from using the common Abjadi sequence ie starting with a (alif) and ending with gh. I am sure you know the lettering are from right to left and you also read from right to left. It was quite challenging as a Christian but I managed to learn the words to some extent. Till date when I see Arabic inscriptions or words I manage to pronounce some of them. Some of my in-laws are Muslims they are always amazed the way I pronounce their children's Arabic names.

But note one thing: Arabic is different from Islam. It is a language just like Spanish, Latin or French etc.

Icon4s:
Yeah

Icon4s:
Yeah

Icon4s:
I speak Igbo, Yoruba, Efik, Urhobo, English, Arabic and of course pidgin.

enomakos:
he was very popular in his time

Nickname " dean of defence"

Mujtahida:
Hahahaha hahahaha hahahaha. I know it's tales by moonlight. Yes I heard that thunder Balogun own. They said his shot bent the iron crossbar once. Chai Nigeria get stories.

Mujtahida:
Truly you and Baba Icon4s deserve your high places in the hallowed Hall of(kai na only thesupernerd sabi talk am) well, fame - the way you two recall our football history with ease is really remarkable. I doff my hat for the both of you.

Kog45 and Icon4s it's possible that you guys watched that match(that happened only in the colorful imagination of Nigerians) that has become one of Nigeria's notorious urban legends: the match with India where the ball was turning into a Lion once it gets to our goalie. India it was said won the match 100-1. It was said that FIFA banned India from international football cos of that match

junnyjake:
Yes sir, my saying "Ndidi was more likely to score from range wasn't me being disrespectful to Onazi, but me stating it the way it is.

Ndidi was poor as well in that game, he looked lost althrough the game. He couldn't bring Ndidi to order. Onazi was supposed to be the leader of them all, bit he failed at that, he was supposed to be the shield of the defense, keep things simple, make those simple shot passes and that's all, you don't have to tire yourself out by trying to hit those long passes, trying to cover every area of the pitch.


Onazi is a man I respect because of his work-rate, he's an hardworker and covers a lot of distance on the pitch, he just hasn't grown into that leader we need in the middle, he left lots of spaces when he played as a shield in that game.

Perhaps he's best at playing one of the double DM when the other one stays back to cover.


The reason why I blame Onazi for that goal was simply because he didn't cover well for the CBs that went out in search of an equaliser, I thought experience would have right him that the SA player was still on his side of his pitch wh the ball was played and wasn't offside.

PDPGuy:
I made a mistake with the Oliha role. But Babangida got more pace than Finidi on the wings, although the latter was the better crosser.
I prioritize speed and trickery in the team cos that's the quality that makes opposing defenses tire out. And that's probably why Coach Amodu (of blessed memory) always subbed in Babangida for Finidi in the 2nd halves of the matches at the Mali 2002 AFCON.

PDPGuy:
Mine would be:

--------------- Enyeama----------


---G.Shehu-----West---U.Okechukwu---Iroha---


--------------Oliseh---Mikel--------------


-----Babangida---Okocha------Amuneke----


-------------------Yekini---------------


This squad (in each players prime) could plausible advance to a World Cup semifinal with the right tactics, and luck on their side.

tbaba1234:
Oliha as right back, that is strange..

Tijiani ahead of Finidi?

PDPGuy:
Mine would be:

--------------- Enyeama----------


---G.Shehu-----West---U.Okechukwu---Iroha---


--------------Oliseh---Mikel--------------


-----Babangida---Okocha------Amuneke----


-------------------Yekini---------------


This squad (in each players prime) could plausible advance to a World Cup semifinal with the right tactics, and luck on their side.

Mujtahida:
I remember Christopher Ohenhen

Mujtahida:
I remember Christopher Ohenhen

Chrismario:
Why is he not popular?
I'm just hearing it also

Mujtahida:
Chidi Odiah didn't play too many matches. Injury issues if I recollect well enough.