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Icon4s:
Uzoho ke?

Just passing.

Icon4s:
Tanzania knacking SA akpako.

TheGoodJoe:
You want to argue with Lewandowski!


When I left after the second season, I wanted to take the next step - but suddenly I was playing in a No.10 role... Lewandowski

Chai, learn and move on.

goldfish80:
If he can play the role why was he complaining in the interview?

"I wanted to take the next step - but suddenly I was playing in a No.10 role. I was quite mad because I wanted to play up front"

It's obvious Klop wanted him to learn something specific at that point which was the reason he deployed him there not because he could play as a 10.

Icon4s:
I wonder why Cameroon have kept faith with Vincent Aboubakar. Zoa is another good striker on the bench.

TheSuperNerd:
Chief Icon4s.... you are most spot on.


Remember in my very first analysis on the Camerounian team at this Confederations cup after their game with Chile.... I stated that Cameoroun is very dangerous and quite threatening from set pieces....

They have Moukandjo from direct freekicks. And most notably they have guys like Ngadeu Ngadjui and Teiku with their aerial prowess. Most especially Ngadjui.... he showed same at the Afcon.


This is one detail I hope Rohr and His team of experts/strategy analysts really take serious.

And I must say this game has seen a much improved Cameroun. They are playing really well against Germany. But their weaknesses are finishing, Decision making in the final third and a few more.

Overall, This Camerounian team is good... very very good. And That Lad Ondoa is truly a wall.

Icon4s:
Cameroon are very deadly with set pieces. TheSuperNerd you noticed that too abi?

Icon4s:
Cameroon are very deadly with set pieces. TheSuperNerd you noticed that too abi?

TheSuperNerd:
Sorry Joor... just realised moments ago... was about to go modify.

Thanks.

Djoum is possibly their best passing midfielder.

RichardKajola:
I just finished watching Nacho's goals for man city and they are all basically one touch goals that is tappings. Now get me right am not saying they are not goals but they are simpler to score because they only require positioning which has a lot to do with luck ( because to anticipate you guess and that could be wrong or right)
Nacho has the Ronaldo kind of hype - all about goals but he can do better as evidenced in the goal he scored against Southampton from outside the box but playing him as a striker makes him almost static. when I say static in this sense I mean a striker sometimes goes to midfield to make space for runners from deep and that can give him the space to do what I think he can do best well, that is taking curling shots from around the eighteen yard box
In summary I think Nacho's best position is the AMF/SS where he can show his total talent and also make those runs for the tappings as well

TheSuperNerd:
This your knack for sarcasm is getting too much...

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TheSuperNerd:
Good....I get you.

Anichebe bullies... then who finishes?

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jotey:
He did not score but his build up play was
awesome...you saw how emenike flopped @ the world cup because there was no ideye with him

And don't forget the wonderful assist he gave emenike in the first game against Burkina faso

Did musa shine for Leicester?

Yes Greek league... @least they won euro 2004
What has England won with their world class league?

TheSuperNerd:
The fullbacks remain our problem really... we just have to keep making do with Echiejile in the left coz we got no other replacement for now who can step in for such big game.

This is where the issue of identifying good left back options for the team must be done in view of future games but for the Cameroun encounters... it will be Echiejile and Hopefully the lad to play LW that day (preferably Etebo) will help him out just like Moses did when he switched with Iwobi to help out Echiejile battle Mahrez.

Balogun also covered that left side of the defence real good that day the few times he came up against Mahrez.



For the Right back role... I really cannot say for now who should start. Will it be Shehu? Will it be Omeruo? Will it be Aina ? (a rookie!! Yikes...if his allegiance switch is finally done and dusted--- Experience crew will get me for this).

Or by a wild thinking, Onazi for RB? I don't know mehn... the fullback roles are problematic. And we will be up against Cameroun's might from those two wings... Hellish!



All the same, I hope Rohr sorts out his notes on the Camerounians and come up with a really good tactical plan and also the right players for each role. We need the players who will deliver the goods on the day. I hope Rohr gets it right this time.

TheSuperNerd:
No.... We are already "over-preparing"... Rohr is even spying on Cameroun in Russia. He is studying their games and the team with his team of analysts.

We must not analyse without educating the others reading in ghost mode about what we are up against and how we can actually tackle them. We must be balanced and not spread the air of pessimism just because we wanna look humble ahead of the game.

It will only lead to more depression.

Nigeria is not there yet... but the Cameroun I saw today and against Chile is also not there yet and we can beat them with the Generals (Mikel, Moses, Balogun, Ikeme Plus even Young Success) back and if we play to our strengths and play with tactical awareness of their own strengths too.

TheSuperNerd:
You mean quick passing and mobility in the final third... Yes... TheGoodjoe and I have long hammered on it... if you have been here from the beginning.

But in most of your posts, you are saying they will hold down our pacy players like you are Hugo Broos himself.... You are also sounding like this because of the south Africa game.

Being Negative and being pessimistic is not being objective.

I have dissected the Camerounian team and spoken about heir strengths and weaknesses.... I am not hyping the Nigerian team but showing where we do stand a good chance.

Now that is being soundly and roundly objective.

TheSuperNerd:
I knew you would come clear that question... I saw it as sarcastic too.


But I am sorry you are not doing a good balanced job of pointing out how we ought to prepare for the Camerounians.

You are just hyping the Camerounians' strengths and saying nothing of their weaknesses.... And hyping our weaknesses and saying nothing of our strengths.

That is your way of saying we should just forget the game naa... and go home coz it is a lost battle already. well done.

TheSuperNerd:
And you think pointing out their strengths alone while pointing only to our weaknesses does justice to wholesome analysis?

We must talk about the strengths of both teams and also their weaknesses. That way we get to see the monsters we are up against and also the counter monsters we have to neutralize theirs.

And I repeat... their fullbacks looked faster like quicksilver today because they were up against a slow and Not so physically powerful Australian team.

The Super Pace of the Camerounian team is found mainly in three Musketeers... and they showed it even against Chile.

Moukandjo, Bassogog, and Anguissa.

Icon4s:
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Meaning he did not watch or follow our last game IE against SA? And he comes here to analyze Nigeria Vs Cameroon?

Icon4s:
Ummm. I don't even know how to answer this question sef.

TheSuperNerd:
Oga we have super pace upfront.... we just need to activate the pace with the right throughballs and passing.... Our defenders are also not slowbies.
Their no.2 and 3 seems fast because The Australians are bloody slow.

I repeat their pace is generated majorly from the likes of Moukandjo, Bassogog and that Workhorse AMF called Anguissa.


We not there yet.... who says we are?? But the Camerounians are also not there as you can see today. They could not beat a team less in stamina, power and pace than them plus their finishing is wayward. Are they there too??

TheSuperNerd:
Mehn.... that guy na machine.

He is not Afcon 2017 MVP for nothing oooo....

Ehmmmm... lemme see....

He wikk be up against Echiejile... so uhmmm who will play that LW role to help Echiejile when off the ball.... I suggest Etebo.

Echiejile and Etebo up and down that wing should contain Bassogog. #myInitialthoughts

TheSuperNerd:
Read my comment again to know which part of the Camerounian team I called fast and not fast.... I was specific.

And sorry... I may be Nigerian... but truth is we have the pace to beat their defenceline like Chile were always doing easily. Of only we play to our strengths. That is the reality.
Objectiveness does not mean sounding negative and playing down on our own strengths all the time in the name of so-called Objective analysis.


We must state what we are up against and also state where we hold the aces. That is what I am doing.

Without Bassogog, Anguissa and Moukandjo... the pace of the Camerounians is absent. #Fact
I watched their 2 and 3 and believe me, they are by no means slow. That team is quite agile and fast evidenced by their counter attacks. Our team is not as fast as you are portraying it. Again we should thread carefully. Musa usually leaves the ball behind, Moses might give them a run for their money and iheanacho(if he plays like he did against SA will be taken out of the game easily). We are not there yet

Icon4s:
That guy is a bull. Echiejile will definitely need plenty of support from our LWF and DM.

cc: PDPGUY

Icon4s:
My people, abeg how we go take play this Bassogog?