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ChrisKels:
Yea you are right, but if we had Torunarigha in this team, I would have him sharing positions(LCB/LB/LWB) with Bassey while Zaidu sits it out.

Well probably, but for now Zaidu is key to how we setup especially defensively

charlesemeka85:
imagine that carpenter trying to intimidate iron bender 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Onyeka wey grow for Benin na wey one plantain eater wan chance 🤣🤣🤣

E for chop grass yesterday
Onyeka wey dey find fight before
😂😂

ChrisKels:
He is only decent defending but wasted going forward

I think JPes understands that and he's mostly there for his defensive solidity anyway

charlesemeka85:
imagine that carpenter trying to intimidate iron bender 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Them for mend am yesterday

charlesemeka85:
Frank the bulldozer 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

Who you be??
🔥🔥🔥🔥

Sportilitica:
Zaidu is key to this team

That's what most people who are calling for him to be benched are not seeing

Goke7:
As long as the players keep turning up, Angola will be toast. The players for the first time knew what was at stake but for VAR the Eagles not known for scoring early goals were 1 nil up by a defender o imagine that.

Once that Angola's Mabululu of a player is neutralised, that's the end

Exactly
You get the drift

Again, JPes got his tactics spot on!
I was once a critic of his
But today, I give him his respect
Thank you JPes for such entertaining football
We played with urgency and purpose yesterday
Ekong pocketed Magry
Even their so called big names in midfield were neutralized
They couldn't play crosses
They Tried Zaidu's flank in first half, no joy
Switched to Aina's flank in second half, still nothing

Thank you JPes
Collect your flowers!

After our first goal was disallowed
We refused to keep our head down
We kept coming at them
Big big kudos to Osimhen for pressing that Gonzalez guy, dispossessing him and laying on a beautiful assist for Lookman

Osimhen didn't score but was immense yesterday
A true monster machine!

After the match, the whole stadium, including the players were singing his name!
Even drogba came to greet him!

Victor Osimhen!
What a player!

Alfryd:
Zaidu is good in defensive just poor in offensive play... But I won't buy your idea because we easily switch to 5man defence when we're been Press

I believe Zaidu should keep his place
Omeruo can always come in later and we push Bassey to LWB

What we did by beating Cameroon this way, is give ourselves a huge momentum boost
The boys now believe they can go all the way
The SE will now be harder to beat..

Personally I don't see any team stopping them, unless ofcourse they stop themselves!

Congratulations everyone
Friday 6pm, we go again!

Kog45:
Ibrich,you opened case and closed it😀

Egbon I hail!

Papi85:
if osimhen, zaidu and Lookman were clinical enough that match would hv ended 4-1 in favor of the super eagles

Exactly

Omanambala:
I rewatched the match between Nigeria and E. Guinea and I want to point out some observations.

My takes:

*Nigeria was unsettled by the E.Guinea for the most part of the first half. We couldn't string passes together especially in the midfield and attack.

* The SE is still having a midfield problems. Onyeka and Yusuf worked their socks off but IWOBI continued to be a weak link in the midfield. Iwobi has no sense of responsibility as the team playmaker. Onyeka and Ajayi were usually seen surging forward with the ball while Iwobi kept running around like MKPULU AMU!

*Aina was full of tricks, very strong and lively all through the match.

* Zaidu was very lively but ineffectual. He is full of runs but lacks end product. This is a typical Zaidu style.

* Moses Simon was very poor and I wouldn't start him in the next match. I cant think of his impact in the team.

* Iwobi Lookman started poorly but as the game advanced he picked up and was very good on the ball. He became more aggressive and confident on the ball. In fact, Lookman was the most creative player on the pitch.

*Onyeka, Lookman, Aina ,Yusuf and Ajayi were the most impressive players in the SE colors.

* The Equatorial Guinea were more aggressive played like a unit and bullied the SE to my wonderment.

First of all, EQB did not bully us anything
Check the meaning of bullying again..
They unsettled us in the first half yes, because they came to frustrate us and try to score on the counter
Even at that, after their goal, we completely outplayed them

Secondly, Iwobi had a good game
You may not like him personally, but he would have had atleast 2 assists if we converted those chances and through balls he played.

On another day, EQB would have collected atleast 4 goals

Case closed
Next up: CIV

MetalJigsaw:
And there has never been a goalles draw in this tournament and it's almost round 2 of games. Every team is eager to score goals.

Exactly Chief

EEGA:
My observations from our first AFCON game
Defence
Peseiro got it wrong here by playing two sweepers I.e Ajayi and Ekoong, who are poor in ball playing.I mean they are not ball playing central defenders.
Recommendation:He should pair one of them along side Kenneth Omeruo who is the only ball-playing central defender in the team because we need a central defender who can comfortably carry the ball to the midfield.

Midfield
Peseiro started the game with 3 midfielders;Onyeka,Yusuf and Iwobi which is a wrong midfield trio.He started Onyeka in the Defensive midfield role, when he should have been deployed as a b2b midfielder.This is because Onyeka to me is more of a box 2 box midfielder and is always on the bench for Brentford this season.He has barely clocked 350mins of action this season.
Recommendation:Raphael Onyedika should be deployed in the Defensive midfield role for he has been starting all games for Club Brugge this season, including in the Europa league.
He comfortably carries the ball from the defence into the midfield in a majestic way and with accustomed ease.Remember the game against Mozambique.

Attack
He started Moses Simon on the RW instead of Chukwueze.
Recommendation:Chukwueze has a strong left foot and can comfortably shoot from the right unlike Moses Simon who has been playing on the LW for Nantes FC in France.

Your number one point is wrong
Ajayi carried the ball forward on numerous occasions.
You may not like the CB pairing, but they did their job on the day
We only conceded because our players did not react fast enough after Iwobi lost possession
And that understandable
They weren't expecting him to lose that ball

MetalJigsaw:
If its Aribo then wahala dey o. I prefer onyedika.

Aribo and Iwobi lack workrate and agility. Peseiro shouldn't try it o.

Aribo get work rate o
Though I'll prefer if Onyedika comes in as DM and we push Frank to b2b, but I don't mind Aribo at all

akwesenana:
A goalless draw against the Ivoriens and a heavy win against Bissau should be enough.

There will be goals in that game
A goalless draw is highly unlikely

MetalJigsaw:
Rubbish! Make he channel that energy into working on himself. His market value is slowly dwindling!

I personally don't think Chuks can do better than AC Milan he already is in
If he ups his game, he can become a real leader in that team

Damioduso1:
Alhassan Yussuf doubtful for eagles match on Thursday against Cote D'Ivoire the host . Raphael Onyedika shoud fill that position. Which is important against the ivorian

If true, then onyedika should play DM while onyeka plays the b2b role which Alhassan excelled in on Sunday

yinkeys:
He’s now 25 o
Iheanacho now 27
It’s Boniface thats 23, who has time on his side

If this generation of Eagles don’t win Afcon in 2 years they should forget about winning the trophy in this cycle

A bunch of new talents would come to take over after 2026 World Cup

Nigeria needs a solid 12 year plan for the u17 generation players to win senior football World Cup
If only we’ve got committed NFF officials

Drogba did not win the Afcon yet his legend is still intact.
Relax, Osimhen will come good

humility33:
Una don start thank God say Jpes nor dey nairaland sha

Please Jpes should stick to the formation and style of play adopted against EQG. But rather start Chuks instead of Simon and Bassey instead of Sanusi

Thank you
That's all we need
Same structure, same formation
We will definitely create chances
They just need to put on their scoring boots
I'm also looking forward to seeing how Nwabili will fare against better opposition
For some reason I strongly feel we will win that game

CIV would probably rush us and try to get an early goal
Our guys need to maintain full concentration
I expect someone like Iwobi,Aribo and maybe Senior man to shine in that game
Like breaking passes, over the head passes that will put our strikers one on one with their keeper, over and over again

If we absorb the pressure well and not lose concentration, we should get a result in that game

We should just try to score first
Though it seems we play better after conceding first

If you noticed, our play improved after the EQG goal against the run of play..
After they scored us, I expected them to go back to their defensive setup, for some reason they didn't
I guess our immediate equalizer destabilized them and they abandoned their game plan
They suddenly opened up and tried coming at us, maybe believing they could get a second goal
That was when we started seeing defence splitting passes left and right because of the gaps they left open

If only we were clinical, we would have finished that game with 4 or 5 goals

Icon4s:
No doubt, overall, the team played well and created lots of scoring chances but could not finish them up.

CIV will have it tough against this Nigerian side

The way JPes sets up his teams, we will struggle against teams that sit back and play on the counter, but play better against teams that come at us.

CIV will come out to attack us, that will give us plenty opportunities to create chances
We only hope and pray our guys finish their chances, because we will create loads of them

I see a draw or win for us against CIV

Goke7:
Na only Senegal survive o, may be the red card against Gambia in the first half was an advantage though.

You say maybe?
Ofcourse it was!

BascoVanVeli:
Sanusi was definitely not bad yesterday. Missing those chances can't take away from the fact that he got into dangerous positions. If he keeps playing like he did yesterday we will be a very dangerous side.

Thank you
The way they are all castigating Zaidu made me wonder if it's the same match I watched
Zaidu did well abeg

minfelix:
the only thing i will hammer on is “LUCK” Jpes doesn’t have winning luck…wether 4-4-2 or 4-3-3…his team can attack but i dont know why he is not winning games…especially against all this african teams
1-1 lesotho
1-1 Zimbabwe
1-1 Equatorial
lost 1-0 and won 1-0 against Guine/Bissau (dominating thse games all through the...watch that game and see how our boys were just flinging away open and begging chances)
He beat s/leone home and away
He beat Mozambique 3-2
playing 2-2 against saudi…check all these games we had more clearcut chances against these teams…omo that man spirit no relate with winning oo…even gernot rohr no attack like this but we go sha win 1-0…BADLUCK🤷🏽

Might it be psychological?
Maybe he transmits some negative energy to the players?

I wonder

elyte89:
I would give jpes 9/10 yday …na our mumu striker no gree score

Thank you
I like when we speak truth
I know we generally don't like jpes and want him out, but yesterday he did his job with what he had available
If we only converted our chances

I know we're not favourites against CIV, but personally I don't think we will lose

I like the fact that, for once, no one is blaming JPes for our result yesterday

Samueltemi337:
How many AFCON this legends win?

Thank you!

Joezinho:
Before the World Cup miss. 😀

After eguavoen failed to qualify us for the World Cup. 😅😅🤌🏻🤌🏻👇🏻



But we can win nations cup with Eguavoen abi?

You be chef??
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