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semid4lyfe:
Our defensive frailties worry me. Conceding again vs Tanzania means we have not kept a clean sheet in our last four games.

vs Gabon (1) ❌
vs DR Congo (1) ❌
vs Egypt (2) ❌
vs Tanzania (1) ❌

At this point and with the absence of the reliable Benjamin Fredericks and Ola Aina, I think Chelle should just switch to a three man central defence with two wing backs; Bassey, Ajayi, Ogbu, Osayi and Zaidu.

Also, we only dominate play when the opponents pack the bus and sit back. When they become daring, come out to play and start running at us, we become jittery, nervy and lose our dominance

This team has to massively improve if we're gonna go far

The bolded is why I said yesterday that something is psychologically wrong with this team..

9JAMac10:
Nigeria 1-0 Tunisia. Bookmark this post after the game on Saturday. Let’s go 🇳🇬. Trophy is coming home

We will play better in our next game

chrisooblog:
Simon was more impactful when he came on if you ask me.

Osimhen too was off colour today. Trying shots from impossible angles, poor first control, still straying offside and also moaning unnecessarily.

That moaning part was irritating I agree

mrwilliams9:
Overall, decent start from the SE. Created a lot of chances to have won this 3-1 or 4-1.

This formation needs another midfielder. Simple and short. I don't know what Onyedika must do to get a game, but Ndidi can't do it alone.

We may want to consider going to a back 3 to shore up that defense.

I'd like to see us with a 4-3-3 or 4-3-1-2.

Midfield of Iwobi, Ndidi, and Onyedika. The front 3 of Adams, Osimhen and Lookman.

Lol
You want to bench Chuks in the form he's in?

TheGoodJoe:

I actually saw Simon Moses bring fire when he came on. Simon Moses had a good game and we felt his impact.

His decision making was poor
And he was too one dimensional
Final balls were poor as usual

elyte89:
We need to check real
Simons age …baba fit don 50 …d legs are gone

Simon is not less than 45

TheGoodJoe:
Actually, I liked that sub. The Tanzanians were dominating in the middle and he needed more numbers in the middle. With Dele Bashiru instructed to invert when we were off possession and spread out when in position. The timing was also good because we were in lead and needed control of the middle to reduce the aggressive attack of the Tanzanians.

I don't think it worked though
The Tanzanians still pushed through our midfield and created many chances, heck they even scored..

I particularly didn't like the chuks sub because he and iwobi were our main play makers today

Simon came in and we lost that edge we had when Chuks was on..

All in all, I'm happy with the win

Goke7:
But Chelle needs a regular starting 11, taking Adams off early in the second half except he was injured impacted the game somehow

That sub was too early
Even Chuks was having a great game

Samueltemi337:
Sanusi isn't usually like this
I am really surprised about his game play today

Maybe the rain unsettled him

Toylove:
if i didn't watch the game and came here to read comments, i will think we strugggled all through. but from what i saw today, we were not our best but it wasn't a bad game

Yeah, just that the win feels like a loss

lexyman:
we played very badly and struggled to win Tanzania , i was expecting a 4:0 or 4:1 giving room for Nwabali's error .if we play like this against Tunisia , trust me , they will trash us .

Tunisia can't beat us

Meliforme:
The fact still remains Akinsanmiro does it better.
That is the fact.

The most distinguishing positive from Iwobi is his dropping deeper, opening himself up to receive passes from the defence and helping to move the ball from the defence into the more advanced areas of the midfield. The times he dropped deeper to receive passes from the defenders, the Tanzanian forwards retreated deeper into their own half.

Pls don't mention Akinsanmiro again abeg

Samueltemi337:
We all know Osimhen
He can miss many and score a beauty in the 90th minute

Like!!!

Joebie:
The problem is Osimhen may not score, but remove him and the team becomes useless

This happens all the time
The team loses it's focal point once Osimhen leaves
He makes the whole forward line play better

minfelix:
but whats this thing with Osimhen goals always being ruled out at afcon na🤦🏽‍♀️….this game was easily a 3-1, 4-1 naaaaa

I agree with you
Osimhen wasn't himself today
Let's hope he comes to the party next game

Goke7:
Second half was the problem we were decent in first half

I also think the coach made changes too early

Terrible second half
Yes we were in control
He didn't need to change anything as yet

drDoom3:
we are so poor... I don't see us making it past quarterfinals with this gameplay.

We will improve as we go on

This win feels like a loss

Something is psychologically wrong with this team

mrwilliams9:
We have been saying this since WCQ. Move to a 4-3-3. We have Onyedika and Akinsanrimo

LOL

Goke7:
Great ball in by Iwobi

The other guy say na Akinsanmiro suppose start,not iwobi

Meliforme:
Why is lwobi starting ahead of Akinsanmiro in midfield.

Iwobi is not as creative as Akinsanmiro coming from the midfield and doesn't offer more in defense.
Akinsanmiro is even more tidy in his passes of the ball.

Starting Iwobi in a two man midfield and Lookman on the wings makes us more vulnerable in the defensive aspect of our footballing.

I hope Eric Chelle knows what he is doing.

Go and sit down abeg
Akinsanmiro ko

Mujtahida:
Senegal don see araha

We need to become more ruthless
We should be WALLOPING teams not romancing them

Kilishihunter:
Plus the injuries to ola aina and Fredericks, with those two many would believe the backline would be more secure but I hope they use the world cup disappointment to give their best in this tournament, we have nothing to lose again after the WC conclusion so let's just go for it

You've said it all

TheSuperNerd:
Chukwueze, Lookman, Adams, Osimhen all start.

Only 2 midfielders. Ndidi and Iwobi.

To be honest, I am more confident in this setup with these players

Clint02:
Nobody is confident in the team.

Yeah
That DRC loss sapped all our enthusiasm..
Na one eye we dey use look them now
Though if we win today, momentum go shift small

Samueltemi337:
I keep seeing 3 - 1

We are leaving with a clean sheet

typicalgamer:
We no know how to score goals when did that happen ?

Benin, Gabon, DRC?

solonnachi:
All top seeded teams are winning their opening matches. SE no fall our hand ooo

We will win
We have a good team that's hard to beat and we now know how to score goals

Goke7:
It doesn’t hurt to nice at times 😂

No be everything be fight. To be positive na crime?

He don sign pact with negativism

Goke7:
😂 you’ll soon be accused of mediocrity.

No be today na
If you know how much physical and mental energy that Gabon game took from us!!

At the end of the day, body no be firewood

List never drop??
Game is on in 90 mins oh