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Earthquake2:
Senegal are playing similarly to Egypt, depending Mane for everything

I smell an upset here

this is to time to press but seal the game, if they fail to do this , Tunisa will win the match

andrew444:
Super eagles line up dey always come out for twitter like 5 hours to game

Our last game was 8pm or so, i have already found out jamilu collins was starting by 2pm ,i was thinking it was a joke till i saw him in the line up when the game started

this is not good for us , they should also be discrete and be able to manage info... i think their is so much competition among the media guys ...just want to dish out info to make the trend

andrew444:
Line up is out already, same line up as the one against SA with a 4-3-3 formation



Daniel Akpeyi


Chidozie Awaziem William Troost-Ekong Kenneth Omeruo Jamilu Collins



Wilfred Ndidi Oghenekaro Etebo
Alex Iwobi



Samuel Chukwueze Ahmed Musa

Odion Ighalo

i don't expect Rohr to line up a different team entirely outside this .


we need wingers who can attack them and do proper dribble , cos the have weak wingbacks ... that is one of their weakness ... Saha was able to unveil that

drDoom3:
Starting lineup anyone??:-!

expect starting lineup 1hr or 1hr 30mins before the match

na this kind thing day pain pass ... after flying the military down to convey 1,400 fans and NIGERIA end up trashing them... it can be painful more than going to party without been served the Jollof rice

MetalJigsaw:
Senegalese and South African assistant referees for our game tomorrow. guys what do you think?

have you seen where a carpenter use his teeth to remove nail ? they will not try it , Pinnick is at the helm of affairs...


my guy stop thinking negative . he will rather be active like the centre ref. during our match against Cameroun

MetalJigsaw:
Odegbami: Gernot Rohr – All Is Forgiven… But Nigeria Needs a New Coach For 2022!
 59 July 12, 2019 7:59 pm


Last Wednesday night, the Super Eagles put up their best performance so far in AFCON 2019. As difficult as the match was, there were almost no threats to the Nigerian goal throughout the encounter. Even the goal the South Africans scored was a gift by the elements. On hindsight, it was so that Nigeria’s victory would be much sweeter. A match without high tension is like tea without sugar.

A lot of the credit for the team that was assembled, how the team played, and how they won, must naturally go to the man whose responsibility it was to put it all together – Gernot Rohr.

A British journalist friend, Satish Sekar, called me up from Cairo after Nigeria won their match against South Africa last Wednesday night wondering if I had changed my mind about Gernot Rohr and forgiven him his ‘sins’.

Satish must have read media reports during the week where I said that were I to be in charge of the Super Eagles, I would have sidelined Gernot after the loss against Madagascar. Hence his valid question now.

My simple answer is that my statement was hypothetical. I am not in charge of Nigerian football. Gernot is still in charge of his team, a responsibility handed to him by his employers who also read my reaction and, I believe, must have let the German know that he made a big mistake and goofed by toying with the emotions of Nigerians.

Nigerians love to win every single match even if it is against the World XI, and it is not that they do not know they are not the best team in the world and must lose matches.

The issue is that, beyond football, the country represents more than meets the ordinary eye with which Gernot must have been viewing Nigeria and Nigerians. Otherwise, why would he take the entire country for granted by taking an avoidable and unnecessary decision of assembling a ‘weak’ team to represent the largest congregation of Black persons in the world, a country with pride, a country with rich historic antecedents in football, with resources and human capacity to become a global football power, to play a match, any match for that matter, where the whole world will be watching and the joy and livelihood of over 50 million Nigerians will be at risk?

For general information purposes, for those that do not know, unofficial estimates put the number of people driving an undocumented football economy in the country at over 50 million. Most of them are youths.

Do the math. There are over 5 million small television viewing centres in all the nooks and crannies of the country, with a minimum of about 10 people in each centre fueling business and sustaining a silent but very crucial economy.

So, with over 50 million youths watching their national team every time the Super Eagles play, a youth population of very loud people, barely surviving with great difficulty in a harsh political, economic and social environment, to lose an important match carelessly against a small, country from ‘nowhere’ and without any antecedents in football, is totally unacceptable.
That ‘small’ defeat that Gernot glossed over with a remorseless smile when he granted an interview after the match, has dented Nigeria’s records in the history books of African football, could have cost Nigeria further progress in the current African championship and created untold and immeasurable temporary pain and agony in every home in the country.

It was a careless decision, and must be condemned so that such is never repeated.

The football economy impacts the media, the leisure industry, the betting industry, the entertainment industry, and so on. This humongous field is one that feeds on the success of the Super Eagles. To lose an important match means hunger and ‘death’ for some businesses. I know because I am involved.
That was my point. That was why I would have rested Gernot till the end of the championship if I were in charge. To teach him a lesson on how not to coach Nigeria’s national team, and how not to take Nigerians and their national sport for granted.

He got my message, that’s the important thing.
Something tells me that the meeting he held with Amaju PInnick before the last match was to register that point and others to him.

Since then everyone can see what has happened. Going forward now, no matter what happens till the end of the AFCON 2019 championship, from what I saw last Wednesday night, Gernot Rohr has become a changed man. He is now reborn.

He selected the best set of players that coincided with what majority of Nigerians watching all the matches and making their own assessments would largely agree with.
He got the team to play with confidence and calmness and everyone could see a pattern, discipline and organization in how the team played. No, it was not perfect, but football is never perfect, but this time it worked.

Cameroon assistant coach Patrick Kluivert in handshake with Gernot Rohr
Playing like that, even if Nigeria had lost, we would still have been pained but would have gone back home knowing that it was not because we disrespected our opponents and did not field the best of us.

Gernot was on his feet raising his voice, gesticulating from time to time, feebly giving out instructions, trying to act as if marshalling the team and guiding them, throughout that match. He showed some concern for whatever was going to happen, even if he was obviously not in the class of a Mourinho, or a Klopp, in the act of being the 12th player.

He did not play ‘sentiments’. When he felt that the captain of the team needed to give way, he did not even hesitate in substituting Ahmed Musa. That’s how a serious coach should behave to demonstrate loyalty and commitment to a foreign country that hires him.

Gernot has changed. So, he deserves to be given the opportunity to serve out his term.

Going forward, however, looking towards a bigger goal, going to the 2022 World Cup and going far in accordance to Nigeria’s potentials seen long ago by global experts, but still hovering in the periphery of greatness only, the country needs a new coach, one that will imbibe and use the inherent strengths in the Nigerian DNA to drive the country’s football and footballers to become the best in the world and show the rest of the domestic polity, that Nigeria can be the greatest Black country in the world with the right kind of leadership…and followership.

Football can be the light of at new nation.
So, in response to Satish’s question, for Gernot Rohr, all is forgiven!
Good luck to him for the rest of AFCON 2019.

i think ODEGBAMI made some valid point , but to me Rohr doesn't deserve to be sacked , he needs technical adviser that he will give free hand to tactically instruct the team when the need arises ...Rohrs record shows that he has done really well among all the foreign coaches the NFF have hired in the past ... and if you ask me ... Our technical bench are not making use of the technology available for them to solve problems on the field of play ..recently released a more detailed version during the 2018 world cup its time african coaches see beyond physical ability and make use of essential softwares that will make their jobs easy ....the data provided in the the softwares are what they needed to take a decision when its needed ....if we will do well in the coming 2022 world cup ... let our coaches harness the use of technologies ... a true interpretation of such software datas is the one provided on fifa games, they will be able to see player coverages , strength and distance covered... etc

Interesting , let the superstitious people come and say something

All this superstitious people ... good preparation and right team selection wins matches not jerseys .

Africa my Africa .... there is nothing like jersey jinx ....

This same jersey color was used against Algeria to trash them 3:1 in 2017 during Word cup qualifier ....

Algeria have some very decent player , the likes of Slimani ,Ferghouli ,Maharez , .... infact 6 of their 10goals so far came from 6 different players

SE have a lot of work to do cos their coach doesn't sit down and we will be playing against 12 men that understand themselves .




Victor Moses and Mikel taught them a lesson during the world cup qualifier ....hope to see our midfield flourish come Sunday ... I think they re rugged too , it will be a fight to finish final

i was expecting them to SIGN a new coach

Yorubas "will say Gba fun oga e" take a bow for your master

believe this at your own peril , the truth will be out in about six months ... Nigeria i hail thee

jihday:
I think the solution to our GK problem is in the NPFL, Rhor and Alloy need to do their homework properly there are young talented goalkeeper who can serve us a long time

they two people you mentioned don't believe in our home based team ... ad it will be hard for them to pick any goal keeper

Joebie:
NIGERIA HAS NOT REALLY CLICKED YET AS A TEAM AND WE ARE IN THE SEMIS.. WE CAN ONLY GET BETTER. I THINK WE CAN LIFT THIS CUP.

We keep improving and to crown it all we have a good bench and can win the match fro the bench ... pessimist has failed to see this

done and Dusted ... Tunisia have spelt MAD...if time permits they will go on to complete their spelling bee

Ahmad Ahmad should go home he has tried

Mickael2:
Actually this Afcon has been following the history books just like we have never lost against any defending champion, I was still here believing in the team even when we were losing after the first half and we did not fall history's hand. Then again we have always defeated SA in the Afcon, happened again.

Then on the other hand when Algeria last scored a goal at least in five consecutive games they went on to win the Afcon, beating Nigeria along the way. Now they are meeting us again after scoring in five consecutive fixtures. Creepy shit

yes no doubt , they can score if they work really hard , but we will outscore them ... cos we will be better that day... we need to rewrite the history for them , like we always do

Joebie:
We seem to have improved dealing with dead ball situations. I think that's the only area they stand a chance against us.

a lot of improvement in the team ... Kudus to ROHR . he has done some good work on the team . and now we re also dangerous from our set pieces , so far it has given us 3 goals in 5 matches , that is a lot of improvement . That Etebo free kick is solid , the keeper was lucky for the ball to have kissed the bar

Mickael2:
Well a little history here lads.

In the Afcon qualifiers we lost the first match 2-0 to South Africa then drew the return leg 0-0 and when we met we beat them 2-1.
Now during the world cup qualifiers we beat Algeria in the first leg 3-1 and drew the return leg 1-1 that's a difference 1 goal for each team (compared to the SA results), now if history repeats itself like it has been repeating itself in this AFCON then that match will be 3-2 in favour of Algeria.

Also the last time we beat South Africa in an Afcon we ended up losing the next match on penalties(that was in 2000).

OK let me run away before people come for my head

this AFCON is different , a lot of history has been re written ... And as it stands they have been OTEDOLA And Dangote has promised the boys another 75kusd per goal ... another Motivation just expect 3-1 or 4-1

Joebie:
THE HONEYMOON IS OVER FOR MADAGASCAR

they have tried , i wit them to reach the Semifinal , so as to match the record of Cape Varde but as it stands i don't think so cos the Tunisian guys are using them to learn tactics

VeeVeeMyLuv:
Correct

we don't have that physical presence ... intact we re among the smallest among the teams that came to this competition , (Ghana is the shortest )...

what we have that is working for us is the winning mentality ... and u can't buy that from the market . forget the informed attacking line we have , if they fail to score the defence line will do it ... ask Omeruo and Ekong ..

we have the mentality already and it will hard to be taken away from us , cos we are fired up already .

Curtisaxel7:
If I am to say my mind, with what I've seen from this Algerian team throughout this tourney, there is very little chance we are getting past them. It's the end of the road lads, it's time to go home.

P.S:
I am not trolling or hating, I love this team and I think they have already done thier best to get to this stage. We can only get better from here.

Football is not mathematics ,what I like about the SE is that , they take every game as it comes , they raise the game to match the strength of their opponents , if the Ivorian were clinical enough today and took all their opportunities , they would have been the one smiling .... at the beginning of the match they played so well and created goal scoring opportunities ... but Algerian were lucky to win by PK ....we will not be heading to penalty come Sunday ... it will end after 90minutes as usual ... we have done it before and even when Maharez and The Galatasary guy was in top form .... My only concern will be Rohr’s attitude ,if he stand up to the game and take quick tactical decision when it’s necessary it will only speed up our victory .before the end of 90minutes

solonnachi:
If we had topped our group and went all the way, we would have played Senegal at semis. God used Madagascar to bring us this far.

At this point we don’t have to be scared of any team .... they re not in any way better than us ... in the area of organzation and individual brilliance , I think Senegal is close or in per with us , follow by Algeria .. then others can follow .

Our game against Algeria will be against 12men. 11 players and the coach on the pitch of play ... we should expect a more tactical and attacking game from the Algerian ... but at the end we will beat them cos we have done it before .

safarigirl:
Our usual customers have won the lotto

Me, I no see wetin Algeria dey play for this match

Exactly ...�i know u have something to tell them ... we re close to lifting the trophy

Now we know our opponent ... we have beaten them before ...


Safarigirl actually have a word for the Algerian ��.

Chai Ivorian are going home �

The Algerian coach is another Diego Simeoni

I think we re better than any of this team .... Our midfield is coming reliable and most of the battle starts and ends there .

that is how the Champion rolls , getting ready to play the Algerian .... we have beaten them before .. and it will happen again

Joebie:
Rohr has his good sides. But he is not a good match reader.. He needs better assistants. It's gonna be hard to say he should go.. You don't change what is working.. He has given us results so far, when it mattered most.

He need an assistant who can read the game better .. that will work with him

tbaba1234:
Ighalo is giving us, one good game, one bad game..

Hopefully, he is back on form in the semis.

same thing with Iwobi ... played so badly against Cameroun but played so well today

Bafana Bafana will not forget him in a hurry


his first touch always make the ball is own ...nark him at your own peril,, you will be disgraced