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The old lady of Turin will carry the day .

Napoleon55:
Anything can happen in football,what if Korea beat Brazil,and we top our group

Laughing out loud in Swahili ....don't forget ,they ve conceived 9 goals in 2 matches , meaning they can still conceive more .... But nothing is impossible .. They can end up in a draw though .

P0intBlank:
Oga, I agree with u. But this Germany strong sha. Germany thrashed Austria 4-0 when they met in the semis of the European Championship.

One thing is special about the German , they usually score plenty of goals both at the senior level and junior level , that shows how deadly they can be in front of goals , but if they meet another attacking side they will bow ...if we re lucky to avoid them , then at another knock out stage we will meet again . The flying eagles re not easy too , ones they can understand themselves better we will become deadly . A win against the Hungarian will really help in raising d level of our confidence, and sharpen our attacking prowess .... One thing about Taiwo is that ones he starts scoring he will never stop .

blazetitov:
How did neuer sneak into U21 world cup? That Austrian goalkeeper na witch!

Hilarious ...the keeper name made me remembered a radio jingle about a gate (named kasali )whose major job is to stop late comers from entering government office once they re late for work . Casali stopped the Argentines ...

thegoodjoehunt3:
The weather consideration makes me lighten my anger with Mustapha, Enaholo and Awoniyi.

But they have not really complained about weather acclimatization, if their is anything like that ? The. it's a failure on the part of Nff , they chose the wrong preparation venue .... so they say "that part of Germany where they had the preparation has the same weather with Newzealand ....so bro ,what are u talking about ?
Three weeks is a enough for their body to adjust . That excuse is not valid ...the problem the team had at the first leg was selection error , having too many good hands for the job .if Manu had been very firm , the result would have been positive and we will not be in this state .

naptu2:
It'll be on NTA.

Nta is unreliable...

The best ever finish of Nigeria was in USA 1999 ...can they surpass that record ?

enomakos:
the germans are in a very weak group that why they are thrashing their opponents

Then which of the group is d toughest ? The German machines are very good and very clinical in front of goal .

On the average ,Germany has scored 5.5 goals per match ...it's better we avoid them now till we re ready to match them strength for strength .

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@ joseph1013
@ tbaba1234
@LeeCodeman

One down.... Next!

How will you rate the midfield today ?


I would have love to quote u after the final match of the group stage .

I see Gabar want attackers who can fall back to help the defense line also , I can see that he really trusted Awoniyi ...

tbaba1234:
likely line up

Enaholo, muhammad, nustapha, ndidi, bello, ifeanyi, idowu, sokari, Ezeh, bulbwa, Awoniyi

If we go by this line up we will see a lot of long range shot from Bubwa . Nothing like that against the Brazilian .

tbaba1234:
Happy idowu is back, expect a better defensive display even though we should beat north korea. Idowu is disciplined.. Ifeanyi ifeanyi was too forward minded.

Thank you for this comment ! Idowu has always been very disciplined and he knows his job well ...where is this dude link ?

Gareth Bale's face has refused to change . bat man face .

The fear of america !

After so much pressure from around the world of soccer , the longest serving president fifa has resigned .


The president of 17 years has stepped down in light of the corruption scandal sweeping through the world governing body

Sepp Blatter has announced he will step down as president of Fifa, calling an extraordinary congress "as rapidly as possible" at which a successor will be selected.

The Swiss announced his decision at a hastily-arranged press conference on Tuesday after his secreatry-general Jerome Valcke had earlier been implicated in the US Department of Justice's investigations into a $10m payment to indicted former Fifa vice-president Jack Warner.


Source : goal.com

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linked:
lolz... Lemme upgrade Naija 12 korea 1

It is called killing mood

It is called fatality !

linked:
Thats actually the least problem if it was a problem at all.. .. Even with Idowu in the pitch the eagles would have still lost with the way the whole team played.

The tactics employed for the game was too rudimentary... The players were not complementing each other... I wonder what would have happened if yahaya was benched for Moses as some people here wanted.... Na die e for be..

When you have a good sriker like Isaac you dont need wingers who can score a hat-trick.. You need midfielders who can provide assist and shield the defense line... .

Manu no hear

Bro just listen to yourself self . U said they need midfieders who can give passes to a reliable striker ? If u read my comment throughly , I said d role of Idowu would have been to shield d defense and this will allow d midfielders to play their role well . I ve been following this team since their under 17 and Idowu has been a pivot to the team . It was nau tactics that failed him , he had d intention of playing pure attacking football , and if u look at Ifeanyi Mathew and Ifeanyi ifeayi. They do well in attacking more , their role majorly is to lob balls to d attack line also create chances but the style failed manu .
I hope next match will not be dsame

What happened to tiki-taka style? Our player kept lobbing the ball .
The inactiveness of d midfield cost us the game . Manu has now felt the absence of Idowu ,who is d most used player in d under 17 and under 20 matches , he is a silent worker that u can't write off ,brings balance to d team and his shielding ability can bring out the best in other midfielders . The midfield made our defense line to look weak .... If u watch the match all through the midfield went to sleep through out the match ... It was d defense line and d attack line that played d match all through . In total all boils down to tactical error , the team can do better if those errors are been corrected . I give kudos to d brazilians , they play accurate dead balls and majority of the players are ball jogglers they do all sorts with d ball to beat our boys and the marking ability was fantastic.

Simple Manu change ur tactics ,this will enable u to win other matches .

Brazilian took 4 corner kick and it was directly connecting to the head of their players ... This is really impressive Nigeria needs to learn something from that !

The defense is too expose , d defensive midfielders has not really done well , this has kept Iheancho out of the game .

LeeCodeman:
Ndidi is protecting Musa, but Bello is not doing such a great job for Mustapha.

Ifeanyi Ifeanyi is not mopping up nicely.

That's why I like Idowu , knos how to shield the defense , but manu's plan is pure attacking

Best game of the competition so far !

We got punished there for Awoniys miss, he should have composed him self well to score .

Promising talent yahaya doing the thing

Scoreline has been leveled .goal by our own success

Early goal for the Brazilian

EagleScribes:
I just really hope we don't shoot ourselves in the foot. I have always insisted on the Barcelona set up if he insists on using Iheanacho

Let's see how it goes sha

The guys in the midfield can do it !

National anthem !

Nigeria coming in as underdog . Love what is happening now .

LeeCodeman:
Oga, I don talk am before say I no dey follow anybody drag rivalry for these boys. Anybody wey wan start mak e start. Na team work which leads to winning na im I dey for.

If there is anything I cherished about the boys , is the team work ... They have been very fantastic !