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darkelf:
Nigeria may not be able to best this cape Verde team

AndSunGorilla:
With all due respect, none of them is like Mikel in any way sir.

Meliforme:
Mikel is not as creative as Iwobi.
Iwobi excels more in overall passing range (long balls, chip passes, and crosses of the ball)

Iwobi's tendencies to also roam the wings makes him even more active in build ups and feeding the forwards.

Napoleon55:
You don start again,
If Iwobi is better than Mikel in these you mentioned, what have been preventing the super eagles all along from achieving success?

AndSunGorilla:
With all due respect, none of them is like Mikel in any way sir.

darkelf:
VERY BIG LIE

darkelf:
Okocha may not have started but if memory serves me well, they had Oliseh

Oliseh is known for accurate long passes. We don't have any DM of that calibre today

We just don't have such players right now and their Ebenezer Akinsanmiro na carpenter

M7even:
When you make statements like this , pls try to give us instances that validates your opinions.

Napoleon55:
You like to joke a lot.

You have the assortment abi assorted meat of players to beat any team in the world but you failed to beat SA or Ghana for over 360 minutes of football to qualify for WC back to back.

Nigeria need to learn how to humble themselves and accept their failures so that we can be champions again.

We have lost to Portugal fair and square two times now but you still think you are better than them, stop all these your jokes abeg.

Kog45:
Oga Meli,the match was a friendly match but big question in a competitive match can you stake it that Nigeria will beat Portugal.

Meliforme:
Anything can happen in football.
With good coaching we can beat Portugal.

Portugal has more talents than us, but we have the assortment of players that can beat Portugal.
Ndidi was excellent in duels and ball recoveries, he outperformed all the midfielders in those metrics save Frank Onyeka who had more ball recoveries.

Wilfred Ndidi, Frank Onyeka, Tochukwu Nnadi are rock solid midfielders. The lapses we saw in the midfield against Portugal was down to Eric Chelle for fielding FDB and Alex Iwobi at the same time, their deficits in defensive duels has always been there, a situation that i pointed out in the last AFCON. Contrast FDB and Bruno Fernandes in how they fared in duels, FDB lost all, Fernandes lost only one.

Eric Chelle has his positives, especially in the manner he has improved our passes and composition of play, but he is yet to possess that cutting edge that can give us the foremost advantage to victorious situations.

Amovingman:
England vs Croatia

1st half under 0.5
1st half card under 0.5

Stake high guy's

mank1234:
We are saying the same thing.
The emoji is my way of saying that's all he has to show

Amedino99:
Chidera high on the list of productive dribbles e.g. successful dribbles where the ensuing action was a shot, chance created, progressive pass, or progressive carry...dribbles that actually led to something.

mank1234:
He's better than Yamal at displacing players

yinkeys:
ejuke lost his pace
doesnt track back

Odunayaw:
Ejuke no sell again

TheSuperNerd:

Omo, Stanley Nwabali (@NwabaliBobo ) throw long and accurate pass Robert Sánchez goalkick 🙆🏾‍♂️🥶

Crazy 😳
🎥: IG/@nwabali32 pic.twitter.com/8krfbli0N3

— Banky G 🎤⚽ (@BankyGee_) November 12, 2024

"Nwabali has his big arms that covers more distance with his throws than what Okoye delivers with his legs"

Proof. Just one of several examples. Not mere yappings like you are dropping as epistles.

TheSuperNerd:
What Nwabali does with his arms for distribution is factual. I did not make that statement to spite Okoye. It is just facts. Anyone who truly watched the last two Afcons or any of Nwabali's other competitive games will know it is. Comments have also been made on this thread praising Nwabali's distributionw via his big arm throws.

Finally, there is nothing to admire in epistles meant to elevate Okoye as some god between the sticks. He is not better than what Nwabali has shown in the GWG. Maybe someday, he will get there but for now, Nwabali trumps Okoye in several aspects already mentioned. So again, rest the need to pamper Okoye. He needs improvements big time.

TheSuperNerd:
What Nwabali does with his arms for distribution is factual. I did not make that statement to spite Okoye. It is just facts. Anyone who truly watched the last two Afcons or any of Nwabali's other competitive games will know it is. Comments have also been made on this thread praising Nwabali's distributionw via his big arm throws.

Finally, there is nothing to admire in epistles meant to elevate Okoye as some god between the sticks. He is not better than what Nwabali has shown in the GWG. Maybe someday, he will get there but for now, Nwabali trumps Okoye in several aspects already mentioned. So again, rest the need to pamper Okoye. He needs improvements big time.

MetalJigsaw:
One key thing Okoye badly lacks his organization and communication with his defense.

Kog45:
Oga Meli,Nwabali is better than Okoye,i just hope he sort his club situation out or else Okoye is number one but talking goalkepping Nwabali is better than Okoye

TheSuperNerd:
This epistle is just more prolonged jargons/forced perpectives to hide facts (one of which you emboldened) that have been proven overtime that makes Nwabali the better and more assured GK for now over Maduka Okoye. With Nwabali, we have recorded more cleansheets than we have with Okoye in Goal and this is due in part to the presence and command Nwabali brings to that backline.

Let Okoye improve on his box presence, box command, defence organisational communication, positioning, reaction time and anticipation. These are key areas and more Nwabali holds the edge over Okoye. Finito.

Enough of the Okoye-pampering. With Enyeama, Ezenwa, Uzoho, Akpeyi, Ikeme and Nwabali... we did not have prolonged discourses on saveable and non-saveable shots. But with Okoye, it has become a thing and it is disgusting. How do we improve when we keep making funny excuses for a GK who should be doing better especially since he plays in a Top 5 league? Please enough.

TheSuperNerd:
Same way Nwabali gets his which is also undeserved. My critique of Okoye is valid and not agenda driven.

Nwabali has his big arms that covers more distance with his throws than what Okoye delivers with his legs. It is not a highly debatable discourse. Nwabali is the better GK right now. His positioning, reaction time and anticipation is better than Okoye's and that is why he is hardly beaten by outside-the-box strikes. His positioning makes several of those seem non-threatening.

Okoye has more to improve on compared to Nwabali. Box presence... 18 yard box Command and defensive organisation, Nwabali owns these so comfortably pls. It is no debate.

TheSuperNerd:
Okoye should improve pls. Making all these excuses for Okoye wont make him get better or assured in the Super Eagles shirt. Finito.

TheSuperNerd:
Wrong. Positioning is irrelevant if the deflection is as heavy as seen from Curacao off Kimmich today.

You are not blaming Neuer yet pushing the positioning narratìve in the presence of a deflection. For Okoye, there were no deflections.

TheSuperNerd:
Some. But not me. And with clear evidence, it wont even be a huge debate. The ball was heavily deflected off Kimmich.

This same "some will do or say this or that" applies to other GKs as well.

This one today has no correlation at all to what Okoye has been rightly criticized for in goal for the Super Eagles.

TheSuperNerd:
The ball that beat Neuer was clearly deflected. Not the same thing.

oloriooko:
Easily and profoundly

EElopa:
I was watching Bouaddi, and I was having a football orgasm. What a player. As mentioned before, to have an elite-level national team, you have to have technically ball-playing players in every position. The decline of the Super Eagles started when non-ball-playing players like Troost-Ekong, Omurue, Ajayi, Balogun, and Frank Onyeka started playing paramount roles in the Super Eagles.

I was watching the USA '94 Super Eagles games at the World Cup, and every single player on that team was so comfortable and technical on the ball. This is why I said the likes of Semi Ajayi and Sanusi need to be thanked and retired from the national team if we are really serious about competing with the big boys.

Morocco is a really good team, and they can really go far in this tournament. The people clamoring for all these junk NPFL players and non-technical ball-playing players don't really wish well for the Super Eagles to perhaps, in their lifetime, be in the semi-finals or finals of a World Cup.