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Sports / Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2025 And 2026 World Cup by Meliforme: 2:24pm On Sep 21
charlesemeka85:
their two best players so far this season

The players that he sometimes benches.
The coach should make up his mind on his starting eleven, and build understanding and synergy among them.
He made mistakes yesterday.
It looks like he is still experimenting.
Sports / Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2025 And 2026 World Cup by Meliforme: 2:04pm On Sep 21
TheSuperNerd:
Sevilla has the historic pedigree but currently lack the quality to sustain that pedigree. If they don't turn things around, they will get relegated by season's end.

Time will tell.


It is their wingers that i appreciate the most.
Chidera Ejuke and Dodi Lukebakio.
Sports / Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2025 And 2026 World Cup by Meliforme: 2:02pm On Sep 21
lbrichman2:


I am truly concerned for that team
They look like relegation candidates
They really need to refresh their forward line, and sadly, iheanacho is not the answer
I hope they sort themselves out soon

They have very good wingers in Dodi Lukebakio and Childera Ejuke.
They are very good and dangerous.

They need a good center forward.
Isaac Romero and Kelechi Iheanacho do not impress me.

They also need a decent backline, because they concede cheap goals.

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Sports / Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2025 And 2026 World Cup by Meliforme: 1:54pm On Sep 21
Sugarboyy:

Fine player at where? AC Milan or the GWG?

We know what he is capable of
Sports / Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2025 And 2026 World Cup by Meliforme: 11:21pm On Sep 20
Mujtahida:

It's like Meliforme candidate is hot this season oo. Chukwueze needs to give way to more effective attackers.

Chukwueze is a fine player.
Sports / Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2025 And 2026 World Cup by Meliforme: 10:17pm On Sep 20
Sevilla do not really have a good center forward.
Iheanacho's positioning and anticipation is not encouraging.

Loic Bade has no business on the bench.

Childera Ejuke has no business on the bench.
Ejuke is having a good synergy and communication with Dodi Lukebakio, as their communication with long balls, switching plays, is something good to see.
Ejuke's presence on the pitch, diverted attention from Lukebakio, giving Lukebakio more space to do his thing.

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Sports / Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2025 And 2026 World Cup by Meliforme: 7:09pm On Sep 20
Sugarboyy:

Make he go sleep
I have watched all Sevilla matches this season, he come be like say I jobless 🤣🤣🤣
The guy will dribbles successfully and when it's time to shot or tries to make assist, he will pass backward.
For Iheanacho at Sevilla, that guy is washed out already and I won't be surprise if at the end of the season his contract is terminated while they keep Ejuke

He is Sevilla's most creative player.
He assisted their only goal against Liverpool in a friendly match.

Dude has it in him.
Sports / Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2025 And 2026 World Cup by Meliforme: 7:04pm On Sep 20
charlesemeka85:
the reason I don’t rate him much

Dribbles are not only for goals and assists.
Sports / Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2025 And 2026 World Cup by Meliforme: 7:03pm On Sep 20
Sugarboyy:

17 successful take-ons with no single goal of assist. That's a total waste of dribbling

He is the team's most creative player.
The chances he created weren't converted.

Luck will soon shine on him.

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Sports / Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2025 And 2026 World Cup by Meliforme: 4:21pm On Sep 14
charlesemeka85:
bros they are not similar in any way

Adriano was too complete. In his prime he was the closest thing to R9. Bobo was unplayable with shooting power that can be compared to that of few

No disrespect to Boniface but no try compare him to Adriano unless u no watch the Brazilian during his prime

Boniface is also complete.
Sports / Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2025 And 2026 World Cup by Meliforme: 3:29pm On Sep 14
Boniface is very skillful.
I mean very skillful.

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Sports / Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2025 And 2026 World Cup by Meliforme: 12:40pm On Sep 14
Today at 5:30 pm.
It will be Sevilla vs Getafe.
Chidera Ejuke vs Uche Christantus.
Sports / Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2025 And 2026 World Cup by Meliforme: 9:57am On Sep 14
Mybettingtips:

A sound tactician can flog this eleven with what we have.
Sports / Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2025 And 2026 World Cup by Meliforme: 2:52pm On Sep 13
Kog45:
This is the reason why I congratulated you on Ejuke moved to Sevilla.I know stats will start coming out,yes a good dribbler.

If you can used goal creation to rate Ejuke in la liga then why asking what is Fisayo doing in eagles cuz I saw him involved in Osimhen goal against Benin.

Fisayo has just 4 caps with a goal but to you he has no business with eagles.

Thegoodjoe gave you honest opinion on Fisayo.

Pls is there any difference between goal participation and goal creation cuz here Ejuke had no goal participation.

We have midfielders who have more to give us than we have in Fisayo.
I mentioned his fallings and gave more worthy options.

Goal participation or involvement implies that you are either the goalscorer or that you assisted the goal.
One can create a goalscoring chance without having the goal converted, in that case the player is accorded to having created a goal scoring chance or made a key pass even though the goal wasn't converted.

Ejuke has zero goal participation because none of the goalscoring chances he created was converted.
Sports / Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2025 And 2026 World Cup by Meliforme: 2:40pm On Sep 13
jihday:
I need Chukwueze dropped for this guy

Chukweze is good.
Both can be invited.

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Sports / Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2025 And 2026 World Cup by Meliforme: 12:57pm On Sep 13
Chidera Ejuke is very consistent in one thing: dribbles.

He is currently number 1 in La Liga according to Fotmob.

And currently number six in goal scoring chance creation.
Sports / Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2025 And 2026 World Cup by Meliforme: 12:51pm On Sep 13
7demons:
Super Eagles should learn how to play possession football. Too much dependant on wing play is affecting psychology of our play, that is why they hardly string two or three passes without pushing the ball forward or losing the ball in the final third. It's not a confident team.
A tiki-taka foot work would have dismantled the Rwandan defense and send the keeper the wrong direction. Tiki-taka makes every player to be creative and spontaneous with the ball.
To be honest, Teams that Pack Buses always have tough times dealing with opponents that utilizes tiki-taka antics against them.
During our previous games we tried such pattern against weaker teams like (Rwanda, Guinea-Bissau) to break their defenses, it back fired cos our players had not already mastered the artistry of this beautiful play.
No matter how we tried, We couldnt hold the momentum cos no CONFIDENT HOLDING MIDFIELDER could step up and co-ordinate the attacks and spread the passes.
These current set of SE players would rather kick ball to the left wing play, back to the right wing play, then pass the ball back to the goalkeeper... Then the keeper, passes it to a defender, grin the defender shoots the ball up high! only to be nodded back to the keeper on rebound cry And this cycle keeps repeating itself on-and-on till the final minutes.
And there on the sidelines stands a clueless coach, wondering what happened to his players and who to blame for his lapses.

Finidi is a one of a confident coach who tried to develop and utilize this pattern of play but unfortunately he didnt have enough time to effect the change as most people saw his tactics as a "Beautiful nonsense without no end result" but little did they realize its a technical play that requires alot of time to master.

Since the time of Genort Rohr till date, our free flow possession football is a mess. Okocha or Kanu would have a confident to hold a ball inside the 18yrd box and be expectimg a foul, penalty or a goal against the opponent.
But what we have now is defensive minded players, who when have the opportunity on the ball, give it to their wingers to sprint-on into the 18yrd box. Fortunately for their striker Osimhen, if he catches up to nod or kick (that's to say if he's never offside before the ball gets to him or out run the ball cheesy grin cry cry cry)

Wing play can many times be everything in football.

Wing play is utilised to drag defenders out of central positions to the sides, leaving spaces for the Center Forward to shoot.
If the opposition defenders are hell bent on occupying the central positions, giving no room for the Center Forward, the Wingers themselves can drive in to shoot.

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Sports / Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2025 And 2026 World Cup by Meliforme: 1:39am On Sep 12
TheGoodJoe:


I actually disagree with your view on Fisayo here. One place he shone for me yesterday was how he covered defensive gaps. He might not go haywire in pursuing opposition players with the ball but if you watch his movement, he always goes to block dangerous areas. This makes him important in defense.

I am not disputing Fisayo's movements, he is very good when it comes to getting into the right places to receive a pass.
I understand your fascination with Fisayo, Fisayo is built for the possession game. It is very clear.

However looking closely at the point you made "He always goes to block dangerous areas.
This is something that every outfield player does on the pitch, Fisayo is even one of the poorest when it comes to reading the opponents from a defensive point of view.

He always goes to block dangerous areas and yet couldn't intercept a single pass.

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Sports / Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2025 And 2026 World Cup by Meliforme: 6:21pm On Sep 11
TheGoodJoe:


Fisayo Dele Bashiru is intelligent in one touch play and will compliment the others in helping us keep the ball high up in the opposition's half and the tree of them can also create good chances for forwards.

Yes, he will help keep the ball high up in the opposition's half because he is very tidy with short passes.
No one in the team bests him in the game of accurate short passes.
His movements are very good.
He is a fine dribbler, and can score goals.

However, He is not that creative, this limits him in the attacking midfield role and his poor showings in contributions to defense throws him further down the pecking order in our midfield setup.
You will only notice Bashiru when we have the ball, but without the ball he just strolls.

In my opinion, his uniquenesses does not gift us any advantage, he lacks in the very things we need the most.
We need midfielders who can put in decent defensive shifts.

We need very creative midfielders

We need midfielders with a sound reading of the game

Hamzat Ojediran and Christanthus Uche are the midfielders we should be discussing about.

Alex lwobi and Fisayo Dele-Bashiru are more like forwards to me.

We need genuine midfielders.

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Sports / Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2025 And 2026 World Cup by Meliforme: 3:54pm On Sep 11
TheGoodJoe:
--------------------------Osimhen
Lookman------------------------------------Chukwueze
---------------Iwobi--------------Dele-Bashiru
------------------------Onyedika

This is my best pick for midfield and attack.

What exactly will Dele offer in this setup.

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Sports / Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2025 And 2026 World Cup by Meliforme: 3:52pm On Sep 11
viccy12:


I am tired of Ndidi and yall know I never rated him. You can't give what you don't have. Put Onyedika there and let Onyeka fill in for Iwobi is need be

I think it's high time you started rating him.
He won 8 out of 11 duels and was tidy with his passes.
Ndidi is very good.

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Sports / Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2025 And 2026 World Cup by Meliforme: 11:51pm On Sep 08
I saw this on YouTube.

What is your make of it.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NvswNGzycSs?si=fFDqZ4VcgqVE3I6g
Sports / Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2025 And 2026 World Cup by Meliforme: 10:59pm On Sep 08
humility33:


For someone asking for boni to lead the strike force shouldn't surprise you

He seems to be okay with average

I don't think Boniface is an average player.
His goals are coming.

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Sports / Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2025 And 2026 World Cup by Meliforme: 10:42pm On Sep 08
Kog45:
Oga Meli,you don’t rate Lookman and it’s normal in football just say you got it wrong than telling us that you never seen him played like he did against Benin.

He did it against tougher opponents Cameroon,Angola or you forgot his cross to Osimhen against EG.He worked offensively and defensively in Afcon….Lookman is a player to be rated after Osimhen in eagles.

I don’t rate Ekong but I ate my words.Ekong is my number one in eagles defence,even in my top three rated eagles players list…Osimhen,Lookman and Ekong.Another player that is catching my attention is Onyedika,his foots on the ball is a class.

Who said I don't rate Lookman.
Sports / Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2025 And 2026 World Cup by Meliforme: 10:38pm On Sep 08
Kog45:
Oga Meli,you don’t rate Lookman and it’s normal in football just say you got it wrong than telling us that you never seen him played like he did against Benin.

He did it against tougher opponents Cameroon,Angola or you forgot his cross to Osimhen against EG.He worked offensively and defensively in Afcon….Lookman is a player to be rated after Osimhen in eagles.

I don’t rate Ekong but I ate my words.Ekong is my number one in eagles defence,even in my top three rated eagles players list…Osimhen,Lookman and Ekong.Another player that is catching my attention is Onyedika,his foots on the ball is a class.

He has never played in the manner he did against Benin.
How is this difficult to see.

How are you even arguing this.
Sports / Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2025 And 2026 World Cup by Meliforme: 10:23pm On Sep 08
lbrichman2:


Yes o
And we still have that Guy in Cardiff City I think
Collins Jamilu
He's decent on his day

Bruno was excellent!
Top class!

Bruno is a good player.

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Sports / Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2025 And 2026 World Cup by Meliforme: 7:03am On Sep 08
I have never seen Ademola Lookman play in the manner he did yesterday.
Offensively and defensively he was everywhere.

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Sports / Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2025 And 2026 World Cup by Meliforme: 6:34am On Sep 08
charlesemeka85:
I don’t see this idiot getting up to 10 goals in super eagles colors

Moffi and Awoniyi are better than him abeg.

Too lackadaisical to my liking 😞
.

They are not.

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Sports / Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2025 And 2026 World Cup by Meliforme: 6:20am On Sep 08
joelsteron:


That guy grin

Please if possible bench Iwobi.
Play Onyedika
Ndidi (since man wants advance role lately) and
Dele Bashiru as AM (can support defense unlike okocha's nephew)

Onyedika cannot bench Iwobi.
They are different players.

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Sports / Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2025 And 2026 World Cup by Meliforme: 6:16am On Sep 08
Hotepking:
The midfield won us this game, see how fluid we looked when Onyedika and Dele-Bashiru came in, it became an overload of chances and better ball progression. We've been stuck with the flat and lethargic Ndidi/Aribo midfield for too long that it's time to start phasing out those generation of players...the future of our midfield should be built around Onyedika- Dele-Bashiru-Yusuf- Onyeka and potentially Hamzat Ojediran from Lens and Chrisantus Uche. Iwobi will of course provide the leadership as a veteran

Ndidi did very well yesterday.
He still has it in him.

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Sports / Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2025 And 2026 World Cup by Meliforme: 6:10am On Sep 08
lbrichman2:


It's simple
Just play 4-3-3
Move Bassey to the left and bench Bruno
Or bench Bassey and bring in an extra midfielder

We would still have our width and we can control games
And maybe this match would have ended in the first half

Bruno is a fine player.
With Zaidu and Bruno that LB position is covered.

Onyamaechi Bruno impressed me the most in that backline.

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Sports / Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2025 And 2026 World Cup by Meliforme: 2:23pm On Sep 07
TheSuperNerd:


Na you give them? 🙄🙄

It is possible that they may have.

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