₦airaland Forum

Goke7:
Am not one of those blaming any coach o! Chelle has done his best in the wcq. 13 points is what we would have had now but for the carelessness of the players against Zimbabwe. No matter which coach you appoint if our players are not taking enough responsibility these are the kind of results we will continue to get

Sugarboyy:
Has anyone of them ever played for free? Owe they one match bonus and watch them run to the social media to berate the NFF. Since they have never played for free, it's not sacrifice to the Nation, rather it's the country that gave them th opportunity that should be praised. Just one match bonus can pay 10 doctors for 10 months.

QueenJazz:
I have to say I agree. I was skeptical when I saw the starting line-up too and my intuition wasn't wrong.

That being said, Chelle stays. He has the right ideas. His problem so far is timing, but with enough time and familiarity, I'm confident he'll get things right.

lbrichman2:
I disagree
Chelle handled this game well
SA players were ready to die today
They obviously wanted it more
But Chelle did well
Do you realize apart from the own goal, SA didn't have any clear cut chance?

I also didn't understand why he started fisayo
But that decision was justified..

If Chelle has started our world Cup qualifiers, I'm 100% sure we would have topped out group

Sugarboyy:
Overhyped players. Shame on all of them. Later in future some of these today's players will come to the media and say they gave their all to Nigeria playing for the NT but the Nigeria government has forgotten them

kennysville:
But reality is if Simon tries most of his nonsense plays he does while in Nigeria colors in his club, he will be promptly benched. I think we forget that at clubside, it is business and not oga ta , oga o ta!

Dannyxy:
See Ehn the way Nigeria will trash South Africa 3-0 will shock them.

If they were playing an over confident super eagles at home in uyo I would have been scared, but playing an eagles that’s almost down and out in South Africa, Oya na.

Before South Africa knows what’s happening it’s 3-0.

This things just happens in football, though unexplainable, just the way Argentina no matter how bad will beat Nigeria at world, the same no matter how bad a Ghana team is, they will be very tough for Nigeria to beat, na the same way Nigeria go beat South Africa tomorrow.

If it was in uyo they would stand a chance, but in their home, they will collect.

bingbagbo:
Nigeria do not have a strong national team. Nigerians are deceived by the hype around their Europe born players who are usually only average or below average

Nigeria has no creative midfielders. They have an average winger — Simon who has a rather poor end product. The stats also prove that Nigeria has a very weak attack force and have no world-class strikers— forget the hype around the drama-king, osimhen.

South Africa will be too strong for this Nigerian team come Tuesday, Mark my words. Even if Nigeria strangely manages to pick all three points because of the uncertainty of football results sometimes, South Africa still will lead the table with superior points and goals.

Nigeria must disband this current set up and start rebuilding for 2030.

hatakekakashi:
It is actually true. Iwobi is the main culprit

hatakekakashi:
Also, it's as if they're not motivated by the chance of playing in the world cup except few of them like Osimhen that's not playing and maybe Tolu. They are not fighting and chasing down every loose ball, just being lackadaisical.

Sugarboyy:
That's why I mentioned the second option. Some of our better players don't give their all when playing for the SE and it's part of the reason we are where we are now.
As good as Iwobi in Fulham and the premier league, what has he contributed to the SE in this qualifiers so far? What about Simon, Chukwueze, Ekong, Ndidi, Aribo at some point, Boniface, Awoniyi, and their likes... What has been their contributions?

Duraissay scored twice today, Salah scored, Marmouise scored, Bakambu scored, these players always does well playing for their NT, can same be said of the SE players, aside Osimhen, Lookman, Bassey and Aina?

Sugarboyy:
The reasons are simple and they are 2 reasons.
1. Our players are not just good enough, we the fans are guilty of overhyping them e.g (Chukwueze, Simon, Ekong, Ndidi, Osayi).
2. Some that are good doesn't give their all and shows much commitments when playing for the national team (e.g Iwobi)

To me, only Osimhen, Lookman, Aina and Bassey (Nwabali is also cool) can break into any national team.

That's why during SE matches, you will see some of these so called professionals making school boys errors, errors that were supposedly avoidable even without a coach.

yinkeys:
Was talking about Ndidi
I never mentioned Chukwueze

yinkeys:
Hes not as quick and energetic as he used to be
In a tough game I’d pick Onyeka over him
Id pick him to start against Rwanda
Id pick Onyeka to start against South Africa
It all depends on who coach wants to play DM
Lookman hasn’t played any minutes this season, coach may start Moses ahead of him
He could come on as a sub

Philosopher1979:
I always suspected samuel chukwueze could play through the middle instead of the wings. I thought maybe a supporting striker. Maybe h eight be better as an attacking midfielder. His dribblingband creativity seems more dangerous down the middle. Let's see is it works for him in midfield. This is one change that I respect chelle for

minfelix:
so Sychelles come qualifiers come collect 34goals against 🤣🤣🤣….with 3more to go….i really like their perseverance to keep on playing till the end😂

charlesemeka85:
thanks bro, Oluwa just blessed my family with a boy and girl set of twins 2 weeks ago 🥰❤️

QueenJazz:
Osimhen's presence will always be felt in any setup. As for Eric Chelle, my previous points about him still stand.

BankyGee:
Chelle has not done bad so far. That's the point.

Just two competitive games played? 1 win, 1 draw? You're calling for his head already?

BankyGee:
Chelle played the Unity Cup and Russia too with like a very almost entire new set of Super Eagles players and didn't lose any match.

I don't think Finidi George and Eguavoen can pull that off. Only Osimhen no dey all of them dey lose and draw matches, ONLY Osimhen. Chelle played the Unity Cup and friendly without:

Ola Aina
Bassey
Ekong
Iwobi
Lookman
Osimhen
Onyemaechi
Onyedika
Onyeka

Chukwueze was even absent in the friendly
Nwabali absent in the friendly too

And we scored and didn't lose any match, Osimhen was good in the two World Cup qualifiers he played, he should always be good, it's what he does consistently. It doesn't mean the coach didn't have any effect on the game.

QueenJazz:
Oga we've not lost any game under Eric Chelle with our main squad. At least give the benefit of doubt.

It's your kind of negative thinking that stagnates our football. Sacking coaches every 3 market days.

QueenJazz:
You do realize that Chelle has gotten more points for us than Finidi and Peseiro so far in these FIFA WC qualifiers, right? You do realize that so far we haven't lost a FIFA qualifying game under Chelle, right?

If we don't qualify, should Chelle take the blame? Of course. But I'll only blame him partly because 1) no be him go hold the players legs to play the ball and 2) the gospel truth is that it's Finidi and Peseiro that put him in the position he's in right now.

It's going to take something special to pull us out of the mess we're in now, and I'm not saying 100% that it will happen, but in the unlikely event that it does, I hope negative posters like you will be here to swallow your words and give him his accolades.

And even if he fails, then tough luck. But I will still insist that he stays to improve with the squad. Remember we still have the AFCON.

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Mujtahida:
Meliforme over to you

Kog45:
Thank you my brother.Teliing me Ekong is a ball playing defender with good feet on the ball look somehow....the ball playing CB in new list released by Chelle are Benjamin Frederick and Chiedozie Awaziem

komekn:
To put it simply Zaidu is a water 💦 carrying carpenter that can run fast but not faster than Aina. He is technically very poor and with low level football intelligence.

Aina could play midfield very easily for Nigeria as well as RB and RW he has arguably the best passing range end product in the team.

If we can't find a quality top level technically astute LB then we should let Aina play LB and get someone else to play RB the problem is who though 😔

BankyGee:
Ahhh. Ekong is not classy and shiny with the ball at his feet, but he's not as bad with the ball at his feet the way you're portraying sir.

TheLoneCitizen:
Boniface on IG

chrisooblog:
One of the rare times I agree with you.

Ejuke has to deliver more on his potential and be more end product driven in terms of his G/A ratio.

We tired of endless dribbles with no set goal.