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Odunayaw:
Did you lose your ability to communicate? I asked you a simple question. Why are you touchy eh?

You will get no reply, if your communication is without civility.
In an earlier response, i mentioned two clubs and ended with 'etc' to tell you that there are clubs that i did not mention.

You took no notice of it, and instead asked if the players at those mentioned clubs played yesterday, that was not expected from someone who had the boldness to ask such a question.

You made it seem like our foreign pros are allen to high pressure games.

It is either you don't know what a high pressure game is, or you don't know the clubs our players ply their trade, or both.

You just want to argue

kennysville:
That's the lie we keep telling ourselves all these years most especially ever since Gernot Rohr came into the scene. I can say a lot but it appears no one is willing to listen. So let's keep it all up. Soap go soon clear for our eyes. Let's see what happens after the world cup qualifiers

Do you watch the NPFL or you are just driven by your feelings.
There is a reason NPFL clubs don't do well at the continental level.

joelsteron:
Dear Eric Chelle,
Please deploy Victor Osimhen and Dessers as a two-man strike force for the remaining World Cup qualifiers. Thank you. 🤝

I think the following combination will be more effective:

Lookman - Osimhen,
Boniface - Osimhen,
even Christantus - Osimhen

Odunayaw:
Which one of them played yesterday?

You just want to argue.
West Brom, AC Millan.

Playing at a high intensity will not fetch results, if you don't know what you are doing.

Odunayaw:
What clubs are these foreign pros in that play high intensity pressing?

Fulham, Nottingham forest, etc.

Truidstarr:
The real question is do the players in the NPFL believe in the league? Everyone wants to go abroad. Ask any player what is his ambition next season. Na to Japa.

The development of the league is not with the players, but with the league managers.
What do you want the players to do, football career is short lived.
Na to japa to places where they can earn not just good money, but other things such as healthcare, in the event of injuries.

elyte89:
Ur complain just start …Sheyb I ask for ur support …u gree support me? 🤣🤣

The next time, but we will have a look at your proposal for good footballing and trophies.

Philosopher1979:
It shows that 70% of Nigerian coaches are not in tune with the modern game
NPfl players are talented but raw and crude. Its not their fault.
Its like bad teachers in a secondary school.
We need to do something about coaching in Nigerian football.
The knowledge of most Nigerian coaches is maybe 35%.
Something very well below average

The league can't afford sound coaches.
The league cannot afford to buy the equipment needed for good tactical and technical study.
The players may not endure the kind of training needed for good spatial awareness, stamina building, etc due to poor wages.

Money, money, money, that is the problem.

elyte89:
😎

Chai, we have suffered, so this is the excuse that Chelle came up with it.
God help us.

Let us be very clear, a high pressure game is not new to the foreign pros.
We watch these guys, week in and out.

Even at that, he has up to five substitutions to make for outfield players, so what is he saying.
He can manage his team well for any high intensity game, if he is moxie enough.

This one gave him out big time.
I think I have been patient enough to gain proper discernment.

Eric Chelle should please do serious work on his knowledge of the game.

kennysville:
That was not how westerhof won the 94 nations cup. I think this idea needs to die. If you can displace a supposed foreign based player.. by all means... why not?

How will they get exposure if your starting 11 is always gonna be figured out?

NPFL players do not have the kind of drilling in tactics that many of the foreign base players have been exposed to.
Rohr complained so much about this.

In fact, NPFL players are still crude.

zicky:
which sub was better, Iheanacho, moses or Musa. From the yesterday match, Iheanacho sub seems better than the other two. Moses came try to dribble the whole team as if he's Messi, after that he disappeared.

None was better.

lbrichman2:
I was screaming this all day
Even the Musa sub..
But then he didn't invite enough midfielders to start with
Our coaches have a serious midfield problem

Yes, his options in midfield was limited.
He takes the blame for it.

Or should we blame the NFF or members of this thread.

Considering the tempo of the game, the introduction of Iheanacho was a school boy error.
What was needed was a genuine midfielder, who can win duels and slow down the game with good controls of the ball.

lbrichman2:
At least the team runs better now
And they can sometimes string over 5 passes before they lose the ball

The team can run better, how?

junnyjake:
Yes.

I see our improvement in hustling for 2nd balls, our lackadaisical approach to games seems to have reduced a little bit.

Our defensive rigidity is where we need to see more improvements.

We hustled for second balls under Peseiro.

Our intensity did improve, but to what end.
We still struggle to progress the ball from the back.

Except we have an exceptionally gifted NPFL player, let them participate in the tournaments designed just for them.

Have we really improved under Chelle, if we have, I will like to hear those improvements mentioned.

Truidstarr:
Bruno Onyemachi no be am.

I kept shouting that Bruno is tired and completely spent.
The reasons why he was allowed to continue eluded me.

Joebie:
Lets accept that the likes of ndidi, Musa, iheanacho cant take us to the future.

You did not watch Ndidi.

Bannedlargejr:
He has definitely Conquered Turkey. Now, it’s time to move on and not overstay your welcome.

Osimhen - Italy Conquered
Turkey - Conquered

Now, he needs to Conquer Spain or England

If i am Osimhen, I will choose the place that i am loved and wanted the most, the reception he got even before he impressed,
but i am not Osmhen

Sevilla says "goodbye" to Garcia Pimienta.

Jerrymanta:
Ndidi is the most overrated player to ever wear the national jersey, I'm yet to see the hype you guys see in the guy, yes he wins his fair share of duels but that's where it ends- modern DMs have to give more than just winning the odd duels here and there...Ndidi can't progress the ball, can't shoot, his pass stats are average and his ball retention skills are average at best.

I see a player like Uche Chrisantus and even Hamzat Ojediran and I believe we've found our gems in these guys if even a chance.

If Ndidi's passing stats are average, what will you say regarding the rest of the team.
From Ekong to Iwobi, they all misplace passes and are below Ndidi when we measure passing accuracy (I know this will come as a shocker)
Calvin Bassey and Bright Osayi are the only starters whose passing are clearly above average.

Raphael Onyedika and Kelechi Nwakali are pass masters in midfield.
Alhassan Yusuf and Frank Onyeka are good mentions (Frank Onyeka of Augsburg is looking like a different player)

Chidera Ejuke passes the ball better than all our forwards.

Kog45:
We too dey deceive ourselves here.....Ndidi of old or new Leicester

You might need to rewatch our matches.

Subzerooo:
In all these formation you are drawing, if Ndidi is still your starting dm against South Africa you are going nowhere

Wilfred Ndidi is always underated.
That the eyes of many will see the work Wilfred Ndidi does.

Ndidi normally records the highest in duels won on both sides in most of our matches.
He used his signature octopus to win back the ball in our recent match against Zimbabwe.

ChrisKels:
We already have enough destroyers. We need upgrades on what we have already.

They are not upgrades.

charlesemeka85:
I think say na only Ejike be Nigerian player wey u sabi 😳

I want the best for the national team.

We are looking to convince players like Tim Iroegbunam, Lesley Ugochukwu, etc, while we have a player like Hamzat Ojediran of RC Lens.
Why are we not considering an invitation for Hamzat Ojediran.
I consider Hamzat Ojediran a better pick, as things stands.
Ojediran game of passes and duels is superior to that of Iroegbunam and Ugochukwu as things stands. This can change in the offing, but Hamzat looks a better fit in midfield.

Why are we trying to convince players that we might not even use, if we are to cast sentiments aside.
We have Alhassan Yusuf, Raphael Onyedika, Hamzat Ojediran, etc.

If they want to commit to us, no problem, but let us not put too much effort trying to convince them.

Nomyth:
Woke football fans of this Era be demonizing players with dribbling abilities.

They see players that can dribble as inefficient and ineffective yet ,dribbling is part of a player's creative abilities. That is how they hv demonized Ejuke as useless simply because he dribbles.

Back to Okocha, not only does he dribble,, he had other special skills too in incredible measure.

Short pass ✔️
Long pass ✔️
Set pieces ✔️
Vision ✔️
Long throw✔️ He's long throw led to our equalizer against Brazil at Atlanta.
Shot power✔️
Shot accuracy✔️
Tackles✔️
Impact on a team✔️

He is almost a complete player even without the dribbles.

Ejuke is Super Eagles most technical player.
His input defensively is commendable.
Sevilla will go on to concede after he is subbed off, it is now becoming a norm.

Under Gasperini, Ademola Lookman individualistic approach to play is being jettisoned for a performance that is more team oriented.
Chidera Ejuke's game should adopt a similar mould.

TheGoodJoe:
Fisayo has the one touch passing play that gives him more leverage to play in that position. Coupled with his off the ball movement to space.

Either way, I have really watched Uche properly but will check his play out.

FDB can be wonderful when it comes to recycling possession in very advanced areas of the pitch.
And he can be very tricky with his shooting.

However he doesn't create much, and doesn't defend much.
Accommodating him will bring about changes in midfield personnel.
We will struggle to win midfield duels if paired alongside Iwobi, so the both shouldn't start in midfield.

Playing FDB in a midfield that has Frank Onyeka and Kelechi Nwakali, or Kelechi Nwakali and Uche Christantus will be very good.

Samueltemi337:
We should not judge him with his stats at Barnsley but that of chaves
Just see talk
Even when he was at chaves his stats was not impressive
Uche is doing it in La Liga
But we should leave Uche and think about Nwakali a bench player in English League two

You do not use goals and assists to judge a deep lying midfielder.
Please stop comparing Nwakali and Christantus, they don't even ply the same position as things stand.

Samueltemi337:
Zero assist
We shouldn't use that too?

Why not use his stats at CD Chaves to judge him. In a club and league that is rated higher.
It is too early to judge him at Barnsley.
You don't even judge the effectiveness of the role that Nwakali currently plays at Barnsley by the number of assists.
It is like assessing Wilfred Ndidi's effectiveness by just the number of assists he makes.

Watch him live, see the cohesion and coordination he orchestrates through distributive play.
The coach at Barnsley applies Nwakali more in defense and ball possession retention than offense that it is one of the reasons why his key passes are not as what it was when he plied CD Chaves.