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TheSuperNerd:
He is majorly still a shadow of the Ndidi he once was. A shadow of the true improvements he was making up until 2020/21. Using a Bissau game where Ndidi was basically average to talk up Ndidi's technicality like the way you once used passing accuracy % to talk up a non-existent Ndidi passing range is really Stretching it.

Ndidi is technically limited and hasn't shown marked consistent improvements for a good while now. That's the truth.

TheSuperNerd:
It's fine My Good man. Just needed to set the records straight.

Truth is you saw something that many of us didn't want to actively pay attention to.

While we focused on Ndidi's obviously world class Defensive Stats (tackling, interceptions, clearances, ball recoveries and more) which got him the huge attention he revelled in for 3-4 seasons in the EPL up until 2020/21 season, you on the other hand focused on his limited technical quality on the ball. You even called out his poor press resistance and limited passing range. You may not have used these terms verbatim but your posts pointed to them.

I recall you using this to even say you prefer this player or that player to Ndidi and I always opposed your posts from the angle that Ndidi is still the best and most inform midfielder we have out there (which was true at those times).

I honestly even considered your posts very harsh but then I decided to pay closer attention to what you were saying and I found it true.

Time has shown that indeed Ndidi wasn't improving technically and tactically. He is still the tackling/interceptions machine (and he even seems to be struggling with those lately especially tackling) we know but midfield football dynamics has left him behind.

typicalgamer:
I love you 😘
Your statement is too real
Because of one superb performance world people don compare his stats to saka

Forgetting nobody on the world would pick him ahead of saka even his own Villarreal coaches and teammates, even we as fans 😂

JohnBullMySon:
Rohr, Eguavoen and JP all played him on the left wing. No excuse as pertaining to the coach. Besides he's been missing a lot in the SE as well.

TheSuperNerd:
I mean my good man, it's so obvious. And to make it worse, we don't have the midfield personnel to enable the progression of our plays into the 3rd phase of plays in the tactical manner that will bring Chukwueze and his corresponding Wing forwards into the game in support of Osimhen.

JPes is cramping our lads' best traits and refusing to address the tactical needs in certain roles (or maybe not refusing, perhaps he just doesn't know).

Meliforme:
THE DEFEAT TO PORTUGAL WHAT WENT WRONG?

It has never been about what went wrong, but what keeps going wrong.

"You can't keep repeating a particular routine expecting different outcomes"

Every tactical setup, requires the right personnel for application.
A 4-4-2 or 4-3-3 or any other tactical setup and the attendant variations of them, require playing personnel with the right technical and tactical qualities to thrive.
Wingers required to prosecute 4-4-2 have qualities that are quite different from wingers for 4-3-3.

In the former (4-4-2 ) the wingers are directly exposed and in sync with their fullbacks.

They are to do the following:
* Provide cover for their fullbacks. this involves additional defensive abilities.
* Provide support for the forwards.
* The ability to score goals is not primary to what is expected of them.
* They must possess decent ball passing abilities such as the ability to give long balls, crosses, chipped passes.
* They make decisions typical to their roles. for instance, shooting at goal is not usually the first option for a winger in this setup, rather the winger utilises feasible options to make the ball available to the forwards.

In 4-3-3, the winger in this setup is referred to as a forwards or striker. The involvement with their fullback is more diminished because of the presence of a midfield trio, ipso facto They are expected to have more offensive duties than defensive.

The following is expected of them:
* Score goals. This is primary to their roles.
* Assist the Center Forward in many ways ( to be discussed later).
* There is more flexibility to the manner at which the winger contributes to defense. This is essentially a coach's preference or tactical approach. Nevertheless on the average they spend more time in the opposition's half.

In Super Eagles. judging from the descriptions given of wingers in 4-4-2 and 4-3-3 , it is very obvious that we are deploying the wrong personnel in the chosen tactical arrangement. For instance Moses Simon and Ademola Lookman are forwards (strikers) and do not have the required defensive capabilities and passing finesse to thrive as wingers in 4-4-2. They are modern forwards groomed to thrive in a front three. They lack the ability for build up play and ball progression. That is the job of midfielders. That is the job done for them at their clubs. They are usually at the receiving end.

If we must stick to 4-4-2, We will have to go for players who will not only provide good defensive cover, but also decent ball passing ability, players groomed for build up play, and patient on the ball.

chrisooblog:
Chukwueze is scoring double against Madrid now if it's Sao Tome and Principe he will be looking like a poor man's Ifeanyi Ekweume. All the same kudos to him.

JohnBullMySon:
Till tomorrow nobody can explain this.

Meliforme:
REASONS WHY PESEIRO SHOULD ADOPT A FRONT THREE AGAINST GUINEA BISSAU

All the invited forwards thrive better when involved in the final phase or phases of attack (goalscoring) rather than in the build up to it. A 4-4-2 system converts some of these forwards to wingers who are more involved in the buildup to goal, thereby not utilising them to the best of their strengths. Moses Simon and Samuel Chukwueze have of late, seen improvements in their game that has made them somewhat a noticeable exception, as they seem more involved in play build up, even at that they have shown to be more efficient in a 4-3-3 as inverted wingers than as wingers in a 4-4-2 setup.
Their performances for club and country as part of both setups further enlightens the degree of their usefulnesses for the roles. They have shown to thrive better as inverted wingers.

Osimhen thrives better as a lone center forward.

High pressing A front three will enable a more intense pressing against the backline of G. Bissau and can force them into errors. A high pressing against their fullbacks might prevent their long ball strategy towards goalscoring.

Meliforme:
IS PESEIRO REALLY A BAD COACH.

The points below should enlighten your reasoning to make or not to make the conclusion regarding Peseiro's phenomenon as the coach well suited for the job.

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Featuring Moses Simon and Samuel Chukwueze in roles they are not best suited. While he is not the only coach guilty of this, he is supposed to be an upgrade. Moses Simon and Samuel Chukwueze's behaviours on the pitch is typical of inverted wingers or forwards. Their involvement in build up plays is very secondary, they are usually at the receiving end. They are meant to receive the ball in zones and in situations where their trademark dribbling maneuvers will either give them a shooting chance at goal, or make a final pass. This is what they know how to do best, why not use them that way.

Those may or may not be good reasons to label him a bad coach, but one thing is very sure, they don't accentuate good hope in him.

TheSuperNerd:
And it's so easy. In my head, I can already picture how I want this team set up in a way that utilises the powers/key traits/xtics of each of our players from defence to Midfield and to attack.

Chukwueze needs to be at the receiving end of lines-breaking balls or passing moves directed to his wing or corresponding final third half space. He shouldn't be receiving balls in the 2nd phase of plays. He should be receiving it in the 3rd phase of plays and applying either the final blows or the killer pass or the pass before the killer pass.

JohnBullMySon:
Till tomorrow nobody can explain this.

do4luv14:
I beg to disagree thank you

Blueelf:
Loll

I doubt you saw him play bro

Victor Moses is one of our most intelligent wingers in recent times

Dude knew how to cross a ball to save his life

Blueelf:
Loll

I doubt you saw him play bro

Victor Moses is one of our most intelligent wingers in recent times

Dude knew how to cross a ball to save his life

Blueelf:
Loll

I doubt you saw him play bro

Victor Moses is one of our most intelligent wingers in recent times

Dude knew how to cross a ball to save his life

COOL10:
Even Victor Moses' biggest critics know the truth. They can't argue about his performance especially when he played as a winger.


Whenever I saw that guy in the starting lineup for the Eagles, my mind would immediately be at rest. He could single handedly change any game. Whenever he got on the ball, you knew something exciting was gonna happen.


He knew when to dribble, when to pass, when to shoot, when to fall down in the box and roll twenty times just to get a penalty , and he also knew when to cross. THE BASICS!!!. That's something that majority of our current wingers lack.


Just look at the games against Cameroon and Algeria. Look at how he embarrassed their defenders. The closest thing we have right now to a Victor Moses is Ademola Lookman, but he's yet to live up to it in the National team colours.

daveP:
What I'm pissed at most in his post is he saying Mikel and Onazi helped him majorly. Maybe he didn't watch VicMo. That guy will singlehandedly run from defence and do wonders, MOSTLY by himself, influencing game outcomes with his intelligence. These current ones can't lace his boots till 20whatever. Unless the improve by far.

COOL10:
Victor Moses has a record of 12 goals and 5 assists in just 37 games for Nigeria. For a winger, that's an impressive record. Show me a Nigerian winger that has a better record.

And please, did you really compare Victor Moses' style of play and his creativity with the likes of Moses Simon and Chukwueze? 😳😳


Chai, what won't I read on this thread?🤣🤦🏽‍♂️🤣🤦🏽‍♂️

COOL10:
Almost five years since Victor Moses left and we're yet to find a credible replacement. Moses Simon, Chukwueze, Dennis, Onyekuru; none of those guys has managed to fill his boots.

BannedLarge:
Ajax can afford to play at at Lb but we can’t because he is our best available CB

Meliforme:
He is not

BannedLarge:
If he isn’t presently our best CB then who is If dem born you well mention balogun, Akpoguma, ekong, awaziem or semi ajayi. Tell us who is presently our best CB…. The problem with Nigerians is that, we exaggerate our players ability and always believe that, there are world class players at our disposal

Meliforme:
Awaziem, Balogun, Omeruo.

AndSunGorilla:
Who we go deploy to the RB? bameyi?

Truidstar:
Simon is a waste of space Tbh. Iwobi should handle corner kicks duties. He delivers some sweet corners for Everton.

TheSuperNerd:
The Ideal front 3 right now indeed backed by a dynamically functional midfield 3 but nope, nothing dynamic about an Ndidi/Iwobi/Aribo/Onyeka midfield options selection. The limitations are much.

Peseiro is making the ex coach look like some hero.

And ofcos he would start Simon probably because he is gonna be matchday captain (in Ekong's absence), nothing else.

TheGoodJoe:
Kelechi Nwakali was immmense yesterday and has started showing consistency which played a part in their win against Alaves yesterday.

Hope he keeps building on it.

TheSuperNerd:
Dear Meliforme, the Analytical and the logical. Thanks so much great man. 🤝🏽🫶🏽

TheSuperNerd:
Thought I warned you all to note the name down.

Next time, pay closer attention.

Gift Orban is indeed our next big scoring machine. His shooting volume is crazy and the accuracy of his shooting even crazier.

Enjoy his rise.

Calma and watch things unfold...

zuchyblink:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7OK8QyEGaJ4

chrisooblog:
Hi everyone seems Supernerd sadly lost his dad recently. Please anyone close to him do kindly reach out to him. Comfort and condolences to you Supernerd aka doc.

Samueltemi337:
And why exactly are you telling me this?
did I say Nwakali was better?