₦airaland Forum

JohnBullMySon:
I don't think Ghana will score more than a goal in the two legs.

If I should predict, the game will end 1-nil or 1 all in Kumasi and 2 nil in Nigeria.

Joebie:
maybe Tunisia, but you could as well have shown evidences of my "predictions"
I am not a prophet. My position is based on my conviction. It's perfectly okay to disagree.. One thing you can be sure is that I will not be in the pitch for either side on both occasions.

Joebie:
One thing I can tell ya all is Nigeria is going to the World Cup and Ghana is not. Bookmark this

semid4lyfe:
1.That's the problem, Eguavoen is hung up on the past and is too player centric.

A good coach harnesses the talents at his disposal and adopts tactics suited to their strengths and to neutralize the opponents.

For example, Tunisia was depleted and without 12 players (some of them key players) when they played us at the AFCON. The coach did not whine. Instead, he adopted a tactical formation that overloaded the midfield, played close & compact, cut off our wingplay by double marking our wingers and got the win.

2. Eguavoen is misyarning and making gaffes all over the place.

➡️Admitting some players were invited to pacify certain people & interests

➡️Saying he has not traveled to watch some players play live and that's why they were not invited.

That's a nonsensical statement. This is 2022 for crying out loud and with the internet one can comfortably watch matches in the comfort of his/her living room and assess players.

➡️Hyping a retired player with questionable commitment and trying to bring him back into the fold

➡️Saying he knows his starting 11 against Ghana when the players have not reported to camp and had any training.

➡️Saying he cannot play through the middle (midfield) because he lacks players like Mutiu Adepoju and the late Thompson Oliha.

When you juxtapose the last two statements, you'll realize Eguavoen has already given away his formation and tactics for the game against ghana

Eguavoen no try abeg.


By the way, there was nothing special in Thompson Oliha and Mutiu Adepoju. It's just Eguavoen and his nostalgia for the past.

andrewbaba44:
Dropping a struggling player doesn’t mean one is looking down at his potentials

JohnBullMySon:
Honestly you'll make a very bad national team coach because you'll leave people that you're meant to convince to buff up our squad to pursue "talents" in Nigeria due to your emotive bias and bloated ego. You'll leave the role of a coach to start scouting indigenous players to train. Remove all FB players from our squad let's see if you can draw up a team that can beat the best teams in Africa.

You talk of loyalty does not hold water at all. Will you say that Ebuehi or Leon Balogun is not passionate about the team? Ebuehi that reportedly cried at the chance to play AFCON. Maduka tattooed Super Eagles bird on his arm and he isn't loyal? You can never know how loyal someone would be till he begins to play. So stop judging their future.

As I earlier said, you allow your bias think for you a lot.

Truidstar:
whose fault is it that Nwakali is according to you languishing in the segunda liga?

JohnBullMySon:
Honestly you'll make a very bad national team coach because you'll leave people that you're meant to convince to buff up our squad to pursue "talents" in Nigeria due to your emotive bias and bloated ego. You'll leave the role of a coach to start scouting indigenous players to train. Remove all FB players from our squad let's see if you can draw up a team that can beat the best teams in Africa.

You talk of loyalty does not hold water at all. Will you say that Ebuehi or Leon Balogun is not passionate about the team? Ebuehi that reportedly cried at the chance to play AFCON. Maduka tattooed Super Eagles bird on his arm and he isn't loyal? You can never know how loyal someone would be till he begins to play. So stop judging their future.

As I earlier said, you allow your bias think for you a lot.

JohnBullMySon:
Ability to read the game and know the right tactics to apply is very important at the highest level.

PurpleHouse:
And so what?

None of you here can run a Multimillion dollar, sorry, naira company. You don't have the mental toughness and agility. Sentimentally attached fools.

Broke oshi like you all will do worse that the pinick you abuse here.

You think it is sentiment that builds greatness and errect structures.

No brah.

It is sacrifice.

Hard solid painful sacrifice.

Nacho should be sacrificed for the growth of our team.

Who nor like make him go fu,ck stone.

komekn:
People call it HATE.

But when Victor was at Wolfsburg I could see why he was not getting game time. He was technically and tactically naïve.

He did not have the knowledge base to jump straight in and compete. It's in that context I said he would struggle at most academies in England.

I felt a move to a lesser league where his main attributes of speed and agility and as a true 9 he will have more success. That has happened but those handicaps are getting a bit more exposed now.

He has to learn, but for a £75 million player it may be strange to some.

TheLoneCitizen:
The fact you're interchanging both skill and technique tells the story, brother.
You're doing well.

TheLoneCitizen:
Football skills are different from football technique.

Dribbling skill is different from dribbling technique.

Skill is something you do with the ball, technique is how you do it.

All pro footballers have the ability to shoot accurately, but not all have the technique to curl/swerve.

TheLoneCitizen:
Dribbling is more of skill than technique.

Odegaard and De Bryune are two of the best technicians in England but aren't proficient dribblers.

How you dribble determines your technique, not if you can dribble.

joelsteron:
Thank you. flesh and blood did not reveal this you. You no book na Ndidi dey cover their yansh

drDoom3:
Do you know what technique is? It is not pace or dribbling. it is not strength or work rate. Technique is how neat and precise you are in carrying out functions in your position. Imagine saying Etebo has better technique than Iwobi, that is blasphemy. Etebo that struggles to trap ball sometimes, all work rate with no product.

Unsurprisingly, the guys you said Iwobi is ahead of are actually the guys who are ahead of Iwobi (except Simon and Onyeka, maybe Chuks). Ndidi has the best technique in the team, the way he cleans up in defense with tidy tackles is definitely top 5 in the world alongside Kante, Verratti etc. Aribo also has better technique, his ball carrying, neat tackles and progressive carries are also unrivalled in the team. Nacho has the best shooting and passing technique in the team, but his work rate, control, and awareness leave so much to be desired. Osimhen's athleticism covers much of his deficiency in technique, but he still has excellent control and long passing techniques. Surprisingly, I think Osimhen's technique was much better in Lille than in Napoli, it was as if he made a tradeoff for physicality when he joined Napoli.

komekn:
For the past Donkey years of where has Omeruo played in the backwaters of Europe essentially.

If he was as my good multiple clubs would have been trying to sign him. Why are multiple EPL clubs after Calvin because he outstanding.

Omeruo was in the Championship with Middlesbrough but couldn't gather any interest, why

Osimhen in played in French League and has gone to Napoli why because he is outstanding.

Omeruo essentially has experience of playing low level backwaters of Europe league football since he started.

Longevity is not quality.

yinkeys:
Awaziem

drDoom3:
Aribo and Ndidi are.

komekn:
You lack knowledge and you have no understanding.

In most EPL clubs they have different phases off development. I know a EPL club that contracted the former assistant manager at Sao Paulo FC Brazil to head up the u9-13 development phase.

To teach them skills, technical ability, touch, etc Because after that age it becomes difficult to teach those particular skill sets.

Now look at England youth footballers do you see any of the old kick and rush , footballers anymore. Look at Eze, Tega Abraham, Iwobi, Mount, Reece, etc

But we in Nigeria have remained stagnant we have not developed our football and movef ahead. Just like many of our academic lecturers still using notes of decades ago to teach today.

Years ago I looked at Victor O, when he was at Wolfsburg and l made it clear that he would not make it into a good academy. He was technically poor.

Physically outstanding and Fast a big YES and he has used his physical attributes to overcome inadequacies in his technical ability, to get ahead. I said he needed to drop league go to a lower league learn, develop and them move up.

Well he has done that and has left Lille and gone to Napoli. However, some of those handicaps are still there and they will prevent him from getting to the top if not addressed.

This is a problem with home grown players from local academies and leagues. This is why we quite a few cannot even cross the ball properly.

komekn:
No they will wait for two years and when he has blown up and other nations show interest we will sau he turned down our offers.

The reality is that in the HERE and NOW he is better than Omeruo. But we will hold on to the past and not progress.

TheGoodJoe:
Terrible message from such a legend like Okocha. We need to keep working hard to improve as a team
That is how we can become a success in the long run.

Is Okocha asking us to park bus against Ghana
That is a defeatist mentality. We should go there with the mentality of dominating and winning.

andrewbaba44:
Aribo didn’t have a poor afcon ,by saying that you are only lying to yourself and deceiving yourself

Your mission has always been to talk down on Aribo just because you want to hype Nwakali and tell us things he didn’t do

Aribo having a poor afcon ,you can only hear this from clueless Nwakali fan boys like you oga meli and some of your alternate monikers

13large:
To bench your best all round midfilder Aribo? My guy, calm your nerves. Aribo and ndidi are undroppable in that midfield

TheSuperNerd:
Excellent post. All I have been saying on the Playmaker role from deep (CM-Playmaker/DLP) is right here.

I hope some learn this and WATCH our lads enough to tell the difference and not depend on write-ups from people who only uses Goals and Assists to rate a Playmaker. Lol

A Playmaker conducts, directs and orchestrates. Goals and Assists are bonuses to his game.

But because some feel it is always about Agenda, they keep going blind to the obvious which is easily observed through simple eye test from a standpoint of genuine neutrality.

Honestly, it's funny that they had to wait for you to bring the definition from an outside source before they finally understand when all that is here is what I have explained and even over-explained overtime. Funny lots.

TheLoneCitizen:
Joe Aribo a goal-scoring and assist-giving midfielder, but not a playmaker. Similar to Dele Alli.

Nwakali Nigeria's truest Deep Lying playmaker. Etebo another one capable there.

How can man go contrary? When TheGoodJoe proposes, very few can contest.

Kog45:
Then we exonerate all underperforming SE Afcon players cos the system did not play to their strengths.