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do4luv14:
Bear parlour analyst, you will rate Nwakali in the GWG over Etebo

do4luv14:
what about Etebo did you rate nwakali over him

andrewbaba44:
This is the second time you are capping this nonsense

When we speak of important players for the eagles Nwakali is no where near top 10 let alone putting him on same sentence with ndidi and osimhen

You better respect yourself there

Joezinho:
Sir Purple, you don't want to mention the player yet you want me to give names?

Is the player you are talking about Nwakali? Because It was clear that Nwakali was Eguavoen's failed 'science project' who proved he really wasn't ready for the big stage.

Joezinho:
Senegal is average and Nigeria is formidable?

Yet we got dumped out by an average and depleted tunisian side..

Truth is, our players largely lack football IQ and technical ability (how to shoot, cross, take inswinging free kicks with the correct bend)..

As for Eguavoen, he needs to also be told to abandon this stupid 442...

TheGoodJoe:
Eguavoen, Amuneke to takeover Super Eagles
Eguavoen gets two-year contract • Salary to be increased from N3m • NFF discards Peseiro
By Emma Jemegah

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The Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) has finally settled for its Technical Director, Austin Eguavoen, as the substantive coach of the Super Eagles with former international, Emmanuel Amuneke, as his assistant.

Daily Sunsports exclusively gathered that the choice of both Eguavoen and Amuneke was arrived at a meeting between the Minister of Youth and Sports Development, Sunday Dare and officials of the NFF, yesterday, in Abuja.

According to our impeccable source, the Minister nullified the planned appointment of Portuguese Jose Peseiro and ordered the immediate draft of Eguavoen and Amuneke to the Super Eagles.

Also, the meeting agreed to give Eguavoen a two-year contract with an improvement on his salary from the present N3 million, although the source did not disclose the new salary.

The development comes after Eguavoen’s ‘impressive’ performance at the 2021 Africa Cup of Nations, where he led the Super Eagles to hundred percent performance in the group stage before crashing out in the round of 16 to Tunisia.

Already, the Nigeria Football Coaches Association (NFCA), through its president, Isah Ladan Bosso, had queried the appointment of a foreign technical adviser for the Super Eagles, stating that no foreign coach had ever won a World Cup in the history of the competition.

Bosso said with equal welfare and a good atmosphere, the Nigerian coaches can do better than their foreign counterparts because they understand the playing culture of Nigeria.

Also, scores of Nigerians, including renowned coach, Adegboye Onigbinde, had called for the retention of Eguavoen as the Super Eagles technical adviser.

Chief Onigbinde argued that if Eguavoen, with just about a month to the start of the AFCON, could come up with the performance in Cameroon, he should be encouraged to continue with the team.

https://www.sunnewsonline.com/eguavoen-amuneke-to-takeover-super-eagles/

TheGoodJoe:
Failed, failed, failed.

We have heard that side. The point is, did the coach do his Job well? Yes he did. It was an unfortunate loss because things beyond his control made us lose.

We created 13 chances. Tunisia created 7.

TheGoodJoe:
Look at Ndidi's chances, they were good chances but he miscued his shot. Even though it was a well created chances, it will count as off target. If I remember right, Aribo had a good chance close to the box but shot wide, it will count as off target, even though it was a good chance. Remember Sadiq's last chance. It was a very close one but went wide and so it will count as not on target.

So chances created and chances on goals are good criteria to show how well the team played. If you look at that, you will respect Eguavoen.

TheGoodJoe:
That is because you want to hinge your opinion on the result of the game which does not paint a true picture of what really happened. Eguavoen did more than make us believe. He made us play better, improved the players, and even promoted the unity of the team. He gave us an identity.

So saying he failed is not the true picture.

Finito.

jihday:
no way I’m taking any Eguavoen critic serious. You want to criticize a coach who had two weeks to prepare for a tourney where he was eventually beaten in a game where he played the whole second half with 10 men. No way you’ll even sound reasonable

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Danielnino00:
Did you also praise the players when Rohr was in charge? Cus obviously a good number of them were playing rubbish at that time...

Danielnino00:
You know the funny thing? Three of the team's key players; Ekong, Ndidi and Simon sad it during interview at the AFCON that they weren't given enough freedom to play their game under Rohr..And they definitely thought Eguavon was better.....

Danielnino00:
I went through some of your posts and saw where u were praising the team when they were winning games before and commending the overall improvement of some of them.. Suddenly it's individual brilliance at play...
Fair weather fans like you can't be taken serious..

The fact on ground is that our performance has improved much better under Eguavon than it was under Rohr.. The team showed a lot of promise and can get better...
Rohr was given 5 years! Eguavon was given how long?

Danielnino00:
You know what?
When Rohr is appointed as Ghana coach, you can follow him there and enjoy his brand of football...

5 years in charge of the team and he couldn't build an identity... 2 weeks of Eguavon gengen pressing made the super eagles feared again! We were literally tipped as favorite to win the AFCON after just 3 games because people could see how good we became. One moment of misfortune against Tunisia won't change the fact that Eguavon gave us something much better than Rohr ever did...

Believe it or not, if it's open to a poll, majority of Nigerians will want Eguavon to continue...

daveP:
Sorry. My bad. I typed that wrong. Thanks!!

daveP:
Yeah the Jewish own calendar considered


Evening to Morning as a full day in their own reckoning

While the Egyptians, Babylonians, was vice versa.

Some other cultures align with either of both sides from times before.

12large1:
Vincent Aboubakar is the present top scorer at Afcon and he has only 6 goals at the exact backwater league that ighalo plays - Ighalo is the top scorer at that League. I am just waiting for our list vs Ghana na Ogun, amadioha go faya anybody wey dey against Ighalo and victor Moses imminent return. These young inexperienced boys has totally failed us. Our worst ever result in ANC since 1978

Odunayaw:
2:38am comment. Did I not say it that you are having sleepless nights over Eguavoen's sleepless night

daveP:
Those were markers of time actually. Morning and Evening. It marked a full day. Which is why that sentence kept reoccurring. We have no prove except the one before our eyes in Gen. 1. So instead of thinking it was morning and evening work, we have to believe it was a full day work, marked by those timelines.

Icon4s:
Guys, sorry to derail this thread a bit.
Bro, what proves do you have that creation activities only took place in the morning and evening? I am just curious.

TheGoodJoe:

I broke this down before. Selection of squad members is not just choosing. It also requires you studying tactics of group opponents, likely opponents.

It takes researching the adequate setup for the team and variations to it.

Then working out ideal players that will work with it.

Also research likely players missed that could help the team.

The time was too short for all this but the coach assured his team will be ready.

That showed strength, not weakness.

TheGoodJoe:

I have mentioned to you that there was no time, so it will require extra work. Not that it was puzzling.

Mujtahida:
Your argument is specious. On the surface it sounds reasonable but once a person probes deep it is empty. Eguavoen did not brag. He made a factual statement. You read it and ran to town with it saying he boasted.

And on the 7th day, God rested. Why? Because in six days he made effort.

A man said he had sleepless night to make a decision. You said that is why he failed. If something requires deep thinking and painstaking effort for Mr A and for you, you it requires no effort does that automatically give you basis to presume that Mr A is a failure?

Some women do three days in the labor room before giving birth, while another woman, in two hours she's given birth. And then the one who used 3 days, comes to church and testifies that she was 3 days in the labor room before she gave birth. Then one woman in the congregation would say, 'I see patterns, you are bragging, I see that your child will fail'. Then if anything happens to the child, the woman would jump up and say, 'I said it, I knew this child would turn out wrong from the moment his mother was bragging that she labored for three days to birth him.'

If the absurdity in the above scenario is lost on you, then I can't help you.
Make I end this exchange here abeg.

Mujtahida:
Your argument is specious. On the surface it sounds reasonable but once a person probes deep it is empty. Eguavoen did not brag. He made a factual statement. You read it and ran to town with it saying he boasted.

And on the 7th day, God rested. Why? Because in six days he made effort.

A man said he had sleepless night to make a decision. You said that is why he failed. If something requires deep thinking and painstaking effort for Mr A and for you, you it requires no effort does that automatically give you basis to presume that Mr A is a failure?

Some women do three days in the labor room before giving birth, while another woman, in two hours she's given birth. And then the one who used 3 days, comes to church and testifies that she was 3 days in the labor room before she gave birth. Then one woman in the congregation would say, 'I see patterns, you are bragging, I see that your child will fail'. Then if anything happens to the child, the woman would jump up and say, 'I said it, I knew this child would turn out wrong from the moment his mother was bragging that she labored for three days to birth him.'

If the absurdity in the above scenario is lost on you, then I can't help you.
Make I end this exchange here abeg.

TheGoodJoe:
That is a lie.

Mujtahida:
I do not query that you predicted that he'd fail. It is the basis of that prediction that I find laughable.

Now come to think of it as a matter of practical reality: even two options where one has to choose one or the other can be very testing not to talk of choosing 28 players out of 40.

Even Christ with his prophetic eye spent sleepless night in prayer just to choose twelve disciples yet he still chose a Judas you are here talking down on Eguavoen.

So in your mind choosing 28 players out of 40 should be as easy as knife cutting through butter right? And since the man said it wasn't easy for him, you saw failure. Pardon me but you appear to be like those people who once they enter exam hall, they finish quickly just to flatter themselves that they are intelligent and laugh at those who do not finish so quickly.

I'd tell you that choosing 28 players out of 40 would definitely give me and many other persons sleepless nights and the fact that he knows these players is what makes it even more difficult, not less.


I truly find your thinking absurd. Absurd not because you think choosing 28 players should be easy but because you think that since it gave him sleepless night, it meant he was going to fail.

fabyom:
Saying he had a sleepless night doesn't necessarily mean he did. It's a soothing way to address those not selected that they are not forgotten! It's a human relation term. Ivory coast drew with Sierrialeone but defeated Algeria. My G, football is not mathematics.

Equavoen's tactic was spot on. In the first half, Algeria had one shot on target which came in the first 5 minutes.
Their tactic is to neutralize our attack and hit us on a counter. Equavoen knew that's why our forwards did not press in the first half and Moses withdrew a bit backward.
This is a knockout stage you don't just go all out against the 2nd best team in Africa.

In the 2nd half, we decided to be more proactive because Equavoen could see what the Tunisians were trying to do.
Iheanacho lost the ball and they countered, a long pass to Aina's position just needs Aina to trap the ball but he lost it. These are the little loss of concentrations that made Rohr prefer Awaziem to Aina.
Before our backline could recover boom a straight waving shot, took a bounce in front of our goalkeeper. A routine save with two palms but Okoye went with one (Bad positioning).

Equavoen saw a need to press their backline which Iheanacho and Awoniyi were not doing. He brought on Olayinka to press and Iwobi to control the midfield (Switching to 4-3-3) formation. Simon to drive in and Sanusi to go wide. Same with Chukweze and Aina. As we began to take charge of the game Iwobi miss-timed his control and ... red card.

Nevertheless, we maintained the game plan and there were several occasions Simon drove in and Sanusi drifted wide to receive the ball.
This game plan allowed us to press the Tunisians even with 10 men, and when Sadiq came on, Olayinka took Chukweze position drifting in and Aina going wide. That was how Olayinka was able to locate Sadiq unfortunately he shot wide (P.S: Sadiq and Olayinka gave it all, pressing, running, and dribbling).

Simon was able to locate Ndidi twice just outside the 18-yard box and he shot unbelievably wide. You don't give such space to a player like Partey or Kessie and won't pay dearly. Ndidi's shooting let us down. Comoros scored a free-kick from 30 yards but we have no player that can score from 20 yards. Wow!

Equavoen got his tactic spot on as it allowed us to control the game without headache, unlike our previous qualifiers.

It was the qualities of our players that let us down. A keeper that can't save a direct shot, a striker that failed to convert a through ball, a DM that can't shoot, and a 10 that got a red card.
Even with 10 men, we had the chance to equalize. Hardluck but as Iwobi wrote on his IG page, the Super Eagles shall be back. Patience my people!

Odunayaw:
Picking just 28 people is easy. Picking a SQUAD will give me sleepless nights for I'd be picking based on my philosophy, character of players, adaptability etc.

If him saying he had sleepless night is what is paining you, na you de have sleepless nights over him sleepless night

Odunayaw:
You're only proving that you're part of the get-result-anyhow set... nothing more. So cut those epistles you've been dropping. No de disguise.

Just know you're not converting any of us, know this and know peace