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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

Odunayaw:
Just imagine bro! Players seemingly dead under Rohr suddenly burst into life under Eguavoen.

These guys are just bad losers.

Mujtahida:
I really don't know what to say about the bolded but it's such ridiculous nonsense. So if a man says that he's spent sleepless night to arrive at a decision, it is an indicator of failure? I've never heard such inanity in my life!

Amidst this loss, all sorts of witless criticisms find expression like a dam letting out water from a muddy river.

"Efforts without intelligence will make excuses and failure"

What is the meaning of this word salad bro? Just because Eguavoen said he had sleepless night to determine who would be picked out of an already submitted 40 man list, now amounts to effort without intelligence? Was it only through effort and no intelligence that he picked those 28 players?

If we do not interrogate some of the things some of you say here, the tag that this place is for ogogoro analysts will stick. Na wa.

TheGoodJoe:
First, Eguavoen is part of the Technical Committee, not the technical crew. There are two different things.

Secondly, when you talk team work, formation, etc. You are talking of preference. However, Coach Eguavoen has a different perspective of the game. It is a pure offensive one but we used it to full effect.

That is down to him and his tactical acumen.

He also brought a clear improvement of players. Eguavoen is not for the glamor of possessive football. He wants it fast, direct and decisive. We saw it in full action in the four games.

When you are talking tactical flexibility, in the game against Tunisia, he showed it to the extreme.

Finally, saying we won by a lone goal against Egypt means you are only quantifying football by just the goal scored when football is far bigger than that.

It was debated extensively here and we totally outplayed the Egyptians.

So despite all your preferences, Eguavoen did it his way and gave a good account of himself.

Finito.

Parrot69:
This is a man who was short of Strikers who would have made a very big impact in this tournament.
This is also a man who had to assemble a makeshift team within a few days prior to the tournament.
Looking at the game against Tunisia;
Quite alright he was outsmarted, had it been we had scored an early goal like we did against Egypt, that game would have gone in our favor. But the Tunisians knowing our point man, caged him well.
On the otherside, Chukwueze wasn’t helpful.
Things got worse when point man no:2 who would have really changed the game got red carded few minutes into the game.
We had to rely on luck.
Had it been we had an AM, a good playmaker the story would have been different.

TheGoodJoe:


What you are typing is perception. Judge Eguavoen for his on field performance. He was voted best coach of he group stage. He gave us the fear factor. United the team and brought back belief.

And those guys over tried. I am proud of them.

So spending sleepless nights because of little to know time is a fact.

Not worth criticising but praising.

TheSuperNerd:
What game did you watch? Did you miss the part where Ndidi saved Okoye's blushes in the first half with that goalline block/clearance?

Tunisia had 3 shots on target man. We only had ONE. One!!! Zero shots on target sef in the first half alone.

So what nonsense are you even saying??

We even had more possession but we clearly didn't use most of it through the middle. We were clueless through the middle.

Our best game remains the second team that played vs Bissau. We were so tidy in possession yet so creative going forward. We hurt them from so many parts of the pitch and not just through the wings.
We diversified in that game and how Eguavoen failed to mix it up to confound the tunisians when he knew they would be ready to match the tactics of the first XI really shows how monotonous his tactical approach was.

He didn't have a good contingency plan. It's funny funny I had 2 and he as coach had none. Funny.

TheGoodJoe:
Where you guys get this tactically outclass from beats me. We were the better side. So Eguavoen was not tactically outclassed.

JohnBullMySon:
Eguavoen's tactics is more of like "Go into the pitch and do thy best, play this position. If you tire or underperform, I'll change you".

Rohr had a tactics, one that we grew tired of. But I don't think we can move forward with Eguavoen, honestly. Players need to be told what to do at times. Freedom can be detrimental. Let's see what Peseiro brings to the table. And hopefully it will be alright.

12large1:
As for iheanacho, if coaches cannot play him as a Top 9, let him be benched. Coaches trying fit iheanacho on the team has resulted in us having an imbalanced squad. Iheanacho you’re now competing for a position with Osimehn. You’re not a midfilder