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Dedebanky85:
The best news I've heard today is the sacking of Shakespear. I need a coach that would deploy Mahrez as their 10 cos he seems to be the only person that can pass. Play Okazaki (Musa), Vardy and Iheanacho upfront. There would be flair in this team. Enough of all this Albrighton, and English boys that cannot be technical to save their lives. Demaray Gray should also see a lot of game time with the new coach. I just pray Iheanacho answers the new coach with a brace on his debut.

kennysville:
Different strokes for different folks. Its how you see it and I will have to respect that. Time will tell. As far as I know, with the way things are, Leicester needs a new coach as well as a playmaker. If that is not there, then they beta be ready to have 20 drawn games and the rest lost.
On deBruyne, that dude is the reason city is thriving because of his final balls. Someone that gave all the assists for city to put 7 past Stoke is the threat. Neutralize the threat and we see if they can score as high as they did. Thats why I said half the problem is solved

Joebie:
TURKEY: Super Lig - Round 8

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Bursaspor 3-1 Osmanlispor
Super Eagles defensive midfielder, Mikel Agu shown like stars after scoring his first Super Lig goal and also helping Bursaspor with an assist in their home win. Agu's assist came in the 30th minute, when he planted a header off a corner kick for Romanian striker, Bodgan Stancu to finish.
He scored a goal of his own 8 minutes later, after he placed a left footer past Osmanlispor defense and goalie. Agu's all round performance operating as CMF/AM in the homers 5-3-2 formation earned him a joint best top dribbler (3), best tackler (6), and a whoscored MOTM recognition.
+Stats Rating : 9.25 (in the running to make Super Lig Best XI of the Week)
Super Eagles defense trojan, William Troost-Ekong, also had a hand in their home win, clocking 90 minutes in the heart of their 5-man defense.
+Stats Rating : 6.59


Dream Team VI and forgotten Super Eagles forward, Aminu Umar, started and lasted the entire encounter for the opposing side at the left-wing in a 4-2-3-1 formation. Aminu was the 5th best passer of the encounter, with a 90 percent success rate. It was all-tie in Top 5 for Aerial Duels won (2), with Aminu also making the cut. The 22 year old also got statistical recognition as the 3rd joint best in successful tackles (4).
+Stats Rating : 6.56
Osmanlispor DMF, Raheem Lawal, made the top 5 for percentage possession (6.2;5th), tackles (4; joint 3rd), and dispossession (2; joint 4th).
+Stats Rating : 6.84

Kasimpasa 2-3 Sivasspor
Super Eagles standby defender, Kenneth Omeruo, started and completed the encounter as a Kasimpasa Center-Back. The 24 year old was the best of the match in terms of Aerial Duels won (5). However, his aerial prowess was not good enough as he could not help prevent the homers from conceding thrice.
+Stats Rating : 6.81

Elderson Echiejile (Sivasspor) was not listed for the encounter due to the injury he picked up during the international break.
+Stats Rating : N/A

Trabzonspor 1-6 Akhisar
With Eddy Onazi out, Trabz lost heavily at home to Akhisar
+Stats Rating : N/A

Fenerbahce 3-1 Yeni
Sincere Seth made his Super Lig debut for Yeni, in their away loss to Fenerbahce. Seth, playing at Right-Back, didnt have a debut to remember as he had the lowest rating of the encounter. However, he was not subbed off from start to finish.
+Stats Rating : 5.8
Teammate Azubuike Okechukwu was not listed on matchday, due to an undisclosed injury.
+Stats Rating : N/A

Joebie:
Agu is not a CMF, he is a DMF.

semid4lyfe:
Your Abdul Jeleel Ajagun is a wack player. He is also far older than he claims. I have it on good authority he was 25 years when he played Nigeria '99 U-17 World cup.

Never ever compare Victor Osimhen and Kelechi Nwakali to that old toad as they are truly young and really good ballers.

kennysville:
Iheanacho is not exactly gonna take the ball from the goal keeper and still find time to pass to himself to score. Its one thing or the other. It cant be both. At the start of the second half he did drop deep. But leicester team is not a team well drilled in the art of progressive attack. They lack a play maker. And that is where ManCity is thriving now. Take out DeBruyne and you will see that half your problem of facing city is solved. I cant ever recall a time in the game when Ndidi made a through pass with the aim of pickin out Iheanacho. His passes were all sideways. So are you trying to change his role from an SS to a 10?

That is where objectivity comes in. All i saw Iheanacho do yesterday was make runs with no one in particular picking him out. Leicester didnt look like a team that had a 10. And if they think they had and are referring to Mahrez as the 10, then they are deluded. I would av expected a solid bond between vardy, mahrez and iheanacho. But it was almost like each one playin for himself. Thats why I said Vardy, all pace , no brain. He has the energy and the grit but not channelling it wis
If you check my posts, I am not one of those that sing Iheanacho's praises. I analyse and I say what i saw just the way it is. Let us understand that the dude just had his second start and is just coming back from injury. What I see working for shakespeare is his blatant kick and follow soccer which at best earns him a draw. You will agree with me that this is not the same Leicester team under Ranieri. Running down Iheanacho just so as to prove ur earlier assertions or assessments of him in your previous discourses with other people is a bit
With the way leicester is set up, Iheanacho needs our prayers!

Icon4s:
Was he played as a number 10 or an SS?

EmmGee:
when nacho was in. The whole team were terrible in possession. It was like they didn't know what to do. Then the coach made a tactical change by introducing a crosser and a header.

The team then had a plan in mind. And it was the substitutes that did exactly what they were brought on for.

Lester a too conservative and if nacho should thrive, he must alter his game pattern and learn to drop deep to collect the ball and burst forward.
there were about two situations where he did that.

Icon4s:
I couldn't watch the game.

Was he that bad today?

Icon4s:
Are you saying all the years of Drilling were wasted years?

EEGA:
Next time, I advise you keep ur mouth shut.

EEGA:
I don't know what is wrong with Nacho.Ighalo even came all the way from China and took his no.9 position,yet we are still blaming the Leicester system.

goldfish80:
Who was throwing tantrums?

kennysville:
yes absolutely! U want me to repeat it? Yes vardy is all pace and no brains.

Humility017:
nonsense...I think illiteracy played a part there...currently the German passport is the most powerful in the world...
it gives same privilege a British passport gives and even more...and wit less requirements.

EEGA:
Nice,he got his chance against SA to claim the Super Eagles no 9 but failed to do so.Had it been he scored just a goal,he would have displaced Nacho.

What the Super Eagles need is a 9 who must score in every game.

He needs to start scoring for Girona to make the WC list just as Iheanacho needs to start scoring for Leicester to reclaim his no 9 position.

daveP:
Throwback- Even page 2000 go reach before christmas.

some had faith, some rightfully angry. page 0-5 will make most of us on here to laugh, smh, be shocked at ourselves.

PDPGuy:
I know, right. But this time, outside the top 10 Euro/South American teams, Nigeria can give any other team a run for their money.

komekn:
Obagoal and Ighalo

Humility017:
ighalo and nacho.....

forgiveness:
So, if Sadiq scores more goals than Onyekuru, Kelechi Iheanacho, Kayode Olanrewaju, Osimhen and Tammy Abraham, he is not eligible for the 2018 World cup, ba?

What is the criteria for invitation to the national team?

Kog45:
The man said it all, our developmental plans have been d issue,truly talents abound in Nigeria but who to discover them.

The secondary schools game is dead,Principal cup gone,YSFON collapsed, NIPOGA game no more attention, NUGA game d same thing, these are d games that produced players for our various national teams.

How can we revive all these is left for various sporting federation to put their house in order and put a great mechanism in place to salvage d situations coz it has reached a stage we just have to do something about it.

Apart from football or may be basketball that are still trying to put smiles on d faces of sports fans,other games brings nothing,d worst of it all is d athletics.

This is a game that has produced great athletes like Dele Udoh,Ahmed Adio,Chidi Imoh,Innocent Egbunike,Mary Onyali,Falilat Ogunkoya,Olapade Adenikan,Ezenwa brothers,Chioma Ajunwa but can we say now,mediocre running for Nigeria.

Football still a force to reckon with coz d talents are abound not that we get it right through fundamentals plans and we should thanks d individuals football academies that spring up to fill d gap created by non functional football federation grassroots plans.

Onigbinde said do we need to beg any foreign born players to play for us?definitely NO but in d absence of good foundation what do we do?we just need to beg.I know d man was referring to Tammy Abraham situation.

The man said just few minutes he was able to discover Enyeama.I remember i had a lengthy discussion with my former university coach in person of Amusa Adisa who happened to be goalkeeper trainer to 2002 WC.

I asked him what gave u that confidence to pick Enyeama ahead of Shorunmu against England, he said when u see a talent irrespective of experience u don't care,he said prior to WC Enyeama had only one cap in a grade b friendly.

I asked why can't we discovered more Enyeama and he said most of our grassroots games are no longer functioning and it w take a miracle to see a special players for national team and our coaches are not helping d situation.

Honestly there are a lot of talents wasting away coz nobody to see them,those saddle with d responsibilities are not doing enough.Thanks for football academies that came to d rescued.

i remember i how i try to convince Ex polish international Emma Olisadebe after our VC cup in d university,I went to him and told him point blank that did u know u are better than KANU Nwankwo,he looked at me and said u are not serious,again during Governor Cup that my school participated,during this match we beat a very solid team 6-1 and he scored 5 goals.The fans in d stadium were surprised to see such talent in d university.The two local league club try to sign him but refused.

Luckily for him he made world university game team and put shooting star Edith Agoye permanently on d bench.It was Fanny Amu that later told him point blank that u are wasting your talent.The rest is history d same Olisadebe later represent Poland in d WC after Nigeria refused to call him.He single handedly took Poland to 2002 WC,had a goal against USA.

To buttress Onigbinde points, talents abound in sec sch,polytechnics, universities and there is need we revive our youth games like Principal cup,YSFON,focus on NIPOGA,NUGA,these are d only way we can save our sports.

I remember my secondary school represented Nigeria in Sweden in handball game and same thing we represent Nigeria in Canada,this was in 80s,so why are we finding it difficult to do d same thing now.

Humility017:
I don't understand you guys...so because he scored a brace..he should be heading to the world cup...

you guys think the world cup is a wild party....I understand if some of us were in rohr shoes....we don't mind take not less than 45 players to the world cup.....

Mujtahida:
Okay. November 6 is the date

komekn:
Can anybody confirm what Forgiveness is saying about Ajagun please.

Joebie:
That's not the point. Improving it and having the abilities are two different things. He went to work on it further at Chelsea. Now you have defeated yourself. Did he play as wing back at west ham?

Joebie:
Yes I personally noticed even before Conte took over Chelsea. Watch our Mexico friendlies

Mujtahida:
Thank you. Load your Canon, Aim, Fire!
On a more serious note, I say it's still early days to start making such comparisons between Rohr and Siasia and I can see that you have deftly avoided lauding Rohr whether in his 'now famed' man management style or tactical ability but you are focusing on Siasia because the track record is there. Rohr needs a run of time too before we can settle this issue.

I know something about words:you repeat them often and then it sticks and sometimes passes as reality until it is examined. That's what they are doing now: he's not tactical, he's not tactical, he's not tactical and before long that notion becomes fixed. I repeat even with seven wins (five for the WCQ qualifiers, two friendlies) two draws and one defeat over a period of one year is in my estimation still too early to start making comparisons.

goldfish80:
First of all, you have to appreciate the fact that the last Olympics was of a very low standard, no thanks to club's refusal to release players. I honestly think football should be scrapped from the Olympics if what was witnessed at the last tournament was anything to go by.

Honduras getting to the Semi final was a reflection of how shiit the tournament was really....

In a tournament of top quality, you cannot go straight from the plane to the match venue and escape unpunished.

Now coming to tactics, Siasia was totally exposed when he came up against a decent Colombia and German team. We lost those two games!
Stay with me, against Germany. It was very obvious he had little or no background check on the German team. The balance of play reflected this. The German boys ran rings around us and tore us to pieces. We lost that game the way we did because the team was badly set up. It was one of the most one sided semi final game I have ever witnessed.

To top it all, he even made a caricature of the team selection by taking a dwarf to the tournament. Lol

Certitude:
Na wetin I still dey yarn...To you, playing beautifully is being tactical...That match against Guinea was bullcrap...Keshi played well against Spain, Argentina and France but lost...Y'all came out to confirm how tactically inept he was and how he has been lucky all this while...What were the matches Siasia won in Olympic again self..He never won any good side.