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Lacazette missed training today.

daveP:
Why?

There is no way he will replicate that madrid feat with this current arsenal team. Before you hire Zidane,your team has to be a ready made one and some of your players must be individually brilliant.

GeneralDae:
I lost a little faith in Demehin from the poor outing against the Moroccan clubside for Rivers Angels. She is solid but needs to learn more especially against skillful attackers. Most likely one for the future.

Agreed...I also think she is still inexperienced. One for the future certainly

Schemerkhiz:
Abiodun is another Combative Defensive Midfielder i saw believe we do a great job in the future... Whenever I see her play Ndidi come to my mind..

Going to the AWCON is a no to me, After the U20 FIFA Women's World Cup she can come into the set up as per her performance

if the AWCON and U20 WC are not played at the same time, nothing bad in taking her to AWCON.
We need the best irrespective of age or whatever.

GeneralDae:
Peace Effih can also play as an attacking midfielder even. The coach may just have to put 2 and 2 together and he strikes gold.

Chai... .I didn't even remember her. I'm glad we now have quality options to choose from.

Schemerkhiz:
1 -Our talent pool is deep. Perhaps the deepest it has ever been.

2 -How will the coaching staff balance the team going into the Summer AWCON/World Cup Qualification session? It will be interesting to see.

Yea..I agree..we have a large pool of talent. The coach just needs to find the right balance.
Take super eagles for instance, we have the highest number of in-form forwards yet we still find it difficult to score goals.
It's left to the coach to understand the skillset of each player and comes up with a combination that is complementary.

And..we need more central defenders.
We only have Ohale, Plumptre and Ebi for now Demehin?

GeneralDae:
Do you think Mbadi is that good? I'll say we look into Abiodun.

Well, Abiodun is also another option. Mbadi has been with the team for some time now that's why I included her name.

ceejayMAX:
Onyi should go for awcon

Mbadi

Otu

Ajibade

Toni

Ucheibe

Ayinde

The last spot is probably between Rita,Okobi and Onyi. Her time will come but I don't think she will be going to AWCON

Schemerkhiz:
One thing am impressed with the likes of Ifeoma Onumonu, Tony Payne, Ashleigh Plumptre and Co is that they play with their whole heart ready to risk it out unlike the Super Eagles player's who feel like star boys...


Against Canada, Onumonu was pressing high and high, doing her defensive duties too.. She has proven too well that she's playing in the best league in the World.


Randy Should just look between Kanu, Ordega and Okoronkwo to pair with Oshoala and Onumonu in a front 3...

maybe Ordega should just retire now that competition are piling up...she has regress a lot. She is no the same player

Schemerkhiz:
Desire Oparanozie
Asisat Oshoala
Fransisca Ordega
Uchenna Kanu
Ifeoma Onumonu
Esther Okoronkwo
Vivian Ikechukwu


This 7 Strikers would probably be going to be AWCON... Good thing is Onumonu can play any of the wing upfront..

Infact all of them can be deployed in any of the wing upfront except Desire Oparanozie whose speed is average and Ikechukwu who's more of a wing player!..


Which 3 will be able to combine well if played together..

Onumonu as the CF, Asisat and Kanu on the wing

Messi has 7 Balond'or compared to wasiu who has 5 yet you people still didn't agree that Messi is better.

Now because Xavi and Iniesta nor get Balond'or, Modric is better than both.

Which kind of logic is that?

Make una stop adding powdered pepper to your meth abeg..

codemaniacs:
Ndidi , onyeka , Nwakwali , iwobi, aribo and any midfielder who has other midfielders or forward players who drop deep around him can have brilliant build up like Dani Parejo..

that goal started with Estupinan to Parejo to Lo celso to Moreno to Chukwueze.

Another thing to note is Gerard Moreno drops deeper than the opposition defense line and sometimes to midfield then runs with the ball with the intention to pass or cross into the box or shoot at the goalkeeper..

Another thing to note is that the Super Eagles formation has less midfielders than Villareal's formation and build-up for the S.E is usually from the full-backs or defenders to the wingers to the strikers or the wingers take the shots and NOT from the full-backs to midfielders to another midfielder to winger to striker to another winger then winger or striker takes the shot..

Villareal had four midfielders on the pitch Capoue, Lo Celso , Parejo and Coquelin, In their formation, Lo Celso can also make forward runs and temporarily play as a winger or right wing forward role and Parejo also makes forward runs and plays a central forward role.

for the Chukwueze goal, Coquelin had been substituted for Pedraza who is a winger but can also play as a left back this also means he can play as a left midfielder and even if he wasn't involved in the build up to the goal.. Villareal still technically had 4 midfielders on the pitch or at least 3 midfielders on the pitch..

these 4 Villareal midfielders drop deep to help the defense that's why they could build up like that, If it was in the Super Eagles there will be nobody in Lo Celso's position to receive the ball then pass to Moreno , so Dani parejo ( or the S.E midfielder ) will have to use a long ball over the opposition midfield and defense to get the ball to Moreno's position and since its a long ball it means the opposition defenders can head the ball away..

what the Dani Parejo pass to Lo Celso means is that at least one opposition player will be drawn out of position to get the ball from Lo Celso and there were 3 Bayern players on Dani Parejo so that pass alone took out 3 Bayern players.

you're making me write essay.

O boy .... This is so apt bro...
We get Pep Guardiola Ibile on this thread sha

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Joezinho:
So we should invite a clubless nwakali that hasn't had up to 180 minutes of first team football, a 31 year old Rabiu Ibrahim, relatively unknown Ipabilo, iyayi and whatever to the Super Eagles as what?

To waste another 4 years trying to build a team? Una really deserve Eguavoen. Smh

That's his opinion, counter or leave it. Even though, some names there are just off, his point is well understood.

Philosopher1979:
To rePair our midfield, we have to tolerate Players from obscure leageues and see what they can do.
Below are a list of midfielders that we should try in our friendlies. The next friendlies should be used to exPeriment with our midfield


1. Ovie Ejaria
2. Kelechi nwakali
3. Rabiu Ibrahim
4. Alhassan yusuf
5. Iyayi Believe Atiemwen
6. Jack IPalibo
7. James Igbekeme

etc and others i dont know or remember
We dont have many good midfielders in the toP leagues of euroPe but
that does not neccesarily mean they are not good.
in Particular Alhassan Yusuf must be considers as he is doing wll for royal antwerP in Belgium

Remove Ejaria please...

Let me add Onyedika and Nwobodo

daveP:
If Arteta gets Arsenal to UCL, would you risk sacking him if this was the guy to replace him?

No

Southampton

Chelsea

Man U

If we manage to get more than 3 points from these matches, we tried.

TheLoneCitizen:
Club and player evaluating future.

He is not injured but club looking to safeguard him (value and injury-wise) for whatever situation in the summer.

Onyekuru though now wants to remain in Olympiacos unlike last year.

Maybe he should just go back to Gala...he tends to perform any time he is in Turkey.

jpmoriarti:
Why would he smash a fan's phone? That's so unprofessional!

As if that was not enough, he invited the same fan to their next match as a way of apologizing. So he can smash his wristwatch (maybe) again.

Jodera:
Yeah, it's better we just go back to that 4231. Xhaka and Sambi together.

I just wish the 3 are Saka, Odegaard and ESR while Martinelli plays 9 but Arteta won't think that way.
Moreso, I prefer Nketiah starting than Pepe if I'm to choose one between the two. Pepe is always infuriating to watch to be honest.

Conte and his spurs are not dropping points and the worst part is that they're picking up points with swagger. Long road for us

There is one tall guy in our academy, Mollaj abi na moller Dem dey call am...maybe we should start using cross and nod tactic

Jodera:
This is not even the time to be thinking about this sef.

just thinking ahead ni

andrewbaba44:
Dey console yourself

Auba has 7 goals in 8 Laliga games

He should sha deliver that Europa for us...

And if we decide to part ways with Arteta, who will replace him?

andrewbaba44:
Arsenal got beaten by 2 small teams within 6 days

But we need to applaud him because he got rid of unserious Aubameyang

I heard Auba don exhaust his first touch and scoring bundle, you should be worried about how you people will resubscribe

Jodera:
I read Tomi will be back (at least during the bench) against Southampton. Hopefully, he plays Tierney wing since he's two-footed and Xhaka returns back to midfield.

I don't think Tierney's injury would have had that much impact if only Tavarez showed that form he showed like at the beginning of the season. In fact, I will put it as the loss of confidence of Tavarez that scattered everything more cos it made Xhaka move away from that midfield.

My worry is that who will play that Partey role, except we shift back formation to 4231 instead of 433. We all know both Xhaka and Sambi can't play sole 4 at all.

Xhaka should partner Sambi.
Nketiah should start and Pepe needs more minutes

kodded:
as I see the lineup, I vesk off my data.


ThankGod I no watch the match.
Arteta oversabi don dey catch up with him.

And he was already getting it right o..then two injuries and boom! He scattered everything.
Hopefully Tomi will be back to fill Tierney's void and Xhaka will go partner Sambi or Elneny.
BTW is there no striker in our academy wey we fit manage ni

Roland17:
Lower your ringtone comrade

The way arsenal dey rise and fall like crypto is just

50d33q:
Now we hope on others to fail like those scummies
We were 4 points clear with 2 games in hand

we don't deserve top 4 this season at all. Let's just continue with our Europa

mostob:
Even with Partey,rarely did we play ESR and Ode together as double 8s.
You want to try it with Sambi?

i started doubting if we can get anything from today's game immediately I saw the line up.
Arteta na mumu abeg....Pair Xhaka and Sambi ? No... Elneny and Sambi with xhaka at LB? No

The mumu went with ESR,Ode and Sambi

TheLoneCitizen:
Iwobi didn't even play that well, yet the whole timeline singing his name.

what I admire most about him is his intelligence.
Boss, any update about Onyekuru

BlueRayDick:
E shock you? E shock me too

I just enter thread see plenty full scalp sheet everywhere

andrewbaba44:
21 large is that you

12large rather....he is the same person.