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charlesemeka85:
By David Meshioye
With Wilfred Ndidi almost ruled out of Qatar 2022 World Cup playoffs against Ghàna Black Stars in Kumasi, word was rife in Abuja that officials of Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) are divided over plans to call up Onazi Ogenyi should Ndidi's fail to recover on time, 234sportsng.com can report.
Nigeria's dream of parading its best legs for Qatar 2022 World Cup playoffs against Ghana Black Stars suffered a massive blow when the Leicester City midfield sentinel hobbled off the pitch after he picked up an injury in Leicester City 2-1 loss to Rennes in the second leg of their Uefa Europa Conference League on Thursday night at the Roazhon Park.
The Super Eagles star went for a tackle against Gaetan Laborde and got injured himself in the process and was immediately replaced for James Maddison in the 60th minute. Ligarment injury takes about six weeks to heal and except a miracle ensured, Ndidi may have been completely ruled out of both legs.
At this juncture, the only available defensive midfielder on standby is Onazi Igenyi as coach Austin Eguavoen continue to ponder the best escape route to ensure Ndidi is not greatly missed.
" Ndidi's injury is a bug blow but some NFF officials are divided over plans to call up Onazi to replace Ndidi. We shall see how things pans out," 34sportsng.com decent source revealled.
It remains to be seen of the former Trabzonspor midfielder will be given thebchance to stage a comeback after he lastvfeatured for Nigeria in an international friendly against England in 2018.

chai...this Ndidi injury came at a bad time.
As for Onazi, una sure say baba never get pot belly

Blueelf:
As in ehn...SE her talk

What happened to our forward line too that were scoring prior to AFCON? Didn't they also disappear in that march?

The truth is - Naija players are unreliable and inconsistent (apart from Osimhen and Ndidi).

Ghana would win. We are too predictable and Mr Eguaveon doesn't have a plan B

We know your stand already.

do4luv14:
look at this again, but pls say the truth

He had all the time in the world to cover that area please.

Jodera:
he was very very poor in his distribution. I counted up to 3-4 times he kicked a goal kicks straight to throw in and it was advantage Villa. His other goal kicks was straight to Villa defence.

I'm just glad for the 3 points.

I was really impressed with ESR today.

During the last moment of the game, Arteta was shouting at him to play the ball up field for Pepe, baba just balloon the ball to throw in
ESR was great today, kinda like how he won fouls even with a slight touch..

Deltamani:
Half time
The referee signals the end of the first 45 at the Samuel Ogbemudia Stadium, Benin City in the match between the U-17s of Nigeria and DR Congo. Three goals separate both sides, six on aggregate.

The Flamingoes have enjoyed themselves dominating possession and maintaining a high defensive line in the first 45 minutes. DR Congo has been shaky and low on confidence.

Nigeria 3- 0 DR Congo

make Dem kuku suspend the 2nd half
Wetin remain

do4luv14:
I don't exaggerate anything man, go and watch Chelsea semi final game against Barça at nou camp in 2012,

then tell me what you observe in one of barcas goal

I can't remember the match.
For that Tunisia goal, Okoye has the height which translate to better body length, the shot was from outside the box. All he had to do was to stretch and push the ball out at least bounce or no bounce.
I'm sure if it was Uzoho or Akpeyi that conceded such a goal, we won't spare him.

TheLoneCitizen:
Abraham, Insigne, Koulibaly, Pellegrini, Osimhen.

No player in Serie A wants to knee slide again everybody just jumping fence.

League of Agberoism

do4luv14:
your online gunners Mari Pablo

ok

do4luv14:
forget what, a good goalie or not, a bounce in front of you is a fantabulous, hard to deal with, especially when you had dived towards the ball,


go and ask Cech, even Kahn too

You know you're exaggerating the bounce too much. He had no excuse letting that ball enter the net.

jihday:
I watch him every time, because he hit post against Leicester? Still not impressed but it doesn’t mean we should allow him a clear sight sha. Just saying there’s nothing to be fearful about his shooting

Oga... anytime Partey shoots, na outside the stadium Dem go pick the ball. But for like 6 matches ago, he has improve his shooting. You can only counter me if you're watching him week in week out

safarigirl:
Okoye has brushed up his saving gloves as well

Partey wey no sabi shoot when he dey wear Ghana jersey go suddenly become David Beckham for qualifiers, but Okoye go shame us.

Person wey no know go think say Okoye never get clean sheet since he returned to his club.

You people are sure Okoye cannot get better or did not get better, but Partey has gotten better.

Then even worse, because Okoye will shame us by conceding, our entire forward line will also be very useless and will not be able to score against Gianluigi Buffon that will be guarding Ghana's post.

Is Ghana's goalkeeper better than Okoye?

Is it only Partey that will play against us?

Everytime one player is constantly harped on for a match, that player always disappears on the day

Abeg make una allow person hear word with Partey. If dem score us, we score them back.

Na only one goal Okoye chop for AFCON in open play and he faced better players than Partey, Partey no score one goal for AFCON, and he no face any better goalie.

Make una mention better people abeg

All these you put here are just ranting. Wetin concern me with Ghana squad? Everybody knows Okoye has not really put up a good performance for us, is anything wrong in pointing out our team's weakness?
After Tunisia scored, I could remember they started shooting from outside the box. If that doesn't tell you something, then you should stop ranting.

do4luv14:
he had collect a red let him go and rest

Who? I don't understand

andrewbaba44:
He is your player on Loan ,at least he will be back before he will be sold ,so he is comming back

See logic...

andrewbaba44:
Wetin Leno do you

Leave distributions ,he was superb and arsenal got the 3 needed points .

Not that I've something against him....
On another day,it could cost the team.
There were about 4 instances during the 2nd half when his bad kick put pressure on the team.
BTW, you've been frequenting this place lately, wetin dey happen na

TheLoneCitizen:
Pablo Mari wanting to kill Osimehn, forgetting that both will be teammates at Arsenal by August.

Pablo Mari won't come back to Arsenal. There is low chance of that happening...

Leno was poor with his distribution today...

komekn:
.

I am more interested in the 20 player's across these leagues thar you said " They're not good enough"

Please name them one by one and when you do I'll name my 20 and see if there is any correlation.

You're the original poster....it is left to you to list out the 20 players across the championship and EPL that you said should have been invited...

Shebi my prejudice is naked..be like your own na stripper

codemaniacs:
Let's conclude it was the bounce and one handed save he used that messed him up...

Let's hope he switches to 2 hands save this time around..

Forget the bounce, a good goalie is a good goalie....

Like you said, hopefully he comes prepared this time around

codemaniacs:
chidi1 is right..

But you guys are narrowing it to only partey.

If any Ghanaian player takes a long shot Okoye may not catch or save the shot. The only good thing is Okoye is match fit..

The S.E players must mark and overcrowd any Ghanaian player with the ball in the S.E side of the field with at least 2 players.

Because if they ball watch like they did against Tunisia then S.E will be in trouble and giving Okoye to much work to do .

The small work they give am at the AFCON, didn't he fumbled?

komekn:
FYI

Not yet confirmed

nelszx:
Which one of them is this AE, our two coaches na AE be their initials.

Austin Eguavoen

Emmanuel Amunike

AE is different from EA

There goes your answer

komekn:
Let me reiterate again .

EPL, Championship and top Five league of Europe there are at least 20 player's.

You said to quote you verbatim " they're not good enough"


That means you must know them all, so you tell me all these twenty players that are not good enough for the SE ❓❓❓ To make that very emphatic statement YOU MUST KNOW THEM ALL.

I presume you are educated, conversant and informed , thats why you can make such a knowledge based inference.

I'm more interested in that your championship and EPL....
Name those midfielders in championship and EPL that should have made the list.

If there's any player currently that can play that Xhaka role , it is either Patino or Miguel..

ESR is too attacking minded to play the role.
Playing ESR and Ode at the same time will overwork Partey

BlueRayDick:
That Vlahovic abi wetin be him name, he say Arsenal no dey Europe he shenk us go Juve now Juve Don commot UCL, they will not Serie and will most likely end the season in similar situation like arsenal

No be juju be that?

3 starts, 3 Wins ,3G/A for Reiss Nelson..

Should we cash in or call him back?

daveP:
What I know is he can bring that form right into the game. Hopefully we will be prepared for him.

I'm not disputing that though.

komekn:
Let me reiterate, there are at least 20 player's from the EPL, Championship and across Europe top 5 leagues. That a selection could have been made from.

Your response, " they're not good enough"

Do you know these players ❓ or your Naked prejudice and animosity has made you loose all sense of reasoning.

So please tell us the players that are not good enough.

tell us those players in the championship that are good enough

jihday:
Partey shooting accuracy is poor, so poor that Arteta had to answer questions about it

Yea..but have you watched him lately?

chidi1:
Just musing, you all know that Thomas Partey enjoys shooting the ball from the mid field, our defensive midfielder, Ndidi, is out due to injury and we do not have a goal keeper, as far as I am concerned (Okoye is out of the question), please can someone help me pacify my anxiety. I feel like we may be facing another Tunisia, one error prone mistake by Okoye and the Ghanians close shop.

Partey has really brushed up his shooting boot lately.... As for Maduka, that guy might just cost us. To make it worse, Ekong,Aina and Omeruo have had some hard time as regards playing time this season and to make it worse,Ndidi is now doubtful.

komekn:
Should national team be in this situation, where we are over reliant on one player. It's shows a lack of professionalism and forward thinking.

But behind it is the quest to pursue other interests.

Otherwise how can you have Onazi on standby, there are at least 20 player's from the EPL to Championship as well as in Europe top five leagues by that should have been invited

they're not good enough...

elyte89:
Well he might change his name Jersey to thomas

Ok...this is what I mean

The quality of player one plays with do have some effects on one's performance. That's why some players do find it difficult to replicate their club form in NT.

daveP:
With Ndidi not sure, a double 8 would make sense to deploy. Who will be that deep distributor like this? Cos I don't wanna to see long balls forward that day. Let's dominate and score.

With what Partey is currently playing for Arsenal, his long accurate passes may be a problem without Ndidi there. That's the only true fear I have sincerely.

the Partey we see at Arsenal is not the same Partey that'll show up against Nigeria....hope you know that?