₦airaland Forum

M7even:
🤣🤣🤣 Leave this boy , na because u yab am him club change name
From ihefu to arrows
You still yab am he leave Africa go England.
Now he dey England u still dey yab am if he club send PJ to claim their player 🤣🤣

Charlesemeka85 don hook ihefu fc the way him hook Nwakali.

daveP:
i saw a documentary on what the americans and Brits did to Iran and immediately as i watched on, i was seeing same playbook in Nigeria despite being 60years apart. Evil powers

How they ousted the Shah of Iran and orchestrated the Iranian revolution

charlesemeka85:
Libyans over did their own abeg. To a point I was praying that they don’t even dare go physical on our players because those Arabs are capable of anything evil especially when majority of our players are Christians

The 1-0 defeat pain them die. Especially that the goal was scored late. Lookman and Onyemaechi taunted their players as they were celebrating the goal and deservedly so given their childish, time wasting antics

TheSuperNerd:
The Libyan hate on Ghadaffi from within was also American-fueled but this is all I will say on it. I wish not to discuss further to avoid digression.

You sabi 👏👏👏

Kog45:
Thank God the boys are coming back home safely…..Ekong did yeoman job and kudos to him for leading the team very well but my man Goke7,are you saying Christian Chuckwu,Stephen Keshi and Sunday Oliseh of old eagles would have played the match and even beg NFF? capital NO…..Keshi especially always supports his colleagues in any situation and Nigeria appreciated him more for that….In this situation,I don’t see any captains that would tell his colleagues to go ahead with the game

No captain even the weakest will tell the players to play the match. What they were subjected to was just too extreme to the point of draining the players emotionally, physically and mentally. They absolutely would not be able to play because their health is at risk. Don't forget they just played a match on Friday

elyte89:
My lawyer(Mujtahida) will release a full statement about the incident later today.Thank you for concerns.

Definitely. This has gone beyond football. It has become a security issue. The UN has to intervene before war breaks out between Nigeria and Libya. 😏😏

I don't just talk oo. 👇👇👇Expressing the same sentiment as I did this morning on Ghaddafi. Please you guys should also go and read about how Ghaddafi intervened last minute for Libya to host Afcon 82 after Ghana pulled out for financial reasons

Odunayaw:
How Libya no go see us finish. Is it not the same country it's citizens choose to go through hell to pass through Libya with the hope of Europe?

Man, this thing de vex me. This country has lost it's standing in the committee of nations.

The pain is so much I lack words

typicalgamer:
Wow 😮 you don’t say

Educate yourself

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aFW1ecPEjGk?si=XQGUO-Z1THlBxMdl

lbrichman2:
DLaw help us interpret..

The rule is clear. You lose points and suffer fines

Goke7:
Forget all this talk bruv, this is how North Africans behave whether it's Egypt, or Morroco, all of them nothing concerns Ghadafii and antichrist here o

What we know them for is on field antics. Please point out if this kind of deliberately malicious treatment of our national team has happened before.

I maintain that Ghaddafi will not permit this to happen. I know what I am saying. Once again God punish Obama, the anti - christ

I don't think this would have happened if Ghaddafi was still in charge of Libya.

May God punish Obama, that evil, hypocritical, snake oil merchant and anti christ who deceived the whole world with his sweet talking. He and Hillary Clinton conspired and took out Ghaddafi on behalf of Israel.

Ghaddafi was a pan Africanist to the core and would not have permitted this disgraceful treatment of our team.

typicalgamer:
The fact that Alex is our 10 makes me question our coaches a player that hasn’t played the number 10 role since he left the academy it’s just 😆 funny o

Alex is not him, the flair, the eye for a pass, and the from time screamer doesn’t come from him

The fact that our coaches aren’t breeding any number just shows they wanna keep this core group tiger and are afraid to experiment

There's no number 10 in modern football. It's just a number. Even Ndidi can wear it. It no longer iconic

villagereporter:
Where is baba Majoribank. Is been a while ooo.

I wanted to ask. Elyte89 where is Oga majoribanks?

chrisooblog:
You're spot on about the 2022 WC finals one of if not the best in the entire history of the tournament.

In terms of stature of players and quality of play 1998 still stands out for me. All the big names of that era brought their A game. Pity the final was a one sided anti-climax.

I enjoyed 98. The goals scored by Bergkamp,(against Argentina) Owen(against Argentina) and Kluivert (against Brazil) are such sweet goals that till date I still relish them.

chrisooblog:
The loss to Italy in 1982 seriously affected their football mentality. The pain from that loss forced them to adopt a pragmatic style that has diminished the beauty and ethos of Samba football.

Yes they won the 1994 and 2002 WC but their performances in both tournaments save for a few flashes was so boring that we hardly remember them other than the fact that they won it.

You are right. It is almost an axiom in football circles that 82 is the year football died.

94 and 02 are memorable not necessarily because of the style of play but because of the stature and quality of the Brazilian players who starred in those games unlike the 2022 final which was executed by average players except Messi, Mbappe, Di Maria and two or three other stand out players but that final in my opinion sweet die. Ohh my God! Breathless, intoxicating, exhilarating football

humility33:
This your analysis deserve 52 likes

I think AE needs to reach out to the Monaco and Sparta Prague kid Olatunji Victor. Those guys have hunger and drive like oshimen

We also need to integrate Kelvin Akpoguma and some of the German guys Chima and Co into the team to see what they have to offer at least if we qualify on Tuesday with out last 2 match remaining we can use it to see what they have to offer

It is not every time we hear that so and so Nigerian player scored a goal that we'd start clamoring for them. This clamor is in itself not a bad idea but when will the clamoring end? When you see another shining new player, the clamor will begin again.

Philosopher1979:
If it happens, those players may also end up in Europe. If Brazil wind tge world cup with players from Santos, botafogo etc, European teams will buy those players and they will end up in Europe.
The best solution is to get rich investors from Saudi, China, Europe, USA etc to invest in the Brazilian league and also get their league more attention.
They can fo it as the Brazilian league has the history and reputation and just needs a little packaging. The Brazilian league is easy to srl..
With investors, their best players like endrick, neymar etc will not be going to Europe.
Is time changing things. If Pele and garincha were alive today an European team would have bought them

I agree with you. We need more variety in football. Modern football is too European

jihday:
above average? You people just throw words around

That's Oga Meli Meli for you 🤣🤣🤣

zuchyblink:
The Brazilian president wants only players playing in the Brazilian league to play for the Brazilian national team.

I support this for Brazil. The samba is gone out of Brazilian football and the world of football is deprived because of it.

But I know you using this to shore up your regular argument about using our local players instead of foreign chickens

See Iwobi's highlights. https://x.com/EaglesTrackerNG/status/1845070639301791977?t=EgNasw4sWYPV2FSxM8BdUQ&s=19

charlesemeka85:
dem no sabi watch ball

I don't know how Iwobi is constantly demonized. Even if he's on the bench, they are like, see as he siddon for bench.

Haaaa these players are human beings ooo

chrisooblog:
If we're going to go with AE then it should be on a long term not these short term rescue missions we keep giving him.

I also agree that he should continue with the WC. He has the trust of the players, he's emotionally intelligent, plus his selections are fairly ok with not too many eyebrow raising invitations.

For me he still has tactical weaknesses which refresher courses and sound technical assistant coaches can help reduce I believe.

We're already in a dicey situation as far as the WC qualifiers are concerned so it's unlikely any glory seeking foreign coach will touch us with a ten foot badge pool.

The NFF should also be strategic to pick assistant coaches who have the potential to be future SE Managers.

I was reading with a view to seeing something like your last paragraph. Yes that's where my client comes in.

SamueItem337:
ChatGPT has predicted the next 10 FIFA World Cup winners. 🤣🤣🤣

Na from 2026 the prediction go scatter.

Hotepking:
Would you guys be comfortable with Eguavoen leading the team in the world cup qualifiers next year, and why? give your honest reasons

I personally would prefer Eguavoen leading the team. He's not perfect but he seems to command the love, respect and confidence of this team- and more often than not those are the components you need as a coach to be successful...Eguavoen has always been a decent coach with so far the best winning ratio among the list of coaches who have managed us so far based on stats (and I stand to be corrected), his only nemesis has been in knockout phases of major tournaments,he just seems to have that unlucky mojo of never getting far in tournaments.

Right now except we get a genius foreign coach in the mould of a Pep Guardiola, then I can't trust the odds of this team under any random journeyman oyinbo coach in squeezing us through our current world cup group wahala...I get the feeling that even the popular Herve Renard saw and analyzed our precarious world cup situation when contacted and then chickened out, none of the European coaches seemed to want the coaching job.

Eguavoen is the best shot we have at the moment, and every support has to be given to him from the fans and the NFF for him to succeed.

If Eguaveon does the unthinkable and qualifies us for the world cup, you will see he would be shoved aside and a foreign coach appointed.

I am totally in agreement with your second paragraph

Meliforme:
In my assessment of the game, Ademola Lookman was our best player yesterday and not Moses Simon.

Lookman did more both offensively and defensively.

I think you like being contrarian perhaps because it makes you feel intelligent. Not necessarily from this post but there's a clear pattern where as people dey go right, you dey go left, as dem dey say black, you dey say white. I like dissident thinkers oo but this your own get as e be.

jihday:
Boniface will be fine, he probably need to go to a tournament with Nigeria, the players will train more and also spend more time together that will allow both his team mates and the coach to understand him better

In between he should try and score. I read a comment attributed to Eguavon to the effect that Boniface plays like Romario. He wants to romance the ball. I see him wanting to do something spectacular with the ball.

No Bro, score first even if na through gidigbo or scramble. When you get in your stride, you can go for the spectacular.

Emmy450:
soft ass ke?🤣🤣

This world don spoil. Man no fit express himself freely again. Without the gayish atmosphere this gay people have created, I doubt you'd give second thoughts to those words other than as a metaphor for shiftiness and lack of firmness

Goke7:
That’s why I feel bad for Finidi for such a person with a very big profile in his playing days shouldn’t be giving us such crap after a good Afcon outing. He almost embolden a big case for foreign coaches. I can only hope that case will finally be buried with AE.

A lot of things worked against Finidi and for me the major error he made was trying to reinvent the wheel.

Meliforme:
I did not mention Ejuke, you brought him into the conversation.

I am not the only one who reckons Ejuke's technique to be above average.
A lot of independent analysts are professing it.

Football technique is not all about dribbling, as dribbling is not the only skill in football.
We don't currently have a winger who is better at passing the ball compared to Ejuke, that is why he is labelled very technical.
Our wingers are not that excellent at the game of passes, especially when it comes to using long balls to switch plays.

Oga Meli Meli

Meliforme:
Oh my God.

It is so clear that Eguavoen played 4231.
Iwobi played very close to Boniface that sometimes you will think it is 442.
Iwobi sometimes pressed the Libyans alone especially in the first half.

How do you guys watch matches and interpret so little.

Eguavoen was poor, some said he wasn't conservative, but he was to some extent. Our wingers sat deeper, off the ball.
We had more of the ball and looked like we were doing most of the attacking, because the Libyans were very poor, so so poor, with a mediocre game plan, and Eguavoen did not take advantage of this to utilise our players that are in form.
Our wingers played deeper than they should and weren't pressing the Libyans.
Our wingers got few shots.

So clear? You are the only one I have read who said Eguavoen played 4-2-3-1.

At the bolded, you watch and over analyze to the point of outlandishness. Iwobi played close to Lookman not Boniface as you claim and that somewhat limited Lookman.

"Eguavoen was poor". Oho, to talk for mouth is easy. You have not coached even primary school children but in your mind you are one analytical genius.

Go on, go on

Emmy450:
thought I was alone on this.
I'm actually surprised good joe made that statement...

There was this match between Barcelona vs Celtic... Barcelona had around 79% possession while Celtic had about 21% can't really remember, but guess the scoreline?
0:1 in favour of Celtic.. players that shoot from such distance in a tiki taka set ups, do that from individual brilliance and not necessarily from a designed pattern of play.

We've seen Spain struggle many times with such teams.