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Icon79:
I normally don't rate anything from Ade Ojeikere but I must confess that he did make some good points in this article. Our players play with ZERO football intelligence, and these guys are supposed to be professional footballers. Having said that, I still believe in this team to over perform in Russia!


O pari

He should go and sit down, Let's watch dem play with Croatia ist..

You guys typing rubbish,, why do you watch football or play football after work?

owbabs:
Then be prepared to crash out of the group stage

we are not crashing out sir.

Goke7:
so what exactly will they go and play in the world cup?

mikel 10 Moses 11

Goke7:
rohr pls keep all these till after the world cup o! then we can hear all your stories, for now just do your work abeg

lol abi,,, do well then we can listen to stories

Goke7:
really, that's interesting to hear!

same reason Mikel won't like to play behind iwobi ,,pride ego

Oasis007:
I disagree with the Lineup coz we've over-choked the Midfield and there is gonna be Confusion among the Midfielders.

3 - 4 - 1 - 2 is the answer - two Strikers are needed in the Team - Iheanacho and Musa gonna be my Choices to be candid.

Iwobi behind them as a No. 10 - with a Pivot of Ndidi and Mikel behind him as DMs. Yeah..... Moses should play as a LWB while Ebuehi plays as a RWB.

The Trio of Ekong, Balogun and Omeruo can play as CBs.

Moses can never play as a lwb for Nigeria,, Chelsea is Chelsea he's our Messi here

Luckyroro:
Mischief makers, Here's a picture of Onazi and Mikel few minutes ago playing table tennis.

:nice

EEGA:
Is like u don't know the difference b/w Leon and Troost.

Our back line has always been poor without Leon.

leon is not on the same form he was in the qualifiers.. Ekong own dat defense at the moment

Afobear

Iamthoney:
More like can we have the both of them? Ighalo is a decent striker only that our midfielders don't create much for him...feed him with balls and see him score like it's no man's business

ighalo is out of form sir.. He can no longer score goals

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Mummy I made it.. Ftc

lexyman:
if this news is true , i can confidently tell you that the team is out of the world cup , cos nothing scattered a team more than grudges ... this disunity is cancerous

you know from the England Match onazi said some can't be running while some will be walking on the pitch, I know he was referring to Mikel because he was trying to pass to Mikel before Hary Kane scored. Rohr should save his job by putting any bad egg on the bench. Same way keshi did to Moses

chimzyblack:
I SAW A REPORT ONLINE THAT MIKEL AND ONAZI ARE IN COLLISION MODE.
THAT THEY ARE NOT IN TALKING TERMS AND ONAZI HAS REFUSED TO TAKE ORDERS FROM MIKEL, THERE BY DIVIDING THE TEAM INTO TWO FRACTIONS, MIKEL SUPPORTERS AND ONAZI SUPPORTERS.


https://mobile.twitter.com/sunnewsnigeria/status/1004636843974037504

HOW TRUE CAN THIS BE?

If it true then they are the most follish sets of individuals On earth, the country gave them everything and this is the best way to pay us back..

Certitude:
Ezenwa hasn't face such pressure since he began to man our post. The once Akpeyi did, he was worse than a school kid. I don't think Ezenwa would perform better than Uzoho with those crosses. If it's about experience, we really don't have an experienced GK in that team.

yea

Certitude:
Complete trash. He gave no coherent reason why Ezenwa is the missing link.

the problem we have is simple, we don't know how to soak pressure from set pieces,, let iwobi play a more advanced role. Bench ighalo. Start ebuhi then idowu should up his game use etebo in that midfield with ndidi

Edopesin:
Not completely

completely uzoho is doing well, Leon balogun is exposing the young man too much

terzurum5:
Before Rohr ruins our World Cup

by Cosmas Odoemena

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It happened again, the Super Eagles lost their match against the Czechs. Has luck deserted the Super Eagles? What is it that has changed in a team that had a good qualifying campaign?
After several warnings from some quarters against the use of Francis Uzoho as the first-choice goalkeeper of the Super Eagles the manager Gernot Rohr seems hell-bent on using him. To Rohr perhaps, it is Uzoho at all cost.


Our game against England could have easily been a draw if not for the young lad who made a schoolboy error which can happen at his age but which is unforgivable for a goalkeeper going to the World Cup. A ball that should have been punched out for a throwing Uzoho’s first instinct was to punch out for a corner. And that resultant corner kick was capitalized on to give England the lead. The second goal too was cheap.


After the first-choice goalkeeper Carl Ikeme was diagnosed with leukemia, Ikechukwu Ezenwa took Ikeme’s place and Nigeria qualified for the World Cup. But instead of keeping faith with Ezenwa, or looking for more matured goalkeepers he went for a young lad who is third-choice goalkeeper at the La Liga club Deportivo La Coruña, a club that has now been relegated.


I like Uzoho, but he should wait for his turn. He can’t be given a responsibility his young shoulders or rather hands can’t carry. Making him first-choice at the World Cup is just a crazy gamble. Up till now he can’t command his defence. How can he do that when his defenders are well older than him? It’s only natural for him to respect the older players to the team’s detriment. He should still be playing for the U-21.


The senior World Cup is for men, not for boys. Experience usually trumps youth. Even being the youngest team there is a disadvantage.


Well, I don’t know the magic Uzoho performs during trainings but it has yet to reflect during matches. As we say it here “na who pass na him know book.” Besides, we need a goalkeeper who keeps regularly for his club not a bench warmer.


Uzoho has not shown us why he should be ahead of Ezenwa. So much for Uzoho’s height advantage over Ezenwa. Of what good is height when it can’t be used to your advantage? What some goalkeepers lack in height they make up for in good instinct, good vision and good reaction time, positioning and good leadership to help organize their defence.


Uzoho is 19, Ezenwa is 29. I repeat, if Uzoho goes to be number one at the World Cup it means we are placing our fate on a young lad who has not kept in a competitive match, and who is third choice in his club!

Does it mean in a nation of more than 180 million people there aren’t good goalkeepers?
As I once said in a piece on the same issue “Better the devil you know than the devil you don’t know. Ikechukwu Ezenwa helped qualify us for the World Cup. He seems lucky and often trusts his luck in his rosary which he brandishes when we win. Successful teams do need luck too. The Super Eagles will surely need any kind of luck.”


Yes, there is an element of luck in life, football is not an exception. I prefer an “average” goalkeeper who keep regularly for his club and is so lucky that when he is on duty for some reason he is virtually on holiday, to a so-called “good” goalkeeper who when he is on duty he is kept busy all through. And at the end of the match you hear “Ah, if not for him the opponents would have scored 10 goals.”


But Ezenwa did creditably well against Cameroon at home and away. And also showed class against Algeria and Zambia. These are top-rated teams in Africa and moreover competitive matches.
Rohr is fixated on foreign-based players to the detriment of home-based players and our league.


If Ezenwa were playing abroad perhaps he would have been favoured. But remember that Vincent Enyeama was playing at home with Enyimba while he was our number one goal tender. This is the same club Ezenwa is playing for now. Rohr by his action is really affecting the psyche of the home-based players. Enyimba is the most successful club in Nigeria today.



We should believe it can produce at least one first-team player if not more in the Super Eagles as obtains in other great footballing nations.


Almost all the players going to the World Cup for Nigeria are foreign-based. This does not speak well of our league. Come to think of it, how many domestic league matches has Rohr watched? Rohr was nowhere for the CHAN Eagles. In the past it was suggested that any foreign manager that Nigeria contracts must help in developing our league. Those responsible should please advise Rohr before he ruins our World Cup.

Rohr has kept saying he will stick to the team that qualified us for the World Cup yet leaves out Ezenwa. But Ezenwa is the Super Eagles missing link.


Foreign managers have always worked against our league and this is hampering our progress. They use the home-based players for practice and discard them when the real thing comes for the foreign-based players who may be overrated. And we think karma can’t explain our present and past disastrous outings.

Dr Odoemena wrote this piece from Lagos.

www.dailytrust.com.ng

Trash

so it now a crime to celebrate in Nigeria

Humility017:
bro the kalu in belguim

well left for me there's no need to press the panic button yet. This team will do well

kellycute:
and you will chop that shit oh son of man... shit in the morning, shit in the afternoon and shit in the night and thou shalt looketh toward the northeast looking for more shit to chop.

lol

Humility017:
sometimes I think rohr is scared to talk to this guys...or the coach simply don't have eyes....like we have here.

reason why some of us here were clamouring for kalu not necessarily because he is same level with Moses...but someone who plays for the team will always help you win games.....

daddy which kalu again?

Muric,, una father

We are going to the world Cup without a psychologist..

J

tyson98:
God abeg just blow Trumpet

No pls I never Bleep

Afobear:
Hahahahahahah...beer parlour folks still gnashing their dirty teeth after the England match ? This is just the beginning....Argentina will make diced beef outta you , Iceland will bring the Icelandic volcano and Croatia will take your average team on a swim on the Danube !!! Then will my joy know no bounds as I watch they tears flood here

keep shot, ur Fucking black stars couldn't qualify

giftlygifted:
2022 they will be there.

Hosting it is the Only way to make it there .after 2022 till the world ends

giftlygifted:
they can beat this team
1) Ezenwa
2) Idowu
3) Echiejile
4) Ndidi
5) Ekong
6) Balogun
7) Musa
Etebo
9) Ighalo
10) Mikel
11) Moses
12) Shehu
13) Simy Nwankwo
14) Iheanacho
15) Joel Obi
16) Akpeyi
17) Onazi
18) Iwobi
19) Ogu
20) Awaziem
21) Ebuehi
22) Omeruo
23 ) Uzoho

why are they not in the world Cup?

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giftlygifted:
D -- Hassan Abdelkarim 24
D -- Mohammed Al Aaeldin 24
D -- Salem Al Hajri 22
D -- Ró-Ró 27
D -- Bassam Hisham 20
M -- Hatem Abdulaziz 27
M -- Akram Afif 21
M -- Hasan Khalid Al Haydos 27
M -- Karim Boudiaf 28
M -- Ahmad Doozandeh 22
M -- Ahmed Fathi
M -- Assim Madebo 21
M -- Ismail Mohammad 28
M -- Tarek Salman 20
F -- Ahmed Abdelmotaal 25
F -- Sultan Al Brake 22
F -- Moayad Hassan Fedaily

lol ,,how good are they? Can they win HAITi

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