₦airaland Forum

Omo, that was a very good chance. Nice one from Fred!

Jodera:
The thing is counter attack is not sustainable in the long run since most teams you guys will meet will not teams not set up to be counter-attacked. Even Madrid dominate small teams and try to break them down with Modric, Vinicius (most especially) and rodrygo. Man city are kings of breaking teams down as well as Liverpool.

Granted, you can score counter once in a while, but to make it your standard style of play is a big no no

This guy gets it. I don’t have issues with playing counter attacking styles against the big boys. Man Utd is struggling against small teams. If they don’t come out to play, we can’t score. Not sure we would achieve anything if things continue this way.

main24:
Given enough time and with the right players, you'd be enjoying ETH's games.
The man has good game plan, he just needs the right players to implement them.
That is my believe though.

Hmmmmm, He has signed how many players already? and I think he met a few good players. He should not need 14 new players to show us what we can expect from him.

Yes, it’s a bit early, but we need to see what he’s trying to do.

ChristineC:
we deserved to win this game.
Newcastle couldn't play their game.

True. Unfortunately, we dont create quality chances when we have the ball. I think we are better off snatching the ball from the opponent in the midfield for a quick counter attack. That’s how we’ve scored most of our goals this season.

ETH needs to start showing us what he is made of abeg.

Newcastle did not come out in the last 15 minutes or so. Adding an attacker and removing Fred would have improved our chances. Fred is just a clumsy busy body. We should free the guy.

Mrviktor:
He has never scored a header in his whole career.

Seriously?

Anyway, I was expecting ETH to add another striker/winger to the mix instead of removing Ronaldo. We needed to have more numbers upfront. But we move!

We are really struggling, including against Yorupa teams. I know it’s still a bit early, but I am not sure we will make top 4, and it will be very painful.

See Rashford, yeeeeh

We missed Eriksen sha. Chai!

Looks like na only counterattacking football we sabi play. Nawa o!

That was crazy!

Casemiro, well done!

ChristoBam:
He'll get injured at one point.

I don’t think so. The way Pep is managing him ehn. Also, he looks like a player that is a bit careful on the pitch.

Haaland fit reach 100 goals this season o. This doesn’t make sense abeg! Damn!

Expert17:
We didn't do anything in the 2nd half, lol

Man City relaxed, they were leading 4-0

Don’t mind him. City wey don log off. They were on their way to a pub, when utd scored those goals.

We should just defend deeply and do counterattacks against the big boys. My Hang won’t get there in the next few years.

kozmicity:
I don't understand why we didn't do what we did in second half in the first half?

Don’t be fooled. City relaxed!

eph12:
The team is still learning. They can't become a team that dominates a solid team, not to talk of City after 12 months not to talk of 3. So what do we do in that time?

Then if we want to defend against big teams, forget about pressing from the front except in very rare cases when we are in front of their goal and we want to recover the ball before the opponent does a counter attack on us.

We defend, do low block and hope for the best upfront with our strikers preserving their energies. If our striker is pressing upfront with our current set up, na safe journey!

Gentlemen, we have another wonder/spectacle in Manchester, Haaland.

Oh God, Haaland is a demi god!

benji93:
You can say whatever you like about PE Ole. but he didn't do this badly against Man City.

No 1 fuvk up from Ole was not getting Haaland from his former club. I forgive him for his insha allah football.

TLona1:
Expert17 Bruno just tried that DeBruyne esque pass but failed woefully.

Why you like wahala like this?

eph12:
The main responsibility of the striker whose team is being dominated is to go sit on the bench and wait for some lucky break.

Top teams should not be dominated. If we want to play low block, and defend for our lives, then don’t expect strikers to press from the front. Everybody should just be behind the ball and do insha Allah football.

ETH needs to be very flexible o. We have plenty players, if some are not performing replace them. We cannot be doing McTom every match day.

TrebleChamp:
When i said United fans will also drag Haaland for not pressing bress at United like they did Ronaldo, one Mr Intelligent quoted me. Shey una dey see the convo now, to them United strikers must press bress and help the defenders too. So imagine Haaland playing for United and Ronaldo playing for City....

Naso, they want our striker to cover grounds upfront and in the middle. Wait, he should also help the wing backs and the defenders. E choke!

Lana1:
Playing a high line starts from the front. I'm sure you saw my post blaming the defenders for not supporting the press earlier.

True, if we were playing a high line, then the striker would have small ground to cover which is a different type of press. You can’t expect strikers pressing to not tire out easily with our type of football. You should blame the guy who gave our defenders instructions to chill thereby creating a gulf between the defence and attack.

Lana1:
When a team does not have the ball and cant control possession, what use are the striker's runs?
Dey there dey wait for runs. Dont go and get the ball first.

So, na striker go collect the ball, na him go still score? If we are not controlling possession, then don’t blame the striker. Man Utd is not Westham that their strikers should be hustling for ball. Our strikers should be upfront scoring goals. Everybody should do his job!

TrebleChamp:
Our own strikers should be assisting midfielder and defenders

Yes o, they should turn to wing backs, and run from post to post.

See as Sancho dey control ball in front of the keeper. God airpus!

See positioning. Tell Rashford and Martial to do that, na to dey run like mumu dem sabi!

Making the runs and positioning is what a top striker needs to know how to do, not pressing. We don turn Westham?

Naso dem pursue Lukaku and co for Rashford and Martial. Dem say Lukaku no dey technical even though baba dey score goals.

How many bobbies and yansh dem Rashford and Martial don press and how many goals dem don score?

People wey know ball well say make every striker dey press, the style of play does not matter.

Abeg what’s the main responsibility of a striker? To press and defend?