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I take my son to U7 games and training in typical European team. They focus so much on technical security. Sometimes, they spend a whole 90 minutes practising positioning. All that discipline was the difference today. We were too reliant on individual brilliance and didn't defend as a structure. Our positioning was off.
Good thing is that we only lost by a goal.
Poland will be a semi finalist in this competition. They're technically secure.

Fact to note...
Tomorrow, Poland will MAXIMISE set piece plays. They have this funny corner routine. They will run in circles to confuse defending team. They're very effective with set piece. With our height deficit, I'm almost certain they'll score about 2 set piece goals.

The flamingoes should be able to win first 2 matches. Poland will be tough if they don't take their chances, but they should be fine.
3rd match will tell how far they can go in the tourney. I expect a semi final place and see where luck takes them after that.
The attack is very very solid.

Moses Aduku is many degrees better than Madugu.

These girls will do very well against China. They were not too bad vs Spain.

Our U17 are the ones I'm most excited about. They're good enough for semi finals.

I expect our U20 to be close to Semi finals too. They seemed to adapt quite well to the brilliant Spanish girls.

The U17 have a good preparation opportunity with the WAFU B tournament in Ivory Coast. A good opportunity to fine tune tactics, but a big risk injury wise.

Moving forward, NFF should support the U17 and U20 girls. The U17 girls have a very sound coach, much better than Madugu.
Then we need a new head of female football in Nigeria. The occupants have fed fat for doing zlitch.
Wemimo should take U17 or U20 on a long term basis.

The future is not bleak for the falcons. The conveyor belt of talents is still intact. We just need a sound coach that can also convince technical disaporians.
Oh and we need a sound Nigerian assistant to drill the girls on how to shoot properly. We lack a proper striker in the team since Nkwocha.

Tinubu needs to collect the house given to Madugu.

The good thing about this whole thing is that the mask is off now. Madugu and NFF have been throughly exposed.

Madugu has as much tactics as a coneman who's shadowed a coach for years.

This is painful to watch.
He will ruin these falcons if he handles one more game after this.

Cameroon vs Nigeria. Old classic,new faces. Madugu will thrive here.
Straight up physical battle. 1 goal nicks it.

Actually a 4-3 Zambia win knocks out Nigeria no matter the win vs Egypt.

isan:
So Nigeria just need to get the 6 points ... Zambia and malawi will cancel each other out

Pretty much.

isan:
So Nigeria just need to get the 6 points ... Zambia and malawi will cancel each other out

Goal margin vs Egypt is not so important.

CAF stupid head to head rule will be very funny here.

1. Zambia beat Malawi, Nigeria beat Egypt. Both by 1-0, Zambia out, Malawi win group, Nigeria 2nd.

2. Zambia 2-0 Malawi, Nigeria 1- 0 Egypt.
Zambia and Nigeria through. Nigeria top group, Zambia 2nd.

3. Zambia 2- 1 Malawi, Nigeria 1-0 Egypt. Malawi and Nigeria qualify. Malawi top, Nigeria 2nd.

carbonado:
Seems the u20 world xup already began.. Any link to watch live games... @deltamani @schemerkhiz.

Live on Fifa plus. Colombia doing brilliant against Germany

Will the falconets get visa for the world cup?
Very poor logistics so far. Other teams are already in and acclimatising

Morocco yet to score in open play. Few free kicks and VAR penalties. Nothing spectacular about them actually.

JohnBullMySon:
The morocco game will be tough as hell. It may go to penalties. The lasers

Someone should tell the Naija fans to invest in Lasers. Three lasers per person, carry two for hand, one for mouth. An eye for an eye.

I think Morocco will be an easier game. We will dominate fully.

daveP:
one of the Mamelodi sundowns Twitter handle predicted Cameroon will edge us. They've gotten the Zambia and Morocco predictions right. Bad belle

The whole SA is praying for Nigeria not to get to the final. Our team is actually building a momentum and if we go to the final, it will be hard to stop us.

Cameroon is not as strong as 2016 or 2018. Neither are we, solely based on the tactical lag with this coach.
I still believe the coach is doing ok, he's learning and I hope he sticks with Ucheibe against Chikwelu. That midfield is key tomorrow.

If Botswana beat SA 1-0, we will top the group. This is quite possible actually

Quest7777:
Q/Final Fixtures loading:
Nigeria vs Cameroon
South Africa vs Tunisia
Morocco vs Botswana
Zambia vs Senegal

Tasty encounters. VAR will push Morocco through. South Africa will struggle against Tunisia but win.
Semis
Zambia vs South Africa
Nigeria vs Morocco

Final
Nigeria vs Zambia

Looking forward to quarter final already. We might play Cameroon and that should be easier.

Meanwhile we might see a 6 goal or more pasting of Burundi.

Ucheibe is everywhere! She's the energy we needed.
Ayinde back to form too.

isan:
She's obviously too slow

She's not in the match at all.

Waldrum picks Chikwelu again. Typical tactless coach banking on names

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Not as good as she used to be. Can't cut it in Europe?

lovewins:
I disagree.

Ashleigh and Alozie are obviously great players, but our best players are so far still home grown. That this team has been shambolic is not in anyway a true representation of the immense talent we have.

If we commit to the same process the South African's have in building and developing women's football, we would definitely be vying for the world cup in a few years

Actually, for all the growth SA is boasting of, they're still way behind in terms of talents we have for our super falcons team. We have super players waiting in the wings to replace these aged players stinking the place. That's why I preferred the abroad ones.
In 4 years, our central defence will be Ashley and Demehin.
We continue to produce great U17s and U20s and that is our strength. When we refuse to use these players and only use 35 year old immobile Rita as a DM against a fast moving team like SA, we only have ourselves to blame.

Based on Ashley and Alozie's performances, we should be recruiting more abroad players. They are more intelligent.

If we play SA again, I'll go proper 442 with a different DM pair.. Regina Otu and Ucheibe. Very mobile.

SA didn't really do anything serious till the crazy 2 minutes when they scored 2 goals. My issue is that Falcons were totally ineffective as an attacking team. Oshoala was stinking the place up and only Ajibade was trying.
And Chikwelu as DM was just chasing shadows playing further upfront.

Actually we did contain South Africa for a long time and we did it well. But that was all.
We didn't have an attacking outlet. Oshoala was piss poor. Ajibade tried so much to make things happen.
Toni Payne was ineffective in the system too. We should play 442 going forward.

Positives
1. Chikwelu exposed. Let's see if the coach is senseless again to start her next match.
2. Keeper is going to change. This one doesn't give any confidence.
3. We have better players on the bench, as is shown when the subs came in.
4. Oshoala is out. As bad as this looks, Oshoala is actually not helping this team. She takes away many team plays and ruins them. Her asset is speed, but not much after that.
5. Michelle Alozie is a baller!
6. Coming 2nd in the group is actually better as it puts us on the easier path to final.

Next match will be much easier. Our next tough game might be in the semi final.

70 minutes later, Coach tries something different.

The better side is winning. Chikwelu and Ayinde absent while Oshoala was doing bigmanism.

Even a blind person can see this from afar.