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CFCfan:
Nigeria v Australia pre-match press conference

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2pYtVS00vYE

That news conference can best be described as comedy half hour..
Also, I am having a feeling that Okon is too bullish. I fear for a tactical defeat.

Looks like Australia is rocked with injuries. Their scorer, goalie, and some key players are injured.

LordEmperoris1:
pls teach me , how you do stream

Use google chrome as your browser. Then download HOLA as an add on for your chrome. With HOLA, you can tell your browser to browse from the UK, and thereby bypass UK's restrictions. Refresh your browser and you will be watching the live match. I particularly prefer BBC commentary to FOX's. The lesser of two evils.

semid4lyfe you made valid points. Also correct that we had 4 defenders but the positioning was way off. If you watch Sweden's 3rd goal again, you will see that the defenders were nowhere to be found.
On Zonal marking, I repeat, it is the solution. Else, we will continue to be poor at corners. You cannot man mark and sleep on the second ball. Either you run out and play the opponent offside (too technical for our gals) or you stick to your man (Ayinde vs Fisher was a mismatch).
Solution will be to combine the 2.
Put someone like Oshoala at the near post. She's tall and can attack the ball coming in and nod away. Put the shortest players around the edges, and have the central defenders and strikers man marking.

How to beat Australia:
1. Keep Dede in goal. Most people dont know that Whyte is shyte! She is worse than Dede.
2. Bring in Njoku, drop Chukwunonye and move Ohale to partner Onome Ebi. This should have been done at halftime against Sweden. Its a no brainer. You cannot play 3 at the back and leave the flanks exposed like that. Ohale was doing too much and it backfired.
3. Keep the midfield as it is. Okobi, Ayinde and Nwabuoku really tried. They held the midfield well, though the 3 at the back somehow disrupted things.
4. Start Esther Sunday ahead of Ordega against Australia. Why? Because Australia will be out to attack us, and Esther Sunday's runs and dribbles will be key, with Njoku also pushing forward, Australia will be on the backfoot for most of the match.
5. Make substitutions!!!!! For heaven sake, this is artificial turf, the girls will cramp badly if they all play another 90 minutes. Dike, Ini, and even Nkwocha are all ripe to come in.
6. Zonal marking! I know the coach is naive and thus is adamant on man marking, even when height is not to our advantage. Watch Sweden's first goal and see how Fisher sold Ayinde to get a header. We simply cannot do man marking. Let the players have a zone to mark, so they can attack the ball before it gets to the opponent. This will be key against Wambach of USA when the match comes.
7. Players should try to get at the referee. Often times Nigeria gets bad refereeing because of bad perception, but yesterday, We had only 4 fouls all game, against 14 fouls of Sweden. This is even despite leniency of ref towards Swedes. They got no yellowcards. This must stop! Let our players call attention of refs where needed.
8. Relax and know that Australia cannot beat Nigeria. I mean if you do not lose against Sweden, and put in better performance, you will surely beat Australia

How to beat Australia:
1. Keep Dede in goal. Most people dont know that Whyte is shyte! She is worse than Dede.
2. Bring in Njoku, drop Chukwunonye and move Ohale to partner Onome Ebi. This should have been done at halftime against Sweden. Its a no brainer. You cannot play 3 at the back and leave the flanks exposed like that. Ohale was doing too much and it backfired.
3. Keep the midfield as it is. Okobi, Ayinde and Nwabuoku really tried. They held the midfield well, though the 3 at the back somehow disrupted things.
4. Start Esther Sunday ahead of Ordega against Australia. Why? Because Australia will be out to attack us, and Esther Sunday's runs and dribbles will be key, with Njoku also pushing forward, Australia will be on the backfoot for most of the match.
5. Make substitutions!!!!! For heaven sake, this is artificial turf, the girls will cramp badly if they all play another 90 minutes. Dike, Ini, and even Nkwocha are all ripe to come in.
6. Zonal marking! I know the coach is naive and thus is adamant on man marking, even when height is not to our advantage. Watch Sweden's first goal and see how Fisher sold Ayinde to get a header. We simply cannot do man marking. Let the players have a zone to mark, so they can attack the ball before it gets to the opponent. This will be key against Wambach of USA when the match comes.
7. Players should try to get at the referee. Often times Nigeria gets bad refereeing because of bad perception, but yesterday, We had only 4 fouls all game, against 14 fouls of Sweden. This is even despite leniency of ref towards Swedes. They got no yellowcards. This must stop! Let our players call attention of refs where needed.
8. Relax and know that Australia cannot beat Nigeria. I mean if you do not lose against Sweden, and put in better performance, you will surely beat Australia


PS. I heard at least 2 falcons are nairalanders. So please tell Oshoala to stop that sexy celebration where she's holding her bosom. She can dance shoki or something else.

Ologunjude:
Any idea about DSTV not showing the women's world cup and the youth world cup. Is surprising really. Pay so much for subscription and yet not be able to watch the matches. ;

I think its a good thing. DSTV has been exploiting us for too long. Believe me, this forced me to dust up my antenna for the terrestial channels.

Behold..Buhari's first test as a president. Allow impunity or arrest it as soon as you can?

The coach did well, though I think he could have brought in Cecilia Nku to toughen things up in the midfield.
Next game will be more fun. We wont concede 3 goals, but we will score more than 3.

Bloody remove Ordega and put Esther Sunday NOW!!!

Danycrusoe:
D only oda decent african representative @ d WWC x Ghana bt dy r absent.
Dnt castigate CIV, we too v lost heavily in d past to Norway n USA

Cameroun will do better too. I agree as well, we've been naive in the past. It will take a few years before CIV can catch up.

Game day people. I know for sure that the falcons wont disappoint. Theyve not disappointed in a long long time. Swedish coach is known to be very conservative, like Lars Lagerback then. They will defend well till they can nick a goal, and then go defensive again. No hail mary skills or dribbles should be expected from the Swedes.

From the last 10 days, I can predict Buhari's wardrobe. Probably 4 clothes and 2 shoes, 2 palm slippers.
This black senegalese is the same he wore to London. Humility +++

CFCfan:

I just came back from Church 12 minutes ago. I'm going to re-watch the game online to see how the Ivorien ladies copped 6 yellow cards and conceded the goals.

On the yellow cards, most were undeserved. Germans were diving shamelessly to garner refs sympathy. You can watch a rematch of our WWC opener in Frankfurt 2011, and see how much the germans were up to.

CIV should be flogged. Disgrace to Africa. Nigeria will redeem Africa's image tomorrow. My only fear is the tactical dexterity of Edwin Okon (or lack of)

As poor as CIV is, Germany is showing some obvious weaknesses. I am also very happy that the referee for tomorrow is from Korea. Those Asians allow heavy challenges and are not afraid of making the right calls.
I am super excited that the match has come!
Super falcons must beat Sweden.

This is a delegation going there for real business. Not a delegation containing Reno and his girlfriend, Mama P and plenty aides.
No wonder Angela was quick to invite Mohammad to the G7.

ajf:
Nope. Winner of Germany vs Nigeria plays winner of Ukraine vs Senegal. Check again.

Wrong. The winner plays Ghana or Mali.

Just had a look at the fixtures. Nigeria vs Germany. If Nigeria wins, we meet an African team (Ghana or Mali) in the quarter finals.
This is sad because 3 strong African teams will be reduced to 1 in one fell swoop.

PDP's brand of opposition. Comic relief.

CFCfan:
Okon may deploy a 3-5-2 formation ala Juve. Controlling the midfield will do the SF a lot of good. The Swedes and Americans and even the Aussies would have a hard time with a quintet of Nwabuoku, Ohadugha, Nkwocha, Okobi, and Nku.

Nkwocha wont start any match. Quote me anywhere. Nku will not start ahead of Ayinde also. The team is balanced on a 4-5-1. Midfield is key.

The falcons will be more impressive than the U20s. They just have this never say die attitude. Moreso, they are a bunch of young fearless group.

Just to put in perspective, the Canadian team just beat England in a totally dominant display. Nigeria dominated Canada, but ended with a draw. I think the girls are ready after today's friendly.

Lovely final list. Now I am more confident. The starting 11 has picked itself. A solid bench too.

Sandra ChiChi is a goalie right? We cannot have less than 3 goalies in the final team.

CFCfan:
I see.
Yeah, I watched highlights of the US friendly. The American wingers - Tobin Heath, Rapinoe, and Christen Press - should be caged be our fullbacks and DMs. Nwabuoku will have to mark out Carli Lloyd in midfield.

I think the two players that will be dropped are Sandra Chiichi, and one defender. 7 defenders should be adequate for the tourney.

Actually, Perpetua Nkwocha landed with the team in Canada. Confirmed by one of the receiving party.

CFCfan:
Ok. But who is the 26th player? The lists only include 25 players.

I think there are 25 players. Nwabuoku was named twice by NFF.
BTW. USA beat Mexico 5-1 in a friendly. They seem to be good at set pieces, with Abby Wambach scoring a powerful header, and a penalty.
I hope Okon realises the stage is world cup, and not Rivers angel.

CFCfan:
I like that too. It seems most of the media reports failed to include Uchechi's name in the list of 26.

I am 95% sure that Uchechi has been dropped. Only the captain and Ordega are going to join in Canada. I think its enough risk having Ini and Courtney in the team already, same style as Uchechi.

CFCfan:
Nice. The ladies were also featured in a vine video posted on NFF's twitter handle.

Im very happy with the team bro. Youthful, fearless, and gutsy. Only thing lacking is quality friendlies, but we should get a taste of the level after they play Canada.

The ladies just landed in Toronto. I think 3 players are going to be on standby.

I just hope none of our players is following this thread. The mental fatigue will be too much for them. We hype and rate them so high. deserved? time will tell.