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Black Flops of Ghana

bingbagbo:
Kindly name Ghana's old players

Even musa, Mikel and omeruo the grsndfathers are in ur team

Mikel is 32 younger than your Gyan
Musa is 26 younger than ur Atsu and Wakaso
Omeruo is 25 younger than your John Boye
and by the way Mikel still has a club he's contracted to Boro till July 1st

bingbagbo:
Like them or hate them , Nigeria is one of the big football nations in Africa. Fact that they have won this AFCON three times is an epitome to this assertion. In terms of AFCON glory, they are only behind Egypt (7), Cameroon (5) and Ghana (4).Over the years they have produced quite some great players: my personal favourites being Wilson Oruma, Celestine Babayaro, Taiye Taiwo, Julius Aghahowa and Ike shorunmu. Nigeria played their first prelim game yesterday and as an independent, objective non-nigerian, I observed these 10 things.

1. Nigeria have a very technically astute coach in Gernot Rohr and their destiny in this AFCON solely depends on the experienced German.

2. Paul Onuachu, their top marksman is not a reliable goalpoacher.

3. Nigeria's weekest link is the man between the sticks, Daniel Akpeyi. He is full of stage fright.

4. Nigeria lacks a ball joggling creative attacking midfielder

5. Their secret weapon, Samuel Chukwueze, will be better as a sub, will be impotent as a starter against the big teams, mark my words

6. John Obi Mikel has always been an overhyped player. He is a waste in this Nigerian team, no wonder he is club less.

7. Nigeria's defence is a huge suspect, I can imagine how it will leak against Salah-Trezeguet, Mane-Niang, Gyan-Ayew

8. Oghenekaro Etebo is more dangerous in advanced midfield, he played too deep for the team, I think he is Nigeria's best player anyway


9. Odion Ighalo should be starting ahead of Paul Onuachu


10. With luck, this team can do quite well, and I mean quite well.



I don't hate nigeria

Goan analyse your wack below average Ghanaian team full of expired old men

Freehuman:
Everyone was calling the referee a racist that day. I told you guys that's the new rule. It's been applied even during the just concluded CAF champions league.
Today, all Nigerians seem to be happy about the retake. Blacks are why racism is still alive. A black man shoots and he's imprisoned we all talk about racism. If we Abide by the rules ,we should not be afraid of anything.

Goodluck to Falcons.

It's a totally different case in the case of Argentina the goal keeper caught it after stepping of the line hence there was need for a retake but in Nigeria's case the goalie didn't touch the ball the French player missed so why was there need for a retake.

And during the second penalty there was encroachment in the box why didn't she order another retake. So it's a total different case

bingbagbo:
Check FIFA rankings Ghana is way ahead of Egypt that couldn't win a single match at the world cup

Spits

But the bottom line is we defeated them.

While you guys lost to lowly rated Namibia

andrew444:
Man united fans want Ndidi and Bruno Fernandes as dream signing

I'm a Man U fan and I really want us to sign Ndidi

ChrisKels:
He came back and did well to fill the gap created by Trippier's injury. He had a good CL run. I would have chosen Noussair Mazraoui in his stead, but, both were there for their respective clubs when Aurier's Spurs ousted Ajax.

I think I'll still go with Mazraoui. My opinion tho

ChrisKels:
My AFCON strongest eleven. In the absence of Djene, Colley and Bailly, I had to pick Benatia to partner Kalidou in the CB, due to o his experience and pedigree. My front three did creditably well this past season hence, Zaha and Mahrez couldn't make the cut, though, I had to play Mane centrally. In the midfield, Partey and Ndidi were top notch, then, the icing in the cake comes in the form of Ziyech.




*****************ONANA(CAM)*************


Aurier*****Koulibaly****Benatia*****Hakimi


********Ndidi(NIG)*****Partey(GHA)*******

***************Ziyech(MOR)****************

Salah(EGY)****Mane(SEN)*******Pepe(CIV)




What do u guys make of this?

Aurier didn't play much dis past season

bingbagbo:


U don't know football

Lol so Is Athletico Madrid more successful than Benfica in Europe

Yes or no?

bingbagbo:


Laugh wan tear my belle

Bordeaux and benfica are big clubs to Nigerians?

And which Nigeria players play for Chelsea and inter Milan? U see your frustration?

Is Newcastle as big as any of the two clubs

And yes Benfica is a big club. They are Portugal's most successful club and 2 time European champions. More successful than Athletico Madrid


VicMo??

TheGoodJoe:
You are switching points. The Uruguayan team in 2010 was an offensive side. No way you can tag that team that had Suarez, Cavani and Forlan in attack as a negative side.

Oscar Tabarez sets up his sides to be solid at the back and depends mostly on the pace and brilliance of his attackers. That's the way he sets up his team

wizzzmike:
lol Nigerian English is queen English smh stop embarrassing yourself lol.....
athletico Madrid Chelsea inter Milan Newcastle Barcelona
can name top clubs ur players play

Arsenal
Leciester
Girondins de Boardeax
Chelsea
Benfica

BravoDe:
But they have no impact in those club you mentioned, probably a squad player.

Last time I checked the player in Barcelona no longer plays for the national team.

And I attested to the fact that Party and Asamoah are the only top players in Ghana

bingbagbo:
I am glad you ridiculous ly ommitted Egypt who were in Ghana's world cup qualification group

Did u say Nigeria Will teach Ghana a lesson?

I know you are joking

But u really should be ashamed by finishing behind Egypt in a world cup qualifying group. if it was AFCON I wouldn't be bothered but chalie na world cup and we know Egypt poor world cup record so justifying finishing behind Egypt in a World cup qualifier is also ridiculous

TheGoodJoe:
I think you need to understand the point. In an offensive system, a forward with mobility and accurate finishing will register brilliant stats. That is a high quality performance. Take the player from that set up and put him in a defensive one, the quality of his performance will diminish. That is what you guys call losing form, meanwhile it is the system that caused the drop in quality.

Take Suarez performance under Brendan Rodgers and Enrique, you will see insane goal and assists stats. Put him in an ultra defensive set up and you will see his performance will not be up to scratch. It is simple logic. Nothing hard.

More chances created gives more goals.
Less chances created gives less goals.

Nacho is built to thrive on chances created. Shakespeare, Puel and Rohr (currently) did not create such atmosphere.

You can not say flop when he was not given a regular run of games.

Finito.

Sorry but I'll disagree CR7 scored an hat trick against Hungary(Euro 2016), against Switzerland (in the recent nations league) and against Spain (at the world cup) under the same conservative style.

Cavani and Suarez have continued to perform consistently under the same Conservative style. As a matter of fact Forlan was named the best player at the 2010 World cup playing under the same conservative style.

U claimed Rohr became a coward after the SA match but guess what we recorded bigger winning margins since then and in some of those games Iheanacho scored (against Cameroon and Argentina) up until he regressed and became poor so it still doesn't change the fact that Nacho has been poor!!!

bingbagbo:
Which post? Obviously u have problems with Ghana

So much flaws and sentiment. I don't even know where to start from. I didn't have to check ur Moniker to know a Ghanaian wrote dat post

bingbagbo:
Same AFCON nigeria couldn't qualify for?

Lol and u are are referring to a past 4-0 victory ? Ghana beat Egypt 6-1 in 2013, Ghana beat Cameroon 3-1 in Yaonde in 1999 Ghana beat Nigeria 4-1 in 2007 so what are you talking about?

Pray Nigeria doesn't cross Ghana's path this AFCON

Same ayews , Ekuban, Partey, kwadwo, Gyan Atsu and the like will show u pepper

I only mentioned d win against Cameroon because you were trying to downplay D fact Nigeria qualified from the toughest world cup qualifying group but your world class black stars couldn't qualify from a group having DR Congo and Uganda


And I will gladly want to see my Super Eagles teach u guys a lesson

bingbagbo:
Nigeria, an overrated overhyped below average national team

At least we didn't loose to Namibia

bingbagbo:
Your opinion bro, just as mine and I do respect your opinion, though I disagree with you, Nigeria qualified for the world cup by luck...the faced a perennial wack Algerian team and a disorganized Cameroon side, no wonder they were abysmal at the world cup, both Ivory coast and Ghana are better than Nigeria bro

With Caleb Ekuban, misfiring Ayew brothers and finished Gyan. I laugh in Korea
Last time I checked the same disorganized Cameroon team knocked you out of the last AFCON and guessed what we trashed them 4-0.
You definitely have not made a point

bingbagbo:
Where did u read nationality in my post? And is it a crime to be Ghanaian?

Your post says it all.

tbabs10166:
those assertions are wrong bro. You're rating these teams based on performances in previous tournament. I cant imagine rating the present ghana and cote'd voire ahead of nigeria, the same team that couldn't qualify for the world cup last year. Ivory coast used to be regarded as favourites when they had the best set of african players like yaya toure, drogba, gervinho, wilfried bony e.t.c. same goes with ghana because of their great team work. The present ghana and ivorian team are no where near the favourite. Senegal have proven to be favourites judging by their recent performance at the worldcup and during the qualifier, I'll rate them ahead of cameroun. Egypt will be favourite to win this tournament i guess no one will dispute that. Senegal is second on my list, followed by nigeria and then Cameroon

Seems like he's a Ghanaian so what do you expect from him

TheGoodJoe:
What Iheanacho suffered at City under Guardiola was lack of regular playing time. Not delivery. He scored sufficiently and had assists in the few games Guardiola gave him.

Rohr was braver earlier. That was when Kelechi was banging in goals. The conservative play came after the South African loss, that was after he took risks by fielding Awaziem in defence. After that, the fear came in and it has not been the same after that.

What you wrote up there does not contradict my point.

All this conservative system u are using as an excuse for Nacho doesn't add up for me.

Suarez has been playing in an Ultra defensive Set up in Uruguay for a long time how has it affected his performance in his clubs.

Same with C Ronaldo whose Portugal team under Santos is based on Solidity. How has it affected thier performance.

Just admit Iheanacho has flopped dis past season

drDoom3:
Cornet is better than all three. Watch Lyon in Ligue One and you'll understand.

D so called world class cornet scored 12 goals in all competition and assisted 5

Chukwueze Scored 10 and assisted 4

so how is cornet clearly better

sheyishemba:
you guys are tipping morroco, Senegal, Nigeria, Egypt and ivory coast forgetting Zambia they may not be star studded but have really focus player and they work together they are like team players

Zambia didn't qualify sir

Jarus:
Everton's Iddrissa Gueye is not far off. Cheikou Kouyate of Crystal Palace too

Thank u o

andrew444:
And how is Senegal better than this ?

Apart from mane which Senegalese forwards are better than their forwards ?

I will give the defence to the Senegalese and goal keeping area ,it seems this Ivory Coast team have crappy goal keepers like the super eagles

Keita Balde,Mbaye Diagne

Thier midfield and defence doesn't even come close to Senegal abeg. Remove Kessie and Aurier and who's mind blowing there

andrew444:
Do you have any hot young players like those 3 you mentioned ?
How many of your wingers are better than maxwell cornet ?

Ndidi, Onyekuru and Chukwueze.
And by the way Zaha is no more a young man he's 26

chrisooblog:
average? guy they are a fearsome squad the only slightly weak area i see in their squad is midfield but even that is because of their lack of creative type midfielders which is not even their style anyway. you will see how good they are when we play them on sunday

Yh Senegalese team are typically solid sides so they usually do not play possessive football.

fabyom:
Average midfield and attack. Nothing spectacular here!
Ivory coast is the real deal in terms of squad.
But in terms of big game temperament on the African continent; Nigeria, Cameroon and Egypt even Ghana.
Senegal and Morrocco, even if all their players are playing in Liverpool that cannot win this year's Nations Cup.

Ivory Coast full squad :
Goalkeepers : Sylvain Gbohouo (TP Mazembe), Ali Badra (Free State Stars), Tape Ira (FC San Pedro)

Defenders: Serge Aurier (Tottenham), Wilfried Kanon (ADO The Hague), Wonlo Coulibaly (ASEC Mimosas), Ismaël Traoré (Angers), Mamadou Bagayoko (Red Star), Cheikh Comara (Wydad Casablanca), Souleyman Bamba (Rennes)

Midfielders : Jean-Philippe Gbamin (Mainz), Geoffrey Serey Dié (Neuchâtel Xamax), Jean-Michaël Seri (Fulham), Victorian Angban (Metz), Franck Kessié (Milan) , Ibrahim Sangaré (Toulouse)

Strikers: Max-Alain Gradel (Toulouse), Nicolas Pépé (Lille), Wilfried Zaha (Crystal Palace), Jonathan Kodjia (Aston Villa), Roger Assalé (Young Boys Bern), Maxwel Cornet (Lyon), Wilfried Bony (Without a club).


How is dis team better than Senegal's own.
I don't even think it's better than Nigeria's own sef

Truidstar:
Senegal and CIV have good players, but we have a team.

sorry but I don't totally agree dat Ivory Coast has better players maybe a few excellent players like Zaha, Kessie or Pepe but the rest are just average players but for Senegal they should win this AFCON based on the quality of thier squad

But pls can we drop dis rape issue and discuss football. Please now!!!

forgiveness:
Do you mean Omeruo kicked the defender?

Definitely not. But he put Tyronne in dat position and for him being an experienced defender I feel he should get the blame.


Both Tyronne and Aina are definitely good players but Aina have been caught off position on some occasions like the 2nd goal against Argentina in dat friendly same as the penalty he conceded against Congo. I think he needs to improve on his defensive abilities. Tho he's still young and I think he would improve. Regardless I'll pick him 10times ahead of shehu