elrony:

"The team that outscores the other will win"...

elampiro:


The general play will get better. It's still work in progress with a new coach.

I know that but it will be wrong for some people here to expect us to boss games LVG style, possession, possession, possession, sideways passes, etc.

Pataki:


This season go blawdy.....nobody is guaranteed a 'homesteady' return on this board.

Make una free this boy na

I just de see "we are not dominating games" up and down in this thread. I don't think that Mourinho is interested in dominating games Phee-lo-so-phee or guardiola style, if na wetin people here de expect to happen. His philosophy is winning and defending well, not how much possession you had in a match or how you used your possession play to score a goal. He wants the players to start believing that they can win a match even without playing well, it's all about the wining mentality and I think it's a good thing to happen to our club considering what happened during the last 3 seasons. Of course we will drop points(no be every match you go win) but it's important that those situations are limited if we really want the league title this year. I expect us to play better against so called big teams because of the system that the team plays, the smaller teams are the ones that we should worry about.

I expect martial to start clicking soon, he was sh't for large parts of the game and missed two wonderful chances, maybe it's because of the marital issues that he's going through, maybe it's the number swap but I expect him to improve in the coming games. Pogba impressed me tonight, bullying soton players and driving with pace, he was expected to play for maybe 60 to 70 mins but bros showed that he was ever ready to ball particularly after that first half mistake that nearly cost us a goal. Valencia again was solid in defense and attack, Fellaini, for the first time in a long time had a fantastic game in midfield. Our defense was compact and tight and ibrahimovic was ibrahimovic, 5 goals in 4 games, and they call him a pensioner? Rooney was decent also, Mourinho is working his magic and weeding out the rubbish that LVG inculcated in our players.

Fellaini was dope tonight, our defending was wonderful. Great game all through. Zlatan is here to stay.

Full time

Mehn this Zlatan is a bargain, give him the opportunities and he will score.

sinizia:
Omo!! These Sport Section streets are military, you've got to be a soldier. This Zanga na abattoir!! The kinda clapbacks I've seen in the past couple of days are inexplicable. The brute force it comes with leaves me speechless. Even the ladies are not spared. Afrodoc2 has a lot on his hand with all the severed limbs and mangled torsos strewn all over the threads. Boys are not smiling. Go hard or go home, or you never know if another Bigkesh or GBR1 is lurking in the shadows for you.


With the recent happenings, it seems like this thread will be the colosseum where bodies will be buried, exhumed and re-buried. Season just dey start and blood are littered everywhere. Time to follow this Shekpe thread, na here e go happen!!

Ah de tell you Creatures lie here, na to de tread carefully from now on.

SIRcumalot:
that neymar transfer too strange.
there was even talk of some kind of sexual rogy that took place to seal the deal involving neymar snr.

hian

The guys have tried. After all the BS that surrounded this tournament, being stranded in Atlanta for 3 days, arriving mere hours before kick off against Japan, and to top it all, they were still owed their due wages. They should put this match behind them and focus on the bronze medal match against Honduras, Ekong in particular impressed me in defense.

The second half was scrappy from both teams, they both looked tired.

The guys have tried. After all the BS that surrounded this tournament, being stranded in Atlanta for 3 days, arriving mere hours before kick off against Japan, and to top it all, they were still owed their due wages. They should put this match behind them and focus on the bronze medal match against Honduras, Ekong in particular impressed me in defense.

kliq:
FT
Nigeria 0-1 Germany

ball still dey on

This Brazilian crowd no de forgive and forget. See as them dey jeer this German team with zika chants.


Ooooo ooooo zika!!!!!

SIRcumalot:
I bin dey get hope say we fit win gold for soccer before.

gold ke, we should manage bronze because even if we somehow manage to beat Germany to the final(which is looking unlikely at the moment), Brazil go scatter that our defense.

All this fonte and balotelli news na pure BS. Mourinho wanted only 4 players this window and he's got them so any other links na fake. Southampton confirmed this morning on Sky sports that there's no interest from anyone for fonte and Mourinho just met balotelli probably as a friend but these newspapers will somehow find a story in nothing.

"Misses 2 penalty kicks and scores a hattrick in the same match"

... The curious case of Sergio Aguero. What a player.

I just de see niggas wey don drop far more deadlier bombs that ibime dropped here suddenly turning into Pope Francis's holier cousins.



Issorite.

MrTA:


Didnt Everton sign Maarten Stekelenburg this summer? I'm sure he wont be too happy if they sign Joe Hart.

me self shock as I see am for sky sports say Everton is interested in him.

Meanwhile Hart is dropped again e be like Everton sure pass for am now. Honestly I wish Mou will do the same thing with rooney, drop him to the bench and let him fight for his place in the team.

Rooney being blasted for being overweight and is in the team because of marketing reasons by our ex player, Paul Parker.

“This is a defining season for Wayne Rooney. It’s no longer about him breaking records but finishing his career at Manchester United,” said Parker, speaking to exclusively to 888Sport .
“He needs to show his worth and that he deserves to be in the team and not just because of marketing. As much as people appreciate what he’s done over the years and how many goals he’s scored football is about now and being judged on now.
“If someone had only heard of Wayne Rooney but seen him now they’d think ‘Who is this fella? He’s over-weight and slow. That shot was terrible and it looks like he can’t move or shift his body quick enough.’
“That’s the problem with football today – you’re getting judged by people who have only heard about you and not seen you in previous seasons.”

http://m.goal.com/x/en/news/1862/premier-league/2016/08/16/26585922/overweight-rooney-must-prove-his-worth-to-man-utd-parker

SailorXY:
perhaps you can assist him get a job. If life is so fair to you I'm sure igboprodigy won't reject any kind offerings from the alter of Poseidon himself.

Pataki:


Nigeria is a very useless country. Gone are the days when talents are recruited from NUGA competitions and you would be proud to wear the Green-White-Green for international competitions. These days, if you ever see the Green-White-Green color in display, just know that it is aso-ebi things.

Go and ask Mikel Obi how much he has been spending of his own money as caretaker for the U23. If you have talent or you know any of your friends or family that has any, abeg tell them to leave that country and make their way to Bahrain or any of these talent developing countries to excel.

it's actually shameful now, the kind of embarrassment that these athletes faced before stepping into Rio. Imagine our under 23 being stranded in their training base in Atlanta for 3 f'cking days and arriving mere hours before their kickoff against Japan, to top it all, like you pointed out, they are being owed their due wages. The sports minister on the other hand is making things worse, he has no idea about his job. This is the sports minister that it took 6 whole months before he was appointed, one would have thought that the FG was appointing a decent enough candidate for the job. Other athletes are also complaining about the treatment that they are receiving from the Nigerian officials in Rio, simple stuff, Nigeria can't do, but if it's to pad the budget and embezzle public funds, they don't waste time.

Danhumprey:



even the athletes that are representing this country in the Olympics, the government gree sponsor them?



This country is a horrible joke.

Yeah it's terrible.

Off topic...


I just de see certain sports in this Olympics that I feel Nigerians will excel at if given the proper preparations. Why are we not participating in canoeing, water Polo, marathon swimming, regular swimming, sailing when we get militants here ever ready to dive in deep into the sea beds to place bombs on pipelines? We get quick fire policemen in this country yet we are not participating archery, rifle and pistol shooting. Olympics don de finish yet we no get any medal to show for.

raumdeuter:


So the EPL for fear of losing their 4 guaranteed spots piled pressure on UEFA make this changes
You can only wallow in mediocrity for so long

how this take concern epl now? If I can remember correctly, na the Italian league wey start to the push for this since 2014.

Lana1:
And the ex villa player na black person

it has nothing to do with race shaa, an ex soldier who was white died last year when he was tased.

Why this thread dry like stock fish?

Cech out this accident from Petr...

To complete today's misery, Cech out this car crash...

Meanwhile this martial spousal saga no look like something wey go end soon as martial accuses his ex gf or ex wife of lying...

Manchester United fans feasting on rooney on Twitter. Some of them were confirming what we feared is happening at the club...