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LostMyZeal:
We pledge to expose una fave fraud IJN

At some point you'll realize that you're only wasting your time and flooding this thread with irrelevant information...

Person no go read another thing for here again because una no fit respect the fact say everybody get their own right to their choices...

You argue everyday repeating the same lines yet no one is ready to shift ground, why then do you guy continue? Where una dey get the energy from?

At least during OleOut vs OleIns, we had a good number of folks switching places as the arguments and results came forth but not in this case...Make una rest jare!

TrebleChamp:
We have over pampered, unserious players, our problem has never really being players but bad management at board and coach level. Mourinho won trophies with arguably inferiors players, reason why i always blame the manager more and pick some players for special criticism. Pogba is very talented but so unserious and lazy, yet the board is considering giving him a new improved contract. Rafiu came in and made a 1hour phone call to Ole, wetin him discuss for a whole one hour with Ole?

That 1 hour call sef, wetin them dey talk?

A serious club would not have allowed Ralph to even flash Ole...

TrebleChamp:
Why did Chelsea sack Lampard? Which team did Tuchel win Champions League with? This question will give you the answer to the bolded...

In other words, the team is not as poor as being peddled around here, right?

ChristoBam:
Literally no single person mentioned Ronaldo before you clown. No one's concerned with Ronaldo Messi at this point in our season except you're a kid.

The thing is just tiring, they'll be here 24/7 talking about how Messi is less of a player compared to their favorite but once you engage them they'll comeback with cheap emotional blackmail...

Omo makes una just forget, if we can't beat Everton, it's means out problem transcends the quality of players we have.

They should start playing the youngsters let's see what we can get from the academy...

Abeg what's up with Greenwood?

Make una carry Messi for head while the club sinks...

Ibime:
You've got to the crux of the matter.

At the point Llorente switched his run to the backpost, we've entered another phase where Henderson is the direct and closest challanger to Morata and VVD is the back up. Henderson is the one with the responsibility at that stage while VVD is the clean up insurance policy, but Henderson was lax and tired so by the time VVD noticed Henderson isn't going for it, it's too late. It's all there on video. Henderson is the only man in this sequence who never locks in a man at any stage and that's where the overload occurs.

https://j.gifs.com/3QpMyO.gif


Now explain to Dayo in simple English why VVD was right to follow the runner in the first instance.

I'd blame Henderson for not following up with his run to close that space in between himself and VVD and also blame Gomez for not staying a bit close to Llorente. You can see Gomez running towards VVD before retreating when the pass was made. Whatever made him move towards VVD, I can't tell.

TrebleChamp:
All Messianic fans will see the light soon, and duly duly acknowledge Ronaldo as the overall best player of his generation. Ronaldo is the GOHT, but will become the GOAT if he dominate and win 2022 World Cup.

Okay.

Rudiger was very poor yesterday...His lack of positional awareness left Chelsea exposed at the back...

mactoni91:
For those who do not understand what Mach 5 speed means...

That's a whooping cruise speed of 6174km/h.

Imagine mounting a NUKE on it or better still equipping their Airdefence systems with it.

As Russia think say dem mad,the US would tame them

You need to get yourself updated, Russia and China are the leading lights in hypersonic missile technology...

Ennyjay69:
which midfield 2 abeg

Pogba and Bruno...

Ibukzy:
Lol

Do you understand the post you quoted or you just want to be heard?

jpmoriarti:
100% disagree.

Why do you think we became a laugh amongst European football in the last 6 years, even with Messi still playing AM and striker and scoring bagful of goals?

I have seen Messi, totally aloof and unbothered, walking in the pitch while the team was under immense pressure. It is attitude problem with him and others. Everything is not about scoring mountains of goals. You score 4 - 0 in the first leg and lose 5 - 0 in the second. What is the point in that?

Yes we have moved on from that sordid era, but I can't forgive it. Busquets, Alba and Pique has stayed back to redeem their battered image. Unfortunately for Messi, Suarez and co, they no longer have such opportunity.

The defense became shit and the midfield was nothing to write home about as Busi and Rakitic began to age...Imagine replacing Alves with Semedo, Mascherano/Puyol with Lenglet after Umtiti suffered that injury that rendered him useless, Rakitic with Arthur, Iniesta with Coutinho that didn't just workout...

If you follow your club, you'd pin the collapse over over the past few seasons on the incompetence of Bartomeu as he is at the center of every wrong decision made in recruiting players and mangers alike...

jpmoriarti:
Modern game is all about solidarity amongst the players in terms of pressing and tracking back. There is alot of energy involved now. Even counter attacking teams all pull back and counter with great pace and speed when they get the chance.

In the last 6 years, we fell off the pinnacle of European football because we lacked cohesion and solidarity amongst the players. Some players begun to see themselves bigger than the team. You have to press and attack as a cohesive unit. Everyone has to help out in defending otherwise you're toast.

Scoring 40+ goals is no longer enough. Mbappe will score up to 40 goals this season but he will only end up winning Ligue 1 title.

Moulding and worshipping demi-gods in form of players no longer cut it. Fast paced football is now the way to go. You have to press and press your opponent to surrender.

Fortunately for us, #XaviBall is helping to recover what we have lost. Next season, we will be back where we belong.

I assume that's 'dominance' which was centered on the brilliance of Messi.

Go and watch Pep's Barca, Messi was never tasked with tracking back to recover possession or press defenders just so he can be at his optimum level whenever he gets the ball thus while the opponents tired out, Messi was still able to operate at a very high level due to the reason above.

I am surprised that for a supposed Barca fan you are not aware that it's a strategy employed by coaches to ensure Messi is at his best at any point in a game.

You can go back to read up on what Nasri said when Pep arrived Manchester City newly just so you have a clue...

jpmoriarti:
Perhaps, Perhaps not

When you have a player like Messi who does the job of an AM and striker almost effortlessly, you let him conserve energy for when he has the ball so he can do his thing...

You see Messi running at full speed and taking out defenders in the dying minutes of the game like someone who was just substituted in. Bro, it's down to the freedom the coaches gives him...He doesn't need to track back or chase the opponents (even I have seen him doing so many a times) just so he can have the energy to do his thing when it matters most...

jpmoriarti:
The whole team is defending better. Everyone tracks back. See Ferran Torres and Dembele.

Gone are the days when one player walks around the pitch while the team is under pressure.

Now, everyone digs in and helps out in defending. This is why we're beginning to keep more clean sheets.

And the team is also very much fitter. They outrun all the their opponents. Hard working team we've got now.

#XaviBall

Absolute BS!

eph12:
Not just his signings. The mentality is so weak. Players are rewarded for the bare minimum

No lies...With the number of players who are leaving in the summer and incoming replacement it will take a miracle for the new manager to get this team working from the get-go.

Oasis007:


Rangnick is not the Problem to be honest, but Ole who returns us back to Pharaohs Epoch. Let's look at his Signings, its obvious they are simply for signing sake.

He has no working System, nor a Team to build, rather looking for hyped Players that can individually perform magic in defence, attack and midfield.

How on Earth we spent Millions of Pound on AWB? Maguire? Why renewing Mata and Matic Contract instead of letting them go?

Ole killed us completely, Rangnick can't fix the damages done don him just in half Season. Definitely there is going to be Exodus of Players in the Summer, good News to be candid.

Mata, Matic, Lingard, Jones, Cavani and Pogba are certainly playing their last Season for United. I won't mind to give both Martial and Rashford one more chance under a new Manager, hopefully Ten Haag.

Ole's signings really set us back...

ChristoBam:
Lol we're like 11 points ahead of Leicester.
Would have been hoping for a couple of loses so we don't even qualify for any of those shitty competitions.

Let us start playing those kids at least we can easily uncover a gem from the lot rather than the likes of thuggish McTom, uninterested Pogba, fatty Shaw, lost Rashford, clueless Maguire etc...

nani667:
Jus casually dropping points weekly since Rangnick joined.. WTF

Our defense is still useless but at least before he joined we were scoring goals...

Another wasted manager

Na to prepare for conference league next season

#RangnickOUT

Instead of that yeye competition make we kukuma finish 9th...

De Gea should be given the player of the season award already...He is the only player worthy of praise...

If after resting for 2 weeks the players cannot run then ours is a spiritual problem...

LostMyZeal:
Lewy my gee


A tale of a robber and a robbee

You deserve better cane...

Ibime:
Could anything pass through that midfield with the state of that pitch. The pitch completely took midfield out of the equation

Eguavoen and the players trained on that pitch at least 3 times before the match...I am certain that no matter how bad and corrupt the country is, if Eguavoen and the players were uncomfortable with the length of the grass, it would have been trimmed...

Kilishihunter:
Too bad we are still probably going to be dependent on another b grade foreign coach again, See Aliou cisse and rigobert song knocking out those north Africans despite losing their first leg ties, Well personally I don't see why people should lament on Nigeria not making the WC cause if we couldn't beat the worst assembled Ghanaian teams in years with our Haram long ball taktics, Only God knows the kind of heartbreak they'll later dish to fans in Qatar, At least politicians and yeyebrities won't have another tangid reason all in the name of going to offer support in December, Let's leave football and face our problems

A grade-b foreign coach is better for Nigeria than any local coach...

We were loooking for a goal yet Eguavoen opted for Sadiq and Musa when you have a much younger and more dangerous Amoo on the bench...

Our midfield play was also very poor...

nihilistjnr:
This is exactly the point that boys were making since last night

I hold Eguavoen responsible for our failure to make the world cup...

Local coaches no be am especially for this country...

afrodoc2:
Once again, very eloquently stated.

But can you swear by the old gods that you wouldn’t have come here with your Messianic cultists to troll Ronaldo and the Cristians?

I give as good as I get...

I only talk about Messi here when CR7 fanboys attempt to downplay his greatness. I never start the debate...

nihilistjnr:
I'm sorry this is an incredibly lazy take.

Wetin concern FIFA or CAF with that length of grass on the pitch.

It was only a couple of weeks ago that Pep Guardiola was complaining about the grass at Crystal Palace which had been deliberately left a bit longer to impede City's passing game.

Nigerians questioning the grass at the Abuja stadium in a must win game, are not questioning the infrastructural integrity of the stadium - They are questioning the competency of an entire system that can't even take basic measures to boost their team's chances....basic measures like cutting the fucking grass

Pep and Man City were away while we were at home.

If Palace decided to employ such crude tactics to disturb the smooth passing play of City then that's allowed but we on the other hand were at home, Eguavoen and the players have trained on that pitch and knew the condition before hand so, if they had a problem with the length of the grass, it would have be addressed...

afrodoc2:
Well said. Very well said.

But my chief can you swear by both Fenibeso and Ahura Mazda that you and other Messianic cultists wouldn’t have come here to troll Cristians if Ronaldo hadn’t qualified for the World Cup?

Doc, I have been here long enough you can go through my previous post.

I only get involved when Messi is being trolled in a bit to make Ronaldo look better. I hardly even call him Penaldo because for me, it is disrespectful...

They've never been a time when a debate involving Messi and Ronaldo ends with one party shifting grounds that why I think it's pointless...

50d33q:
Why the sudden mouth piece of the devil
Is there anything wrong in what blueraydick typed?
You can ignore or counter it

La.rride said Dangote renovated the stadium in Lagos but due to issues surrounding the installation of VAR the match was moved to the National Stadium Abuja which was recently renovated. Whatever is the complain, I think CAF/FIFA inspected that pitch and gave the greenlight for the match to go on...

If the governing body of football thinks the pitch was okay irrespective of our individual takes then we have to question them...

TrebleChamp:
Yea now its childish cos Ronaldo qualified, if it was the other way we know how here for be . Enjoy your day jare

Like seriously? Messi will qualify via the play offs and I'll come here to troll Ronaldo that qualified straight to the World cup by topping his group? It can never be me...

MadamVanessa:




Serve him right.

Because Udom Emmanuel is gentle unlike other governors every idiot think that they have the right to talk, write gibberish against the governor.


Most painful thing I observed in the state is that core APC supporters who through their administration of 7 years plus has collapsed everything in the country will not say jack about their demigod Buhari for clueless leadership style but will find a voice to say nonsense about the governor.


In all ramifications, Udom's performance cannot be compared to Buhari the self acclaimed president of Nigeria.

Shut up!

He is obviously a supporter of OBA so don't bring Buhari into this...