₦airaland Forum

daveP:
The absence of Sam Kerr has impact on their all rounda approach. She makes things work a great great deal for them. It will work because that is a weakness noticed vs Ireland, esp that gk wey no sabi. It's the midfield battle one can be worried about, but Ayinde is returning.

Won’t be a bad idea if Waldrum deploys a 5-person, or a 4-person midfield.

maidaboi:
What is the super falcons biggest lost at the world cup?

An 8-0 loss to Norway at the 1995 WC

This formation would not be bad vs Australia

————-Demehin—-Ohale—-Plumptree———-

—Imuran—Ucheibe—Echegini—-Ayinde—Payne

—————Oshoala——Kanu———-

Deltamani:
🚨FT: 🇫🇷France 0-0 🇯🇲Jamaica

Jamaica earn their first-ever point at the Women’s World Cup after holding favourites France to a barren draw.

It’s the first time the Reggae Girls have avoided defeat at World Cup. Unfortunately, star player Khadija Shaw got red carded in the fiery game.

Kudos to the Jamaican ladies for holding their own against one of the best in world!
I think this result is the second biggest upset (per FIFA ranking) in WWC history, after Ghana (then ranked 52) defeated Australia (ranked 15th) at the 2003 WC

Fun fact: Nnadozie needs one more WC clean sheet to become level with Enyeama and Peter Rufai, who both have 3 WC cleansheets each

ThePresenceWtf:
Fun Fact: Nigeria is the tallest African Team in the competition....In fact they're among one of the tallest teams.

For reference, Sweden one of the tallest teams, have 12 players who are 5'8 and above, Nigeria also have 12 players who are 5'8 and above.

I think this would be one of, if not Nigeria's tallest team ever.

Amazing!

America’s states and local governments spend at least $115 billion/year to fund their local police forces, who protect a population that is twice that of Nigeria..Meanwhile the NPF barely gets a Trillion Naira

yinkeys:
if Rashidat is eligible: maybe just maybe

She will be eligible to play the game. But I won’t start her cos she has been subpar for the Falcons in the last few games she’s played

Haiti are already playing 3x better than Zambia. See how WC debutants are playing with confidence

ThePresenceWtf:
Zambia and Morocco shouldn't even be mentioned in the same breathe or sentence as the Super Falcons... The only similarities those teams have with the Super Falcons is "African"


But alas, we have a PE teacher for a head coach and an incompetent FA, so this is our reality now.

For real man. The SF usually beat both teams 5-0 or 6-0 as recently as 6 yrs ago

Deltamani:
Spain will definitely teach them a lesson even without their best Defender Mapi Leon and Patri who’s arguably the best Defensive Midfielder alongside Walsh and Oberdorf..

Damn. It will get real ugly Zambia, especially playing with their 3rd choice keeper

isan:
Lol one guy here yesterday was saying Zambia would have beaten Canada yesterday

ThePresenceWtf:
We could still end up with that score or more... over 15' still left to play.

Japan has been wasteful as well...

Yea. We would be talking about a 9-0 thrashing🙆🏾

In a non-VAR world, it’s easily Japan 6-0 Zambia.

mostob:
Oshoala has not been herself for SF lately. Let's give her a sub role against a tired defence and see how she turns out. I think one reason for her performance is because she rarely switches position now like she did during the triple O era.

I wouldn’t mind if Oshoala is moved to the wings as an ‘inverted’ winger like Hazard, where her pace and trickery would be better utilized

GloriousGbola:
My understanding which may be wrong is that Obj was focused on chasing debt relief and fdi and so he spent most of his first term out of Nigeria,leaving Atiku in charge. And Atiku then focused on undercutting Obj. The end result of all of this was Atiku and his most visible supporters being dealt with to send a message.

I have always said that if Atiku had not been so overambitious, he would have been president easily. What was coming to him with no effort, he has now spent the rest of his life chasing after to no avail.

And he also fked things over for VPs who followed after him. The only VPN who had any semblance of power since then was Osinbajo.

Imagine if Atiku was PDP’s candidate in 2007 and later president, we would have had either a Donald Duke or Soludo as VP. There was no way Atiku would have chosen an over-bearing guy like Odili as his VP, or complete light weight like GEJ.

VAR comes to Zambia’s rescue

I’ll prefer a midfield and attacking combo of Echegini, Ayinde, Payne, and Ucheibe;
Kanu and Oshoala

As usual, the width would be provided by Plumptre and Alozie

Kanu finally

ThePresenceWtf:
I think Deborah needs to come off at the half.

Me too. Echegini should replace her in the second half

90% possession for Canada..

Segedinho:
This one enter...

😂😂

Unlimited22:
Our bodies are, quite literally, built different.


Plus their schedules are one kind. They played too many friendlies before the tourney.

Sam Kerr may only be fit to face Nigeria. She didn't play today after injuring herself in training.

Sam Kerr will miss the Nigeria game

carbonado:
...i rambled about this the other day, i am sure some people thought i was not okay or something. It is very obvious now than ever that something is different between both genders. However, i do not think the powers that be will do much about it, since what most of them care about is the business side of things. It will take the players or former players to speak up. Thank God our darling falcons are good.

Yea, you’re onto something: the greed of some of the FAs in organizing 5 friendlies within a month to the World Cup (because of the $$) may end up costing their teams at this tournament

Yes

Deltamani:
Lena Oberdorf is “probably” OUT for Germany’s match versus Morocco due to a thigh injury, per @SZ ❌🇩🇪


What the hell is happening ? Is there a virus in air that only affects best players ?

Has to be something about the training regimen of female players. Maybe there should be a specialized training regimen that takes into account the physiological differences between men and women

lovewins:
Maybe a female world cup record. Not sure. Surely an Australian record sha.

Likely an Aussie record, because the WWC record attendance is the 90,000 crowd that watched the 1999 WC final

lovewins:
Was very surprised. New Zealand dominated almost the entire game. Shocked to say the least. They can still qualify though if they get their acts together.

Yeah, it’s like someone did juju on the Norwegians cos even Bayelsa Queens would beat the Norway that we watched some hours ago. 😁
I agree that if they get their acts together (especially on the tactics), they may get results vs the Swiss and the Philippines

The Norwegians are, borderline, the worst of the four teams that have played.
Up until the 80th, they were barely coherent in their attacking play, and their midfield was almost completely useless which rendered Ada and Graham Hansen ineffective

lovewins:
History made!!!! What a record!!!

𝟕𝟓,𝟕𝟖𝟒 in attendance to watch Australia's first 2023 FIFAWWC game at home

Must be an Aussie record?

New Zealand 🙆🏾

The refereeing crew for Super Falcons vs Canada