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M7even:
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He is probably on this thread. Citi tv is Ghanaian.

drDoom3:
Since I have been watching SE training clips, I have not seen us do specialized training sessions except maybe for set-pieces.

Liverpool for example holds training sessions only on counterattacking or only on one-on-one finishing. Training sessions on targeted qualities will definitely increase our efficiency on those qualities going into the games to come.

Mujtahida:
Please guys watch this post match analysis of Nigeria vs Egypt. It's a masterpiece


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JpG6UVQz6S0

nairalandankrah:
Asked if he was impressed with Iheanacho's goal against Egypt, Rodgers said at Thursday's press conference : "It was a brilliant strike.

"I thought Nigeria looked really good, looked really structured in the game, good organization and you can see the players of quality they have in the team.

"Kelechi has proven over this last twelve to eighteen months he can score goals. Great spin and finish, I'm delighted for him."...

andrewbaba44:
3rd division Spanish teams have beaten Madrid and ATM also

Mujtahida:
Please guys watch this post match analysis of Nigeria vs Egypt. It's a masterpiece


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JpG6UVQz6S0

drDoom3:
Since I have been watching SE training clips, I have not seen us do specialized training sessions except maybe for set-pieces.

Liverpool for example holds training sessions only on counterattacking or only on one-on-one finishing. Training sessions on targeted qualities will definitely increase our efficiency on those qualities going into the games to come.

safarigirl:
Look at my baby boy Ajayi, training while maintaining beauty.

TheSuperNerd:
Ebuehi: Cool, Calm, Calculated

safarigirl:
Do you have any example of any country doing this at a tournament or is Liverpool football club your only example?

I'm of the belief that certain drills may not be possible in tournament situations due to shortage of time, as opposed to when the team has been playing or will be playing for an extended period of time

kingphilip:
Over the past 18 months and you still de keep am for bench?

Rodgers wetin remain for am to start match?

Sugarboyy:
Imagine SE midfield of
Ndidi
Onyenka
Aribo
Eze
Olise

olu98:
Most of the pictures and videos I have seen online, ebuehi has been alone. Mans taking COVID isolation too far

Danielnino00:
After several weeks of deliberations, we have finally reached the end of the Fourth edition of the Nairaland Nigerian Football Fans award. Thanks to all those who took their time to particular in the process..

Full list of winners here:
https://www.nairaland.com/6321167/victor-osimhen-wins-nairaland-nigerian

Semid4lyfe, do your thing...

When the Ghanaian mentioned Attack Overload, I smiled. I said, "Baba Don carry my term"

Now I would love for the guy and his analytical crew to analyse why his country Ghana failed to beat Gabon yesterday.

TheGoodJoe:

Fine post and revealing. The guy needs to work on his eloquence. Apart from that, very sound.

What caught my attention was when he talked of the execution of longs balls with regards to the tactical plan.

He said you can have the plan but lack the players to execute it.

But, my good friend komekn wants us to believe every non-league player in England can execute it.

Either way, his analysis shows how much research went on by our team and I hope as we progress, we get to see deeper and more sound tactical executions. Nice post.

drDoom3:
The goal was a 419 goal.

The number 8 Kyereh went down injured, Ghana player kicked the ball out of play. Normally, the opposing team will throw to the team that had the ball as sportsmanship.

However, Gabon resumed like nothing happened and tried to use the confusion to start a counter attack and score, which they did. The Gabon coach gave the instruction, that was why Andre Ayew went after him once the game ended. Also the goal happened so late in the game that it was impossible for Ghana to respond.

TheSuperNerd:
Outside the Afcon Updates: Zuby vs Obinna

Azubuike Okechukwu starts (someone tell Idennaa ) for Yeni Malatyaspor vs Goztepe in the Turkish Super Lig.

He was announced as a new signing, on loan, just 24 hours ago for Yeni from Istanbul BB. Recall he was attached to Sivasspor earlier in the season on loan from Istanbul BB.


For Goztepe, the ever present Obinna Nwobodo also starts.


Game kicks off in 37mins.

It's the battle of Two Naija Midfield lads.

TheSuperNerd:
And these two dropped fine Midfield showings indeed.

Obinna had a really Solid outing akin to a MOTM showing while Zuby also had a very solid outing.


▶️Obinna Nwobodo vs Yeni:

1 Assist
1 big chance created
1 chance created
7 tackles
6 recoveries
1 interception
11/16 ground duels won
100% aerial duels won (1/1)
64% passing accuracy (21 accurate passes)
8 accurate passes in own half
13 accurate passes in opposition half
100% dribbling success (4/4) - Game Highest
1 foul committed


▶️Azubuike Okechukwu vs Goztepe:

2 chances created
89% passing accuracy (55 accurate passes - Game Highest)
17 accurate passes in own half
38 accurate passes in opposition half
100% dribbling success (1/1)
6/11 ground duels won
1/2 aerial duels won
2/6 accurate long balls
2 tackles
2 interceptions
10 recoveries
1 shot off target
Was fouled 3 times.
2 fouls committed.


I know it's the Turkish Super Lig. But they are Nigerian football lads in Europe. Na report I dey report. Ejoor

minfelix:
Walai this AFCON jus giving me hint to how our WC play off possible opppents will be
Nigeria vs Egypt
Nigeria vs Ghana
Nigeria vs Cameroon
Nigeria vs Mali
Based on their games so far, which do you guys feel will be easy for us?

Daninya33:
Ghanaian fans are not pleased with the way the Gabonese shunned fairplay and equalised yesterday.
Las Las ,the Ghanaian players lost concentration again the way they did against Morocco.
I remembered vividly that was how the Egyptians equalised against Nigeria in Kaduna during the Afcon qualifiers.

Our coaching crew and players must not be complacent with any team or game.
We should take it a game at a time.
We must play as a unit.
No one should go for personal glory.
100% Percent concentration in the field of play from start to finish.
We must play with intense tenacity and purpose against any opponent ( Minnows or Powerhouse).

I watched almost all the matches in this Afcon.I must say we are favourites to clinch the trophy.

The only team that can stop us is ourselves.

The Sudanese frontliners are pacy so we must be wary of their threat...

Goodluck to the Nigeria as they file out against the Sudanese this evening.

TheSuperNerd:
The Long balls execution plan was so obvious and explains why we were so quick in our upfield transitions most especially through Simon's wing which I explained using an Optaanalyst tactical graphical rep.

And yes, there's something the guy said that I like. One can have the idea about such plan but it is the execution of it that matters most. That is what is key. Having the plan is one thing but putting it to workable execution is another. Komekn missed the plot trying to downgrade the value of this tactic making it look like everyone can easily do it.


Our transition game was simple yet couldn't be stopped. It's something the team has obviously rehearsed overtime in training:

▶️Okoye to Omeruo and Omeruo drives forward a little and hits it to Simon who would use his pace and power to drive and put a cross in hoping the attack overload of Awo, Nacho, Chuks, and Aribo get on it.

When the Ghanaian mentioned Attack Overload, I smiled. I said, "Baba Don carry my term"


So the pattern kept repeating itself even when it was Okoye to Ekong to Aina & sometimes back to Ekong....it somehow always ended with Omeruo sending it to Simon on the left.

Ekong also executed one or two of it to Simon.

Most of our attacking transitions against Egypt was from the left and less through Chukwueze's side especially in the first half. In the second half, things faded a bit on that end as Egypt began to get themselves more on the ball but were still restricted to passing sequences that broke down at the feet of one of Aina, Ndidi, Zaidu, Ekong, or Omeruo who all contributed to keeping Salah quiet.

Our high intensity pressing didn't allow them get good final balls to cause danger for us.


They only got through on very rare occasions like the one Salah got through between Ekong and Omeruo which Okoye did well to save but thanks to Ekong recovering enough to put Salah under some good amount of pressure throwing Salah a little off-balance which ensured he didn't get a better shot past Okoye.

And Salah did drift to the right on a couple of occasions in the first half even though he operated through the middle for the most parts especially in the second half but our double team/triple team marking strategy followed him almost everywhere.

This explains why Salah had the least touches of the ball (only 35 touches) for anyone that played 90mins in that game.


Another Truth is, Eguavoen already knew Salah won't help in defensive phases of the Egyptians. He knew the Egyptian Super Star won't help out good in defence and we played on that as well.

We have a crew that is tactically an upgrade on what Rohr served us and that is a good thing. Hope we keep this up going forward taking things one game at a time.

The Ghanaian analyst tried. But as always, in analyses, one cannot simply say everything. Everything that was said by the man was not new to me at all. I just commend the ability to pick out some of the tactical happenings that went on in that game in our favor most especially. In analyses, You reveal some and keep some.

Now I would love for the guy and his analytical crew to analyse why his country Ghana failed to beat Gabon yesterday.


Enough of the Egypt game already. We have Sudan next.

Meliforme:
This is how he expresses his gratitude to a coach that kept faith in him despite his crosses to Chinhuahua.

This is how he makes excuses for his shambolic shows, as if anything has improved in his performances:
A handful of pagan crosses.
0 key passes,
0 assists.
0 shots on target.

What we have seen of him is his trademark defending which is commendable for a forward and his speedy runs which makes good highlights of his wing plays. So what exactly has changed.

In the game against Egypt, our forward line was the weakest, maybe because of our strategy to defend against Salah. We can do more with the personnel we have.

There are players that should have no business sitting on the bench. Let me see the players Eguavoen will field tomorrow.

My favourite name for Moses Simon is Daddy. i just modified this post with this addendum to make it clear how much i love the man Moses Simon, but Moses Simon will be happier if we are playing to our full potential.

Danielnino00:
After several weeks of deliberations, we have finally reached the end of the Fourth edition of the Nairaland Nigerian Football Fans award. Thanks to all those who took their time to particular in the process..

Full list of winners here:
https://www.nairaland.com/6321167/victor-osimhen-wins-nairaland-nigerian

Semid4lyfe, do your thing...

Kog45:
Oga meli,are you in to football coaching...okay how do you see this

Nwakili over Aribo

Ejuke over Moses

Iheanacho as CF over Awoniyi

Ebuehi over Aina........and starting Xi

1.Okoye
2.Ebuehi
3.Zaidu
4.Omeruo
5.Ekong
6.Ndidi
7.Onyeka
8.Nwakili
9.Iheanacho
10.Ejuke
11.Chuckwueze.

***Oga meli,pls tell us players who are not suppose to sit on the bench in today's game.

TheSuperNerd:
▶️Obinna Nwobodo vs Yeni:

1 Assist
1 big chance created
1 chance created[b]
7 tackles
6 recoveries[/b]
1 interception
11/16 ground duels won
100% aerial duels won (1/1)
64% passing accuracy (21 accurate passes)
8 accurate passes in own half
13 accurate passes in opposition half
100% dribbling success (4/4) - Game Highest
1 foul committed

forgiveness:
Is it because we won Egypt, you think dey are a weak team?

Without Moses Simon, there was no way we could have scored not to talk of winning.

TheGoodJoe:

I think Eguavoen will maintain the same formation. That is an offensive one with lots of players that can contribute to goal scoring and assists.

So I don't think dropping Aribo will work.

I see Kelechi Nwakali playing a more offensive role. He has the capacity of giving tidy through passes and can serve as an asset when we are on counters.

TheGoodJoe:

First of all, nice write up. I wanted to cut out some post to keep the quote brief but it is such a nice masterpiece that doing that will be totally wrong.

I need to commend your writing and research capability. I envy how easily you expatiate ideas. You are such a researcher and I hope to read some of your published journals soon.

That attack overload clearly shows he visits here but he is surely a bright chap.

Yes, most times, we literally do not learn new things from some of it but it falls in the idea of delivery.

Like I pointed to komekn that delivering that long ball strategy was difficult but appreciated him talking about it from the perspective of the Egyptians. Thus, driving home the exact point.

If you watch Eguavoen's tactical video, you can literally not see something new but his approach and sequence of using these old ideas on what made it refreshing.

Also, his understanding of the old ideas makes you have new sequences of things.

Either way, we will see what Eguavoen and his crew have for us today.