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Mujtahida:
You sabi am

Stormtrooper11:
And that man is Generalissimo Kelechi Nwakali aka Jibola Adebola , I guess

Omanambala:
Our reliance on the wings , through Moses made it very easy to read us and find a tactics that will bury us.

I don't know the point of leaving Aribo and Ndidi alone in the midfield , knowing their ball carrying is poor. Eguavon should have added an extra man in the middle.

TheGoodJoe:

Tactically clueless and we created 13 chances while Tunisia created 7 chances. Na wa for tactical cluelessness.

Joezinho:
Eguavoen was tactically clueless and made the Tunisians looked like they pulled off some prime Pep Guardiola high IQ masterclass. Aribo did good. His ball carrying isn't poor..

chrisooblog:
These Egyptians are stubborn walahi

Stormtrooper11:
And that man is Generalissimo Kelechi Nwakali aka Jibola Adebola , I guess

Stormtrooper11:
It's a myth how we totally annihilated this same team lol

Joezinho:
THE SE have a really strange system of playing. Baffles me why Ekong needs to do the job of a midfielder and try giving through balls to Simon throughout the game against Tunisia. Why not give the midfielders more responsibilities instead of by passing them.

Why is Eguavoen stuck on 1994 and you play only 2 CMs..Our continued tactical mistake of playing only 2 midfielders will continue to be our failure.

Failed with Rohr and failed with Eguaveon..

As for the chances created and matches he won, this ain't no league competition..

Subzero47:
He absolutely didn't

Omanambala:
Or Iwobi just to balance the fight in the middle because that where they had strength.

codemaniacs:
Nope..

Just like you're seeing with Senegal Nempalys Mendy and Gueye starting

S.E needs Ndidi and Onyeka to always start with Bonke and Onyedika as subs. Then Aribo, Iwobi or Nwakali playing CAM.

codemaniacs:
Nope..

Just like you're seeing with Senegal Nempalys Mendy and Gueye starting

S.E needs Ndidi and Onyeka to always start with Bonke and Onyedika as subs. Then Aribo, Iwobi or Nwakali playing CAM.

Omanambala:
You didn't annihilate them. They were not fine tuned when we played them. You are watching an improved team, now.

Stormtrooper11:
Your concerns on our midfield are genuine. Before the Tunisia match, I voiced out my fears against the 2 man midfield system we operated. Even though we won our 2 first games, I wasn't totally convinced. I felt a highly tactical team will press on those loop holes and annihilate us. I was expecting a major tactical change on our game approach. A 3 man midfield with Onyeka, Ndidi and Aribo.
I hope we'll learn.

Stormtrooper11:
Your concerns on our midfield are genuine. Before the Tunisia match, I voiced out my fears against the 2 man midfield system we operated. Even though we won our 2 first games, I wasn't totally convinced. I felt a highly tactical team will press on those loop holes and annihilate us. I was expecting a major tactical change on our game approach. A 3 man midfield with Onyeka, Ndidi and Aribo.
I hope we'll learn.

Stormtrooper11:
Teams grew with the progress of the tournament. If we won against Tunisia, we would had improved massively. We could had be much more stronger than what we saw in the group stage.

TheGoodJoe:

Understand that it is beyond your comprehension and even mine. I am still trying to understand the system. The fact is simple, Eguavoen did not play the way we want or are used to. He has his offensive system and it works.

You can mark Simon, and the chances will still come. You can hold Chukwueze and somehow Aina gets into offensive positions.

His two midfielders go forward and yet it is hard to get direct shots at the team.

Leave, Eguavoen is a brilliant tactician. When you try to criticize, you forget the plain fact. We created 13 chances while the Tunisians created 7. They were not tactically superior. We dominated.

So criticizing that he did not play the way you like is a thing of preference, not failed tactics.

TheGoodJoe:

Understand that it is beyond your comprehension or even mine. I am still trying to understand the system. The fact is simple, Eguavoen did not play the way we want or are used to. He has his offensive system and it works.

You can mark Simon, and the chances will still come. You can hold Chukwueze and somehow Aina gets into offensive positions.

His two midfielders go forward and yet it is hard to get direct shots at the team.

Leave, Eguavoen is a brilliant tactician. When you try to criticize, you forget the plain fact. We created 13 chances while the Tunisians created 7. They were not tactically superior. We dominated.

So criticizing that he did not play the way you like is a thing of preference, not failed tactics.

TheGoodJoe:

He absolutely did and there was an improvement. In the first game, I can bet I was the most vocal critique of that.

Joezinho:
No matter how you try to sugar coat it, Eguavoen's tactics cost us that game.. He had no Plan B..

Everyone knew eyes would be on Simon, and Eguaveon didn't make any alternative plan for this. Not even try switch Simon and Chuks positions to see if they can stretch the Tunisia defense by playing on the line and pulling out instead of their predictable cutting in from the wings...

And also, how did Eguavoen decide to not include Ejuke in the squad for a knockout game? Did he underestimate Tunisia to the extent that he didn’t think he would need a player like Ejuke who would be very useful in creating spaces and unlocking a stubborn defense? That was an unacceptable blunder.

TheGoodJoe:

We created 13 chances, Tunisia created 7. Are you assuring us we would have created more chances with a 3 man midfield?

Eguavoen has his system and it creates loads of chances. We just need to work on converting our chances and we would be a frightening side to any team that faces us.

codemaniacs:
He absolutely didn't..

Aina was getting into offensive positions that Chukwueze should have been getting into and at the same time Aina also had to get back into defensive positions since Chuks wasn't helping defensively...

Chuks is too lazy for the S.E..

Stormtrooper11:
What does a man profits if he created a million chances and loses the match??
In the game against Tunisia, our wings were clipped. They made us look clueless, empty and uninspiring. A 3 man midfield would had been the breakthrough. We relied too much on wing play. It was too one - dimensional

"The football game is won in the midfield"

Stormtrooper11:
What does a man profits if he created a million chances and loses the match??
In the game against Tunisia, our wings were clipped. They made us look clueless, empty and uninspiring. A 3 man midfield would had been the breakthrough. We relied too much on wing play. It was too one - dimensional

"The football game is won in the midfield"

Joezinho:
No matter how you try to sugar coat it, Eguavoen's tactics cost us that game.. He had no Plan B..

Everyone knew eyes would be on Simon, and Eguaveon didn't make any alternative plan for this. Not even try switch Simon and Chuks positions to see if they can stretch the Tunisia defense by playing on the line and pulling out instead of their predictable cutting in from the wings...

And also, how did Eguavoen decide to not include Ejuke in the squad for a knockout game? Did he underestimate Tunisia to the extent that he didn’t think he would need a player like Ejuke who would be very useful in creating spaces and unlocking a stubborn defense? That was an unacceptable blunder.