AndSunGorilla:

Is Etebo really match fit is my concern, not sure if he has played any high intensity game in the last 6 months.

My fear too bro but we have to make do with what we have. It's a derby game with the World Cup ticket on the line in front of a hostile crowd in Kumasi and an expectant crowd in Abuja..

They need a ball winner and one who has the lungs of Ndidi.

chrisooblog:
You're in the spirit bro.

Very pragmatic game that ensures we don't concede. I'm optimistic that between Osimhen, Simon, Dennis, Aribo and Ighalo we should be able to create enough chances. Hopefully our forwards can be clinical because missing chances against a team like Ghana especially at home can come to bite you on the bum.

Having Etebo and Onyeka the tank in the middle and a mobile midfielder like aribo who can play one-two passes around the box gives us the option to play through the midfield if the wings are clogged..

We also need to move the ball quickly in the final third. Our wingers shouldn't be trying to force the ball past 3 players over and over again like Simon did against Tunisia.

safarigirl:


I do not entertain people who are quick to throw in "You're a woman" when they want to address something

It shows a gross lack of logical reasoning or any form of intelligent reasoning at all.

The fact that I did not even mention anything about who scored first or last, but only mentioned conceding, yet, you came with this jargons, is telling of how much you lack in reasoning capabilities.

The women in your life should teach you more on how to not begin a sentence by discrediting people on the altar of gender. It does not make you sound intelligent at all

A woman like Lianne Sande:rson and 99% of women footballers and retired women footballers will never ever say they expect S.E to concede in both legs because they set high standards, your standards are too low for a team like the S.E..

Unless you work for NFF and you're trying to lower expectations and standards that Nigerians expect from the S.E..


Nigeria is an African football powerhouse and is presently stronger than Ghana so based on their current strengths Ghana scoring in both legs means S.E has serious coaching defiencies..

codemaniacs:


A woman like Lianne Sande:rson and 99% of women footballers and retired women footballers will never ever say they expect S.E to concede in both legs because they set high standards, your standards are too low for a team like the S.E..

Unless you work for NFF and you're trying to lower expectations and standards that Nigerians expect from the S.E..


Nigeria is an African football powerhouse and is presently stronger than Ghana so based on their current strengths Ghana scoring in both legs means S.E has serious coaching defiencies..

Wetin be this wey you de cap wey you think say you de make sense

Are you some Expectations Enforcement Agency? How does her expectations correlate with gender? But why are you like this sef

Sportilitica:
I hope we do not bash Uzoho if he makes his own mistakes. We jump ship too easily in my opinion. I believe both keepers are at the same level honestly. Nothing special about them.(okoye, Uzoho). A look at the teams that made it to the last 4 of the Afcon would reveal how good the keepers of at least 3 teams were. A strong team is built around a solid keeper. We should be searching for more keepers not trying to make excuses for each of them. We shall prevail

Uzoho is a more tested goalie.
I can hardly think of he conceding the types of cheap goals Okoye is conceding.
Besides, also, he looks more confident in goal.

My greatest fear going into that AFCON was our Goalkeeping department.

What really helped Okoye at the group stage was that our team was way stronger than their opponents and didn't really receive any major goals threat. The only shot that was directed at Okoye all tournament he could not save.
Even if we had scaled through Tunisia I doubt we could have scaled through the next stage.
Look at even the penalty we conceded against Sudan and the way Okoye was mesmerized by the kicker. Na that kine keeper for carry us through Normal penalty shootouts?

TheSuperNerd:
Saved vs Messi at Russia 2018 WC. He practically tipped Messi's Goal bound effort to the post.

Saved vs Trippier Prior to the 2018 WC at Wembley.

Saved vs Sigurdsson at Russia 2018 WC. He kept a cleansheet as well in that same game becoming Africa's youngest GK to do so.

Is that enough for you? Do you think I would reference that funfact if he didn't save any? Guy, drop the uzoho talk down.

Okay

Sportilitica:
I hope we do not bash Uzoho if he makes his own mistakes. We jump ship too easily in my opinion. I believe both keepers are at the same level honestly. Nothing special about them.(okoye, Uzoho). A look at the teams that made it to the last 4 of the Afcon would reveal how good the keepers of at least 3 teams were. A strong team is built around a solid keeper. We should be searching for more keepers not trying to make excuses for each of them. We shall prevail

90 percent of the people bashing Maduka won’t bash uzoho if he made a mistake because of double standards

Never mind ,people like us who are neutral and doesn’t use sentiments are here for you

Dem don kee our Bredas.

Joebie:
How many through passes have Iheanacho laid for Osimhen. Na today dem start to play together?

Off the top of my head I remember Victor goal against Lesotho. There are more but I don have time to go watch all our highlights, you will see them.

Oasis001:



Dem don kee our Bredas.

Which kind of meat dey that Ghana rice sef.

Anyways, the meat resemble their squad

It is funny to me that South Africans are backing us against Ghana

Kog45:
Nobody hate Okoye but we need to say obvious....Maduka has not had any significant outing for eagles to justify that he is numero uno.

Nigeria have produced good national team keepers from Emma Okala,Peter Fregene,Joe Enrico,Amusa Adisa,Patrick Okala,Best Ogedegbe,Peter Rufai,Wilfred Agbonavbare,Vincent Enyeama and Carl Ikeme and I want to say I can only compare Alloy Agu to Okoye Maduka cos nothing spectacular about Alloy Agu throughout his career.....I remember how fans were always furious seeing Alloy Agu picked ahead of talented Christian Obi in Moscow 85 and when Westerhof came it was the same Agu but it was obvious he was not better.Good Agbonavbare came to the rescue during US 94 qualifiers and Rufai later made it as number one during Afcon and World Cup.

Truly Maduka is young but till today I still find it hard how equally young Uzoho with world cup experience lost out to fellow average keeper like Maduka with no single remarkable display in GWG.

I liked that you didn't add Ike shorounmu, because I never liked the guy. You must have assurance that a keeper should save your blushes often. But with okoye and uzoho at the present level they are operating, I can't ever have hope in us winning any tournament. Just a single mistake is all it takes and everything comes undone

Jargozaza:
It is funny to me that South Africans are backing us against Ghana

There's a saying that goes thus, 'person wey you no fit beat, na God's hand you dey commit am'

You gerrit

13large:


442 in an away game again?

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Jargozaza:
It is funny to me that South Africans are backing us against Ghana

Sure they haven't forgotten the ojoro goal Ghana used to remove them from AFCON qualifiers. The same Ghana removed them from World Cup qualifiers too.

zicky:
You know very well it can never happen. Iheanacho and ighalo will be considered ahead of Sadiq if Osimhen needs a partner

based on what criteria? If we're going with 442, Sadiq and Osimehn will be a good pairing...Sadiq playmaking ability, dropping deep, his height and even his goal threat will complement Osimehn. Ighalo is just like Osimehn,they both can't play together... Nacho doesn't really roam

safarigirl:
Anyway, I expect Ghana to score at least two goals against us in both legs

But unlike some people here, I always expect our goalkeepers to concede, my confidence is in our forwards to score more than we concede.

That is how we win matches.

It is not too much to expect Ghana not to score us. We didn't concede in open play during the group stage of the Afcon

mostob:
based on what criteria? If we're going with 442, Sadiq and Osimehn will be a good pairing...Sadiq playmaking ability, dropping deep, his height and even his goal threat will complement Osimehn. Ighalo is just like Osimehn,they both can't play together... Nacho doesn't really roam

Ighalo X Osihmen is an experiment that should never be repeated again. Osihmen was just hustling for ball that day trying to create for Ighalo.

rabzy:


I liked that you didn't add Ike shorounmu, because I never liked the guy. You must have assurance that a keeper should save your blushes often. But with okoye and uzoho at the present level they are operating, I can't ever have hope in us winning any tournament. Just a single mistake is all it takes and everything comes undone

ike shorunmu was a fine and quality keeper for nigeria

andrewbaba44:


The thing is that he has been shaky and that’s true

Now what’s the problem with you guys that he is sick and out of the game ?

He is shaky and deserve the criticism, he has been out of the game and some of you still choose to criticize him when I was expecting some of you to be happy low key

Where is purple cow self ,I haven’t seen his comment this morning abi dem don tie am rope

Violence no dey tire you
Anyway,the guy dey Bangeria

mostob:
based on what criteria? If we're going with 442, Sadiq and Osimehn will be a good pairing...Sadiq playmaking ability, dropping deep, his height and even his goal threat will complement Osimehn. Ighalo is just like Osimehn,they both can't play together... Nacho doesn't really roam

Yeah this is why I love Sadiq. His creativity makes him a good support striker or wing forward. I prefer him to iheanacho in that role

Amedino99:

Ighalo X Osihmen is an experiment that should never be repeated again. Osihmen was just hustling for ball that day trying to create for Ighalo.

Exactly...
I want a 3 man Midfield but if the coach want to go for 442, Sadiq and Osimehn should be fielded

Philosopher1979:


Yeah this is why I love Sadiq. His creativity makes him a good support striker or wing forward. I prefer him to iheanacho in that role

Thank you....

Oasis001:



Dem don kee our Bredas.

all dis dstv dey use style dey support us base on watin Ghana do south Africa but that chicken leg wey Dem put for Ghana jollof go don Waka from Accra to Kumasi before Dem Conner am for on back street twist en neck I go like chop that Nigerian jollof after we beat Ghana, come use dis tin wey dey down wash am down

Odunayaw:
Wetin be this wey you de cap wey you think say you de make sense

Are you some Expectations Enforcement Agency? How does her expectations correlate with gender? But why are you like this sef

Hahaha hahaha hahaha Kai this guy. I've heard of moral police. This one is a new one again ooo

EEA

Jargozaza:
It is funny to me that South Africans are backing us against Ghana

We share a mutual enemy. South Africa were eliminated by Ghana in a controversial manner and we are playing a local rival. I doubt the Ghanaians would be supporting us had it been they were the one in south Africa's position

Icon4s:


Uzoho is a more tested goalie.
I can hardly think of he conceding the types of cheap goals Okoye is conceding.
Besides, also, he looks more confident in goal.

My greatest fear going into that AFCON was our Goalkeeping department.

What really helped Okoye at the group stage was that our team was way stronger than their opponents and didn't really receive any major goals threat. The only shot that was directed at Okoye all tournament he could not save.
Even if we had scaled through Tunisia I doubt we could have scaled through the next stage.
Look at even the penalty we conceded against Sudan and the way Okoye was mesmerized by the kicker. Na that kine keeper for carry us through Normal penalty shootouts?

I say fiam, the ball was in the net. For the first time in my long years of watching football, it was like I had an out of body experience cos I couldn't believe my eyes.

You know like when goal dey smell, you will sense it. That goal came from no where. No warning, no prelude, nothing to prepare my mind for the shocker

The Ghanaians seems like the favourites to win midfield battles, but Eguavoen and his crew are not in the game to do midfield battles. Just to get the ball to the forwards, it doesn't matter where the ball takes off from, whether it is directly from the defense line, and the rest is history.

With the exception of Etebo, our midfield is defense minded, meaning that their roles will just be to chase the ball to win it back. This is a great disadvantage. If the Ghanaians find a way to intercept the long passes coming to our forwards, we are done. The ability to string together passes in midfield means that the Ghanaians can get the ball more often to their forwards.

For our forwards to coordinate properly with the ball, they need a supportive midfield. Who will provide this support, maybe a match rusty Etebo. This is why i think Iheanacho should start, despite other reasons why he shouldn't. The absence of Iwobi should have made Nwakali's invitation second to none. The truth is that our forwards cannot do it alone. When they are double marked, they are rendered impotent. We saw this in the match against Tunisia.

Ejuke and Ademola Lookman are the only forwards who can cruise their way out of tight situations. One was invited, the other wasn't, it is worth noting that Ejuke is the best winger for Eguavoen's system, because he can double as a midfielder.

Let's see how it goes.

Oasis001:



Dem don kee our Bredas.

It's so funny calling this jollof derby.

Ghana's tactics at defending will be:
Intercept the long passes to their forwards, and when we can't, we close up their wingers.

Modified:
But Osimhen's movements can make all the difference. Osimhen can be our cheat code.

mostob:
Exactly...
I want a 3 man Midfield but if the coach want to go for 442, Sadiq and Osimehn should be fielded

I just pray Eguavoen doesn't go with the 442 again, with the personnels we have, he should use 352 or 4231..

But with the small amount of midfielders invited, I think Eguavoen might Wana go with 442. The rigid 442 will hand the initiative to Ghana allow them to build confidence early and feed off the energy of their home crowd.

leathalbeast:
Nigerians are so scared. I like the vibe. Hahaha, in kumasi dierrr, u go chop 3

Selfmade?