andrewbaba44:


Man is not tactically good ,playing 52 year old pepe as CB or playing carpenter Danilo as a CB

Well let’s see how it goes at the World Cup ,the coach is just living off euros and nations league tax

andrewbaba44:


Man is not tactically good ,playing 52 year old pepe as CB or playing carpenter Danilo as a CB

Well let’s see how it goes at the World Cup ,the coach is just living off euros and nations league tax

charlesemeka85:
Portugal,Brazil,France and Argentina will do well at the World Cup but the surprise package will be Switzerland. That team is too compact while England will be disgraced

charlesemeka85:
the thing tire me coz Portugal has younger talented CBs in Porto’s David carmo, sporting’s inacio and Lille’s Djalo

That Danilo na pure capenter, fulham’s palinha is much better

Joebie:
Iwobi (green) vs Nwakali (blue)

Nwakali has found his match in terms of the shape of pentagon. Iwobi clearly beats Nwakali in 3 attributes. However, where Nwakali has an edge over Iwobi — defense and tactical — Yusuf and Onyedika both do better than Nwakali.

Iwobi (green) vs Aribo (blue)
Similar shape in completeness.
Aribo with the edge in defense only. Iwobi wins in the rest. Yusuf and Onyedika also beat Aribo in both defense and tactical attributes

Aribo (green) vs Nwakali (blue)
Aribo has slight edge in attack and creativity. They tie in defense. Nwakali has a 9 point edge in Technique and 8 in Tactical attributes.

Disclaimer: The comparison takes into account players performances in different playing positions over a span of 2 years (can be adjusted in some cases), the leagues they played weighted accordingly. Hence, this comparison could be suggestive but not conclusive.

zuchyblink:
How can you beat Switzerland with Pedri and Gavi in midfield.

typicalgamer:


The way they rate nwakali you’ll think he’s carrying his team on his back

Like that guy na wash

elunico:


Max is 11 years old.

I showed him clips of Ronaldinho, Okocha, Neymar, young CR7 and he's asking me why nobody dribbles like they used to do back in the day.

He hardly enjoys watching football with me these days, he considers it boring, he'd rather watch older football videos on YouTube.

zuchyblink:
How can you beat Switzerland with Pedri and Gavi in midfield.

charlesemeka85:
football nowadays is too boring and robotic. The game is losing its spark gradually. Even highly skilled players with less work rate aren’t appreciated anymore unlike years back

I said it some time ago here that the likes of jay jay,ronaldinho,zizou, del pierro, baggio, landrup etc would hv been frowned at by coaches of this generation if they were still active

The same reason why the typical number 10 role is fading away. What is applicable in the modern game is the CAM role where playmakers are deployed to drop deeper and help in the CM position on the pitch unlike before when they were given the free will to roam around with less defensive work expected from them

mostob:
The same midfield trashed and battered a Midfield made up of Modric, Casemiro and Kroos. Spain lost but Pedri and Gavi should be blamed?

Clint02:
Chai.
What if Iwobi is not around.

comodo:

The reason we need to kidnap that Eze. If we cannot get him, then we integrate whoever is close to Iwobi. And who do we have?? I don't even know

maidaboi:
Nwakali

comodo:

Cecco90:
Iheanacho has finally decided to change clubs. The forward joins Zambian club, Zanaco FC on a one-year deal. Congratulations to him.

Source : Complete sports

Truidstar:
Make una leave Nwakali to concentrate on his club football. He should forget about National team football for now. I will repeat it again. During international break the league he plays in has matches. You don’t expect the team paying his wages to lose him for international games. Dem go say na bad bele we get… make una free am to concentrate on his club career.

comodo:

The reason we need to kidnap that Eze. If we cannot get him, then we integrate whoever is close to Iwobi. And who do we have?? I don't even know

Emmy450:
nwakali's stats are impressive, nice one. But I believe iwobi's stats should be more, considering his massive improvement in the midfield this season.

Danielnino00:



Aside his creativity, Eze's set piece abilities are another reason why we need him.. Currently,we don't have really good set piece takers .. Iheanacho is our best, but he isn't a guaranteed starter anymore due to his lack of game time and form at Leicester.. Simon and Etebo are decent takers too, and Bassey also .. But Eze is really better than all of them in that department...


Like I've said before, Rohr is the reason we didn't get Eze on time ..After the world cup, he was supposed to try new midfielders, bit he kept using Mikel, Ndidi, Etebo and Ogu. Iwobi was shuffling between the wings and the midfield until Mikel retired...
Peserio shouldn't make the same mistake .

typicalgamer:


The way they rate nwakali you’ll think he’s carrying his team on his back

Like that guy na wash

Joebie:
Nwakali is rated the best player in his team at the moment. One of the top rated in league as a whole. If he can do this all season, he has finally arrived.

On a side note, tribute to tbaba. I believe this was his last post on this thread — maybe not on nairaland.

Pls correct me if I’m wrong

andrewbaba44:


Na you get hate

You are here dissing all Portugal but you had to exclude Ronaldo

Why did Ronaldo ghost against Serbia when they needed an automatic spot to qualify for the World Cup ?

Be there talking about a dissallowed goal since you don’t know what to say

A typical pendu fan boy dissing Portugal squad but excluding his man Ronaldo

Niklaus398:
Ronaldo is 38 old already. It is the job of those young ones to do something.
Ronaldo scored against Serbia that was disallowed so he did his best but failed referreing was against him never the less they still qualified.
They would probably had been in the semi final of the nation league by now but they fumbled it after Ronaldo has done all the works for them. So u seee what I'm saying?

Where were this players when young Ronaldo was carrying Portugal on his back?
Where exactly were them?

So till they stepup then Ronaldo will always not be criticise when they fail cause he is 38...at their age Ronaldo was ruling the world.

andrewbaba44:


Carry Portugal on which back ?

If Ronaldo cannot do the job anymore why not retire from international football