ThePresenceWtf:
Wait, are we really blaming the result on Racism? The leg breaker which deservedly so received a red on racism as well?


My god!! when will we ever grow tf up! We always gotta blame our profligacy and ineptness on someone else in this country...Smh

What he criticised was the double standard. No one is disputing that the tackle was a red card, but Canada has at least 2 similar tackles that VAR didn't even check. I'm not one to play the race card but AkinDS wasn't wrong.

Brilliant FIFA Women’s World Cup debut for Deborah Abiodun marred by a late red card.
Still doesn't take away from her fine display in MF.

lovewins:


What he criticised was the double standard. No one is disputing that the tackle was a red card, but Canada has at least 2 similar tackles that VAR didn't even check. I'm not one to play the race card but AkinDS wasn't wrong.

Let's not be too quick to blame stuff on racism. VAR generally checks all of them, they only call the referees attention if it takes time to check.

I don't know the technicalities of calling an ankle stomp but I'm quite sure Ohale's own was a bit different.

Technicalities matter in these things. These referees are professionals that won't easily succumb to petty sentiment.

If you recall, Ohale made a handball in the 18 which wasn't called because it deflected off her body. The same thing happened against us in 2018 playing against Argentina. Nigerians were all over the place crying racism without bothering to understand why such a decision happened itfp.

Deltamani:


Na Man you be na, You can easily go for another..

That's people like u. As for me I don't have any favourites on the team. I want what is best for the whole team and not just one player. The problem is u guys pick on players u know don't have fans. Tosin was quietly having a good game and u called her out, for what

Hey didn't oshoala score a goal that was cancelled against Lyon in the champions league final?

Nicole Payne joins PSG Women.


Congrats Girl!

FT: Philippines 0-2 Switzerland

[Bachmann 45' (pen), Piubel 64']

The Swiss ease to victory to join co-hosts New Zealand at the top of Group A on 3 points.

🥅 4 matches in; 4 penalties, huh?

🇳🇿 New Zealand: missed theirs...

🇦🇺 Australia: converted; proved the match-winner

🇨🇦 Canada: missed (courtesy of Her Majesty Nnadozie's save)

🇨🇭 Switzerland: converts

BascoVanVeli:
Hey didn't oshoala score a goal that was cancelled against Lyon in the champions league final?

It was her goal in the Final against Chelsea that was cancelled…
The one against Lyon was a clear goal..

At least Uchenna Kanu still give Ashley Lawrence small… Another good thing is that a Nigerian have also been signed by PSG to replace her as she has left for Chelsea Ladies..

My assessment of the match

Nnadozie can't shoot. Inasmuch as she was man of the match, her ball playing abilities is poor.

The defence tried but need to improve esp on some basic defensive responsibilities and stop giving the ball away.

The midfield was non existent except for one or two sparks here and there. Some players were dribbling when they are suppose to release the ball. Overdoing things.

The attack was flat. Asisat needs to up her game. Anytime she plays for nigeria, she's a shadow of herself. I dont understand ordega's usefulness in this team. Not until kanu came in, i didn't see any spark on the left flank

All in all, we still have a mid coach... I just have a hunch that the Zambians would have won this game. Whether 1st or 2nd we need to cm out the group.. Teams in group A are all beatable if we're to meet in the round of 16. Let's hope for a better performance against the hosts on Thursday.

Nnadozie - seems she has a knee injury
Ucheibe
Abiodun

These were the stars in that match.

Why does Randy make his substitutions late? Why bringing in Kanu, Okoronkwo & Echigini late?

My Analysis of the game. What do you guys think

1. The most important point for me is that the team had a game plan and they executed it almost perfectly. If you've followed the Super Falcons for sometime, you'll know we've always had issues with defensive discipline. Randy did a good job drilling the team to be disciplined defensively the entire game.

2. The criticisms of Oshoala are unwarranted. You don't build attacks in isolation. She rarely received supplies and that's due to the way we played.

3. Blessing Demehin was solid defensively. She made critical tackles and blocks that kept us in the game. She however was an eyesore anytime she received the ball. She almost always gave the ball away and put pressure on the team defensively. Of course being her first world cup, nerves may have kicked in, but if I were Randy,bill rather be safe than sorry. It's better they avoid passing the ball to her and leave her to her defensive responsibility.

4. Same can be said for Michelle Alozie. She was okay defensively (her first half play wasn't impressive), she however put the team in uncomfortable positions. All her runs forward amounted to nothing, cause she either had problems controlling the passes she received or she just takes too long deciding what to do with it. She needs to step up quickly.

5. Deborah Abiodun and Christy Ucheibe understood the assignment. Debbie was all over the place making critical interceptions, giving the Canadians a run for their money. Ucheibe gave a player of the match display in my opinion. If she keeps the tempo we'll surely have a great world cup campaign. Of importance is the fact that Debbie proved many here wrong who questioned her inclusion in the team.

6. Onomonu despite playing wide was great today. Despite her lack of pace, she was a torn in the flesh for the Canadian defence, and gave us our only shot on target. She was less effective in the second half cause Randy switched her position for Ordega to probably accommodate Ordega and of course it didn't work.

7. Osinachi Ohale put her entire body to work today. There was nothing else to give. She marshalled that defense like a general. Kudos to her.

8. Toni Payne is a fantastic player. A forward runs today eased pressure on our defence significantly. Something worth nothing also is that she's significantly improved our chances from scoring in set piece situations. She probably played all of our set pieces and not once did she fumble. I see is scoring from one of these situations in the next 2 games.

9. Ashleigh Plumtre had a good game, considering she was again played out of position. She obviously didn't fulfill a key full back role of helping launch attacks, but she was solid defensively. Canada rarely explored her wing as she was solid, Alozie's was were the deficiency was primarily.

10. Chiamaka Nnadozie. Nigeria's best goalkeeper both male and female. God bless whoever discovered her. Won't say much, being recognised as player of the match says it all.

11. Francisca Ordega should please sir out the next game. Yes she helped Alozie a couple of times defensively, but she failed in her primary role of launching the counter. She was moot offensively. When Asisat made that run, got past the goalkeeper and made the rash decision to attempt scoring, Ordega didn't help the situation as she was mostly watching and only started making a run after Asisat got past the goalkeeper. I've said here repeatedly that she isn't the same player anymore. The earlier we move on from.her the better.

12. Randy Waldrum. I'm not a fan, but he planned and executed today. That's what coaches do. You may not like the way the team played, but the fact that he got them to play how he wanted and they executed says a lot. Also big balls to have started Abiodun, the gamble worked. Kudos to him.

How we take dy watch ball
Canada is not an underdog in female football; it's a disrespect to the Super falcons to think Zambian's would have played better.....No na

Odogwujayy:
All in all, we still have a mid coach... I just have a hunch that the Zambians would have won this game. Whether 1st or 2nd we need to cm out the group.. Teams in group A are all beatable if we're to meet in the round of 16. Let's hope for a better performance against the hosts on Thursday.

Deltamani:
Woman of the match, without question, is Chiamaka Nnadozie. Fantabulous penalty save! 😘👍🏾

.....well deserved....her stock just went up, yesterdays price is not todays price.....with her at the back, i still believe we can get to the knock out stages, she is given Oliver Kahn of germanys vibes. There were plays yesterday that broke down between Onumonu and Oshoala, i do not know if there is a solution to that.

Fun Fact.

Do you know Chiamaka Nnadozie is the only Nigerian female Goalkeeper to have 2 clean sheets at the world cup. She currently has 2 clean sheets in 4 world cup games.

Zambia would have concede like 5 goals today

Jojodjo:
How we take dy watch ball
Canada is not an underdog in female football; it's a disrespect to the Super falcons to think Zambian's would have played better.....No na

FT: Spain 3-0 Costa Rica

[Campo 21' (og), Bonmatí 23', González 27']

Spain with a comfortable win as Zambia's Group C gets underway.

🇳🇬Deborah Abiodun apologize after getting sent off in today’s game.

Deltamani:
FT: Spain 3-0 Costa Rica

[Campo 21' (og), Bonmatí 23', González 27']

Spain with a comfortable win as Zambia's Group C gets underway.

Didn't we play Costa Rica 🇨🇷 in our series of friendly games leading to the world cup? I remember we played two south American teams. Although costa rica is central America

Idiko1:


I guess madness is a free gift in Nigeria. In the absence of head case, the bolded could not have been written in this context. The cream of the crop includes Chiamaka Nnadozie, Christy Ucheibe, Ashleigh Plumptre, Michelle Alozie, Osinachi Ohale and Uchenna Kanu.

Bros, why you funny like this?

BREAKING NEWS:🇿🇲🇿🇲🇿🇲🇿🇲

Zambian star, Grace chanda has been ruled out of the FIFA Women’s World Cup squad due to an unnamed illness.

Heartbreaking 💔

Deltamani:
BREAKING NEWS:🇿🇲🇿🇲🇿🇲🇿🇲

Zambian star, Grace chanda has been ruled out of the FIFA Women’s World Cup squad due to an unnamed illness.

Heartbreaking 💔

From my Source, The goalkeeper Nali and Chanda are not injured but have been kicked out of the team because they stood up against their FA for Match bonuses… Anyway the whole issue is around Money Money Money… I’m still trying to get better confirmation but I had to put this here first.


Hazel Nali,Grace Chanda and babra banda are on the knife edge by this FAZ for voicing out over allowances. Let’s Watch and see cause Babra Banda might be next.

Deltamani:


From my Source, The goalkeeper Nali and Chanda are not injured but have been kicked out of the team because they stood up against their FA for Match bonuses… Anyway the whole issue is around Money Money Money… I’m still trying to get better confirmation but I had to put this here first.


Hazel Nali,Grace Chanda and babra banda are on the knife edge by this FAZ for voicing out over allowances. Let’s Watch and see cause Babra Banda might be next.

How do you intentionally sabotage your own team. If this is really true then the girls should threaten boycott. Their current President is progressive and responsive so he would intervene.

Nali And Grace Chanda Were Singled Out As Ring
Leaders

.... Reported Knock Is Being Used As Scapegoat, But In Essence Is Retribution, For Her Stance On Player Allowances
Copper Queens goalkeeper Hazel Nali has been sent out of the team for allegedly leading a 'mutiny' over allowances that FAZ feel would have almost jeopardized the team's successful
Euro camp.
Nali and midfielder Grace Chanda were singled out as ring leaders among the senior players who were demanding clarity on their daily allowances.
A couple of days before Zambia played her first friendly against Ireland, the players demanded to be given their allowances some of which they claimed dated as far back as their participation at the Women's Africa Cup of Nations last July.
According to the players, those who participated at WAFCON are owed over K50, 000.
Instead of going forward with the match against Ireland, the plavers demanded claritv on the issues of allowances until FAZ general secretary Rueben Kamanga addressed them via a telephone call.
At that point, the players were asked to play the match and avoid a boycott after which funds would be credited to the accounts the following day.
True to the pledge by Kamanga, some funds were deposited the day after the Ireland friendly but only amounted to $500 (about K8500).

M7even:


Yeah. You might be right. Deborah probably needs to quickly understand that going foward in the national team her role will not be much of an offensive player as she played with the junior team. She need to start prepping her mind in the direction of a defensive midfield. Because when we look at her performance defensive-wise, I noticed she excelled quite well. She got the ball and distributes it perfectly well. I was looking at her with the idea that she is an offensive player with some deadly long ball shot. Barring the red card she did perform satisfactorily. She is being moulded to a form of kante like manner.

Does this mean that Christy's about to get a new role as CM or she's still.... Well at least under Randy sha.

Jojodjo:
Valid point but I think we lacked players on the bench who could press; be like na attack minded players dy pass

Stats of the threat by our forwards, i hope Randy is going to use it. Kanu came on and was an instant threat. I wish South Africa's mothlalo was playing for us. Oshoala needs one player from the middle that understand her. All her threatening moves were started by the full backs. I don't like that one bit.

Jojodjo:
With Ayinde, Ajibade and probably Oparanozie available for the next games, I'm optimistic of good pressing.

She sure needs their encouragement else her morale would be affected. She has done well.

We really miss Ajibade. Ordega didn't offer what i consider good enough.

ThePresenceWtf:


Michelle couldn't even bring down passes given to her....There was a play in the first half where we were 5v3 against Canada in their defensive 3rd, ball was played to her from Toni, she took like 6 touches before bringing the ball under control, by which then, the Canadian team had recovered their defensive positions to make it 5v7 and she had to make a back pass to Christy and it was intercepted...Lol. A simple control and cross or pass would have left Ordega, Onumonu, Oshoala, Deborah and Toni against Kadeisha, Gilles and Riviere.


Also Ahsley was cooking on that flank the whole first half, so she didn't have the opportunity to attack as often.

She puts herself under pressure and i don't like it. You don't do that to your team that deep. A team like Spain or Germany would capitalize and score asap. I still want her played as a forward anyway. This RB thing is obviously not her calling abeg.

Deltamani:
At least Uchenna Kanu still give Ashley Lawrence small… Another good thing is that a Nigerian have also been signed by PSG to replace her as she has left for Chelsea Ladies..

Kanu wasn’t tracking back like Ordega o

Danielnino00:

Kanu would be good... Oshoala should just stay in the centre...

As for Alozie, she was kinda unsettled today..to be honest,she's usually unsettled in defence.... I hope Nicole Payne hits it's fast at PSG...so we will finally have a natural right back . Alozie, IMO is being wasted at right back....

Oshoala at centre vs Oshoala at wing.... I prefer the latter. She never ever gets shots or shots on target when in the middle. She was isolated in the game and Like i complained during wafcon, our buildup play when we approach the box 18 is too poor. Once we reach 25yrds, this mentality of going solo just pops up and it's bad. See Canadan using pace and space to string us apart of not that we held on hard.

No box to box player that can quickly move the ball from defense to attack in the middle of the park