Goke7:
All these anti-oshimen peeps should take a chill, if he can't score, others will and that's why it's a team game.

No sane coach will bench his most dangerous forward even if he's not scoring, na for nairaland I dey hear such things

I don't even care so much about Osimhen scoring or not. Players like that find their scoring boots at the unlikeliest of times. I am happy about the work he does to create goal opportunities.

For instance, the pass he gave to Lookman in the Cameroon game, that goal was from his sheer grit, and then the goal Lookman scored against Angola mainly happened because Osimhen dragged along 3 Angolan defenders that were marking him and this opened Lookman.

Distractions like that also play a role in games. It is easier to score when defenders are not marking you.

Joezinho:


Na still third my sister. 😅😅😅

SA go still carry the 3rd

LOL

The way wey he talk am, you go think say we win tournament. Enyeama save 4 PK for Quarters, only to go chop goal wey eliminate us for Semis.

Even the third SA fit no see.

No point changing a winning team at the semi finals. Only thing I’d say is we need to sub out our players when they get tired. A fully charged Moffi for 20 mins is better than a tired Osimhen for 20 mins.

The time to have experimented was in our friendlies before AFCON or even in the last 30 mins against EQG.

Two 1-0 wins will bring us the title but of course, we’d all want a larger margin of victory.

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Curtisaxel17:


We are struggling to score. Lowest scoring side in the tourney at this stage.

remind us how Spain won the world cup in 2010, how many goals did the whole Spanish squared score..
Please remind us..

Goke7:


dead the matter, moffi is not better than oshimen, all na assumptions, make una rest. No more time for experiment.

moffi that came as a replacement for Sadiq Umar o!!.
Bar injuries, moffi would have not been in this team. I don't really get where all the noise about moffi is coming from.

safarigirl:


I don't even care so much about Osimhen scoring or not. Players like that find their scoring boots at the unlikeliest of times. I am happy about the work he does to create goal opportunities.

For instance, the pass he gave to Lookman in the Cameroon game, that goal was from his sheer grit, and then the goal Lookman scored against Angola mainly happened because Osimhen dragged along 3 Angolan defenders that were marking him and this opened Lookman.

Distractions like that also play a role in games. It is easier to score when defenders are not marking you.

exactly what I have been saying......

With our present set up, no other striker can perfectly replace osimhen, common! it's to glaring to see, but agenda must agend.

Everyone is entitled to their opinion sha

Curtisaxel17:


Yes we were. Last AFCON. We played sweet sexy football and smashed all the teams in our group with ease. Without Osimhen.

We would have beaten Tunisia too had Okoye not had his moment of madness.

Check all the games we fumbled recently or struggled to score. Whether against Ghana or our loss to Guinea Bissau in Abuja. Osimhen played.

but you comfortably forgot the last 2 World Cup qualifying games we played where your darling Moffi started one of them. I know what you are

Moniter0:
It is a palpable that those clamoring for Osimhen to be benched don't mean well for Nigeria and they know what they're trying to do.

They know they won't be taken seriously if they make it obvious like one of them have done, so they approach in the guise of wanting to improve the team but without genuine intensions.

But thank God that no weapon formed against the Super Eagles shall prosper.

I am not asking for Oshimen to be benched but his energy should be preserved in 70-80mins substitute him for Moffi.

Moffi is not that bad and will start for any of the 3 teams in this semis. A striker of his calibre is can replace a tired Oshimen for 20mins and play well.

Why keep bringing in Aribo that offer nothing to the midfield even Onyedika is way better

Osimhen score or not
We will still love him and chant his name
He will not sit on the bench
Who he pain make he go kill himself

Curtisaxel17:


We are struggling to score. Lowest scoring side in the tourney at this stage.

Maybe the level of the competition has improved. We are still not bad. Out of the last four teams, SE has 6 goals. Congo 6, South Africa 6 ( scored in 2 of their 5 matches), Ivory coast has 5 goals so far. These teams are all in semi finals.
Even at 2019 AFCON, we only scored 7 goals at semi final stage, and conceded 5.

Curtisaxel17:
If not for our defence's solid performances, people would have been forced to ask Victor Osimhen some very frank questions.

Some people make it look as if the SE was struggling to score goals before Osimhen came on the scene and improved our goalscoring prowess.

In reality, the reverse has been the case. Ighalo played with this same team in AFCON 2019 and won the Golden ball. Osimhen took charge and gave us only one goal in five matches plus plenty of offsides and big chances squandered. Same team o.

The only thing saving him is that our defence is pulling us to the finish line. Any day the defence stops working, Nigerians will analyze Osimhen without emotions.

Osimhen is a vital part of our team's defensive character. Our defensive exploits are not just down to the defenders, the team's structure and character as a unit plays the most part.

Joezinho:
I laugh when some people say that, without Osimhen, we wouldn’t have gotten to this stage of the competition. Are you guys playing? 😅😅

Put some respect on the names of your fvcking defenders!! Someone is even calling us ungrateful because of Osimhen.  😅😅

Our shots-on-target stats have been dismal in this competition so far. Even if he isn’t scoring, at least he should be hitting the targets ffs!!!

Some of y'all get high blood pressure whenever Osimhen is criticized but put the likes of furo iyenemi and uzoho for that defense and see if una body nor go don tell una..

Can you point out anyone that said the defenders are bad... We're talking about the attack last time I checked.

I bet you even lookman wouldn't cherish the idea of victor sitting on the bench because he knows what the benefits of his off-ball movements and workrate.

You guys are not getting it. Una just day watch match with emorions and zero observation.

1. some fans are having this pride of should osimhen not be scoring?, our African best, a whole african best. i think i can still reason with those fans(but then calm down its football and the guy is 100% active in al our games)
2. some fans here are just nothing but having beef for the guy, not really that they are not happy he is not scoring…they are very happy is not scoring..so that they can rub it on peoples faces that “i told you that guy na otu striker”
Lastly if you never believed the team will get this far just dont come and give us any ekuke analysis ir suggestions… just wait if we win the Afcon, divert your bad energy and attention to world cup and keep wishing the team bad…then if we sadly or unluckily lose to SA you can come out and laugh at us and say “i told you guys your eagles are fraud and carpenters “…for now the Association of super eagles fans dont need your dry opinion

At this stage of the Afcon all the teams have been training together for close to a month; that means the football is now almost like club football.
The team with the best players will win at this stage 8 out of 10 times barring unfortunate events like red cards and injuries to key players. That is why all the "underdogs" doing initial gra gra have been eliminated.

Do a South Africa/ Nigeria combined Eleven... Only the south African goal keeper will probably get in the team; we have the better players hands down, training together for almost a month! South Africa will need a miracle to drag us into penalty shoot outs which is a lottery.... That's the only way they stand a chance of winning.

komekn:


It's like people are afraid to say the obvious.

VO greatest strengths are his relentless, never stop work rate, the raw determination and blind rage he uses to play . He is like a man on a mission that overcomes his handicap by his unparalleled mental attitude and single minded aggressive force to succeed. In this regard he is the best.

However, against equally fast, physically stronger 💪🏿 more robust and highly determined black African muscle head defenders he is struggling.

World class players use techniques,skill, deceptive play to overcome obstacles. These are not the attributes of VO.

VO relies on his aforementioned unique attributes, it's not going to be very successful in the AFCON that's now proven.

It's time for Moffi to come and maybe Victor can come in as a substitute to replace him or even complement him as second striker. Right now AFCON defenders have read him , he does the same thing he is not unpredictable.

He is still absolutely essential but we need to try Moffi and see what he can do. It's avwin win if Moffi does nothing for 45 minutes.

Then unleash a refreshed and full of running with greater determination VO, for 45 minutes of non stop aggression I think he will score at least two in such circumstances.

Particularly as players always tire in the last 40 minutes of a match .

Before you write epistle Osimhen is like Rashidi in terms of footballing abilities abi Rashidi has technique? Can't even remember Rashidi dribbling that much. Osimhen has just been profligate. It has nothing to do "black African muscle".

And please quit this narrative about "black African muscle" which feeds into a certain stereotype of African football being all brawns and little brains. This Afcon has shown that African teams play technical and tactical football.

The Cameroon you hyped up as the archetypical jam-body team did not even play that way at all. We even bested them physically and booted them out. So catch up with the reality and forget this your washed out trope about African football.

komekn:


No coach is going to come into the public domain and say one of his players is not match fit.

But you quoted him saying Iheanacho is not match fit. Now you don change mouth

i sat in the viewing centre on Friday in our match vs Angola,i met a particular and typical Nairaland ekuke fans screaming “this our boys are F**king slow in build up and transition, Iwobi is rubbish midfielder always slowing game pace for us” bla bla bla, i confronted him and told him “Guy farabale!!! Guy resst!!…do you expect Nigeria to be running kitikiti katakata with the pacey angolans?…so as they are running at us we should be running back at them?”
na so we dey argue as we carry eyes up Iwobi don throw long pass that connect Moses Simon and boom weve scored…na so baba shut up!.

Like can we just chill and understand that we are not the best team in the world? and that we have a formula thats pulling us to a direction of success?

Starboytwo:
This is nothing but a joke sir. Bench Osimhen for Moffi?? Because of what? And why ??

Afcon semi final and you want Osimhen benched no be juju be that. I'm very very sure Tinubu will call NFF president and warn him of such madness.

Lol. You Wan bench our MESSI.

Shey you see them. Instead of starting Osimhen and then bringing in Moffi, they say Moffi should start. For crucial semi final ooo.

Emmy450:
90% luck?, LMAO.

Four penalty saves out of five is also 90% luck??.. he also went the right direction for the one he didn't save..

If penalties are 90% luck, then why do players train and device strategy to come out as winners?

If the south African goalie was so good that he's sure of saving four penalties in one match why is he playing in South Africa?

The very first time I played betting I won the "ticket".

In fact there was a day I played four "tickets" same day which I won three of them. But for the past four months I haven't won one bet slip!

And this is despite the fact that I even intensified my forecast and increased the amount of bet slips I play at a go.

This is equivalent to penalty shootouts.

It's 90% luck I didn't say 100%.

Hanibal:
At this stage of the Afcon all the teams have been training together for close to a month; that means the football is now almost like club football.
The team with the best players will win at this stage 8 out of 10 times barring unfortunate events like red cards and injuries to key players. That is why all the "underdogs" doing initial gra gra have been eliminated.

Do a South Africa/ Nigeria combined Eleven... Only the south African goal keeper will probably get in the team; we have the better players hands down, training together for almost a month! South Africa will need a miracle to drag us into penalty shoot outs which is a lottery.... That's the only way they stand a chance of winning.

gbam!…trust me SA go hear am…im happy with the way they qualified so they are very sure of beating us…like this now Nigeria is the biggest threat in the semifinal

minfelix:
i sat in the viewing centre on Friday in our match vs Angola,i met a particular and typical Nairaland ekuke fans screaming “this our boys are F**king slow in build up and transition, Iwobi is rubbish midfielder always slowing game pace for us” bla bla bla, i confronted him and told him “Guy farabale!!! Guy resst!!…do you expect Nigeria to be running kitikiti katakata with the pacey angolans?…so as they are running at us we should be running back at them?”
na so we dey argue as we carry eyes up Iwobi don throw long pass that connect Moses Simon and boom weve scored…na so baba shut up!.

Like can we just chill and understand that we are not the best team in the world? and that we have a formula thats pulling us to a direction of success?

Na sexy football and penetrating passes dem they find, watching epl weekly is the problem of most Nigerians. They can’t differentiate btw a league and a tournament.

minfelix:
i sat in the viewing centre on Friday in our match vs Angola,i met a particular and typical Nairaland ekuke fans screaming “this our boys are F**king slow in build up and transition, Iwobi is rubbish midfielder always slowing game pace for us” bla bla bla, i confronted him and told him “Guy farabale!!! Guy resst!!…do you expect Nigeria to be running kitikiti katakata with the pacey angolans?…so as they are running at us we should be running back at them?”
na so we dey argue as we carry eyes up Iwobi don throw long pass that connect Moses Simon and boom weve scored…na so baba shut up!.

Like can we just chill and understand that we are not the best team in the world? and that we have a formula thats pulling us to a direction of success?

Many Nigerians at viewing Centre na can talk rubbish. They watch EPL every week but hardly understand football.

na the one wey boldly come out and call all of us “Delusional fans” for supporting the carpenters and fraud eagles🤣 dey even baffle me🤦🏽‍♀️

The year France won the world cup, Giroud was the starting striker yet he didn't have a single shot on target. No be so?
Some people need to differentiate between tournament and league. In a tournament, all that matters is to progress till you get the cup. Nothing matters more than to win the match.

There are some players you just can't bench anyhow and Osimhen is one. My issue is the coach not subbing him off whenever he is tired. He already run down the opponent's defence for like 70 minutes. Bring in Moffi who is equally fast.

The issue is not beating SA. The issue is we have not won the next match after beating SA. Hopefully we will break the 'jink'.

At the end, all na talk. Nobody here has the power to influence anything

Mujtahida:

Many Nigerians at viewing Centre na can talk rubbish. They watch EPL every week but hardly understand football.

Another one was blaming Osimhen for allowing CAF to deflate his youthful exuberance, he said the doping testCAF had on him was what discouraged him from pressing the Angolans🤣🤣

mostob:
The issue is not beating SA. The issue is we have not won the next match after beating SA. Hopefully we will break the 'jink'.

except you will say in knock out stages…but for 2004 na 4-0 them chop and we went to next match beat Benin and proceed to also beat the pepper nation😁

Curtisaxel17:


We are struggling to score. Lowest scoring side in the tourney at this stage.

we must be watching different tournaments at this point

comodo:

It's called Past Impossible tense.

minfelix:


Another one was blaming Osimhen for allowing CAF to deflate his youthful exuberance, he said the doping testCAF had on him was what discouraged him from pressing the Angolans🤣🤣

Shebi you dey hear nonsense talk