safarigirl:
Please, you people should leave Iwobi alone and leave these players alone

You could tell from the Cameroon game that they were getting tired and the coach didn't think to allow them rest.

They were running on barely any fuel by the time we played Angola and just dragged tired legs to the finals. The rotation was poor, players like Raphael Onyedika were barely allowed to play.

I didn't even know CIV had Kessie and Haller until Round of 16. I had forgotten they were on the team. So, they had enough strength to carry through the remaining 4 games against a tired side in Nigeria.

Everytime you people want a scapegoat from one of the players. Last time, Okoye was the easy one, but as he no dey again, we're back to our favourite scapegoat Iwobi.

Iwobi is bad, Iwobi is bad, yet the two times we conceded vital goals, Iwobi was not on the pitch. Make una better go find who dey do una.

I'm seeing niggas dropping Nwakali as usual, una don dey drop Nwakali name for the last 5 years, shebi he sef play for the last AFCON, wetin we win for there? And since then, dem don ghost him papa, yet, una no go gree us hear word with him name. Nwakali in big 2024.....abeg abeg abeg.

From your last paragraph, all I can see is yen yen yen yen yen yen yen yen yen yen yen...

chrisooblog:
You've made very solid and logical points.

The only point I would chip in is that I feel JP should have risked playing a three man midfield to push Iwobi further up the pitch to add creativity and help repel the relentless Ivorians who had a field day in the midfield.

The only game we saw a semblance of Iwobi's creativity was when we played three midfielders against Equitorial Guinea. I understand fans frustration with Alex's overall midfield performance in this AFCON but he was clearly a square peg in a round hole because JP didn't manage his midfield options well in my opinion. Is he saying Onyedika was that poor? If so why did he call him up? Even Yusuf that wasn't in his plans at all got games.

Blame the NFF not Pasiero.

When the desirable is not available the available becomes desirable, ( make do)

Kog45:
A very good tournament for Nigeria and time to reflect on how to fix the team up for WC qualification.It is time to give the likes of Akinsanmiro and Eletu the chance cuz it was glaring we couldn't controlled our games in the middle in all our matches.

SE coaches will say Akinsanmiro and Eletu are too young.

SE haven't given Onyedika, Tijani any chance and Yusuf until this tournament wasn't invited.

Once Ndidi recovers the SE coaches will send Onyeka to the bench instead of playing a midfield of iwobi, Onyeka and Ndidi they won't invite one of Onyeka, Onyedika or Yusuf after this AFCON anymore.

If we address some of the changes that many of you have briliantly mooted on this forum in due time, we can make a Senegal-esque comeback and win the next edition. It is totally possible with this squad.

safarigirl:



Another person being foolish.

Your country imports everything from laptops to toothpicks, every single thing is in dollar rate in this country and it affects the buying and selling.

Take this foolishness to nursery school children, don't chat rubbish were adults are

Nigeria is not the only one that imports laptops and toothpicks that is as a result of the 1960 generation not been into science and technology and engineering..

komekn:


Balderdash and Codswallop.

Charity begins at home in your club and league. Let him do it in the very poor Portuguese relegation zone were his team Chavez have remained since the league started.

Last game he was the worst player in the team according to Google ratings. He was playing RW, if lowly Chavez don't trust him in the midfield.

Then we should believe him to do wonders in the SE midfield, that's delusional.

Do you think Joe Aribo merits further call ups?

chrisooblog:
We over achieved. We don't have the best set of players on the continent.

Yes we are blessed in some areas like the attack but let's not be dishonest going into the competition we complained about how poor our goalkeeping, defense and midfield was.

So don't make it sound like we were run away favorites.

The performance of the defense and Nwabali pleasantly surprised us that almost had us winning the trophy.

Nigeria is always a contender at the AFCON like Egypt, Cameroon and Ghana but that's not always a guarantee we will win all the time.

Our squad selection was poor, we cannot run away from that.

Too many passengers and motivational speakers no quality depth.

We need to replace some players and bring in those that missed out due to injury and new players.

This is my own.

GK Francis Uzoho - Maduka Okoye
GK Olorunleke - Adebayo Adeleye
GK Stanley Nwabili
DF Ola Aina
DF Zaidu Sanusi
DF William Troost-Ekong
DF Semi Ajayi
DF Bright Osayi-Samuel
DF Bruno Onyemaechi - Patrick Dorgu
DF Chidozie Awaziem - Tosin Adarabioyo
DF Calvin Bassey
DF Kenneth Omeruo
MF Alhassan Yusuf - Carney Chukwuemeka
MF Joe Aribo - Micheal Olise
MF Moses Simon
MF Alex Iwobi
MF Raphael Onyedika - Wilfred Ndidi
FW Ahmed Musa - Nathan Tella
FW Victor Osimhen
FW Samuel Chukwueze
FW Kelechi Iheanacho
FW Ademola Lookma
FW Paul Onuachu - Taiwo Awoniyi
FW Terem Moffi - Victor Boniface

I can't remember another for now. If you can, please drop and show me who you want to drop.

akwesenana:
Do you think Joe Aribo merits further call ups?

No

The two have a share of the blame more so JP cause he didn't do enough to scout for new midfielders. Nwabali that he discovered na fight cos left to him Uzoho would have been in goal.

Rohr for all his faults always tried bringing in and integrating fresh players.

I mean you took a player like Bruno and Raphael to a tournament and didn't give them minutes are they that bad?

komekn:


Blame the NFF not Pasiero.

When the desirable is not available the available becomes desirable, ( make do)

safarigirl:


You get?

I don't know why empathy is such a foreign concept to fans.

Do they think they're more affected by the loss than players themselves? These tournaments are part of the players careers, they are used in their profiles and used to judge the success of the career. You wey no dey pitch, no fit dey more interested in the win than the people who give 90 minutes of their sweat on that pitch, so, to pile on them on top their own feelings of failure is wicked.

The players gave their all. Peseiro made the selection of players. Peseiro decided the game plan and managed the game. Peseiro can't give what he does not have. The NFF takes the whole blame. Let them right their wrongs by giving us a good coach and paying salaries when due.

safarigirl:


Competition that y'all have only won 3 times in about 35 years of competing?

You must think you're Egypt.

Ma'am you will do well to ignore that guy, he isn't worth it,

I had been reading all those misyarn he had been dropping, and SMH, without much ado, you will forgive me, If I say he is the true definition of plastic Fans

komekn:


When teams face a skilful fast forward player known to cause danger you always DOUBLE UP. Have you ever seen defenders allowing Mbappe, Ronaldo, Zaha etc to go 1v1 on your defense.

Aina had Adingra mostly covered in the first half even the first 25 minutes of the second half . But he was having too many 1v1 Chukwueze was not able to go forward and should have been backtracking. By the second half our boys were getting exhausted and completely gassed out, too much work.

Our midfielders were outnumbered and out skilled in the most negative defensive posture you can find. We could not win any second balls.

If Iwobi was placed much closer to VO and in a more forward position it may have been different. But he was playing DM and conceded the midfield.

I was surprised Onyeka was not sent off because he was working tirelessly and getting several fouls. Particularly because the referee was clearly biased. He stifled VO aggressive game with wrong calls against him and warned him.

From the get go any physical touch with the CIV players and they are rolling around like you hit them with a sledge hammer ⚒️.

This was made worse with our negative defensive posture literally inviting CIV to attack non stops 🛑

I even felt Aina did well against Adingra despite being left alone against him without the wing forward helping him out while Ivory's midfield controlled the play and constantly set free their wingers. Despite that, Aina ensured Adingra was reduced to only crossing few times but like you stated, Aina was left alone against him without much help from the wing forward in front of him.

If the midfield had controlled the play, ivory would have been reduced to nothing and wouldn't have worried Nigeria's defence much. The defence failed to deal with the corner kick set piece and a late cross before Haller's goal.

komekn:


When teams face a skilful fast forward player known to cause danger you always DOUBLE UP. Have you ever seen defenders allowing Mbappe, Ronaldo, Zaha etc to go 1v1 on your defense.

Aina had Adingra mostly covered in the first half even the first 25 minutes of the second half . But he was having too many 1v1 Chukwueze was not able to go forward and should have been backtracking. By the second half our boys were getting exhausted and completely gassed out, too much work.

Our midfielders were outnumbered and out skilled in the most negative defensive posture you can find. We could not win any second balls.

If Iwobi was placed much closer to VO and in a more forward position it may have been different. But he was playing DM and conceded the midfield.

I was surprised Onyeka was not sent off because he was working tirelessly and getting several fouls. Particularly because the referee was clearly biased. He stifled VO aggressive game with wrong calls against him and warned him.

From the get go any physical touch with the CIV players and they are rolling around like you hit them with a sledge hammer ⚒️.

This was made worse with our negative defensive posture literally inviting CIV to attack non stops 🛑

I even felt Aina did well against Adingra despite being left alone against him without the wing forward helping Aina out while Ivory's midfield controlled the play and constantly set free their wingers. Despite that, Aina ensured Adingra was reduced to only crossing few times but like you stated, Aina was left alone against him without much help from the wing forward in front of him.

If the midfield had controlled the play, ivory would have been reduced to nothing and wouldn't have worried Nigeria's defence much. The defence failed to deal with the corner kick set piece and a late cross before Haller's goal.

komekn:


When teams face a skilful fast forward player known to cause danger you always DOUBLE UP. Have you ever seen defenders allowing Mbappe, Ronaldo, Zaha etc to go 1v1 on your defense.

Aina had Adingra mostly covered in the first half even the first 25 minutes of the second half . But he was having too many 1v1 Chukwueze was not able to go forward and should have been backtracking. By the second half our boys were getting exhausted and completely gassed out, too much work.

Our midfielders were outnumbered and out skilled in the most negative defensive posture you can find. We could not win any second balls.

If Iwobi was placed much closer to VO and in a more forward position it may have been different. But he was playing DM and conceded the midfield.

I was surprised Onyeka was not sent off because he was working tirelessly and getting several fouls. Particularly because the referee was clearly biased. He stifled VO aggressive game with wrong calls against him and warned him.

From the get go any physical touch with the CIV players and they are rolling around like you hit them with a sledge hammer ⚒️.

This was made worse with our negative defensive posture literally inviting CIV to attack non stops 🛑

I even felt Aina did well against Adingra despite being left alone against him without the wing forward helping out Aina tracking back while Ivory's midfield controlled the play and constantly set free their wingers. Despite that, Aina ensured Adingra was reduced to only crossing few times but like you stated, Aina was left alone against him without much help from the wing forward in front of him.

If the midfield had controlled the play, ivory would have been reduced to nothing and wouldn't have worried Nigeria's defence much. The defence failed to deal with the corner kick set piece and a late cross before Haller's goal.

forgiveness:
We need to replace some players and bring in those that missed out due to injury and new players.

This is my own.

GK Francis Uzoho - Maduka Okoye
GK Olorunleke - Adebayo Adeleye
GK Stanley Nwabili
DF Ola Aina
DF Zaidu Sanusi
DF William Troost-Ekong
DF Semi Ajayi
DF Bright Osayi-Samuel
DF Bruno Onyemaechi - Patrick Dorgu
DF Chidozie Awaziem - Tosin Adarabioyo
DF Calvin Bassey
DF Kenneth Omeruo
MF Alhassan Yusuf
MF Joe Aribo - Micheal Olise
MF Moses Simon
MF Alex Iwobi
MF Raphael Onyedika - Wilfred Ndidi
FW Ahmed Musa - Nathan Tella
FW Victor Osimhen
FW Samuel Chukwueze
FW Kelechi Iheanacho
FW Ademola Lookma
FW Paul Onuachu - Taiwo Awoniyi
FW Terem Moffi - Victor Boniface

I can't remember another for now. If you can, please drop and show me who you want to drop.

Weytin Chuks still dey do dia??

komekn:


When teams face a skilful fast forward player known to cause danger you always DOUBLE UP. Have you ever seen defenders allowing Mbappe, Ronaldo, Zaha etc to go 1v1 on your defense.

Aina had Adingra mostly covered in the first half even the first 25 minutes of the second half . But he was having too many 1v1 Chukwueze was not able to go forward and should have been backtracking. By the second half our boys were getting exhausted and completely gassed out, too much work.

Our midfielders were outnumbered and out skilled in the most negative defensive posture you can find. We could not win any second balls.

If Iwobi was placed much closer to VO and in a more forward position it may have been different. But he was playing DM and conceded the midfield.

I was surprised Onyeka was not sent off because he was working tirelessly and getting several fouls. Particularly because the referee was clearly biased. He stifled VO aggressive game with wrong calls against him and warned him.

From the get go any physical touch with the CIV players and they are rolling around like you hit them with a sledge hammer ⚒️.

This was made worse with our negative defensive posture literally inviting CIV to attack non stops 🛑

I even felt Aina did well against Adingra despite being left alone against him without the wing forward helping out Aina tracking back while Ivory's midfield controlled the play and constantly set free their wingers. Despite that, Aina ensured Adingra was reduced to only crossing few times but like you stated, Aina was constantly left alone 1 on 1 against without much help from the wing forward in front of Aina.

If the midfield had controlled the play, ivory would have been reduced to nothing and wouldn't have worried Nigeria's defence much. The defence failed to deal with the corner kick set piece and a late cross before Haller's goal.

komekn:


When teams face a skilful fast forward player known to cause danger you always DOUBLE UP. Have you ever seen defenders allowing Mbappe, Ronaldo, Zaha etc to go 1v1 on your defense.

Aina had Adingra mostly covered in the first half even the first 25 minutes of the second half . But he was having too many 1v1 Chukwueze was not able to go forward and should have been backtracking. By the second half our boys were getting exhausted and completely gassed out, too much work.

Our midfielders were outnumbered and out skilled in the most negative defensive posture you can find. We could not win any second balls.

If Iwobi was placed much closer to VO and in a more forward position it may have been different. But he was playing DM and conceded the midfield.

I was surprised Onyeka was not sent off because he was working tirelessly and getting several fouls. Particularly because the referee was clearly biased. He stifled VO aggressive game with wrong calls against him and warned him.

From the get go any physical touch with the CIV players and they are rolling around like you hit them with a sledge hammer ⚒️.

This was made worse with our negative defensive posture literally inviting CIV to attack non stops 🛑

I even felt Aina did well against Adingra despite being left alone against him without the wing forward helping out Aina tracking back while Ivory's midfield controlled the play and constantly set free their wingers. Despite that, Aina ensured Adingra was reduced to only crossing few times but like you stated, Aina was constantly left alone 1 v 1 against without much help from the wing forward in front of Aina.

If the midfield had controlled the play, ivory would have been reduced to nothing and wouldn't have worried Nigeria's defence much. The defence failed to deal with the corner kick set piece and a late cross before Haller's goal.

komekn:


When teams face a skilful fast forward player known to cause danger you always DOUBLE UP. Have you ever seen defenders allowing Mbappe, Ronaldo, Zaha etc to go 1v1 on your defense.

Aina had Adingra mostly covered in the first half even the first 25 minutes of the second half . But he was having too many 1v1 Chukwueze was not able to go forward and should have been backtracking. By the second half our boys were getting exhausted and completely gassed out, too much work.

Our midfielders were outnumbered and out skilled in the most negative defensive posture you can find. We could not win any second balls.

If Iwobi was placed much closer to VO and in a more forward position it may have been different. But he was playing DM and conceded the midfield.

I was surprised Onyeka was not sent off because he was working tirelessly and getting several fouls. Particularly because the referee was clearly biased. He stifled VO aggressive game with wrong calls against him and warned him.

From the get go any physical touch with the CIV players and they are rolling around like you hit them with a sledge hammer ⚒️.

This was made worse with our negative defensive posture literally inviting CIV to attack non stops 🛑

I even felt Aina did well against Adingra despite being left alone against him without the wing forward helping out Aina to track back while Cote d'Ivoire's midfield mostly controlled the play and constantly set free their wingers. Despite that, Aina ensured Adingra was reduced to only crossing few times but like we all saw, Aina was constantly left alone 1 v 1 against him without much help from the wing forward in front of Aina.

If the midfield had controlled the play, Cote d'Ivoire would have been reduced to nothing and wouldn't have worried Nigeria's defence much. The defence failed to deal with the corner kick set piece and a late cross before Haller's goal.

I will not completely rule out Raphael and Bruno because they have not been given a fair run to prove how good or 'useless' they are.

Not sure if Olise will play for SE but Tosin will be a great addition.

Who's Dorgu.

forgiveness:
We need to replace some players and bring in those that missed out due to injury and new players.

This is my own.

GK Francis Uzoho - Maduka Okoye
GK Olorunleke - Adebayo Adeleye
GK Stanley Nwabili
DF Ola Aina
DF Zaidu Sanusi
DF William Troost-Ekong
DF Semi Ajayi
DF Bright Osayi-Samuel
DF Bruno Onyemaechi - Patrick Dorgu
DF Chidozie Awaziem - Tosin Adarabioyo
DF Calvin Bassey
DF Kenneth Omeruo
MF Alhassan Yusuf
MF Joe Aribo - Micheal Olise
MF Moses Simon
MF Alex Iwobi
MF Raphael Onyedika - Wilfred Ndidi
FW Ahmed Musa - Nathan Tella
FW Victor Osimhen
FW Samuel Chukwueze
FW Kelechi Iheanacho
FW Ademola Lookma
FW Paul Onuachu - Taiwo Awoniyi
FW Terem Moffi - Victor Boniface

I can't remember another for now. If you can, please drop and show me who you want to drop.

Meliforme:
The players gave their all. Peseiro made the selection of players. Peseiro decided the game plan and managed the game. Peseiro can't give what he does not have. The NFF takes the whole blame. Let them right their wrongs by giving us a good coach and paying salaries when due.

It's not about a good Coach bros, And I think that's the reason Pinnick appointed both Randy and JP as managers respectively,

And if you look closely, you will notice those 2 coaches going through same pattern of results

do4luv14:




It's not about a good Coach bros, And I think that's the reason Pinnick appointed both Randy and JP as managers respectively,

And if you look closely, you will notice those 2 coaches going through same pattern of results

Tell me what it is all about, if it is not about a good coach.

do4luv14:



Weytin Chuks still dey do dia??

He's got talent but needs a coach to guide him. If e no improve, then we fit commot am.

chrisooblog:
I will not completely rule out Raphael and Bruno because they have not been given a fair run to prove how good or 'useless' they are.

Not sure if Olise will play for SE but Tosin will be a great addition.

Who's Dorgu.

My pick is for next year. Dorgu plays for Lecce. He is a left back. Very good player.

If we get Oliseh, chaiiiiiiiiiiiii.

Nigeria just need a midfielder who can control the play. That was what turned it around for Ivory coast for example (Seri).

I don't know who can do that for Nigeria. But I feel Aribo can. He did that in the last afcon for example. He also controlled much of the play against Guinea Bissau although he wasn't audacious by creating much like he did in the last afcon, considering it was his first start in the tournament however, he controlled the play while Guinea Bissau could only feed on little scrap before he left the pitch. Another I feel can do such is Onyedika since he's a holding midfielder who tends to provide passing option for the defence as a holding midfielder. So both combo should be able to control the play at least.

Meliforme:
Tell me what it is all about, if it is not about a good coach.

Patterm of play Sir,

Do we have any

forgiveness:


He's got talent but needs a coach to guide him. If e no improve, then we fit commot am.

He should excuse himself from NT and work on that,

He had been doing same things over and over again, If he is serious, he would had employ a part-time Coach to epp improve his play,

Nothing anybody wan tell me! Super Eagles 🦅 have made me proud! We need to build on this squad unity we've unlocked 🔓 at this AFCON, at least the boys no dey play selfish games again. 95% of Nigerians didn't expect them to cross the group stages, and they got to the finals! No need to blame anybody.

I don block two people wey drop laughing emojis for my WhatsApp after I posted "nice tournament boys, we move"

God bless real fans of the Super Eagles, not wereyyyy punters that'll come and pour frustrations on people they can't talk to if they meet face to face. 🇳🇬🦅🥈⚽

chrisooblog:
Morocco with their Europe based star players were knocked out by home based SA players but I should lose sleep because the host country also full of quality Europe based players defeated us in a hard fought match?

Ok.

u get time dey reply person wey dey reason from em anus 🤣🤣🤣🤣

do4luv14:



He should excuse himself from NT and work on that,

He had been doing same things over and over again, If he is serious, he would had employ a part-time Coach to epp improve his play,

Maybe we bring in noni Madukwe

Meliforme:
The coach's game plan limited Iwobi. Peseiro's plan was to loop the ball from the defense to attack and the midfield to try recover the ball when it didn't get through, that might be the reason Onyeka had a more advanced role: to recover the ball and make forward drives, since he has more pace and is also better defensively. Iwobi's role wasn't as loud, that's why many didn't notice.

So what was Iwobi's role the then?

I'm sure JP and the entire team would be glad if Iwobi at least tried to engage himself in the midfield. He was just shying away from duels. How often do you even see Iwobi do that. The guy is just overrated. Prime Iwobi was far better

Our defense was helpless all game. Midfield was zero. Osimhen was purely starved. No presence and stability in midfield. Iwobi was just like a shadow. I doubt this would have happened if Alhassan and Chuks were brought in earlier.

MetalJigsaw:
So what was Iwobi's role the then?

I'm sure JP and the entire team would be glad if Iwobi at least tried to engage himself in the midfield. He was just shying away from duels. How often do you even see Iwobi do that. The guy is just overrated. Prime Iwobi was far better

dem go explain tire