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Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2027, 2028 And 2030 World Cup by minfelix(m): 8:07am On Oct 12, 2024
TheGoodJoe:
My absolute favorite from the great Yaya Toure. Although his class is on another level but it gives a clear idea on how to deal with low blocks.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=49tHWw_lero
i watched zambia vs CIV final2012 Afcon..the ivorian with all their star men tried all they could to break down the zambians with both outside shot,wing play and one-two passes…no one worked
Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2027, 2028 And 2030 World Cup by Odunayaw(m): 8:07am On Oct 12, 2024
PDPGuy:
Meanwhile, many 32 year olds in a certain African country are struggling to get by on a mere N85,000 per month shocked
Hope you know majority of Americans don't make $60k/yr

Football money is not what you use to knock people
Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2027, 2028 And 2030 World Cup by minfelix(m): 8:08am On Oct 12, 2024
AndSunGorilla:
To go continue sh,,,t now grin
two of una don high(rizler)
Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2027, 2028 And 2030 World Cup by lbrichman2: 8:09am On Oct 12, 2024
solonnachi:
Guys please I want to ask who tipped that ball for Lookman for that disallowed goal? That was a measured classy tip
Chukwueze
Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2027, 2028 And 2030 World Cup by lbrichman2: 8:11am On Oct 12, 2024
Mujtahida:
How will he impress you with his tactics when from your first sentence it is obvious you misinterpreted his tactics. He played 4-3-3 not 4-2-3-1. Iwobi played his natural AM role, Onyeka was the CM and Ndidi the DM.

He will only impress you when he plays Ejuke 😏😏
Exactly
AE was impressive yesterday
Anyone can say what they like
Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2027, 2028 And 2030 World Cup by MetalJigsaw(m): 8:15am On Oct 12, 2024
lbrichman2:
If iwobi had converted one of those chances, we won't be having this conversation
Iwobi has a very weak shot.
Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2027, 2028 And 2030 World Cup by lbrichman2: 8:17am On Oct 12, 2024
I hope Ejuke was watching Simon keenly yesterday
Simon delivered a classic on wing play and that was amazing education for Ejuke, if he cared to pay attention
I hope Ejuke gets a few minutes on Tuesday, let's see if he's learned anything
Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2027, 2028 And 2030 World Cup by lbrichman2: 8:18am On Oct 12, 2024
MetalJigsaw:
Iwobi has a very weak shot.
If he learns to bend his shots or add placement to his game, it would improve his goal scoring
Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2027, 2028 And 2030 World Cup by minfelix(m): 8:40am On Oct 12, 2024
GMBOFASIA:
Rest we played well if lookman goal was not robbed we would have won 2-0 what other scoreline do you want

Leave this osihmen this osimhen that he was at last afcon what else happened?
oga na fun fact i drop…na u suppose rest and not been too serious…check all my points here im of the opinion that we played well without him…im only highlighting goal scoring abilities of other point men(number 9) strikers during qualifiers.
Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2027, 2028 And 2030 World Cup by SamueItem337(m): 8:43am On Oct 12, 2024
solonnachi:
Guys please I want to ask who tipped that ball for Lookman for that disallowed goal? That was a measured classy tip
That should be bruno


Modified: Just watched it again
Its Chukwueze
Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2027, 2028 And 2030 World Cup by Starboytwo(m): 8:44am On Oct 12, 2024
Omo, I woke up and still angry and mad at the Libyans. God, I'm so happy we won. If not.

And I've successfully added Libya to my black book, just under South Africa.

While sitting, frustrated, in my low tactical mind, I was wondering how we would penetrate this Libyans. Not like they are particularly good, they not. But they tight as fist. Kilode. No single space. At one time I no see Lookman again. You people should leave Boniface, nothing he fit do that yesterday. Na only Osimhen, maybe Emenike fit try something for that match...

Iwobi should be burying that volley. I saw the replay and wonder why he couldn't bend it well. He had few seconds to execute whatever he gotta do. We can't miss such chances at all at all.

Chukwueze - ok, you can't use right, but you cut to your prefered left and still pass ball to keeper. I was really angry at him. That was the goal we needed gan gan. I can forgive Iwobi, I can't forgive that. You cut to the left, bend it to the far corner. Simple as ABC.

Crosses. Our crosses were damn poor. Libyans were comfortable with us crossing it. Cuz it's all futile, weak, and non threatening.

Bashiru. This guy is our lampard. He has plenty more to score for us. He first Baloon one shot go heaven. But he came through, spare our blushes and gave ve us the goal. Wahrah lawon Libya yen. We thank you...

Libyans- I pray we don't meet them ever again. They should carry their guerilla tactics go front.
Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2027, 2028 And 2030 World Cup by minfelix(m): 8:44am On Oct 12, 2024
komekn:
So when VO played all the games in the LAST AFCON and scored one goal 🥅 it was his ghost playing not VO himself
atleast when he was there at the afcon, his fellow strike partner(Lookman) was doing doing the damage, it wasn’t asif one midfielder abi defender was popping out of no where to come and nick in a goal in the run of play…
But the team played well without him yesterday, just that strikers replacing him are still yet to turn up
Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2027, 2028 And 2030 World Cup by villagereporter(m): 8:47am On Oct 12, 2024
humility33:
We scoring in the close of 80 mins by sub player doesn't obliterate the fact that the super eagles need a sound tactician

Look through the team whenever oshimen is not playing the super eagles struggles

Imagine a match with no oshimen and lookman the team will struggle more

We are looking at the need for AE to change tactics instead of bringing in crosses into the opponent 18 yard box in situations where they parked the Box why not encourage your players to shot from outside the 18yard box.

The fact that we won this match doesn't remove the fact that the scoreline wasn't impressive and we should have done better

So those advocating for a sound foreign tactician haven't done anything wrong
......but will d fool federation gives us one, or don't you think we need to stick to what is available? After all d players didn't do badly if not for referee shunt officiating Nigeria would have recorded at least 2goals minus d clear penalty denied the SE.
Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2027, 2028 And 2030 World Cup by Mujtahida: 8:47am On Oct 12, 2024
Odunayaw:
Even his goal against same country in Ndola. He got a similar opportunity yesterday and ballooned it.

Can't these guys afford a personal trainer for this kind of things
Some elements of our game are up to the players themselves.
Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2027, 2028 And 2030 World Cup by Amedino99(m): 8:55am On Oct 12, 2024
Starboytwo:
Omo, I woke up and still angry and mad at the Libyans. God, I'm so happy we won. If not.

And I've successfully added Libya to my black book, just under South Africa.

While sitting, frustrated, in my low tactical mind, I was wondering how we would penetrate this Libyans. Not like they are particularly good, they not. But they tight as fist. Kilode. No single space. At one time I no see Lookman again. You people should leave Boniface, nothing he fit do that yesterday. Na only Osimhen, maybe Emenike fit try something for that match...

Iwobi should be burying that volley. I saw the replay and wonder why he couldn't bend it well. He had few seconds to execute whatever he gotta do. We can't miss such chances at all at all.

Chukwueze - ok, you can't use right, but you cut to your prefered left and still pass ball to keeper. I was really angry at him. That was the goal we needed gan gan. I can forgive Iwobi, I can't forgive that. You cut to the left, bend it to the far corner. Simple as ABC.

Crosses. Our crosses were damn poor. Libyans were comfortable with us crossing it. Cuz it's all futile, weak, and non threatening.

Bashiru. This guy is our lampard. He has plenty more to score for us. He first Baloon one shot go heaven. But he came through, spare our blushes and gave ve us the goal. Wahrah lawon Libya yen. We thank you...

Libyans- I pray we don't meet them ever again. They should carry their guerilla tactics go front.
that lookman line is true. i was not free to watch the match due to work so i went in and out most times. when chukwueze entered and i watched the match for like 10 minutes i thought lookman was the one substituted by the coach because i didnt see him at all
Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2027, 2028 And 2030 World Cup by lbrichman2: 8:59am On Oct 12, 2024
Starboytwo:
Omo, I woke up and still angry and mad at the Libyans. God, I'm so happy we won. If not.

And I've successfully added Libya to my black book, just under South Africa.

While sitting, frustrated, in my low tactical mind, I was wondering how we would penetrate this Libyans. Not like they are particularly good, they not. But they tight as fist. Kilode. No single space. At one time I no see Lookman again. You people should leave Boniface, nothing he fit do that yesterday. Na only Osimhen, maybe Emenike fit try something for that match...

Iwobi should be burying that volley. I saw the replay and wonder why he couldn't bend it well. He had few seconds to execute whatever he gotta do. We can't miss such chances at all at all.

Chukwueze - ok, you can't use right, but you cut to your prefered left and still pass ball to keeper. I was really angry at him. That was the goal we needed gan gan. I can forgive Iwobi, I can't forgive that. You cut to the left, bend it to the far corner. Simple as ABC.

Crosses. Our crosses were damn poor. Libyans were comfortable with us crossing it. Cuz it's all futile, weak, and non threatening.

Bashiru. This guy is our lampard. He has plenty more to score for us. He first Baloon one shot go heaven. But he came through, spare our blushes and gave ve us the goal. Wahrah lawon Libya yen. We thank you...

Libyans- I pray we don't meet them ever again. They should carry their guerilla tactics go front.
That's all at the bolded
Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2027, 2028 And 2030 World Cup by lbrichman2: 9:04am On Oct 12, 2024
At some point in the match yesterday, if felt like we were watching Man City..
Wave after wave after wave of attacks..

I love the spirit and attitude AE has inspired in the team
They just kept going
They kept believing
And it popped!!

Big confidence boost!
Looks we're going on a 15-20 game unbeaten run
Because I don't see this team losing anytime soon
Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2027, 2028 And 2030 World Cup by Subzerooo: 9:04am On Oct 12, 2024
We usually dog on left footed players like Chukwueze for not using their right but this usually comes from a place of bias lol because how many right footed can comfortably shoot with thier left
Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2027, 2028 And 2030 World Cup by lbrichman2: 9:11am On Oct 12, 2024
Subzerooo:
We usually dog on left footed players like Chukwueze for not using their right but this usually comes from a place of bias lol because how many right footed can comfortably shoot with thier left
If Lookman's goal had stood yesterday, we would have been singing Chuks's praises now
Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2027, 2028 And 2030 World Cup by Goke7: 9:24am On Oct 12, 2024
lexyman:
Nwabali excites a lot of people this evening with that delay tactics ... d same Nwabali that you almost broke his head ...when Nigeria drew . can we all learn to appreciate this guys for ones ?
We are a sentimental people jare I was one of the people here defending nwabali in that Rwanda game but for his antics Rwanda would have ran away with a slim win as they were getting more confident towards the end. Something we see all over Europe but we condemn it when it’s us, smh
Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2027, 2028 And 2030 World Cup by Starboytwo(m): 9:40am On Oct 12, 2024
Haha, thinking about it now, I can only laugh.

I noticed the Libyan keeper started wasting time as early as the 30th minute. In my mind, I was like, na wa oo, ball never even start. Later on, I saw it was a coordinated tactics, more like, let's just get through this first half unscathed.. OK.

Something funny happend in the 2nd half. When the Libyan goalkeeper "died" for about 8 minutes or so. A man who sat in front of me was complaining, they should change their keeper na, surely this guy can't continue, etc. The man shouted when game restarted and same keeper continued. Na now him understand the tactics...

The best part of the game was actually the end part. I could see a smile on the referree face when he blew final whistle at 3 min 54 sec of the 4 minutes Xtra time... I could imagine their conversation..

Libya player 1 - - haa ref, fear Allah. What kind of officiating is this.. (Gesturing with four fingers) only 4 minutes. Kai this is ojoro

Libya player 2 - - haa ref, despite all the time we wasted. Our keeper almost died and we had to resuscitate him, yet you gave 4 minutes added time. You definitely collect money.

Ref - - ori baba yin ti yii. Eyin wahrah gbogbo...
Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2027, 2028 And 2030 World Cup by ChrisKels: 9:46am On Oct 12, 2024
I dislike it when we play without names on our shirts, but that said, this jersey is beautiful.

Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2027, 2028 And 2030 World Cup by 7demons: 9:53am On Oct 12, 2024
solonnachi:
Please don't say that. Iwobi gave killer passes yesterday. Haba bros.
He gave killer passes because we were playing offensive. What if we were playing defensive?
Maybe you have forgotten the memories of last AFCON finals.
Don't worry, you will prove me right when the World Cup Qualifiers start next year with the real serious teams.
Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2027, 2028 And 2030 World Cup by Danielnino00(m): 9:58am On Oct 12, 2024
Subzerooo:
We usually dog on left footed players like Chukwueze for not using their right but this usually comes from a place of bias lol because how many right footed can comfortably shoot with thier left
its all about practices... Salah is predominately left footed like Chuks, but he scores a lot with his right foot.. like this beauty he scored against Salzburg in the uCL a few years ago
https://www.facebook.com/LiverpoolFC/videos/salahs-incredible-strike-against-salzburg/2866272447031440/
Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2027, 2028 And 2030 World Cup by elyte89: 9:58am On Oct 12, 2024
ChrisKels:
I dislike it when we play without names on our shirts, but that said, this jersey is beautiful.
You should knw by now dt we play with the names at tournaments 🏟️ proper
Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2027, 2028 And 2030 World Cup by Danielnino00(m): 10:02am On Oct 12, 2024
Starboytwo:
Haha, thinking about it now, I can only laugh.

I noticed the Libyan keeper started wasting time as early as the 30th minute. In my mind, I was like, na wa oo, ball never even start. Later on, I saw it was a coordinated tactics, more like, let's just get through this first half unscathed.. OK.

Something funny happend in the 2nd half. When the Libyan goalkeeper "died" for about 8 minutes or so. A man who sat in front of me was complaining, they should change their keeper na, surely this guy can't continue, etc. The man shouted when game restarted and same keeper continued. Na now him understand the tactics...

The best part of the game was actually the end part. I could see a smile on the referree face when he blew final whistle at 3 min 54 sec of the 4 minutes Xtra time... I could imagine their conversation..

Libya player 1 - - haa ref, fear Allah. What kind of officiating is this.. (Gesturing with four fingers) only 4 minutes. Kai this is ojoro

Libya player 2 - - haa ref, despite all the time we wasted. Our keeper almost died and we had to resuscitate him, yet you gave 4 minutes added time. You definitely collect money.

Ref - - ori baba yin ti yii. Eyin wahrah gbogbo...
North Africans play too dirty.. I dont like them one bit.. I was on one Facebook page yesterday after the game and the admin was spreading stories about how the Libyan delegation was maltreated in Nigeria and vowing payback...
Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2027, 2028 And 2030 World Cup by TheGoodJoe(m): 10:23am On Oct 12, 2024
minfelix:
i watched zambia vs CIV final2012 Afcon..the ivorian with all their star men tried all they could to break down the zambians with both outside shot,wing play and one-two passes…no one worked
Were the shots over the wall? If they were, it is the way to go than running into brick wall.

It is about having a better chance to win the game. Yesterday we didn't try an alternative to win.
Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2027, 2028 And 2030 World Cup by TheGoodJoe(m): 10:28am On Oct 12, 2024
minfelix:
sir i can tell you that this two videos had their opponents playing an open game…was Athletico madrid defending like libya…no b when you see space you go play shot….if we keep playing aimless shot from far we may be frustrated…that kinda defense set up yesterday will leave opponents with space for shot…you are one of the advocators of tikitaka football…Just calm down and go watch teams that played like Libya yesterday and watch how their dominating opponents thrived…teams like barca will tap you tire and run you down the both flanks till you open up a space for goal
It is about beating the wall. And that is actually my point. Space. In a low block, you have no space in the block but a lot of space outside the box. So shooting from range, especially using players that can hit long curling shots are your best bet.

I am a Manchester City fan and I am used to watching teams play with low blocks week in week out. I would tell Pep Guardiola the same thing. Play an offensive formation that keeps the block deep and cut the ball out to shooters like Se Bruyne, Foden, Grealish, Gvardiol and Kovacic.
Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2027, 2028 And 2030 World Cup by ChrisKels: 10:31am On Oct 12, 2024
elyte89:
You should knw by now dt we play with the names at tournaments 🏟️ proper
Since 2018 I don't think we have played any qaulifier without names on the shirts. Our current green shirts come with names too.
Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2027, 2028 And 2030 World Cup by TheGoodJoe(m): 10:35am On Oct 12, 2024
minfelix:
sir i can tell you that this two videos had their opponents playing an open game…was Athletico madrid defending like libya…no b when you see space you go play shot….if we keep playing aimless shot from far we may be frustrated…that kinda defense set up yesterday will leave opponents with space for shot…you are one of the advocators of tikitaka football…Just calm down and go watch teams that played like Libya yesterday and watch how their dominating opponents thrived…teams like barca will tap you tire and run you down the both flanks till you open up a space for goal
I wonder where you drew the idea of aimless. Aim is actually key. Watch Lamine Yamal's goal against France in the video below. That is the solution for dealing with low blocks.

When a team plays this way, it forces the wall to break and come out to stop the shots. Thus, creating room for the forwards to exploit.

Tiki taka play is very much key in this. Using the widths to drive the low block deeper, and spreading the wall. Switching play and dropping the ball to the free 8 zone for curling shots.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9I2QLTXrk8U
Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2027, 2028 And 2030 World Cup by Verytallman: 10:49am On Oct 12, 2024
ChrisKels:
At 27, Iwobi already has 81 caps for Nigeria. From the look of things, he can still give us another 6 solid years.
Bar injuries, I am sure he would surpasses Musa as the highest capped super eagles player.
Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2027, 2028 And 2030 World Cup by charlesemeka85(m): 11:03am On Oct 12, 2024
ChrisKels:
I dislike it when we play without names on our shirts, but that said, this jersey is beautiful.
the jersey sweet for eye
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