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Would you guys be comfortable with Eguavoen leading the team in the world cup qualifiers next year, and why? give your honest reasons

I personally would prefer Eguavoen leading the team. He's not perfect but he seems to command the love, respect and confidence of this team- and more often than not those are the components you need as a coach to be successful...Eguavoen has always been a decent coach with so far the best winning ratio among the list of coaches who have managed us so far based on stats (and I stand to be corrected), his only nemesis has been in knockout phases of major tournaments,he just seems to have that unlucky mojo of never getting far in tournaments.

Right now except we get a genius foreign coach in the mould of a Pep Guardiola, then I can't trust the odds of this team under any random journeyman oyinbo coach in squeezing us through our current world cup group wahala...I get the feeling that even the popular Herve Renard saw and analyzed our precarious world cup situation when contacted and then chickened out, none of the European coaches seemed to want the coaching job.

Eguavoen is the best shot we have at the moment, and every support has to be given to him from the fans and the NFF for him to succeed.

Hotepking:
Would you guys be comfortable with Eguavoen leading the team in the world cup qualifiers next year, and why? give your honest reasons

I personally would prefer Eguavoen leading the team. He's not perfect but he seems to command the love, respect and confidence of this team- and more often than not those are the components you need as a coach to be successful...Eguavoen has always been a decent coach with so far the best winning ratio among the list of coaches who have managed us so far based on stats (and I stand to be corrected), his only nemesis has been in knockout phases of major tournaments,he just seems to have that unlucky mojo of never getting far in tournaments.

Right now except we get a genius foreign coach in the mould of a Pep Guardiola, then I can't trust the odds of this team under any random journeyman oyinbo coach in squeezing us through our current world cup group wahala...I get the feeling that even the popular Herve Renard saw and analyzed our precarious world cup situation when contacted and then chickened out, none of the European coaches seemed to want the coaching job.

Eguavoen is the best shot we have at the moment, and every support has to be given to him from the fans and the NFF for him to succeed.

I'm not 100% on Eguavoen but he has his good qualities

1) he is not afraid of substitutions and he uses a lot of subs ( I think he has used 3+ subs for all the matches he coached)

2) He makes in match tweaks to affect the state of the game (switching Lookman and Moses wings for more creativity)

3) He is not afraid of experimenting (He has played 3 at the back, 4 at the back, Lookman as an inside forward, Lookman as a winger, Lookman and Boniface as double strikers late against Libya)

4. He is MILES better than Finidi

The picture will always be funny to me

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 😏😏

I did not mention Ejuke, you brought him into the conversation.

I am not the only one who reckons Ejuke's technique to be above average.
A lot of independent analysts are professing it.

Football technique is not all about dribbling, as dribbling is not the only skill in football.
We don't currently have a winger who is better at passing the ball compared to Ejuke, that is why he is labelled very technical.
Our wingers are not that excellent at the game of passes, especially when it comes to using long balls to switch plays.

Meliforme:
Oh my God.

It is so clear that Eguavoen played 4231.
Iwobi played very close to Boniface that sometimes you will think it is 442.
Iwobi sometimes pressed the Libyans alone especially in the first half.

How do you guys watch matches and interpret so little.

Eguavoen was poor, some said he wasn't conservative, but he was to some extent. Our wingers sat deeper, off the ball.
We had more of the ball and looked like we were doing most of the attacking, because the Libyans were very poor, so so poor, with a mediocre game plan, and Eguavoen did not take advantage of this to utilise our players that are in form.
Our wingers played deeper than they should and weren't pressing the Libyans.
Our wingers got few shots.

So clear? You are the only one I have read who said Eguavoen played 4-2-3-1.

At the bolded, you watch and over analyze to the point of outlandishness. Iwobi played close to Lookman not Boniface as you claim and that somewhat limited Lookman.

"Eguavoen was poor". Oho, to talk for mouth is easy. You have not coached even primary school children but in your mind you are one analytical genius.

Go on, go on

jihday:
Libya also intentionally delayed the Kick Off of the second Half for about 7 minutes after all our Players had been out on the pitch

Nasty people

Meliforme:
I did not mention Ejuke, you brought him into the conversation.

I am not the only one who reckons Ejuke's technique to be above average.
A lot of independent analysts are professing it.

Football technique is not all about dribbling, as dribbling is not the only skill in football.
We don't currently have a winger who is better at passing the ball compared to Ejuke, that is why he is labelled very technical.
Our wingers are not that excellent at the game of passes, especially when it comes to using long balls to switch plays.

Oga Meli Meli

Goke7:
That’s why I feel bad for Finidi for such a person with a very big profile in his playing days shouldn’t be giving us such crap after a good Afcon outing. He almost embolden a big case for foreign coaches. I can only hope that case will finally be buried with AE.

A lot of things worked against Finidi and for me the major error he made was trying to reinvent the wheel.

Emmy450:
exactly brother..

I was a bit nervous and same time anxious watching us play primally because we needed a goal.

We kept attacking with urgency until we got the goal.. then the Libyans came out of their shell to attack, personally I believed we would have punished them more when they came out if we had more time.

Completely agree

TheSuperNerd:
50% cleansheet across 14 International caps is impressive.

Cleansheets vs CIV, Cameroun, Angola and Rohr's Benin dey included.

Exactly sir 😌🔥

jihday:
Libya also intentionally delayed the Kick Off of the second Half for about 7 minutes after all our Players had been out on the pitch

True

Emmy450:
soft ass ke?🤣🤣

This world don spoil. Man no fit express himself freely again. Without the gayish atmosphere this gay people have created, I doubt you'd give second thoughts to those words other than as a metaphor for shiftiness and lack of firmness

jihday:
Boniface will be fine, he probably need to go to a tournament with Nigeria, the players will train more and also spend more time together that will allow both his team mates and the coach to understand him better

In between he should try and score. I read a comment attributed to Eguavon to the effect that Boniface plays like Romario. He wants to romance the ball. I see him wanting to do something spectacular with the ball.

No Bro, score first even if na through gidigbo or scramble. When you get in your stride, you can go for the spectacular.

ChatGPT has predicted the next 10 FIFA World Cup winners. 🤣🤣🤣

If we're going to go with AE then it should be on a long term not these short term rescue missions we keep giving him.

I also agree that he should continue with the WC. He has the trust of the players, he's emotionally intelligent, plus his selections are fairly ok with not too many eyebrow raising invitations.

For me he still has tactical weaknesses which refresher courses and sound technical assistant coaches can help reduce I believe.

We're already in a dicey situation as far as the WC qualifiers are concerned so it's unlikely any glory seeking foreign coach will touch us with a ten foot badge pool.

The NFF should also be strategic to pick assistant coaches who have the potential to be future SE Managers.

Hotepking:
Would you guys be comfortable with Eguavoen leading the team in the world cup qualifiers next year, and why? give your honest reasons

I personally would prefer Eguavoen leading the team. He's not perfect but he seems to command the love, respect and confidence of this team- and more often than not those are the components you need as a coach to be successful...Eguavoen has always been a decent coach with so far the best winning ratio among the list of coaches who have managed us so far based on stats (and I stand to be corrected), his only nemesis has been in knockout phases of major tournaments,he just seems to have that unlucky mojo of never getting far in tournaments.

Right now except we get a genius foreign coach in the mould of a Pep Guardiola, then I can't trust the odds of this team under any random journeyman oyinbo coach in squeezing us through our current world cup group wahala...I get the feeling that even the popular Herve Renard saw and analyzed our precarious world cup situation when contacted and then chickened out, none of the European coaches seemed to want the coaching job.

Eguavoen is the best shot we have at the moment, and every support has to be given to him from the fans and the NFF for him to succeed.

Meliforme:
In my assessment of the game, Ademola Lookman was our best player yesterday and not Moses Simon.

Lookman did more both offensively and defensively.

I think you like being contrarian perhaps because it makes you feel intelligent. Not necessarily from this post but there's a clear pattern where as people dey go right, you dey go left, as dem dey say black, you dey say white. I like dissident thinkers oo but this your own get as e be.

Hotepking:
Would you guys be comfortable with Eguavoen leading the team in the world cup qualifiers next year, and why? give your honest reasons

I personally would prefer Eguavoen leading the team. He's not perfect but he seems to command the love, respect and confidence of this team- and more often than not those are the components you need as a coach to be successful...Eguavoen has always been a decent coach with so far the best winning ratio among the list of coaches who have managed us so far based on stats (and I stand to be corrected), his only nemesis has been in knockout phases of major tournaments,he just seems to have that unlucky mojo of never getting far in tournaments.

Right now except we get a genius foreign coach in the mould of a Pep Guardiola, then I can't trust the odds of this team under any random journeyman oyinbo coach in squeezing us through our current world cup group wahala...I get the feeling that even the popular Herve Renard saw and analyzed our precarious world cup situation when contacted and then chickened out, none of the European coaches seemed to want the coaching job.

Eguavoen is the best shot we have at the moment, and every support has to be given to him from the fans and the NFF for him to succeed.

If Eguaveon does the unthinkable and qualifies us for the world cup, you will see he would be shoved aside and a foreign coach appointed.

I am totally in agreement with your second paragraph

SamueItem337:
ChatGPT has predicted the next 10 FIFA World Cup winners. 🤣🤣🤣

Na from 2026 the prediction go scatter.

chrisooblog:
If we're going to go with AE then it should be on a long term not these short term rescue missions we keep giving him.

I also agree that he should continue with the WC. He has the trust of the players, he's emotionally intelligent, plus his selections are fairly ok with not too many eyebrow raising invitations.

For me he still has tactical weaknesses which refresher courses and sound technical assistant coaches can help reduce I believe.

We're already in a dicey situation as far as the WC qualifiers are concerned so it's unlikely any glory seeking foreign coach will touch us with a ten foot badge pool.

The NFF should also be strategic to pick assistant coaches who have the potential to be future SE Managers.

I was reading with a view to seeing something like your last paragraph. Yes that's where my client comes in.

Mujtahida:
Na from 2026 the prediction go scatter.

🤣

[quote author=Meliforme post=132396908]In my assessment of the game, Ademola Lookman was our best player yesterday and not Moses Simon.

Lookman did more both offensively and defensively.[/quo

He should lead the attack against Libya away.
I no understand Bonifacey

SamueItem337:
ChatGPT has predicted the next 10 FIFA World Cup winners. 🤣🤣🤣

Robot just wan do inclusivity and add Africa team😂😂😂😂

Victor Osimhen back in training

Hotepking:
Would you guys be comfortable with Eguavoen leading the team in the world cup qualifiers next year, and why? give your honest reasons

I personally would prefer Eguavoen leading the team. He's not perfect but he seems to command the love, respect and confidence of this team- and more often than not those are the components you need as a coach to be successful...Eguavoen has always been a decent coach with so far the best winning ratio among the list of coaches who have managed us so far based on stats (and I stand to be corrected), his only nemesis has been in knockout phases of major tournaments,he just seems to have that unlucky mojo of never getting far in tournaments.

Right now except we get a genius foreign coach in the mould of a Pep Guardiola, then I can't trust the odds of this team under any random journeyman oyinbo coach in squeezing us through our current world cup group wahala...I get the feeling that even the popular Herve Renard saw and analyzed our precarious world cup situation when contacted and then chickened out, none of the European coaches seemed to want the coaching job.

Eguavoen is the best shot we have at the moment, and every support has to be given to him from the fans and the NFF for him to succeed.

He has a history of not delivering when it matters the most and that’s why I won’t suggest him

Mujtahida:
Na from 2026 the prediction go scatter.

na 2026 the ticket go tear 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

https://x.com/eaglestrackerng/status/1845070639301791977?s=46

Iwobi’s compilation against Libya 🔥🔥🔥

Subzerooo:
The picture will always be funny to me

Would like to know how?

oloriooko:
We've got to give it to Simon Moses yesterday after switching position with Mola. His chemistry with Onye was good and the cross was placed in the dangerous part of the box for anyone to connect and Dele lashed on it.
Also thank God Chuks docked if not the goal wouldn't have come.
Kudos to our silent achiever Moses Simon keep shining bro!

The same Moses Simon wey dem use take give me names? Alakori De De.

charlesemeka85:
https://x.com/eaglestrackerng/status/1845070639301791977?s=46

Iwobi’s compilation against Libya 🔥🔥🔥

Some people will just come with agenda. So the 3 chances wey Iwobi created but were wasted by Lookman, Boniface and Chuks na Wetin?

SamueItem337:
Victor Osimhen back in training

YESSSSSSSSSSSS! You first me post this thing sha 😂🤧

BankyGee:
YESSSSSSSSSSSS! You first me post this thing sha 😂🤧

🤣

Lol this guy sef