₦airaland Forum

Danielnino00:
But seriously, if we must play a 2 man striker to accommodate Osimhen and Lookman, why don't we start with 3-5-2...
I don't understand why subsequent coaches have failed to see how well that formation will suit the team...
Aside Simon, who is inconsistent, we don't really have any better winger for us to be playing 4-4-2 and 4-3-3 all the time... 3-5-2 will give us more balance in midfield and defense...

Anyway, what do I know?

Blueelf:
My take even though unpopular:

1) NFF is nothing but a corrupt organization. Unfortunately, they are an extension of a failed Nigerian state,so no surprises here. In saner climes, when you miss out on two world cups, the football organization will be overhauled and key men sacked and then probed. But it will be business essential as usual. After all, Tinubu is our president

2) Certain players should be eased out of the national set up. I know someone of them are favorites of people won this thread but if I'm being honest, Ndidi has never had an excellent game for nigeria. His monster performance week in and out for Leicester those days was the reason he got called severally. But even when he was in his prime, he was average at best for the Super Eagles. I'm not surprised at his lacklustre performance over 2 games. What surprises me if why chelle saw this and kept him in the starting line up. This doesn't inspire confidence in Chelle's decision making going forward.

3) This take will ruffle so many feathers but anchoring your midfield creativity on a subpar player as iwobi is a recipe for disaster. The guy is an average player. While I commend his loyalty to choosing Nigeria over England from the get go, the truth is we must not be sentimental. If we're being objective, Iwobi's games are usually a strong 6/10 for us and have been so since AfCON ended. We can't be tweaking positions just to fit someone into the team. We have done this so much for iwobi and he ends up delivering average performances

4) Odimhen is doing too much of a carry job and it's worrying. The moment he looses form or gets injured, we are in hot soup. Literally

4) Lookman didn't really perform well today. 6.5/10. He should pass more, otherwise, he remains a solid member of the first team

5) please stop inviting iheanacho to the provisional list thereby reducing slots for more deserving players. I don't see the justification for his continual invite. I mean, you don't even have to be a UEFA licensed coach to see this. Haba! His time is up in the SE

6) Old man Ekong should be eased out slowly from the team. He has given his best and he can't do more than this. He should be dropped to the bench for a more younger defender and let him mentor from there. From there, let them ease him out slowly. We can't keep depending on a defender his age to anchor our defense. It's not tenable at all.

7) I don't know if it's me being emotional but we need to stop picking players like some are already guaranteed a place in the team. That's why some players don't give their all because even if they perform poorly, next list, they'll be sure to see their names there. As it stands, only players like lookman, Osimhen, Ola Aina, Iwobi and Ekong have really paid their dues. The rest need to be told that they need to fight for their shirts. All this jamboree of Iheanacho and Chukwueze should stop. I mean chunks had 1 goal in how many matches as an attacking winger for his club side. Is he the best we can do at that position? And this is a genuine question please

TheSuperNerd:
Leave Lookman alone Trans. Fix your gender choice first before attacking the reigning Africa's best. Thank you lady, abi na mister. Should I call you mister? 😁

Odunayaw:
Where this gets problematic is you make the only other option to be that home based stars will whip teams. That is false.

Make I even see what you regard as criteria. Pray tell

yinkeys:
Randy Waldrum in 2023 said we will not qualify for World Cup, with the way we run our football
Administrative wise, countries have left us in the past
Checkout Rwandas display of sponsors & ours
We have refused to move with the times

1. Make Osimhen Vice captain
He’s a once in a generation talent from Nigeria
No disrespect to Yekini but Osimhen is the better striker. He needs to show us the way forward. He’s our best/most ambitious player tbh
2. Osimhen should be involved in selecting the merit list going forward, I’m sure the guy will be really hurt right now
3. All the blame should go to NFF, they are not transparent with anything
From coach hiring to players listing

Paddy paddy NFF
We may not qualify for 2030 World Cup if they continue to run NFF like politics in Nigeria

9JAMac10:
I have unfollowed all of them on Snapchat. These guys are only good off the pitch and not on it. Most cuddled and the weakest group of players Nigerians has had in 30 years

TheSuperNerd:
You are actually right. We saw it under Rohr when Rohr did play a back 3. We saw it too under Peseiro at the Afcon albeit as a 3-4-2-1 or 3-4-3 because we played a 2 man midfield basically with FRANK ONYEKA AT THE HEART OF WHY OUR MIDFIELD PILLARS STOOD FIRM.

The 3421/343 sometimes felt like a 3-4-1-2 with Lookman joining Osimhen uptop which is why they could play off each other and take instintual turns to attack the space leading to Goal.

charlesemeka85:
Trans ke?🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

TheSuperNerd:
Ball playing midfielders.

Uche is one. Akinsanmiro is another. Nwakali in EFL League one is another but let's forget him.

The first 2 are ball playing midfielders who will do a good job, I am convinced but no... we keep snubbing this "conundrum" coach after coach nd after coach.

Even Eguavoen mentioned this when he failed to bear Rwanda at home and also knew this when we failed against Ghana. My problem is that they know but still don't get proactive on the solution.

Danielnino00:
Onyeka was pivotal to the success of that 3-4-3 at the AFCON, no caps.... I mean, Conte, who popularised that formation (I might be wrong, but he used it to devating effects at Inter and Chelsea) had energetic midfielders to keep the middle tight... Onyeka was that guy..

I'm sure if Ndidi was fit at the AFCON and Peseiro decides to use him as partner to Iwobi, he won't have gone far...
I respect Ndidi for what he has achieved career wise, but he is clearly past his best and he is definitely not the right choice in a 2 man midfield

yinkeys:
Randy Waldrum in 2023 said we will not qualify for World Cup, with the way we run our football
Administrative wise, countries have left us in the past
Checkout Rwandas display of sponsors & ours
We have refused to move with the times

1. Make Osimhen Vice captain
He’s a once in a generation talent from Nigeria
No disrespect to Yekini but Osimhen is the better striker. He needs to show us the way forward. He’s our best/most ambitious player tbh
2. Osimhen should be involved in selecting the merit list going forward, I’m sure the guy will be really hurt right now
3. All the blame should go to NFF, they are not transparent with anything
From coach hiring to players listing

Paddy paddy NFF
We may not qualify for 2030 World Cup if they continue to run NFF like politics in Nigeria
Corruption don wound us finish

Goke7:
This conversation will continue for as long as we continue to struggle against teams except we want to chicken out by saying there are no longer minnows in African football which is a big lie. I will prefer home based eagles being beaten by fellow African teams than parading two APOTYs and other big names in Europe falling like a pack of cards.

yinkeys:
Randy Waldrum in 2023 said we will not qualify for World Cup, with the way we run our football
Administrative wise, countries have left us in the past
Checkout Rwandas display of sponsors & ours
We have refused to move with the times

1. Make Osimhen Vice captain
He’s a once in a generation talent from Nigeria
No disrespect to Yekini but Osimhen is the better striker. He needs to show us the way forward. He’s our best/most ambitious player tbh
2. Osimhen should be involved in selecting the merit list going forward, I’m sure the guy will be really hurt right now
3. All the blame should go to NFF, they are not transparent with anything
From coach hiring to players listing

Paddy paddy NFF
We may not qualify for 2030 World Cup if they continue to run NFF like politics in Nigeria
Corruption don wound us finish

yinkeys:
Randy Waldrum in 2023 said we will not qualify for World Cup, with the way we run our football
Administrative wise, countries have left us in the past
Checkout Rwandas display of sponsors & ours
We have refused to move with the times

1. Make Osimhen Vice captain
He’s a once in a generation talent from Nigeria
No disrespect to Yekini but Osimhen is the better striker. He needs to show us the way forward. He’s our best/most ambitious player tbh
2. Osimhen should be involved in selecting the merit list going forward, I’m sure the guy will be really hurt right now
3. All the blame should go to NFF, they are not transparent with anything
From coach hiring to players listing

Paddy paddy NFF
We may not qualify for 2030 World Cup if they continue to run NFF like politics in Nigeria
Corruption don wound us finish

charlesemeka85:
afobeer to be consumed by the gods 🤣🤣🤣🤣

Mujtahida:
Praiiisssseeeee the lord!!

Thank you Ogun, thank you Amadioha. Accept this two bitter kola.

In sha Allah, we will qualify. Let me go and fast today.

Is a miracle working God, is a miracle working God

Schnapps, alligator pepper and one white fowl.

Last last afobear will be offered to the gods.

charlesemeka85:
later na u go dey cry say dem wan ban u for 15 years 🤦‍♀️

Admin oya do the needful 😏🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

daveP:
Goke7 abeg bury this Homes based talk. It is stale. Since all these wafu and chan and what not tournaments etc, we still never see 1 or two that are good enough to displace players in the current setup. Pls no bring that Sunday Mba talk either. The usage of that angle is stale too.

We see how the NPFL teams are terrible in caf club competitions b2b with some of the best legs in the league having lack of technical and tactical setup over and over.

If they were the ones that played ghana in Abuja that night, the riot for worse pass that one.

Let them show improvements and then go far in the Caf CL and CC and we can start that discussion again. After all, we got Enyeama from there. That's how solid it should be. They should step up.

At least back in the day you can have hope from just reading Complete Sports that a npl club can defeat a Tunisian or sudan or Egyptian side. Now, we can't even boast of any npfl club that can best a congo club in caf cl.


Abeg abeg.

BankyGee:
You get 😂

daveP:
The NFF goons are too comfortable. We reward failure, mediocrity and incompetence too much in this country. What then is the metric for excellence? What are the standards that every one needs to meet? What happens to those that fail to meet the standards? Are they rewarded with more time? Do they fail and have no looks over their shoulders? Do they sleep at night so well?

Those guys are failures. Wafcon is around the corner. If we have a good outing and win now, they'll take the glory. Tueh

Blueelf:
My take even though unpopular:

1) NFF is nothing but a corrupt organization. Unfortunately, they are an extension of a failed Nigerian state,so no surprises here. In saner climes, when you miss out on two world cups, the football organization will be overhauled and key men sacked and then probed. But it will be business essential as usual. After all, Tinubu is our president

2) Certain players should be eased out of the national set up. I know someone of them are favorites of people won this thread but if I'm being honest, Ndidi has never had an excellent game for nigeria. His monster performance week in and out for Leicester those days was the reason he got called severally. But even when he was in his prime, he was average at best for the Super Eagles. I'm not surprised at his lacklustre performance over 2 games. What surprises me if why chelle saw this and kept him in the starting line up. This doesn't inspire confidence in Chelle's decision making going forward.

3) This take will ruffle so many feathers but anchoring your midfield creativity on a subpar player as iwobi is a recipe for disaster. The guy is an average player. While I commend his loyalty to choosing Nigeria over England from the get go, the truth is we must not be sentimental. If we're being objective, Iwobi's games are usually a strong 6/10 for us and have been so since AfCON ended. We can't be tweaking positions just to fit someone into the team. We have done this so much for iwobi and he ends up delivering average performances

4) Odimhen is doing too much of a carry job and it's worrying. The moment he looses form or gets injured, we are in hot soup. Literally

4) Lookman didn't really perform well today. 6.5/10. He should pass more, otherwise, he remains a solid member of the first team

5) please stop inviting iheanacho to the provisional list thereby reducing slots for more deserving players. I don't see the justification for his continual invite. I mean, you don't even have to be a UEFA licensed coach to see this. Haba! His time is up in the SE

6) Old man Ekong should be eased out slowly from the team. He has given his best and he can't do more than this. He should be dropped to the bench for a more younger defender and let him mentor from there. From there, let them ease him out slowly. We can't keep depending on a defender his age to anchor our defense. It's not tenable at all.

7) I don't know if it's me being emotional but we need to stop picking players like some are already guaranteed a place in the team. That's why some players don't give their all because even if they perform poorly, next list, they'll be sure to see their names there. As it stands, only players like lookman, Osimhen, Ola Aina, Iwobi and Ekong have really paid their dues. The rest need to be told that they need to fight for their shirts. All this jamboree of Iheanacho and Chukwueze should stop. I mean chunks had 1 goal in how many matches as an attacking winger for his club side. Is he the best we can do at that position? And this is a genuine question please